Afternoon Time-Waster

Bad cakes.

By jameslileks

April 19, 2010 at 7:51PM

Here is a blog devoted to bad cakes. with a bounteous crop of crappy Mickey Mice. My afternoon is complete, you say. Happy to help. You'll note that some of these cakes were professionally made, and you will also note that modern commercial bakeries have every tool at their disposal except spell-check.

But before you go, consider this: it is not surprising that there's a website devoted to bad cakes. It's not even surprising that they exist entirely on reader's contributions to supply pictures of bad cakes.What amazes me is this: every day, someone looks at a bad cake, and thinks: I have to send a picture to the people who run the bad-cake website. Somehow they know. Somehow the intersection of people who get a bad cake and the number of people who know about the bad-cake site is large enough to support a website that pays its writers.

So A) if you can't make money on the internet, you're just not thinking, and B) Makes you wonder what else is out there, doesn't it? In the realm of things that won't get you fired from work, that is. That stuff, you can guess.

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