Acceleration Due to Gravity: Super Mario Brothers
january 2009 by infovore
"The purpose of this analysis is to determine the evolution of gravity in the Mario video game series as video game hardware increases." Not super-accurate, but not bad; the bit when it starts the comparison against GPU word length is a little silly, perhaps. But otherwise: fun!
games
paper
silly
physics
explanation
mario
facts
gravity
january 2009 by infovore
NPR: Tom Waits Interviews Tom Waits
august 2008 by infovore
"...when Anti Records sent us this interview Tom Waits did with himself, we had to pass it along." Beautiful, wonderful, funny. And a great Buckminster Full quotation in there to boot.
tomwaits
interview
music
anecdotes
facts
npr
awesome
august 2008 by infovore
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