The Mario Scarf; More Motivation

You might have seen this elsewhere — but meh, you weren't doing anything that important anyway. Cassie is knitting the entire of Super Mario Bros, World 1 Level 1, into a scarf! Genius:

The Mario Scarf

Following on from my earlier post on motivation, however, comes this little gem:

“ Jason decided to to offer me a deal- when the Mario Scarf is finished then he will propose. Motivation at last! ”

Double genius.

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Do It Yourself Freestyle Typography Battle. Word.

DIY Type Battle - PHAT by James Yencken

This week's Typophile type battle is pretty cool — hand-made wording. Not as many as I would have expected from the generally prolific typophiles, but definitely worth a look...

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Shit Game

Shit Game.

“ But, as the name implies, it's hard to take Shit Game too seriously. And I feel kind of silly talking so much about it already. ”

Exactly what it says on the tin.

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The Last Guy

Me, failing to rescue all the humans.

File under 'cool; also mental' — a flash 'preview' site for new PSN human-saving simulator The Last Guy. That video should tell you everything you need to know about the game — namely, that you roam around Google Maps rescuing screaming citizens from the end of the world, whilst listening to a cross between Popcorn and Yoji Biomehanika. Interestingly, the site itself lets you generate a custom 'level' from any site you like...

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16x16 Defender

This is insane — Mathieu Henri has managed to create a javascript version of the Eugene Jarvis classic Defender — which runs entirely in the favicon of the containing page. I'm not sure it's entirely feature complete, but it's well worth a look...

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