are probably pretty well known by now. Nintendo built their empire around them once, and I suspect only the youngest amongst us have never seen their 8 bit visages.
But hours, dasy, or even years of game play still can't get you into their heads. The motivation man, where's the motivation?!?!?
Thanks to a creative type with enough time on his hands we can now find out. Using original game sprites, a daring digital director has laid bare the foundation of of the Mario Brothers crusade against King Koopa.
It's in serial form, and I have only found the first three parts, so you will have to be vigilant if you want to see the end of this one....
I haven't been on a real old school text-only BBS since I was 15. College meant a real telnet account to the university computer, and the next time I was on a BBS it was the old First Class based Black Box here in Vienna.
I sort of thought these things went the way of the dinosaur (or at least the 2400 baud modems).
Funny thing is, now that my phone is a computer, I was thinking just how cool it would be to set up telnet access to my home box. That got me thinking about the old BBS' I used to hang out at, and now I found this (while looking for something completely different). Funny how life works sometimes, huh?
Anyway, if you want a look back in history, set up an account and check out some of the ancient e-zines and other files waiting for you.
and Boston MA. were the places I wanted to live as a teenager. Boston had The Freeze and a local scene best summed up by the brilliant lp "This is Boston, Not L.A.".
D.C. had Bad Brains and Minor Threat.
Minor Threat had Ian MacKaye, an embodiment of the early eighties Hardcore ethic, and one of the few individuals to come from that scene who has managed a certain degree of success AND integrity.
Downhillbattle is featuring an interview with the man behind Minor Threat, Fugazi and Dischord Records. He speaks his mind on the music business, running a label, making money and music downloads (amongst other things).
It's an enlightening look at the way things could be.
was yesterday. There is a reason why it wasn't a webtip, but it's one I am rather ashamed of. I wanted to make sure no other stories were planned, but never got an answer. I should have remembered what I learned in school. Don't ask, act, and deal with the consequences aftwerwards.
So that said, Grey Tuesday was an act of online civil disobedience. EMI has been trying to shut down distribution of DJ Danger Mouses Grey Album which is a remix of the Black Album by Jay-Z and the Beatles White Album.
The good thing about this whole bruhaha is that it has been a catalyst for some tasty and informed dialog on the music industry, copyright, illegal art.
Lawrence Lessig, Chair of the Creative Commons project and law Proffessor at the Stanford Law School, has posted an article about Grey Tuesday. He explains the American legal situation surrounding cover versions and sampling, and makes his argument for the creation of a compulsory right to remix.
are CDs that you can run your computer from. Sort of like the Windows Installation CD, or the Mac OS installer CDs.
Linux Live CDs have Linux on them though. No Installation, no partitioning, just pop it in and start doing whatever.
Well that's the theory anyway. Most of the ones I have tried have worked okay with most of the hardware I have. Laptops and really new or obscure hardware can be a bit tricky, but If you have enough patience even that should work out in the end.
This list is pretty comprehensive, and includes such goodies as game servers, streaming media solutions, MAME boxes, media creation tools, and so on and so forth. Some are tiny enough to start from a USB stick, some are specialized, and some have everything but the kitchen sink.
If you have been looking for a way to play around with various nix based software solutions, but don't want to mess around with all of the setup, this may be just the thing for you....
is a series of photos of the George Bush Jr. Action-doll in yoga positions. If you consider the fact that George Bush Jr. never saw any action, and has probably never done any yoga, and then proceed to envision the real Mr. President doing these things in a flight suit on the deck of an Aircraft Carrier, it all suddenly seems deliciously surreal.
Wien | 28.2.2004 | 11:34 
