Prepare to have your mind blown

Actually, the "mind blowing" the headline above alludes to is a two-part affair. Part one is the following (admittedly ancient) video:



Part two is this essay, which details how the tool-assisted Kaiso Mario World playthrough highlighted in the video above dovetails with the "Many Worlds Interpretation” of quantum physics.

(Via auntiepixelante.com)

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should

In this instance, I'm talking about playing Super Mario Bros. on an Amazon Kindle.

According to ubergizmo.com, some uber geek is working on a NES emulator for the popular ereader. Here's how it looks running on a Kindle emulator:



So, basically, it looks worse than Super Mario Land running on a beaten-up, 20-year-old GameBoy.