This made me chuckle: the MacGyver Multitool!
Speaking of MacGyver, here are three shorts featured on last weekend’s Saturday Night Live in which MacGyver gets parodied. I give you…MacGruber!
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Just Say (Sonny Bo)No
This is priceless: a film featuring funny visuals of stoned people doing silly things, capped with a warning — and a song! — about the dangers of “becoming a pothead” by a 1970s-era Sonny Bono, who seems pretty baked himself:
Antoine de Saint-Exupery (author and illustrator of Le Petit Prince (The Little Prince), came up with the maxim that all designers regardless of craft should take to heart:
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
In this spirit, here’s a “nothing left to take away” computer keyboard:
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Been Caught Staring
Today’s “How to be a Gentleman” Tip: don’t sneak a glance at a woman’s breasts when hundreds of photographers have their cameras trained on you…
Damn girl, those are some golden globes! P. Diddy sneaks a peek at Jessica Biels at the Golden Globe Awards.
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"The Empire Strikes Back" Redux
Now that we know more about Darth (“The Jedi formerly known as ‘Anakin Skywalker'”) Vader’s early years, it only makes sense that the crucial scene in The Empire Strikes Back should be remade this way:
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Procrastination
(Found via Reddit.)
Even the relatively low-tech field of baking has adopted computers: a number of bakeries can now “print” photos onto a cake with an ordinary inkjet printer, edible paper and food-grade dyes. If you’re not satisfied with posting pictures of your cat on your blog, you can join the ranks of the edible imagers — there are companies like Icing Images and Icing Magic who carry the necessary supplies and books.
Since edible imaging is done with a computer, it’s only natural that someone would create a web order form where customers could enter the message they’d like to have printed on the cake. Of course, it helps to make sure that you’ve got the web application debugged; otherwise, you’ll get results like the one shown below:
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Those of you who are web developers will recognize the Microsoft conditional comments peppered all over the cake.
I suppose that nerds could give each other cakes with error messages printed on them — “444: Birthday entity too old,” and such.
For a little more detail on what happened with this cake, see this article.