Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Archive for August 2005

Once again the Creating Passionate Users guys come up with another hit, this time its a total immersion skunkworks prototype factory. Anyone up for setting up a lodge in the UK? Or something equivalent….

Cats in sinks, except they’re almost exclusively in basins. Decadence for those who consider two spikes to be extravagence. …and wheres that thunder storm gotten to?

Therapy?

During the week I found a copy of Therapy – the boardgame. This was, by looks of things, published back in the days when therapy was an aspirational passtime, rather than the necessary evil it has become today. Still, doesn’t stop it being an interesting piece of social commentary, and worth the 2 pounds the […]

Don’t mess with Caligula if you can’t stand the smell

There was little choice but to buy the 1938 edition of the collected poems of Rupert Brooke I found today. I was looking for some ugly wood art but such seems to be in short supply around the antique market of Ely. Maybe I have to make some instead. Then I figured I’d go exploring […]

Not even your Homeland Security Blanket can save you from Dance Dance Immolation

The dutch are trying their hand at fame with an entry for Cycle facility of the month In other news, there is no other news. I’m still here, plotting my escape. More later.

Linkblast

‘Sacamajojo! I shall shrink your simian skull to a size such as this!’ An overanalysis of the international unit of rainforest destruction Last supper, collect all 310 souvenir trays “A timeless love story for our age: Boy meets Girl. Boy designs really big SUV for girl. Girl gets in a car accident and leaves Boy. […]

More castles on sand

Yesterday I went to a Foundation 4 Success meeting. Normally this isn’t the kind of thing I’d go to but I’d been invited along by a friend and was intrigued about what was there. This was a meeting at the NEC in Birmingham, the first thing to notice was the car park, always something thats […]