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March 16, 2006 2:23 PM

Engadget turns 2. There are lots of famous birthdays in March, but I'm willing to bet none of them had cakes quite as elaborate as the ones Engadet fans made.
posted by FlamingBore (21 comments total)

not yummy
posted by geduran at 2:35 PM on March 16, 2006

What would a MetaFilter birthday cake look like?
posted by ericb at 2:36 PM on March 16, 2006

Well yay for poorly-paid hacks rewriting press releases/other people's content and Google AdSense making the whole mess worthwhile.
posted by reklaw at 2:37 PM on March 16, 2006

What reklaw said.
posted by cillit bang at 2:42 PM on March 16, 2006

Awesome.
posted by notmydesk at 2:56 PM on March 16, 2006

Eh, their content doesn't consist of 150 posts about how much republicans suck and why every day. At least they don't claim to be the "best of the web".
posted by cellphone at 3:01 PM on March 16, 2006

cellphone has posted no links 62 comments to MetaFilter
posted by sonofsamiam at 3:04 PM on March 16, 2006

One curious thing about engadget -- I read it 3-4x/week -- but yet I'm pretty sure it has never influenced a buying decision or even had me become especially aware of some electronic I wanted to buy....for some reason, cnet -- which is in many a worse site -- does.
posted by narebuc at 3:31 PM on March 16, 2006

I wish the Gadget Blog Corrections Blog was still updated. It made me feel good and let me laugh at the editors of Engadget. Isn't it done by a MeFite?

sonofsamiam: Dig deeper! angry modem has posted 27 links and 984 comments to MetaFilter
posted by zsazsa at 5:09 PM on March 16, 2006

Much better than the "pat yourself on the back" link I thought it was going to be.
posted by furtive at 5:16 PM on March 16, 2006

Man, people have a lot of free time.
posted by fungible at 6:10 PM on March 16, 2006

with his functional 1:6 scale Treo 650 cake.

Actually, that's a 6:1 scale cake. Sorry, but if I don't snark about scale, who will?
posted by signal at 7:50 PM on March 16, 2006

You know, I'd be really, really impressed by a 1:6 scale Treo cake over an 6:1 scale cake. Especially if it still worked, edible PDA's? Hot damn!
posted by fenriq at 9:09 PM on March 16, 2006

What reklaw said.

sonofsamiam: Dig deeper! angry modem has posted 27 links and 984 comments to MetaFilter

Is that supposed to mean that cellphone is a sockpuppet for angry modem? What the fuck?
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 9:11 PM on March 16, 2006

I'm gonna be 35 this month... (^_^)
posted by xtian at 9:38 PM on March 16, 2006

Is that supposed to mean that cellphone is a sockpuppet for angry modem? What the fuck?

angry modem was banned after he posted the picard song from ytmnd. I take it that this is his new account.
posted by Dreamghost at 9:58 PM on March 16, 2006

Also that treo cake is cool.
posted by Dreamghost at 9:59 PM on March 16, 2006

so reklaw...

you...don't like engadget?
posted by virga at 10:01 PM on March 16, 2006

I take it that this is his new account.

Ah, I see. Thinking on it, I have sensed a certainly snarly continuity in tone, so it's not entirely surprising.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:03 PM on March 16, 2006

Any famous people born on February 29?
posted by ParisParamus at 10:10 PM on March 16, 2006

Yes. Kind of.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 10:26 PM on March 16, 2006