Friday Links - 21 May

We recovered from our game last night in Brixton in plenty of time to bring you another dose of your favourite medicine: Friday's Link Dump! You know our slogan around here: Helping you waste time on your Friday's since...2010!

Shameless Self-Promotion Department:
Come play Go Games this weekend in Brighton! Get a free pass simply by saying hello on Facebook [Battle of Brighton]
Read about our adventures last week at City Hall for the Go London Social Innovation Competition finals [Blog]



Flash Game of the Week: Mole vs. Lava - for those of you following along at home, know that I started writing this blog post more than an hour ago, but then I had to find the link to Mole vs. Lava on Played Online and ... well, that's how time gets wasted. Free life lesson: NEVER click on anything that is listed on Digg as "addictive."

What We're Reading:
With shades of Jessie Schell's great talk earlier this year, article on world-changing potential of games [Forbes]
Get over your fear of cockroaches with augmented reality [Neo-Academic]
To make up for that gross AR story, here's a tasty one: augmented reality cookies [Mike Clare]
Commuters choosing gaming over reading? [Guardian]
Ninjas save mugging victim (seriously) [BBC]
Boris sayz: London-wide free wifi by 2012 [Londonist]
A list of very, very random words. Learn them you gambrinous gongoozler! [tinyonline]
Nerd Cakes! [The Weekly Crisis]
Roller Coaster Tycoon movie off the tracks...and into theatres near you! [Wired]

What We're Watching:
Ghostbusters back in the NYC Public Library [Youtube]
Guy does Ian McKellen...doing the Fresh Prince of Bel Air [Vulture Blog]
Phenomenally beautiful coffee tour of London [Vimeo]
Two people see Top Gear in action...whilst driving on the highway. Cue shrieking [Youtube]
Cauuught in a cat romance [Mission Mission]
Most overhyped story this week: robot performs marriage ceremony. Oh noes! [boingboing]

Other Cool Stuff:
London places with twitter accounts [Londonist]
Mommy, where do cursors come from? [SwissMiss]
Explore the East London Line for f-r-e-e (that spells free!) this weekend [Londonist]
Keyboard bench! [Neatorama]
Bitmap video game fonts [Miffies]
New London bus design revealed [Londonist, again]
Space Invaders....toaster? [boingboing]