Neil Hopcroft

“Limor Fried developed the Media-Sensitive Glasses that automatically darken whenever a television is in view, so as to protect the wearer from television’s “hypnotic” effect.” “I’ve got an ongoing project, reprogramming the firmware in these 1985 Epson LQ-500 printers to turn them into musical instruments“

If you’re a web designer, please don’t give your page any background music unless I ask for it. Not only are you irritating the hell out of me you’re using my bandwidth for which I have better uses. Just stop it. Lastest evilness: http://www.wired.com/ …they’ve been getting more and more annoying as time goes by […]

Experiments in Galvanism: Frog with Implanted Webserver (worksafe, but maybe not lunchsafe) “…is the culmination of studio and gallery experiments in which a miniature computer is implanted into the dead body of a frog specimen. Akin to Damien Hirst’s bodies in formaldehyde, the frog is suspended in clear liquid contained in a glass cube, with […]

A meme of sorts… If you were to attend a book burning, which books would you take to put onto the pyre? Why? My reaction to this question is perhaps unusual, I think it sounds like a great idea, mostly because burning books is associated with government oppression and control of media, if it were […]

I’ve just watched a beautiful sunset over my neighbours house – it would have been more beautiful if I’d been able to see the horizon, but thats what you get for living in an estate. It would take a lot to beat the sunset at Enoshima. (1Mb MJPEG .AVI – with some nasty sound, probably […]

“The Bible is true. No doubt about it! Paul explains God’s authoritative Word, and everyone who rejects His history-including six-day creation and Noah’s Flood-is ‘willfully’ ignorant.” A walk-through of the Creation Museum …guess I’ll stay ignorant then, anyone up for an en-mass visit? Theres bound to be some fun to be had…

johnfkent made me do it: 1) Total number of films I own on DVD/video: loads, probably a couple of hundred, not even sure where they all are, theres a pile in a loft in Surrey which I need to get back sometime… 2) The last film I bought: A collection of Hal Hartley films, including […]

Mr Bunnys Internet Startup Game “Players start with $10 Million, and try to purchase and debug software packages containing at least 20 feature points. Each software package, when purchased, has a number of bugs equal to its number of feature points. So, you need to hire programmers to debug your software. Packages and Programmers are […]

…thankfully I don’t smell like that any more….