Adam Buxton does it again

I love this thing he’s done for his new chums Radiohead. It’s a film of Morgan Freeman getting his new Radiohead In Rainbows boxset delivered.

Turn your monitor upside down

I just found this site where a woman creates ambigrams. Yes, ambigrams. They’re words you can read upside down as well as the right way up (just try it with the word above). They’re not just crappy optical illusion things - they are beautiful. And she can be commissioned to do your own personal one for a ridiculously small fee. I think I’m going to try her out. I just need to think of something I’d like to be able to read upside down as well.

Crack addict

This is a view of my desk right now (slightly blurred because I think my cameraphone still has some tea inside it). It’s a bit of a mess because yesterday my fellow Poker Iain showed me how to get into a walnut the easy way. Not actually fit myself into the walnut - just open it up and retrieve the miniature edible brain. So today I filled my pockets with walnuts from reception, took them back to my desk and fashioned a walnut opening device from a broken bull dog clip. Here’s how you do it:

• Hold the walnut pointy-side down
• Insert the thin piece of metal into the top of the nut. You’ll find that it’ll slide in quite easily
• Twist
• Pick the nut from the opened shell.
• Yum

Apologies to my colleagues for the distracting noise.

What were they thinking?!

This is one of the worst ads that I’ve seen in ages. Somebody must feel dirty. Very, very dirty indeed.

Just like real life. Only creepier.

I never really spend any time with the gogglebox but last night I managed to catch a piece of really painful car-crash TV. I watched it with one hand over my eyes and the other one typing out a presentation for a lunchtime meeting today. It was a Channel 4 show called ‘My Fake Baby’ and it followed several totally dysfunctional women with different forms of obsession about Reborn Dolls.

You can see a bit of the programme here.

Ugh! These things are disgusting. My favourite part of the show was when one of the ever-patient husbands was introduced to a doll created to look like his grandson. He took the words right out of my mouth when he said it “looked like something off a mortuary slab”.

Something that wasn’t included in the programme was any mention of realistic dolls for the dysfunctional man. They are just as bizarre but far more titillating. Get an eyeful of them over here.

Where do these people fit in on a Planner’s demographic breakdown?

The Rules #40

The standard retirement age is 65.

Creative departments are filled with twenty and thirty-somethings.

Make plans.