Not sure what level of prank/gag/stunt this is (note today’s date), but this is supposedly a fully functional compass that only points to the Olive Garden in Times Square.
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Anyone else have a teenager who is obsessed with Olive Garden—and other 90s sit-down chain restaurants like Chili's? There seems to be something in the water in our neck of the woods.
Not too proud to admit I asked an LLM to explain the pun, it did a bang-up job:
In case further assistance is needed, the seed phrase is from Lord of the Rings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_that_glitters_is_not_gold#Tolkien).
And The Verge got a mini interview with the (independent!? not an actual April Fools Day joke?!) creators
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