By Roland Piquepaille
Big companies usually don't like when people such as you and me are criticizing their products or making fun of their brands. You probably remember the two British guys who posted some weeks ago a spoof advertisement on the Web suggesting Volkswagen's cars were so tough they could withstand a suicide bombing. They were threatened by the company, which later agreed to drop action against them. Now, a group of Italian people has designed a single Web page making fun of three of the biggest brands on the planet: Apple, Google and McDonald's.. Read more...Let's start with the image created by the people at red-lobster.it
So how these Italians designed this Quarter Pounder Mac mini Cluster -- or 'Photoshop' cluster? They put together for just $2,000 four Mac minis to create the slowest supercomputer in the world, still reaching a teraflops/s -- which is obviously impossible, but funny.
Recently, they connected their cluster to a Google Mini search appliance -- which is also known online for looking like a block of cheese.
And here was born the "Quarter Pounder Mac mini Cluster (with cheese)."
What will happen next? Will armies of U.S lawyers sue these Italian guys? Or will Apple, Google and McDonald's smile? It's hard to know.
And just for fun, here is a link to a list of trademarks owned by McDonald's Corporation. Some of these trademarks are "Hamburger University" or "Super Size."
Sources: Various websites
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