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:
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.
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:
(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.
Last month, I showed you this image, which mashed up Sesame Street and The Shining:
And now, I present to you a different kiddie icon coming through the door. Click on the photo to see who it is!
I’d like to try this sometime, but I doubt the folks at my local grocery store are going to let me:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele. Click the photo to see it at full size.