So you want to record a novelty cover of a popular song but you don't have an accordion, ukulele or mariachi band handy? No problem! We recommend you pick up a harp and get to pluckin'. No longer just found in mall rotundas and movies about the 17th Century, the harp is on its way back, my friend.

The harp craze got a major boost a few months ago when the internet discovered a young lad playing an amazing version of the Star Wars Cantina theme. Now other harpers (or, if you're classically inclined, harpists) are popping up with soft, beautiful versions of their favorite modern songs.

Led Zeppelin - 'Stairway to Heaven'

Harpers seem to love covering heavy metal. It makes sense: guitar solos sound fantastic on only six strings so they'll probably sound even better on a harp, which has 46 or 47. So, why not use all those extra strings to cover the most famous heavy metal song of all time?

It's fitting that twins would design a pair of shoes together. A little surprising though, is the that Lithuanian twin brothers R&E Praspaliauskas decided to design a collection of footwear made out of bread. These beautiful bread shoes, which come in a number of colors, wheats, and grains can be yours for just €27 (about $40).

In the future, we will have eerily realistic three-dimensional molds of our faces at our disposal. Whether for the purposes of identity security (?), sexual satisfaction (??), or gift-giving (?!?!?), these miniature monstrosities will elicit a little bit of pee from any poor, terrified soul unfortunate enough to witness one of these molds up close.

They will be produced for use as personalized action figures, mugs, boxes, masks with eye-holes, and crystals in which a visage will seemingly float on air, with cold, lifeless eyes staring into the void for all eternity.

But you know what, guys? The future is now.

That's My Face will take two pictures of one's mug and "do the rest" for you ("the rest," of course, being remotely xeroxing your soul, icing it in a magic death chamber, and then terminating a little piece of it so you wind up with one of these horrors).

As Awkward Family Photos and My Parents Were Awesome have shown us, family portraits should be cherished. You can look back at photos years from now and say, "I can't believe I'm so depressed that I'm looking at old photos. Of other people's families." Well lucky for you, Memes and your favorite internet crazies have families, too.

There's the supportive and loving wife, the protective and short tempered father, and the weird looking old children. As awe-inspiring as these glimpses into a meme's personal life are, there's still something unsettling lurking in the shadows. Something unusual. It's as if you were a lonely orphan who found a soulmate that looked and sounded exactly like you. You even shared the same DNA! Then you had children. Was it a mistake? Only in most countries.

• The Xzibtis. Yo Dawg, I herd you like Xzibit so I put Xzibit in your Xzibit...

Though you may have to squint to see them, right now you're looking at a building that's been stuffed to the gills with bananas.

Get it? Cuz that's Virginia Woolf... from books?

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