If you thought it was a slow news day, you're right-- unless, of course, you happen to work at Slave Labor Graphics, in which case not only would you be wrong, but you should also probably spend some time working on your observing skills, since you apparently didn't notice that your office got plowed into by a Honda. Not that we're familiar with the housekeeping skills (or lack thereof) typically in evidence down at the SLG studios, but we just have to assume that when a couple thousand pounds of metal and glass smashes through the wall of your place of business, you should probably be able to tell the difference between the BEFORE and AFTER shots. (The AtAT compound, on the other hand, is normally such a pile of wreckage that one time a full week had passed before we noticed that a small aircraft had crash-landed through the roof-- and then only because a survivor finally came out of his coma and asked us where the bathroom was.)

Okay, technically the carnage all happened on Saturday, but still; faithful viewer Edward Liu informed us that the offices of SLG, best known to us as the publishers of our personal comic heroes Milk & Cheese ("Dairy Products Gone Bad"-- think Steve Jobs, only in comic form and without the turtleneck or Reality Distortion Field but with a penchant for hard liquor and swift and blinding violence), had a little run-in with a drunk driver the other night. As in, a drunk driver managed to plant her Honda squarely within the confines of the SLG office without so much as a knock on the door-- and a courteous knock was the least she could have done, considering that her car took out "part of the store and [the] editorial and production department." Luckily, no one was crazy enough to be at work at 1 AM on a Saturday morning, so no one was hurt. See, kids? A work ethic can get you killed.

So why are we mentioning this, aside from the fact that for anyone not employed by SLG it was such a slow news day that most of you have taken to seeing if you could identify playing cards while blindfolded solely by licking them? Well, while no people were injured in the wreck, a Mirrored Drive Door G4 got knocked clear across the room; younger and more sensitive viewers should exercise discretion when considering whether or not to view the photos of the aftermath. (Yes, the G4 on the table looks fine, as does the iMac next to it. But look at the one on the floor. There's a close-up of the G4's damage on page 2.)

Good news, though; the Power Mac may have been scuffed and cracked when the speeding Honda said a forceful "howdy," but it's apparently fully operational: "Amazingly, the scanner seems to have survived, as did Jennifer's computer and all the juicy data it contains, against all expectations." While we cringe at the thought of something as beautiful as a Power Mac getting rammed by an out-of-control vehicle, it's nice to know that if such a horrible situation ever occurs again, the Mac may well pull through. "SLG Prez Dan Vado was that sure the hit the computer took was a killing blow, but it seems the Mac G4 is tougher than anyone all thought."

Well, maybe not tougher than anyone all thought, since longtime viewers will recall more than one instance of Power Macs surviving fires and suffering little more than massive cosmetic damage while Wintels all around died horrible fiery deaths, but it's nice to know that Apple's long-used Yosemite-style Power Mac enclosure wasn't just fire-resistant, but Honda-proof as well. No wonder the engineers at Apple stuck with the design for four and a half years; they couldn't kill it if they tried. We find ourselves wondering how the G5's new aluminum enclosure would stand up to blazing heat and/or the impact of a speeding car-- but not quite enough to go find out.