Custom cake design is an art form, unfortunately one which is usually relegated to grocery store isles, practiced by high school students earning minimum wage. Thankfully, someone has take it upon themselves to collect and display some of the monstrous grocery store, warehouse shops and deli cake disasters which are gracing the picnic tables of birthday parties and baby showers worldwide.

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Yep, the Queen of television has gone vegan. Though she’s describing it as a “cleanse” rather than an actual vegan diet, Oprah is giving up animal products, sugar and other unhealthy food ingredients in order to cleanse her body of evil spirits, also known as calories. She’s even blogging about it over at Oprah.com! Good for her and I can only imagine the amount of housewives currently buying Gimme Lean at their local Wal-Mart thanks to Oprah! (Via Vegan Foodism)

What a blog and a Flickr account can produce. A (somewhat) anonymous blogger has started an interesting photo project where he sets up his camera timer, then proceeds to run as far (and as fast) as he can in the opposite direction.

The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can.

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Forget the Heroes wiki (ok don’t, not really), Greg Beeman, one of the directors and producers of everyone’s favorite new sci-fi tv series Heroes, has a wonderful blog up discussing his experiences during the production of his episodes. Though sometimes containing a few spoilers, Beeman is offering up TONS of great information and insight, including lots of great behind the scenes photos, brief interviews with the many people involved in the show, and giving his first-hand explanations of decisions he and other’s have made about the show’s direction. Now this is the type of fan-interaction I *love* to see with some of my favorite shows, less intern-backed official blogs and more blogs directly from those who have their hands on the switch. Thanks Greg and keep up the great work!

Read more: Heroes production blog (Potential spoilers alert!)

Buyer beware is an old adage, but, it usually involves buyers being aware of scams or offers that were too good to be true. Lately it’s taken on a different meaning. Many buyers now must beware of the fine print (and even the fine print’s fine print) so easily concealed on just about every unit of packaged merchandise sold. Enter consumer advocate MousePrint.org, a consumer-rights and advocacy blog, focusing less on the marketing-speak and more on the fine-print, exposing consumer goods manufacturers’ sometimes abusive usage of ‘mouseprint’ to basically nullify or negate the large headline offers that all consumers are flooded with on a daily basis.

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Everything television and movie DVD blog Pan and Scan have sadly announced their closure, after 4 long and hard months of reporting us all the goings on in the world of the digital video disc. The closure is due to a lack of revenue it seems, even though they were doing quite a stellar job for television and movie junkies. Their’s will be hard shoes to fill, but, it seems they already have a candidate for us to go and get our release dates for our favorite television DVD sets. All the best for the future Pan and Scanners.

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Bunch of Nerds now has a family! Well, we always have had family, but, now our blog officially does. Playthrough.net used to be one of the crucial community sites for those involved in the games industry quality assurance field before a tragic, tragic database crash mid-Summer 2006. Shortly after Bunch of Nerds’ quite successful launch (less than 3 months ago WOO!), the decision was made to break off our nerdy posting about the games industry gossip that rolled across our tables daily and turn Playthrough into our outlet for all things gamey. So it’s here, kind of. We are still cleaning up some small bugs here and there, but, you get the gist. So all those interested in lots of gamer-centric jibba jabba from a couple of nerds, feel free to give a visit to Playthrough and give them a virtual wedgie for us.

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Ron Moore, the mighty leader of Battlestar Galactica (re-imagined) has updated his blog at SciFi to give us fans a sneak peak at some of the current progress of BSG season 3 and also to go through another round of his much-appreciated question and answer sessions. Ron regularly takes questions from fans, answering them through his blog and giving fans a unique insight into the BSG world, sometimes dropping a few spoilers along the way. This time around we cover topics such as homosexuality in the BSG-world (or seemingly lack thereof), the health and prophecy of President Roslin, and many others. Moore also briefly discusses the upcoming episode penned by Jane Espenson of Buffy fame as well as discussing his desire to see her join the writing team (depending on how things go with season 4).

Read more: Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galactica blog | Battlestar Galactica season 3 preview

Either a viral marketing gimmick or an extremely large case of bad luck. A silicon valley man was apparently at work, reading Vallywag, the premier silicon valley gossip rag, when he suddenly read something that caused him to burst out in uncontrollable laughter. Problem being his boss was hanging out behind him and seemed to have had a bad day. Few minutes later and a pink slip in hand, the man is on the street and naturally behind his computer, creating a new blog, Valley Hag, where we’ll all be able to follow his search for a new job, acceptance in life and as many donations from concerned users as possible. Good luck sir! Disclaimer: I don’t know where this person worked so I’m not stating that he was fired FROM Google.

[Valleyhag | Valleywag]