Up and at 'em early this Friday. There's are Go Games afoot (afeet?) all over the place today...maybe you'll see us out and about! If you're stuck inside all day waste some time with another Friday Link Dump:
Shameless Self Promotion:
Coming to Brighton Fringe? Take part in the Battle of Brighton [More Information]
Did you see our April Newsletter? It's pretty [Newsletter]
Flash(-ish) Game of the Week: Hatetris - The ultimate measure of frustration...The classic game of Tetris, but this time the AI conspires to make you lose.
What We're Reading:
On the Roger Ebert 'Video Games can never be art' piece: [original] [Guardian] [rebuttal 1] [rebuttal 2]
Animated history of European mapmaking [BBC]
Hacking pigeons [we make money not art]
Hormones make men treat games like social competitions [ars technica]
Victorian infographics [BibliOdyssey]
Amazing story of a super-endurance athlete [New York Times]
Legal spying via mobile phone [cnet]
40 of the best guerilla and ambient advert campaigns [designtutorials4u]
Sure it's old, but with US and UK elections coming up, the Redistricting Game is still fun [Annenberg]
Sid Meier and the 48 hour game [rock, paper, shotgun]
New KFC sandwich the unhealthiest ever? [FiveThiryEight]
Sims founder Will Wright to do a series of shows on the Science Channel [Wired]
Get Spiderman to clean your windows [boingboing]
New game Sleep is Death where the players are story tellers [Wired]
A wiki-based game? [Farbs]
#898: Playing old school video games [1000 Awesome Things]
Sims 3 and Renault announce product-placement deal [Guardian]
What We're Watching:
Grand Theft Auto: Google Earth [todaysbigthing]
Who doesn't love a good Rube Goldberg? [Youtube]
Optimus Prime...in balloons [Youtube]
Humans vs. robots in American football [Youtube]
A homemade robot from television parts in Togo [afrigadget]
Barbershop quartet sings Ewok victory song [Youtube]
The only 4 chords needed for every pop song [Huffington Post]
Every alien invasion of London [Londonist]
Other Cool Stuff:
Hyperbole and a Half is always brilliant, but the 'Alot' post is internet supergenius [Hyperbole and a Half]
Remote control camera vehicle in the African bush takes great photos [the beetlecam project]
WANT: Oyster card wallet [david bruno & tom seymour]
Library phonebox [Offbeat Earth]
Virtual tour of early 1900s Algiers via postcards [Getty Research]
Minor league baseball promotions [ESPN]
Brilliantly designed website, fun to play with [magnetic north]
If I get an iPad, I want this on the back [boingboing]
N64 actually a koala bear [tiny cartridge]
Biscuit pocket [cartolleria]
Interlocking lego rings [boingboing]
Croatian girl wakes up from a coma speaking fluent...German [NY Daily News]
Good grief that was a lot of links. Congratulations if you made it this far in the post (hi mom!)...your password is 'octopus'.
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