Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Unusual Paintings of Obama Naked with Unicorns, no, really (painter of pancakes excels himself again) 5 across: structure or act of creation creation Personalised urn If only all of Russia was like this

I’m pretty certain that’s Latvia, not Cafe Bandai Gyoza maker Sushi train Plastic Yakiniku Whiteboard clock

Gay Gundam Hand-driers from around the world Dr Manhattan play kit Using caffeine to develop film (and some results) Finally, Lego Revelations Broken picture telephone Noodle slide

Back from Tokyo into the beta maelstrom, its still going to take a while to catch up properly. I’ve finally uploaded some pictures. Its fantastic to be back there and makes me want to go back for more. I’ll write some more about it at some point, but don’t expect anything very quickly. Right now […]

Do we really Need To Know?

For some reason Operation Falco seems relevant again, 11 years on. Is it really that long? www.word.com were the first one down, now replaced by Merriam-Webster Lets play. Who is going down this time around? (anon ok)

Product manual archive Mitsuoka finally produce something worth looking at Sex Pixels (worksafe, probably, but with thumbnails that look like they’re not) 25 best programmer errors (which actually look like security mistakes to me, not actually the kind of bugs that I was expecting)

Book review: Squandering Aimlessly

by David Brancaccio. This book started out where Gullibles Travels left off. At the Mall of America. As far as I can work out this is just coincidence. David explored how people have dealt with excess money, coming up with some options for handling a lottery win covering spending, charity, retirement and a number of […]

Book review: Gullibles Travels, adventures of a bad taste tourist

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 […]