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Lego reconstructions of pop videos and cakes baked in the shape of iPods are not generally considered relevant to serious political debate. But even the most earnest bloggers will often take time out of their busy schedule to pass on some titbit of mildly entertaining geek ephemera. No one has done more to promote pointless, yet strangely cool, time-wasting stuff on the net than the editors of Boing Boing (subtitle: A Directory of Wonderful Things). It launched in January 2000 and has had an immeasurable influence on the style and idiom of blogging. But hidden among the pictures of steam-powered CD players and Darth Vader tea towels there is a steely, ultra-liberal political agenda: championing the web as a global medium free of state and corporate control.
Boing Boing chronicles cases where despotic regimes have silenced or imprisoned bloggers. It helped channel blogger scorn on to Yahoo and Google when they kowtowed to China’s censors in order to win investment opportunities. It was instrumental in exposing the creeping erosion of civil liberties in the US under post-9/11 ‘Homeland Security’ legislation. And it routinely ridicules attempts by the music and film industries to persecute small-time file sharers and bedroom pirates instead of getting their own web strategies in order. It does it all with gentle, irreverent charm, polluted only occasionally with gratuitous smut.
festivities were over, the cake was brought back home. Armed with spoons, a few of us gathered around the cake promising to nibble just around the corner of this delicious 3-tier dark chocolate cake with chocolate frosting. Now, there is custom where the wedding cake is frozen and taken out for the couple’s 1st year anniversary. While this bride and groom were all for freezing the cake, in a matter of half an hour the entire cake was devoured, down to the last crumbly bit. Now, I could go on about the virtues of home baked custom cakes but instead, I would love to turn the spotlight on the people behind the scene- the home bakers.
This incident with the wedding cake was my first introduction to the world of home bakers. Since then I have met and worked with quite a few fabulous men and women who have turned their passion for baking into a business venture that caters to occasions like weddings, birthdays, anniversaries and festivals. It was not an easy decision for any of them since factors like availability of ingredients, pow
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