I made a fake-cake generator for my 30th birthday
cakesy.com
cakesy.com
Happy Birthday!
(Surprised no one did this yet.)
When viewing your website, I couldn't help but think how delicious some cake would be right now. So. Let adsense do its work, showing local cake-delivery bakeries that provide a web-customizable text service (assuming they exist - if not, there's a business there too.)
Also, do support unicode, as someone suggested, also for reddit-inspired workplace friday cakes, such as: ಠ_ಠ
It's got the best in 1993 web UI technology.
I made you a happy cake, just to show how much I liked it: http://cakesy.com/8a7d3b35a
I think it's just that most people are used to dealing with / have encountered C char arrays, and 8 bits per character just makes sense to programmers. 'Tis why I jump for joy when I hear about framework-X fully supporting UTF - IMO, they all should, from day one, but I realize it can sometimes be a lot of work, and is always a performance hit.
For that matter, why would anyone intentionally drop cake? That's a waste of good cake! Shame on you, dr_lego!
For whatever reason, I just found the statement "drop cake" hilarious. Nevermind it's not valid sql.
SELECT BOWL FROM CABINET FULL JOIN EGGS ON COUNTER WITH MIXER, FULL JOIN FLOUR ON COUNTER WITH MIXER, FULL JOIN SUGAR ON COUNTER WITH MIXER WHERE CHEF IS NOT NULL; UPDATE OVEN SET TEMP = F(450); INSERT INTO OVEN VALUES CAKE AFTER REMOVE FREAKIN_TRAY FROM OVEN WITH MITT; BAKE CAKE; REMOVE CAKE WHERE CAKE = BAKED; DROP CAKE; REMOVE CAKE WHERE CAKE ON FLOOR WHERE FIVE_SECOND_RULE = TRUE; CROSS APPLY ICING(RED) AS DECORATION; CUT CAKE; SELECT SLICE(LARGE) AS "PIECE" FROM CAKE AND EAT("PIECE");
The chocolate side-on shot of the cake makes for more realistic cakes from my trial. The head-on cakes' writing doesn't look real at all.
The above example makes the text look too small though, IMHO. Maybe scale things up dynamically to fit the text to the available space a little better? Still, very neat toy.