Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Linkblast

I’d forgotten just how interesting Cryptome can be sometimes (“Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance — open, secret and classified documents — but not limited to those. Documents are removed from this site only by order served directly by a US court having jurisdiction. No court order has ever been served; any order served will be published here — or elsewhere if gagged by order. Bluffs will be published if comical but otherwise ignored.”)

“This real-size robotic hand can detect and catch objects. It is made of LEGO bricks. I’ ve worked one month on this project, I wanted to build a LEGO hand that looks real and works fine.” – Lego prosthetics, its only a matter of time.

Spork II

Celebrating 60 years of Anthrax research … seems I was a bit of a latecomer only getting into them in the 80s. Lots of other interesing maps elsewhere on that site. Maps of all kinds of things.

“As if making space-noodles in standard ramen flavor wasn’t cool enough, Nissen is offering SpaceRam in four different flavors: soy sauce, miso, curry and pork broth.”


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