So, according to former Nintendo employee Howard Phillips, Nintendo seriously considered selling a knitting add-on for the NES. “Now you’re knitting with power,” indeed. (ht Hacker News, where some suggest Nintendo should get into the 3D printing market)
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Emoticons in 1881, via Retronaut. Some more digging indicates these “typographical art” originated in the magazine Puck. [h/t @MAlexJohnson]
It was probably a major pain in the butt to do this with a letterpress in 1881. Still very much worth it though.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m66ul4shUl1qmaoalo1_500.png)
Emoticons in 1881, via Retronaut. Some more digging indicates these “typographical art” originated in the magazine Puck. [h/t @MAlexJohnson]
It was probably a major pain in the butt to do this with a letterpress in 1881. Still very much worth it though.
Coolest thing you’ll see today: A guy managed to play a reel-to-reel tape through his iPod Touch using a slightly-modified Square credit card reader, which seems obvious if you think about it, but not so much at first. Clever work, bro. (via Hacker News)
Is Gawker Media’s legendary site Sploid back from the dead — literally?
Here’s a reminder of how awesome this site used to be. 2012 would be a great time for Sploid to make a comeback if Nick Denton felt like it.
If Steve Jobs wore his own uniform in 1983, this is what he’d wear. Style didn’t exist back then. (On a side note: We just finished the Steve Jobs book, which we read start to finish on our iPhone, and among other things, he didn’t wear deodorant for like a decade because he claimed his fruitarian diet prevented him from getting stinky. He was wrong about this fact.) (via Mark Wilson on Google+)
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This is a company with a revenue of over $100 billion. Their website is made with tables.
Odds that Warren Buffett designed this himself: Even.
Wait. This dude owns Geico. He could buy an army of graphic designers who could bring Dribbble to its knees with all the extra traffic they’d produce. Why not pay for just one? Possibly the guy who did the “Space Jam” site?
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