"I think it's just a bad case of what I call tinkering," said Jack Trout, president of Trout & Partners, a marketing strategy company in Greenwich, Conn.
The torturer is called Tinker, presumably a nod at Jack Tinker, the theatre critic of the Daily Mail who had savaged Kane's Blasted.
Tomorrow morning, he'll get his wish when Glam Media launches a new service called Tinker to the public.
Similar in style and NSFW content to Blasted, Cleansed is a political but abstract and experimental play about a man called Tinker who keeps people in a prison-like world for both body and mind.
It's what was once called "tinkering".
Last fall, he and other students began what the police call hacking, and what he calls tinkering.
Disparagingly called "tinkers," a reference to their former role as tinsmiths, repairing pots and pans as they moved from town to town, they are all too often publicly perceived as a tribe of thieves.
This process of altering existing features rather than redesigning from scratch commonly called "tinkering"—is a hallmark of evolutionary adaptation (for review, see Gregory 2008c).
Still, it was a was a bold call to tinker so radically with his front line.
That's exactly what that bully used to call me: "Tinker Bell" and "cocksucker".
