Spud Buddy is the mascot for the Idaho Potato Commission, which promotes the cultivation and sale of Idaho's most famous food product.

Spud Buddy is friendly, helpful, and eager to devour the flesh of his own kind. A recent Tweet showed the grinning cannibal eating fellow potatoes as French fries. He's a sick, vicious monster.

KTVB 7 News argues that this act was not only revolting, but a crime under Idaho law:

Under Idaho's "Mayhem" clause (Title 18: Crimes and punishments):

CANNIBALISM DEFINED — PUNISHMENT. (1) Any person who wilfully ingests the flesh or blood of a human being is guilty of cannibalism.

(2) It shall be an affirmative defense to a violation of the provisions of this section that the action was taken under extreme life-threatening conditions as the only apparent means of survival.

(3) Cannibalism is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding fourteen (14) years.

Spud Buddy appears to have options other than potatoes on his plate, so he can't claim that cannibalism was necessary for survival.

-via Dave Barry | Photo: Idaho Potato Commission

After millennia have passed and archaeologists excavate the lost city of Bikini Bottom, what will they find? Which residents shall end up in laboratories and museums? Digital artist Filip Hodas answers that question with a series of images showing the fossilized skulls of SpongeBob SquarePants, Goofy, Scrooge McDuck, Popeye, and other famous cartoon characters.

-via Design Boom

If you order a pizza from the Just Pizza & Wing Company pizzeria in Amherst, New York, it will come with a flyer from an adorable pupper who just wants to love you. If you adopt him, the pizzeria will give you $50 gift certificate so that you and your new packmate have something to eat. CNN reports:

The unique idea came after Mary Alloy, who owns the pizza franchise with three of her children, began volunteering with the Niagara Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). Alloy worked with Kimberly LaRussa, an SPCA event coordinator, to come up with ways to help more shelter animals find their forever homes.

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On Friday, customers of the pizza shop began receiving orders with photos of sweet pups who need to be adopted attached to boxes. Alloy said the reaction from customers has been the best part.

People are "absolutely loving" it, and after just a single day of putting the flyers on pizza boxes, a 6-month-old puppy named Larry was adopted on Saturday.

-via Geekologie

The staff of your local Costco regrets to inform you that we have depleted our stock of summoning orbs. There should be more available after the overnight truck is unloaded and the shelves are re-stocked.

Danielle Baskin, an entrepreneur who is trying to revive the telephone, recently visited a Costco. She was equipped with signs that look just like those normally available in one of those stores, except they are for more unusual items. Baskin placed the signs in empty slots to the doubtless confusion of employees. You can see her whole Twitter thread here.

-via Super Punch

Chris Hallbeck of Maximumble really maxes out his cartoon today with this story. It diverges along six different paths. I prefer outcome six, which can be arrived at through two different choices.

Students at the Pennsylvania State University are grieving the loss of their beloved local Taco Bell. It was much loved, as it was one of the few eateries open at two o'clock in the morning. Student Prajesh Patel, who organized the vigil and conducted the service while dressed in a giant taco costume, described in the Daily Collegian the sadness that he and his colleagues felt.

“We were all shooketh after hearing about the closing of this beautiful, beautiful State College establishment,” Patel (senior-computer science) said to the crowd. “Taco Bell was our home away from home, and added spice to our life."

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Miller, who was a manager at the location, was the person who closed the doors for the final time.

“My reaction was honestly surprised, and it didn’t really affect me until I, as a manager, closed the doors for the last time,” Miller said. “I think [the vigil] was necessary, because I think it had a place in many people’s hearts, to see the store closing it felt as if somebody that was loved, died.”

-via David Burge

Katie Camarena of Porterville, California baits thieves with tools left in the back of her truck at night. When the criminals approach, a motion-activated sprinkler sprays them. Fox News reports:

"Our flood light didn’t seem to scare them off, so we decided to have a little fun with a motion-activated sprinkler that has an impressive amount of pressure," Katie Camarena wrote on Facebook.

"Our flood light didn’t seem to scare them off, so we decided to have a little fun with a motion-activated sprinkler that has an impressive amount of pressure," Katie Camarena wrote on Facebook.

-via Dave Barry

Gaming desks and chairs are well-refined and engineered marvels. But among serious esports athletes, there's a need for the focus that only a bed can provide. After all, if the gamer has to move between his bed and his desk on a daily basis, he's wasting energy that could be more productively used elsewhere.

Bauhutte, a Japanese furniture manufacturer, offers a truly amazing catalog of gaming furniture that place video games at the center of human activity. The bed appears to represent the most complete experience. But I think that even it could be improved upon if it came with some sort of built-in toilet so that it was not necessary to pause a game while attending to biological needs.

-via Ian Miles Cheong

Give Takehiro Kishimoto a squash and an X-Acto knife and he will compose a gloriously precise and intricate sculpture. No matter how small the fruit or vegetable is, he can work into its form delicate, ephemeral designs that make it look like they grew naturally.

On February 29, the residents of Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia welcomed the luminaries of the world to Mulletfest--an annual celebration of the world's most prestigious hairstyle.

The contest includes age group brackets, as well as an overall best mullet. The cultivator of this mullet is considered the grand champion and ruler of the mullet people until they gather again in Kurri Kurri. You can see photos of these beautiful people at the Daily Mail.

-via Dave Barry | Photo: CGTN

Sam Mini, a young cosplayer with a passion for Star Wars, composed this cosplay inspired by the space western The Mandalorian and the classic cartoon character Strawberry Shortcake. Her dog, Pupcake, has become baby Yoda and his blaster is now a handheld cake mixer.

Henk Verhoeff, a woodworker from New Zealand, makes mind-bending pieces of furniture that appear to emerge from cartoon worlds. They're all completely solid, intact, and functional even though they appear to be collapsing from the fabric of reality becoming unraveled.

When introducing a potato into the alimentary canal, it is essential to use the correct orifice, as it can be processed through only one direction.

Nonetheless, doctors are concerned that some people may be using potatoes anally as a home remedy for hemorrhoids, an affliction also known as piles. Wales Online reports:

Dr Diana Gall, of leading online medical service Doctor-4-U, said: “Piles can be an irritating condition and sufferers are sometimes too embarrassed to seek professional helping, turning to old wives’ tales instead.

“There is no medical evidence that putting frozen potatoes inside the anus can help cure piles, so I would urge caution to anyone thinking of doing it.

“Piles often go away on their own after a few days, but there are some tried and trusted ways to keep them at bay.

-via Debby Witt | Photo: Pxhere

The ideal librarian uniform is refined, dignified, and allows for easy body movements for our profession's complex martial arts moves.* Hence the design worn by librarians during the Nineteenth Century at the National Library of Spain in Madrid.

-via Super Punch | Photo: Marike van Roon

*Thus we are pants-free.

Rian Johnson, the director for the film Knives Out, explains in an interview for Vanity Fair that Apple forbids filmmakers from letting villainous characters use iPhones on screen. So if you see a character using an iPhone, that means that that character is not one of the bad guys.

The Verge says that Apple has long carefully controlled how its products appear on screen:

There have long been rumors about Apple’s control over how its products are shown in TV shows and movies. According to MacRumors, the company says that its products should only be used “in the best light, in a manner or context that reflects favorably on the Apple products and on Apple Inc.” It’s especially difficult when Apple is the one bankrolling a production. Last year, The New York Times reported that Apple was concerned with how its devices were depicted in content made for its own streaming service.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This control seems to go back a long way. Check out this Wired article from way back in 2002, which pointed out that all the good guys in 24 use Macs, and all the bad guys use Windows PCs. By that logic, I guess the fact that everyone in Succession seems to use Samsung products makes them chaotic neutral?

-via Ace of Spades HQ