For me, the title is the icing on the cake. I can vividly imagine an airplane mechanic duct-taping the plane wing, dusting off his hands, saying "There. I fixed it."
That site was hilarious.
I'll support this submission. Yeah, it smells Diggish but its creative everyday practical "hacking". Many of the pictures remind me of physical implementations of so much code I've seen over the years. It works, but ain't pretty.
Its got nothing on This Old House's "Home Inspection Nightmares" series
Wow I am surprised there have been no complaints and this has not been flagged to death yet.
I'm something of an optimistic incompetent when it comes to ad-hoc solutions, so it's kinda nice to see a gallery of things that are ugly and useful, or ugly and likely dangerous.