Sweeney Todd (proper noun): Victorian penny dreadful character notorious for cutting up his barbershop customers and baking them into pies with the help of his partner in crime Mrs Lovett.

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Looks like the 419 scam (or advance fee fraud) email has morphed into yet another form, after this gem of imaginative creativity dropped into the inbox this morning.

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Dilapidated (adj): Ruined, neglected, old, in a poor state of repair.

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Something like 18 months ago, a certain Mr Random Merryman and myself were happy residents of the virtual world Second Life where we spent a large part of our time as part of the the neo-Victorian roleplaying community of Caledon.

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On the subject of crazy, illegal art projects.. you’d have to go some way to beat the one detailed in the new documentary Man on Wire. But this film reveals a pathos completely unintended by the artist at the point of creation.

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This video in the New York Times looks at Disney’s new Innoventions Dream Home attraction – and finds it sorely wanting.

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As a card-carrying member of the dislike-of-heights committee, I find the idea of this deeply compelling and repellent in equal measures. It’s a kind of vertigo porn.

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