links for 2009-09-09

"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."

I actually think this speaks more to why architecture isn't much like web design than why web design clients are irrational.

"Yesterday's gadgets look primitive - and yet look very familiar."