If you are old enough to remember the days before CDs then you probably have a few mixed tapes tucked away in a box some where.  Cassette From My Ex is a site where you can share your stories behind those mixed tapes and even share the soundtracks.  Link [via]

Do you have a mixed tape story?

Lovers, Xia Xinfeng and Mao Ansheng, literally had the kiss of death when Xinfeng passed a capsule filled with rat poison from her mouth to Ansheng.  Ansheng died. 

Xinfeng had suspected Ansheng was cheating on her.  Supposedly, the couple had agreed that "if either one of them cheated on the other, he or she would have to die."

Xinfeng has been sentenced to death.

After a night out with friends, David Brown woke up with a phone number running through his head.  Thinking that he got the phone number from a girl the night before, Brown sent a text message which said "Did I meet you last night?"

Random recipient Michelle Kitson was confused and wary at first but decided to reply and the two began exchanging messages. Eventually they met and fell in love.

"It was really weird but I was absolutely hooked," Kitson told the Daily Mail newspaper. "My mum and dad kept saying 'But he could be an axe murderer', but I knew there was something special about it."

After a long courtship, the two married and have recently returned from their honeymoon. 

Brown still has no idea how he ended up with Kitson's number in his head.

If you need to spice up your love life or just want to escape reality, try personalizing your own romance novels at Your Novel.

At Your Novel there is a wide selection of storylines -- I'm sure you'll be able to find one that suits your wildest fantasies.

[via MetaFilter]

This may be the oldest love story not yet told:

Archaeologists have unearthed two skeletons from the Neolithic period locked in a tender embrace and buried outside Mantua, just 25 miles south of Verona, the romantic city where Shakespeare set the star-crossed tale of "Romeo and Juliet."

Buried between 5,000 and 6,000 years ago, the prehistoric pair are believed to have been a man and a woman and are thought to have died young, as their teeth were found intact, said Elena Menotti, the archaeologist who led the dig.

"As far as we know, it's unique," Menotti told The Associated Press by telephone from Milan. "Double burials from the Neolithic are unheard of, and these are even hugging."

Previously:
Lovers of Teruel (Los Amantes de Teruel)

Don't be fooled with the mug shots found on the Calon Wen milk containers.  No, they aren't missing persons -- They are singles ads for five Welsh farmers.

Mr Jones said the countryside could be "a hard place to find a date".

The 30-year-old said he came up with the idea for the rural matchmaking venture after realising a large number of Welsh farmers were single.

"We want to encourage farmers to consider online dating as a fun way of meeting people."

The project is jointly run with online dating agency Pishyn (Welsh slang for gorgeous) where people who log on can find out more details about the farmers involved.

[via Arbroath]

The Lovers of Teruel (Los amantes de Teruel) is a tragic love story that allegedly took place in 1217 in the small Spanish town of Teruel. 

The story goes like this:

Eligible Chinese millionaires are being invited on a matchmaking cruise that is to set sail in late November.  Only men worth at least 2m yuan ($250,000) are eligible and so far 20 men have signed up.  Out of the 1,000 women that applied, less than 30 were accepted.

"Only those who were attractive in every category can take part in this event," said Mr Xu.

"Rich men are normally very busy, and most of the women they meet are there for work or business, which these men consider to be unsuitable for relationships."

China Daily also reported one of the men who had signed up for the cruise, who said "appearance is most important to me".

What kind of "love" cruise is this anyway?  If you were to ask me, women who are "applying" to go on a boat cruise knowing ONLY rich men will be on it tells me that the women are strictly there for business.  Seriously, who are we kidding.

Lovelines is an exploration of love, hate and everything in-between.

From the site:

Through large scale blog analysis, Lovelines illuminates the topography of the emotional landscape between love and hate, as experienced by countless normal humans keeping personal online journals.

Using a data collection engine created by the artists for their recent collaboration, We Feel Fine ( www.wefeelfine.org ), Lovelines examines thousands of blogs every few minutes to find expressions of love and hate, posted by all manner of people. When it can, Lovelines identifies and saves the age, gender, and geographical location of the person who wrote the post, and then presents that information along with the post. The entries range from frivolous to profound, offering a glimpse into the hearts and minds of people blogging about their wants and needs.

By adjusting the scale, you can view statements or pictures ranging from extreme love to extreme hate.  This site is both touching and real.

I'm really bummed.  I had always thought of doing a website about dating and cheaters (I honestly did), but somebody (actually, a few people) beat me to the punch.  Don't Date Him Girl is a site where you can search for cheating men or warn other women about men who have cheated on you. 

Not to worry guys, here are a few sites for both men and women:  Dating Psychos, True Dater, Cheaters Online Database.  Let's face it, women cheat too. 

I hope none of your mug shots are posted!