Would you like a slice of cake? It’s made out of plastic! April Fool’s!
In honor of the day of jokes, hoaxes and pranks, I’ve compiled a little list of where to get and how to make fake foods:
Brownie Point Blog has the most amazing tutorial on how to make edible fake sushi - salmon nigiri with Rice Krispie treat rice and dried cantelope salmon, shrimp made of hand-painted homemade marshmallow. Seriously realistic-looking, seriously cool.
Leelee’s Creations offers hundreds of high-quality fake foods - fake fried chicken dinner, scented plastic cinammon rolls, Popsicles made out of soap, a $185 three-tiered faux wedding cake.
Fake Foods sells just what the name suggests - fake wedges of Swiss cheese, plastic kale leaves, an entire 16-inch “Vegetable Party Tray.”
At Jerri Blank’s website, funny lady Amy Sedaris shows you how to make a fake chocolate-frosted cake (spackle, plaster of Paris and a hat box)
Check out Craft Gossip for a tutorial on food-shaped candles - a fruit salad candle, a hot fudge sundae candle, etc.
Brace yourself, US-based Touch Dual lovers — the handset that your Japanese / European friends have been taunting you with for months is finally making the trip stateside. Slated to launch “later this quarter” (at Best Buy initially, of all places), the US Touch Dual will come rocking Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, TouchFLO, Office Mobile, Live HTC Home, a 2-megapixel camera, quad-band GSM support and HSDPA connectivity. Sadly, HTC didn’t give us the pleasure of knowing a price, but we’ll be keeping an ear to the ground for more exact details surrounding the release.
I would hate to find a rat in anything I purchased. That seems like the worst kind of surprise ever. Unfortunately, that’s what awaited one consumer in Korea upon opening a bag of frozen mixed vegetables.
The person contacted and filed a complaint with the Korean Food and Drug Administration after purchasing the frozen veggies from a Costco there. The Korean unit of the company acted quickly to recall all Willow Wind Organic Mixed Vegetables, which were imported from California. Of course Costco suspended sales of the product, as well.
The thought of a rat in anything that I’ve bought is not a pleasant one. I know that some things just happen, but I’d like to think that a rodent would be caught before it got into a product. I know we’ve seen a lot of product recalls lately, so don’t you thing that manufacturers would work a little harder to keep foreign objects out of their products? What do you think?
It’s no big secret that Sony is gearing up to redesign the PlayStation Store for users in Europe and the US, but with just days to go until the hard hats are donned, we figured it prudent to pass along the latest tidbits surrounding the change. Apparently the refacing will start on April 3rd and finish up in around a fortnight, but until the job is finished, “no additional downloadable content will be posted.” Of course, existing content will remain available, and chances are you’ll appreciate the updates when all is said and done, but we know how tough it’ll be to not log on weekly and eagerly sniff for all new material. Hit up the via for lots of pictures — we’re told it’ll help the sting.
Everyone and their (his?) mother loves The Proposition, the Nick Cave-penned Australian western starring Danny Huston as a villain who could give Chigurh a run for his money in sheer badassery. It’s hard to blame them, since movies that gritty and tough don’t come along very often. (As modern westerns go, I think 3:10 to Yuma is better, but it certainly isn’t as awesomely brutal.) Two years after that film became a critical darling and a sleeper hit of sorts, director John Hillcoat — who is currently in production on Cormac McCarthy’s The Road — has signed with Columbia to direct an adaptation of a not-yet-released novel by Matt Bondurant called The Wettest Country in the World. The book is about a trio of gangsters — the author’s grandfather and grand-uncles — who ran the moonshine trade at the peak of the Prohibition Era, and the writer who tracked them in search of a scoop.
If you checked into those NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX benchmarks and felt they met with your high standards, now you can actually get one (or a bunch) into your rig. According to reports, the brain-laser of a graphics card can now be had (in various iterations) for the low, low price of $329.99 (at least from Newegg). And before you ask — Crysis: Yes. Doom: Yes. Overlords: Welcome. Will blend: Yes. Russia: Benchmarks you.
April Fool’s day joke? Could be, but we’re hearing it might be real: the long standing bastions of iPhone hacking, the iPhone Dev Team, posted a note to their site stating that “[today] the DevTeam was approached by an unnamed party to sell all of the intellectual property and related applications. After much consideration [What, hours? -Ed.] the offer was accepted and the [Dev Team] has ceased.” Seems a bit outlandish. For those not in the know, the Dev Team is the same group that posted jailbreaks to 2.0 (before it was out), 1.1.3, 1.1.1, developed the AnySIM unlock, and are thiiiis close to releasing the Pwnage tool (which promised total unsigned firmware control of the iPhone). So yeah, it may well be a prank, we wouldn’t put it past them. Funny thing about the hacker community though, one goes down and 10 more spring up.
The companies announced plans for the upcoming launch of a new feature that will allow Garmin users to send trip planning results straight from from MapQuest to their Garmin personal navigation device. This will allow users to find a place or to plan and research routes that can then be sent directly to Garmin GPS units with a “Send to GPS” drop down option.
This will also allow users to access previously sent location data from their Garmin devices without needing to input information directly on the device. This new “Send-to-Garmin” feature will be available in April and expands on some existing MapQuest “Send-To” features that already allow consumers to send directions from the MapQuest site to their cell phones.
Your umbrella is your better sword! As a child I empowered my toys with all kinds of will of their own. We all have one day stood up on a chair pretending it was a boat crossing Niagara Falls. Well Yuichiro Katsumoto did it. He creates objects that become anything you want with noises. By combining common household commodities with computers, Yuichiro Katsumoto works on ubiquitous computing. He created a set of daily objects that give our everyday lives a whimsical spin.
He created Amagatana an umbrella for enjoying a blissful walk after a rain.
Amagatana is a mystical sword for enjoying the blithe feeling after the rain. When you swing Amagatana, you can hear the sound of swords clashing from the headphone. Amagatana seems to be just a plastic umbrella. You also seem just like a cheerful person when you are playing Amagatana. However, the umbrella exists beautifully in your hand as a “sword”. On your way home, Amagatana offers you the world of make-believe. Then, you will be able to get a feel for heroes of comics, cartoon, and video games. It’s your own pleasure, which nobody can notice.
He also created Fula, a muffler for warming the user’s body and soul on a cold winter’s day. Ordinary mufflers protect our body against the cold by blocking the cold air. However, Fula warms the user by encouraging him to physically move, by fluttering its fabric in a superhero-like manner in response to the user’s muscular contractions. Through acting in accordance to the flutter, the user can warm his body, and by seeing the reflection of his heroic self in store windows, his soul as well. Fula can also be used in conjunction with Amagatana, to have the two interact together.
I found this awesome video on Youtube. You gotta watch this video. It is too funny.
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Would you like a slice of cake? It’s made out of plastic! April Fool’s! 
I would hate to find a rat in anything I purchased. That seems like the worst kind of surprise ever. Unfortunately, that’s what awaited one consumer in Korea upon opening a bag of 
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