Tag Archives: Super Mario Bros

Mario in the real world

Stop motion, a beaded-Mario traversing the dangerous terrain of your typical home, what’s not to love?

Friday Links: Geek books & Super Mario Wedding Invitations

• 9 essential geek books (according to Wired).
• 2011 Internet Trends.
• Electric DeLorean coming in 2013.
• The mother of all Hot Wheels tracks, it’s kind of like watching one of those Rube Goldebergesque machines.
• A Sesame Street video from 1984 has kids answering the question what is a computer?
• Dropbox: The inside story on tech’s hottest startup.
• Is Facebook making our brains bigger, and if it is can we teach people to stop abusing the exclamation point?
• How to spot a liar.
• Super Mario Bros. wedding invitations are just as awesome as you’d imagine.

Friday Links: You’re stealing it wrong

• Why the revolution will not be tweeted, a thought-provoking piece by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker.
• Can experience be designed.
• George Lucas stole Chewbacca, but that’s okay.
• Doc Searls says let’s kill interruptive ads. Yes, let’s do that, shall we?
• 8-bit wood, I’m pretty sure The Nerdery needs these woodcraft Mario characters.
• How to detect a Photoshopped image.
• 10 best jobs of the future.
• How advertising reinforces Mommy and Daddy roles.
• You’re stealing it wrong, 30 years of inter-pirate battles.

Great Moments in Nerdery: The launch of Super Mario Bros.

It was on September 13, 1985 that Nintendo released Super Mario Bros, making today the 25th anniversary of the venerable game we love so much.

Here are some Mario flavored ways to mark the occasion.

• 25 Mario facts
• 10 ways to celebrate the 25th birthday
• A Super Mario Bros. history lesson
• Stop motion Super Mario
• If Mario were designed i 2010
• Your princess is in another lunchroom

Friday Links: Nerds love the outdoors

• Don’t forget, today is The Nerdery Open House. Come on down!
• The evolution of the logo.
• You were doing it wrong, an awesome thread on Ask MetaFilter.
• Birthplace of the web found.
• You can buy FarmVille groceries at 7-11.
• Check out this dude’s strange Lego tattoo.
• Star Trek in the Park, it’s like Shakespeare in the Park but with more Klingons.
• Pickup lines from Mad Men.
• The Girl Scouts get a new logo.
• Sidewalk Super Mario Bros.
• 11 Apple stores from around the world (and the winner of the most depressing Apple store goes to. . . .)

Friday Links: Super Mario Bros and super-silly politics

• Mario vs. Pac-man.
• Also, Super Mario beatbox.
• Senator Joe Lieberman is backing legistaltion to give the president an Internet kill switch.
• If you haven’t read I’m Comic Sans, you should (unless of course you are offended by swear words in which case do not click that link).
• Nerd gets revenge by buying police department’s expired domain.
• And the murderer wore serifs.
• Web ad spending to surge 10.8%.
• In honor of Toy Story 3′s release today: Toyz Noise.
• Why gadget makers should target late adopters.

Friday Links: Mind over mass media, Stop-motion Mario, and more

• Mind over mass media: “PowerPoint, we’re told, is reducing discourse to bullet points. Search engines lower our intelligence, encouraging us to skim on the surface of knowledge rather than dive to its depths. Twitter is shrinking our attention spans.

  But such panics often fail basic reality checks. When comic books were accused of turning juveniles into delinquents in the 1950s, crime was falling to record lows, just as the denunciations of video games in the 1990s coincided with the great American crime decline. The decades of television, transistor radios and rock videos were also decades in which I.Q. scores rose continuously.”

• Olson joins forces with Denali.
• Stop-motion Super Mario done with sticky notes.
• Science fiction should mainly be about people: A letter from Gene Roddenberry.
• IS it time to remove advertising from the web?
• TBS: Conan and NBC deserve Emmy.
• Miller High Life redesigned.
• Beyond Feminist Hulk, the tweets of other feminist comics characters.

Pixel: A pixel art documentary

A short 11-minute documentary about pixel art and early video games. There’s talk about Mario and how he got his bushy mustache (as you know Mario’s a particular Nerdery favorite), and how pixel art is more relatable (where Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics is name-checked).

Friday Links: Google’s drop shadow, poetics of coding, and pancakes

• The Poetics of Coding.
• From the not surprised at all file: 92% of Super Bowl ad creators were white men (also Jezebel has something to say about that).
• Layar makes finding augmented reality content easier.
• Brand New goes after the new Google drop shadow.
• If Mario was designed in 2010.
• Mmmm pancakes.
• Our VP of Marketing sent Anatomy of a Website to our sales staff as a nice review or overview of how some of this stuff works. Perhaps it’d be good for your staff too.
• It took Apple twenty-eight days to sell a million iPads. Wow.
• Cupidtino a dating site for Apple fanboys and girls.
• Less than half of Twitter users post anything.
• A review of the Feltron annual report.

Thursday Links, because tomorrow is a holiday

• Worst Gadgets of the Decade
• AT&T says New York City is not ready for the iPhone.
• This one’s only for the hardcore. Wipe The Slate Clean For 2010, Commit Web 2.0 Suicide which is program that deletes your Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and LinkedIn friends/tweets/updates and then changes your login information so you can’t get back in. Wow.
• Top Digital trends from 2010, predictions from AdWeek.
• The Decade summed up in icons.
• Where Digital Marketing Is Heading in 2010 (Part 1).
• The Batman villain project.