Craft becomes Art: This creative blogger crocheted this scene, in response to a newspaper clipping which tells how seventy-five year old Shirley died when she got her arm caught in a sofa bed and could not reach the telephone.

“These days, there are many online articles about individuals meeting death in odd ways. The news items float by like terrible-yet-quickly-forgotten ghosts. But this 2001 newspaper article has haunted my thoughts for nine years,” says Howie from woowork.com

I ask this question every day around 5pm. What the Fuck Should I Make For Dinner is a site that offers meal suggestions, links to recipies and a bit of swearing.

Revenge Products: Everything from remote control interceptors to a potion called the Evacuator and Liquid Roadkill. Nasty stuff, go here.

This week I feel like Mary Bale: Remember the lady who put the cat in the wheelie bin? “Bale is currently subject to that most severe of modern punishments/forms of praise: Memeification,” writes Mashable.com. “Negative memeification can be doled out for a variety of offenses: spilling some oil, comparing oneself to Shakespeare, interrupting a pop star, etc. Yup, there’s few things that the Internet will not latch onto if they’re funny/shocking enough to be spun.”

Celebrity: What happens to pictures of Mariah Carey in Saudi.

Video: Mattress ad FAIL

And one of my favourite actors Philip Seymour Hoffman does his own version…

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