Neil Hopcroft

A digital misfit

Back to life

For various reasons I’ve not been updating here very much lately. Perhaps I should try to pick up the habit again, since I’m quite useless at keeping in touch in other ways too. Oh well.

Tonight I attended the Mobile Monday Mobile Marketing event at the Science Tower here in Kista. It is rather depressing that very little seems to have changed since the glorious days of Mobizines. There’s still people talking about how SMS marketing is going to save the world, and how mobile web will overcome WAPathy.

Depressingly the speaker from that dinosaur, Ericsson, was the most cogent while those from the bright young startups appeared stuck regurgitating pre-bubble hubris. How did we let this happen?


Linkblast

Need to measure Half a human brain?

Tennis Ball Cannon is a Dog’s Best Robotic Friend

20 Insane Supervillain Schemes In Flowchart Form

“Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip

Little yellow drum machine – musical Roomba.

“A lamp that develops like a living organism: switch it on and it slowly starts growing by knitting its own lampshade at a speed of three rotations per hour.”

Paper Enigma Machine

Traffic jam shockwave recreated in experiment

The AI discovers that our universe is really an online webcomic in a higher dimension. The fourth wall is broken.

Lego Camero

Subprime primer

Adult moose finder

Indiana town menaced by exploding turnip

UI design needs a little more work

Drag racing news vans

QR codes of the dead

Does she know how you feel?

Fish therapy