I gained a certain reputation one night when I woke to the sound of gunfire — and then muttered “Oh, it’s next door,” before nonchalantly falling asleep again. But I don’t think even I could sleep through a gunshot wound to the head!
How to fire a client
Melbourne designer Jonathan Nicol has published a great article on how to fire a client.
Fred Dagg on Real Estate
I’ve finally found the text for the famous “Real Estate” speech by Fred Dagg, aka John Clarke. Lifted from Eric Lindsay’s blog, where it was shameless plagiarised…
Introducing: Nosefrida
Thanks to BoingBoing I can tell you about the Nosefrida… “A suction straw for clearing snot out of your kids’ nostrils. Put the rubber hose up your kid’s nose, then suck on the other end (keep track of which end you use for what). A filter stops the gunk and germs from ending up in your mouth.”
Of course the really, really evil part of me wants to start a competition…
How else could the Nosefrida be used in your life? Or someone else’s life, for that matter.
Please post your suggestions in the comments, and at the end of May I’ll give some sort of lame prize to whomever I judge the winner.
Audi’s dodgy Toronto adverts
Can’t put up billboards in a park? No problem! Just say they’re “set dressing” and you’re making a TV commercial — even if you’re not. That’s precisely what Audi did in Toronto to advertise the new Audi TT.
Audi got permits from the Film and Television Office of Toronto to shoot a commercial that would allow it to place 2-metre high double “T” statues all over the city. Except there was no TV commercial…
Stay in Touch — with last year
Speaking of reporting old news, the dead-tree version of this morning’s Stay in Touch column in the Sydney Morning Herald (though not the online version) reports on the Armor [sic] of God Pyjamas — something I blogged about in August last year.