Until we can finally allow robots to craft everything via iPhone CAD/CAM apps, you'll have to get your fix of fake tombstones and dress-up robots online. Here's a roundup of some helpful tools -- maybe. Honestly, several are horrendous to use. Others are merely fugly. One frightened my hamster. Still, if you are looking for a way to express yourself on the cover of TIME magazine, this may be your thing. Please add more in the comments, I know I've missed a few decent ones among the junk.

Make these crazy things online:

Tombstone
Great for making a very specific point (see above). Etch directly into a tombstone and right-click to download the result. Dead simple.

Internet Diploma
We've covered My Internet Diploma in the past. We sorta wish we hadn't. Luckily, now that we have all graduated with honors and have mad ninja skills, we know better. My Internet Diploma is as fake as My Little Pony.

Magazine
Put your face or drunk/nude torso on the cover of numerous magazines. There are bunches of these, but I chose the one with lots of real magazine covers. The workflow is irritating. You upload a pic, which opens a useless (new) window. Close that window, keep following the steps. Each step spawns a new window. If anyone knows a decent version of this, leave it in the comments.

Robot
It's a dress-up doll with robot parts. A little part of me died while playing with this. Still, the owner of this domain will be rich... when the robots take over.

Signs
The link takes you to the classic Church Sign Generator, but there are others. If anything comes up as sign generator in the URL, however, you may have stumbled upon one of the vast linkfarms of the interwebs.

There are many other examples, like a place that claims to print fake pay stubs (for a fee). I'm not linking to that one, but you get the idea. With the right web skillz you can fake just about anything. But with great power comes great responsibility, so don't go throwing your doctorate of hyperlinking in our faces -- we saw your nude cover for Byte magazine.

If you ever had the dream of being the editor of your own magazine but lacked the experience, network and the monetary investments to get it off the ground don't give up yet. MagCloud hopes that with its services you can be the next publishing mogul.

While currently in beta, MagCloud claims that the process is easy enough.

• Create your magazine according to their specifications and upload it to their servers.
• Order a proof to verify that the magazine is how you want it.
• Set your price and publish it.

The concept is similar to that of CafePress which allows you to set the price for your own custom printed t-shirt with no investment on your part. While we haven't seen an actual physical copy of MagCloud's work, the ability to print your own magazine is tempting.

Yahoo has teamed up with fashion giant ELLE to bring mobile coverage of fashion weeks in New York, Milan and Paris.

The special fashion coverage runs through Yahoo! oneSearch on mobile devices, which we have covered in the past, providing up to the minute fashion news, trend reports, behind the scenes blogs, and city guides. But perhaps the best must have feature for fashion lovers is the photo coverage.

ELLE will be running exclusive runway reports starting today. The reports will feature editors reviews of the top designers, models and trends of the day, fashion blogs will be profiled and share their insight, with photo diaries documenting the whole event available to view. And of course, no fashion show is complete without special events, Yahoo! oneSearch users will have access to complete coverage of the must attend parties of fashion week.

To get started, visit http://m.yahoo.com in your mobile browser and simply search for fashion. Or alternatively, visit http://fw.elle.com, or text "fashion" to 92466 (YAHOO).

How would it feel to be a media titan in the new media world? Owning a world class magazine with all the right content; Is that where the future of publishing is headed?

Try out your luck with Idiomag, an online magazine layed out to your specifications and content. Idiomag provides users with a free magazine that is totally personalized with your interests and constantly updated with text, audio and video.

The bad news, Ideomag currently only focuses on music, but they will be opening up to the technology, gaming, film and business world in the near future.

The good news, this is the future of online publishing. With paper being the old school route in receiving information, it is quite possible that we see more online magazines sprouting up covering more and more unique and niche topics.

What do DLS readers think? Would you prefer to pick up a magazine at the local newsstand, or create a customized magazine online that pulls in all relevant content to your interests?

Everyone is aquiring everyone on this spooky Halloween. Google bought JotSpot, now Condé Nast, the owners of Wired magazine, have bought Reddit. Similiar to Digg, Reddit is a website that lists what the popular news is online, by users voting, and submitting articles. Michael Arrington scooped the news of the deal, and that Reddit employees will be packing up and moving from Boston to the Wired headquarters in San Francisco and merging into Wired Digital. Should be interesting to see how a traditional publishing company will beef up Reddit and aim to make it a Digg killer. If thats in the plan. No news has been released as to other terms of the deal.

It's no secret that with a little elbow-grease and know-how, popular open source blogging tool WordPress is a pretty versatile platform for web publishing. To that end, writer Leon Kilat has written a nice guide called How to use WordPress to run a mazine, news website. He describes the process of building Cebu Living, an attractive webzine powered by WordPress. Like I said, a little elbow grease is required, so this isn't for you if your knees shake at the sight of a little PHP code, but if you want to know how to turn your blog into something more than a blog, Kilat's tutorial is a good starting point.