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A soft toy, plus a USB stick is a childish adornment to your computer. Photo: Ikea Hacker.

We all live somewhere, be it in a house or on a park bench. We probably spend too much of our lives in the home. In the middle of autumn, it may take some effort to get out of bed at all. Because your life shouldn’t be boring just because you’re at home, we proudly present: Seven things you can do at home.

If a horse and a human mate, their offspring will be a centaur. If a sofa and a rug skip the foreplay and get down and dirty it’s furniture hacktivism. I love the Internet more than I’ve ever loved school. Every day I learn things and discover new phenomena. I remember so clearly how it was back when the Internet was new. The first thing I did was to search for naked pictures of Pamela Anderson. Then I chatted on Aftonbladet's chat under the pseudonym Loverboy83. I was 11 years old and the year was 1994. I quickly learned to make web pages by looking at the source code on other sites.

If a horse and a couch were to mate, it would be chaos. I remember my junior high teachers and how we hacked into their e-mail accounts and read everything they had written. We could easily plant small Trojan horse viruses on their computers so that we could see exactly what they were doing all the time. Got their browsers to always have gay porn open or the FBI's murder image archive as their start-page. That’s retro now. What is new is to use the Internet to make good shit even better. Like furniture hacktivism. You take two pieces of furniture and force them to mate. If a member does not fit saw or cut it off. Pasting and fixing. Not giving a damn about the instruction manual and throwing away the standard tools that the furniture came with. Follow your heart. Hacking art.

Bonus - Hacking Ikea furniture http://ikeahacker.blogspot.com/

Text: Navid Modiri