Neil Hopcroft

“They have designed a mobile phone case or cover that when discarded can be placed in compost in such a way that just weeks later the case will begin to disintegrate and turn into a flower.”

“For €25,000, you can get a crucifix antenna“

Why didn’t I find this while I was living in Oxford :( On show, the best from Dennis, Bristol, AEC reliance among others. No Routemasters as far as I can see from the list, unless they had another name too?

Today, I attempt to tackle my email and ljcomment backlog, normal lack of service will be resumed shortly…

Die Fabrik on thursday, which makes a bit more sense if you say it in a german accent, I’m sure, was an interesting mix of a load of music I’d like to get to know more about. We arrived, apparently, three quarters of the way through a note (or was it a chord?). But things […]

“As of last week, officials were contemplating charges against (geocacher) David Cook. They suggested they might “tally the cost” for the mobilization effort…When a geeky game causes such paranoia, it seems to me the terrorists have already won“

“No matter what Senators or the staff did all that would come on their computers were hard core gay pictures.” and, as far as I can work out, completely unrelated “If you ever thought carrots were boring, check out their new palette” (both worksafe)

Rod logic: “A square one centimeter on a side—about one-quarter the area of a postage stamp—could hold a trillion bits of information. That’s equal to more than a thousand CD-ROMs, or the contents of a bookshelf that is one mile long.” Snowcrash: “Warwick didn’t publicise the IP address of his arm in case someone hijacked […]

“They disintegrated explosively and bits of chocolate and shredded marshmallow splattered all over the windscreens and instruments panels…thereafter marshmallows were banned.”

“strangely-attractive bean-shaped drives with little Disney charms attached“