When you want to get a song stuck in your head.
I’m a bit late to the party on this, but something this absurdly awesome really has no expiration date. Next question: what’s it going to take to get this to the top 40?
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The Light of Life
Either artist Daihei Shibata has a profound respect for the natural world, or has been binging too much on Spore.
ESPN’s 30 for 30 Conjures Fantasy Baseball Mythology
This week, ESPN’s groundbreaking “30 for 30″ series explored the origins of one of the most popular internet activities – outside of Facebook and LOLcats. It attempted to re-enact the conditions under which “Rotisserie” baseball was created.
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OCD Gamer’s Simcity 3000 Megalopolis of the Future
Initially popularized on Reddit, this video depicts the creation of “Magnasanti,” a Simcity 3000 metropolis that, in terms of game mechanics and incentives, is a model of perfection.
Entitled “Simcity 3000 – ABSOLUTE MAXIMUM,” the creation video relays tales of a three-year construction period executing Da Vinci-like designs scrawled on reams of parchment. Magnasanti sports a population of over 6 million, a crime rate of zero, no roads (mass transit only), and a flawless integration of commercial, industrial, and residential zones modeled after the Bhavacakra, or Tibetan wheel of life.
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A Dose of 8-Bit Reality
This Double Dragon/Super Mario protagonist ventures beyond the typical 8-bit endgame to find an even more harrowing challenge — keeping the affections of a rescued princess.
Link via BoingBoing
8-Bit Invasion
This is what happens when you have an acid flashback on your way home from the arcade.
The Final Word on Star Wars Critiques
If you’ve got a free hour and a half, check out redlettermedia’s series of Star Wars Episodes I + II critiques. They fully expose the prequels as the worthless schlock that everyone suspects them to be.
Cassini’s Saturn Pac-Man
Cassini heat-graded imagery of Saturn’s moon Mimas revealed an unmistakable image of an old digital friend this week.
Why do I get the feeling that that Mario, Qbert, and Pac-Man sightings will replace Virgin Mary or Weeping Jesus Events as our generation ages?
Grand Theft Auto Steals Lifeforce
Terrific and heart-rending article written by a GTA4 addict who consciously decided to abandon his life of productivity to gain a greater understanding of both cocaine and Pixeltropolis, San Andreas.
For more on video game addiction, listen to this classic Mep debate on WoWs similarity to crack.
