Salon.com > ios 6 http://www.salon.com Fri, 24 May 2013 19:30:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Mad magazine’s New Yorker cover parody is amazing http://www.salon.com/2012/10/02/mad_magazines_new_yorker_cover_parody_is_amazing/ http://www.salon.com/2012/10/02/mad_magazines_new_yorker_cover_parody_is_amazing/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2012 18:46:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13028183 Mad magazine reimagined Saul Steinberg's iconic 1976 New Yorker cover as seen by the problematic Apple Maps app. The result is amazing:

h/t MAD Magazine

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As BuzzFeed reports, the unreliable maps are more than inconvenient -- they can be dangerous:

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