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Friday, May 7, 2010

Friday Links - 7 May

I was off last week for a nice holiday in the country, so I hope you didn't lose too much sleep when the links didn't appear last Friday. Here's a list of what we've been checking out on the interwebs this past week:

Shameless Self-Promotion Department:
If you're in Brighton for Fringe, come play our first game this Sunday [Battle of Brighton]

Flash Game of the Week: Super Mario Crossover - Forget playing as Mario, can you beat SMB as Link or Bill from Gryzor/Contra?



What We're Reading:
Amazing story of one dying boy's dream come true: a city-wide superhero RPG [Seattle Times]
Brilliant and detailed, hand-drawn map of London [British Library]
What if Super Mario Bros was made today? [nerdbastards.com]
A Wiki Hunt game for the iPhone: nice execution of an old idea [Touch Arcade]
Video game badges for the Boy Scouts [GameLife]
We have met the enemy, and he is PowerPoint [New York Times]
There are solutions to even the hardest problems [imgfave]
City made from staples [Peter Root]
Legendary San Francisco street turned into giant Candyland board [Laughing Squid]
Parents use smartphones to entertain kids (they don't know how good they have it!) [CNN]

What We're Watching:
Great game from Converse using Google Ad Words [Converse Domaination]
TED Talk: Build a Tower by Tom Wujec [TED]
Man beats Bejeweled 2...after playing for 3 years [Joystiq]

Other Stuff:
Pencil vs. Camera - brilliant photos of modified cityscapes [Ben Heine's Flickr]
Dante's Internet Inferno [fukung.net]
Americans don't appreciate Banksy [Laughing Squid]
Einstein chalkboard belt [boingboing]
Zombie table! [Dread Central]
More video game propaganda posters, this time: Space Invaders [Steve Thomas Art]
Swimming pool illusion [WeLoveViral]
The illustrated elements of video games [boingboing]
The happiest elephant [Design Crush]
Experimental gummy bear surgeries [Like Cool]
This is...Spinal Tape [Copernicus Toys]
A sweatshirt every child should have [imgur]
(for my mother) Cutting libraries in a recession... [boingboing]

How are you spending your time online?

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