Neil Hopcroft

Cash Peters (awful website, sadly) is a Brit who has managed to get himself pigeonholed as the man for the job when an American radio station needs someone to visit an obscure attraction. This book follows some of his journeys to the kinds of places nobody really wants to visit. Of course the prospect of […]

Watching the economic situation pan out is fascinating, hilarious and scary in roughly equal measures. Of course, I could pretend that I could see what was going to happen two years ago, like all the commentators out there. In fact, no, I could see something bad was going to happen but I didn’t know what […]

Hyperbolic crochet coral reef “One can probably say that, as a species, cows are not the world’s most earthquake-sensitive animals” Ich Will, Pooh Bears in space (I’m hoping theres no repeats here, some of these have been kicking around here for a while and I can’t remember if I’ve posted them before)

Crazy Japanese road construction Google maps censorship catalog Performing arts centre, Dubai Scary looted nuclear lighthouses on the north coast of Russia

We went to the Technical Museum for my birthday last week. A number of the museums here in Stockholm open late on wednesday evenings, so we headed down after I finished work. The smell of machine oil perks me up every time, there is a main hall with many old steam and early internal combustion […]

For some reason its a public holiday here in Sweden tomorrow, so I was looking for something to do. I wasn’t very successful but I did find Volvo abuse on a scale only possible in rural Sweden. Comes complete with a little giggle in the background that brings to mind hirez throwing a sack of […]

The car was registering -5 outside today when I was heading out for a walk. I drove to the other side of the nature reserve north of Akalla, before walking across to the memory fields. There was a biting wind and the snow underfoot was being creaky. There were a few streams and pools nearby […]

International Robot Density Demolition toy Socket antlers How to steal the Empire State Building Beaker goes mad If you ever thought that video would be funnier with Benny Hill music Burlesque Muppets (worksafe, not sanity safe) ASCII art, old skool Head and neck injury risks in heavy metal: head bangers stuck between rock and a […]

One of my resolutions this year was (as probably has been before) to be a bit better at communicating – I’ve somewhat lost touch with a lot of people over the last couple of years. So I’m going to start writing here a bit more. We started by seeing the new year in with the […]