Leisure Dive
Aiming to replace planking – extreme lying down – in the affections of internet pranksters, the leisure dive is the latest photography meme spreading across Facebook and beyond. The object is to appear as chilled out, debonair and suave as possible in a reclined position while you are in mid-air, seconds away from hitting water (think invisible chaise longue). Tom Daley possibly won't be incorporating any ideas from here into his Olympic routines, but the sight of someone eating crisps while reading a magazine four feet above a swimming pool looks just as impressive as a triple inward pike and half twist.
The Daily Mash
I recently overheard a woman say that, following the hacking scandal, she was now getting all her news from The Daily Mash. Indeed, how can traditional media compete with headlines such as "Every copy of the News Of The World contained 'tiny microphone'" and "Mancini buys entire Arsenal squad for a laugh"? Even though they may not be true. Alongside ads for men's mag Stylish Masturbator and an "inappropriate wildlife sanctuary" called Cameltoe Park is a very real ad for Sky Sports on the same page as a spoof story headlined "BSkyB changes logo to middle finger" – testament to the site's success.
Blog roll: Bookish
Mining the rich seam of terrible sci-fi and fantasy book covers.
Putting non-chronological books in chronological order and other nerdy reading pursuits.
Scans of curious old books, including British Chimney Sweeps: Five Centuries Of Chimney Sweeping.
The joy of dull covers plus collecting technological predictions in literature.
Exotic book shelves, quidditch world cup posters and the bookshop inside an old theatre.
Reading a pre-1970 Penguin a week at a time.
What we learned on the web this week
Not all dogs go to heaven
How to improve a Michael Bublé video
The curious mystery of the anti-Stephen Fry graffiti
The deleted Lost scene that explains everything
A great way to extract teeth
Even if something is fake it's still real
The Loudness War is over
The Champ is scientifically the saddest movie in the world ever
Plane trails are beautiful
How to act like a werewolf