Archive for August, 2007

Cyberpunk has 80’s hair

Posted in Uncategorized on August 8th, 2007 by Bergo

My recent book acquisitions has led me to believe that, unfortunately, illustrations of hair styles suffered from the era the genre emerged.

Yes .. Cyberpunk has 80’s hair.

Flat-tops for the men, and either Big hair or ultra short for the women.

You be the judge !.

Dark Conspiracy

Dark Conspiracy 80s hair

Hardwired

Hardwired 80s hair

I wrote a review of “Hardwired” back in January ‘07.

Shadowrun

Shadowrun 80s hair

Cyberpunk 2020

cyberpunk2020 80s hair

It’s a bit scary all these “Street Samurai” or Runners have the hair style of Vanilla Ice !

What is a Brooder?

Posted in Uncategorized on August 7th, 2007 by Bergo

I get a fair few Google referrals searching for “Brooders”.

When I first registered this site, I was thinking about “Brooding” as a mental activity. However a Brooder, according to Wikipedia, is also a term for Incubator or “NeoNatal Intensive Care unit”. This wikipedia article relates to human babies, and is not what you find on Google. Searching for Brooders on Google yields results about Chicken or Bird brooders or incubators.

These sites have lots of talk of Ambient Temperature, Poultry Management and other Fun things.

Petiatric Brooder

There are pictures of what looks like boxes or cages with heat lamps.

Cage and Lamp

So there is a little mix up out there in reality, where brooders means something else (i.e. Infant incubation !)

What I was actually thinking of was …

Brood like the Thinker

If you are coming in from Google, Sorry about that, Click here to really search for brooders !