F Off Friday - 5 March

Oh hi, fancy meeting you here. How was the week for the rest of you? Only a few short hours before we can all run out of our offices for the weekend. Let's hope for sunshine. For now, we'll bring some light to your dark existence with another link dump.

Flash Game of the Week: Sushi Cat. I had a tuna avocado roll earlier in the week, so this was right up my alley. Combining a gelatinous kitty with sushi and plinko? That's some Friday morning genius.



What We're Reading:
Ends vs. Means and Persuasive Games [Institute for the Future]
Urgent Evoke, Jane McGonigal's new game is live and online [Urgent Evoke]
Going to GDC next week? Watch the master try to break the Donkey Kong high score [Wired]
Increasing wireless connectivity in Afghanistan using recycled parts [Free Range International]
Space Invaders video game? What's next, Missile Command? Oh, really? [LA Times]
Showing our San Francisco roots: Petition to make 'Hella' the SI prefix for 10^27 [boingboing]
What if chess was designed by MMOG developers? [AKMA's Random Thoughts]
The Tao of Tecmo Super Bowl [FanHouse] [Play Tecmo Super Bowl]

What We're Watching:
New York City in miniature via brilliant photography in The Sandpit [Sam O'Hare on Vimeo]
The State of the Internet from our friends at Jess3 [Jess3 on Vimeo]
Video game wedding invite WIN! [Offbeat Bride]
Blind gamer beats Zelda [Huffington Post]
From Countdown, the classic 'wankers' clip (we couldn't resist) [Countdown on Youtube]
The new OK Go video (nice name gents) is a brilliantly pointless contraption [OK Go on Youtube]
This is either the best or the worst song of all time, there is no in between [Crystal Swing on Youtube]

Other Stuff:
Sex Dice [xkcd]
Find the Man In The Box and win £30,000 [Man In The Box]
We recommend the Math for Primates podcast [boingboing]
Pac-Man hidden in the LG logo? [Nintendo Everything]