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This past weekend, I got to see King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, a documentary focused on two men, Steve Wiebe and Billy Mitchell, and their efforts to get the world record high score for the classic arcade game, Donkey Kong.
Although there was a lot of retro history and footage, especially of the Classic […]

With a runtime of over 23 minutes, this is one of the more painful video captures I’ve ever seen, a Super Mario Brothers mod, apparently created by some masochistic Taiwanese. Hardest. SMB. Mod. Ever.
One can just watch the first couple of minutes, but for some reason I couldn’t look away, and after a while you’ll […]

So I finally got my super8mm, black and white rolls developed and transferred to video. Yes, super 8mm film is alive and (for now) kicking, thanks to music video, skateboard films like Charnoski and Nichols’ Fruit of the Vine or Tent City, and websites like Filmshooting.com. So why film? It’s more expensive to shoot, you […]

When not fixing other people’s problems, MB creates earrings out of Apple logo medallions extracted from old Macintosh cases. MB sold a bunch of these at one of the MIT Electronic Swapfests we visited this past summer and is now auctioning a pair on Ebay. As of this writing, there’s still time to bid on […]

Comics with Problems is an online collection of public service announcement-type cartoons focused on health-related issues. Compiled and edited by Ethan Persoff, the comics vary widely in topic and aesthetics, from Rex Morgan M.D. talking about abortion, to Dennis the Menance and child abuse, to Madonna and AIDS. Reading these comics are surreal and ironic, […]

Duck Fadar is what you get if George Lucas made out with a wildlife preserve during a 4th of July fireworks celebration, except this has a much lower chance of traumatizing your kids. A floating rubber ducky with beak-fitted breathing apparatus, Duck Fadar also has an internal multicolor LED that cycles through different colors […]

the MIT Swapfest

Found near Taipei Main Station in Taiwan.