When You Are Married to a Sex Maniac…

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If Architects Had to Work Like Web Designers

This has apparently been making its rounds of the interweb for a while now, but Mr Hermit here just saw it on Digg. Poor me.

Please design and build me a house. I am not quite sure of what I need, so you should use your discretion. My house should have somewhere between two and forty-five bedrooms. Just make sure the plans are such that the bedrooms can be easily added or deleted. When you bring the blueprints to me, I will make the final decision of what I want. Also, bring me the cost breakdown for each configuration so that I can arbitrarily pick one.

This Is Gold!

[Got this from Alex’s Blog. Thanks dude! Hope you don’t mind the plug. If you want me to remove the link just let me know!]

Anyway, its about a prank that someone, fed up with one tele-marketeer too many, played on the next unsuspecting sucker. Remember to switch on your speakers. It a hoot!
How To Prank A Telemarketeer

Pimp My Model

As usual it is close to submissions and Eng Kiat is blogging way more than he should. For those of you who have started on your models already, here’s some inspiration for you. Its a video done by the Harvard GSD people. Click on the picture to see the video.

Bugger Me

It’s a holiday and I thought I should cheer you guys up with some creative advertising from the guys at Saatchi & Saatchi. Its for a Toyota Hilux and it got banned in New Zealand for gratuitous use of the word “bugger”.

More about the ad can be found here.

On a slightly separate note, the BBC program Top Gear (which btw is a very, very funny show and an International Emmy winner in 2005 for Best Unscripted Comedy) attempted to destroy a Hilux by driving it down a flight of stairs at 30 mph, scrapping concrete walls, running it into a tree, drowning it at sea, dropping it from a crane, dropping a caravan on it, driving it into a shed, smashing a wrecking ball into it, setting fire to it and putting it on top of a building that was demolished (with the truck on it) AND the truck survived all that. It was driven into the studio to the applause of the studio audience. It now sits on a plinth in the Top Gear production area as a tribute to indestructible engineering.

The Top Gear videos

OK Go!

Its a Chicago band called OK Go! and their videos are a real blast!

Something’s not right.

The housepainters are over at my place giving the interior a fresh coat of paint, and in my bid to stay out of their way I have holed up in my room surfing the net. I was checking out Apple’s new Mac campaigns (they’re pretty funny) and I as I was waiting for a video to load I went surfing the pages telling me why I’m better off with a mac. One of the pages informed me that I wouldn’t need to fork out any extra dimes because the Mac comes bundled with lots of goodies. And on the next page informing me that Windoze runs on the pretty Mac, the disclaimer on the bottom of the page seems pretty incongruent with the previous page about the stuff on a Mac being free.

Huh? You decide the implications yourself.

Works better that grenades, mate!

The Unknown Cabbie

BBC interviewed a supposed computer expert for a news programme. As it turned out the “expert” was a cabbie who looked completely horrified when he realised he was confused for someone else. Yet, his replies to the questions thrown at him was absolutely sublime, combining his thoughts on the issue as well as the terror that has to be going on in his mind.

The interview

Karen Bowerman: Guy Kewney is editor of the technology website Newswireless.

Face of horror

KB: Hello, good morning to you.

Taxi driver: Good morning.

KB: Were you surprised by this verdict today.

Taxi driver: I am very surprised to see… this verdict to come on me because I was not expecting that. When I came they told me somehting else and I am coming. So a big surprise anyway.

KB: A big surprise, yeah, yes.

Taxi driver: Exactly.

KB: With regards to the costs involved do you think now more people will be downloading online?

Taxi driver: Actually If you can walk everywhere yoy are going to see a lot of people downloading the internet and the website and everything they want. But I think eh It is much better for development and eh to inform people what they want and to get the easy way and so faster if they are looking for.

KB: It does really seem the way the music industry’s progressing now that people want to go onto the website and download music.

Taxi driver: Exactly you can go everywhere on the cyber cafe and you can take, you can go easy. It is going to be an easy way for everyone to get something to the internet

KB: Thank you. Thanks very much indeed.

Read the entire report at The Mail’s website.

Also, watch the video of the interview here.

Apocalypse Pooh

Watched Coppola’s Apocalypse Now! last night and the psychedelic imageries aren’t going away. Disturbing indeed. So in a way of getting the film out of my system I came across this spoof, which follows the major plotlines amazingly well. For those who have never watched the film before, you probably won’t understand. For those who did, you’ll love this short.

Oh and if you haven’t watched he movie, you’re missing out one of the movies that defined film history.

“You smell that? Do you smell that? … Napalm, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of napalm in the morning. You know, one time we had a hill bombed, for twelve hours. When it was all over I walked up. We didn’t find one of ’em, not one stinkin’ dink body. The smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole hill. Smelled like … victory. Someday this war’s gonna end.”