You can still buy a giant box of LEGO with 1600 bricks. That’s for those people that moan about the number of paint-by-numbers sets, branded kits and general non-creativeness of LEGO compared to when they were growing up. I’d also recommend the x-large grey baseplate — it was one of my favorites.
Month: June 2010
Mario 3 speed run
A video of someone beating Super Mario 3 in eleven minutes, and a poster outlining the button sequence needed to do it. Although, it’s really skill more than anything.
Writing ideas
Bernadette Mayer’s list of journal ideas — exercises and experiments in writing. Filed away for future reference.
Uncovered posters from the 1950s
An interesting set of advertising posters from the 1950s recently uncovered at the Notting Hill Gate tube station in London. The passageway had been sealed off when the lifts were replaced with escalators.