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Acceleration Due to Gravity: Super Mario Brothers
"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
"...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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