Cake wrecks, yearbook yourself
Posted: Monday, August 25, 2008 6:00 AM by Gael Fashingbauer Cooper
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Multi-link Mondays
It's been a while, so how about a Multi-link Monday? You know the drill: I offer up five time-wasting but fun links to get your work week off to a smashing start. You're invited to add your own link suggestions in the comments.
• I took a cake-decorating class once. I had a blast, but I was humiliated by being the only person who finished the entire class and never once successfully crafted a frosting rose. So while I laugh my head off at the disasters on Cake Wrecks, I kind of feel their pain, too. Whether it's simply a super-inappropriate cake choice or a decorator who just didn't get it, this blog is hilarious. And the cakes features aren't by unpaid schmoes like me, they're cakes someone actually paid money for -- so their badness is kind of unforgiveable.
• My friend and co-worker Kim Carney found Yearbook Yourself, where you can upload a photo of yourself into the stereotypical yearbook shot of various decades. See yourself with 1980s big hair, or a late-'70s Farrah 'do, or...oh, wait, I can just look in my real yearbooks for that. I uploaded one of almost-10-month-old Kelly, and cracked up as I saw a little bit of what my little girl might look like in the goofy styles of yesteryear. She looks great with a 'fro, not so good with a 1960s Marlo Thomas flip.
• When AMC's fab "Mad Men" showed bits and pieces of Jackie Kennedy giving her 1962 TV tour of her White House renovations, I was itching to watch the whole thing. Apparently I wasn't the only one -- AMC has put the entire tour online (broken into four parts). Oh, how long ago those times seem. Want more? Here are plenty of photos of the renovation. (Love the swimming-pool mural!) Apparently the new Oval Office was finished while JFK and Jackie were on their fateful trip to Dallas, and it was dismantled before Jackie even returned.
• I know some of you love online games and such, so for you, I present this simple, yet strangely compelling, Internet kaleidoscope. Trippy! (Via The Stranger's Slog.)
• Reader-submitted link: Thanks to Amanda for this fun one. She says "Here is a good time-wasting site. Supposedly it is an Air Force test. The object of the game is to move the red block around without getting hit by the blue blocks or touching the black walls. If you can go longer than 18 seconds, you are phenomenal. It's been said that the US Air Force uses this for fighter pilots. They are expected to go for at least 2 minutes." Well, if that is true, then I'd be a heckuva Air Force pilot, since I lasted a gargantuan one second. I hope I will never have to defend our country from marauding blue blocks.
