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Super Mario Bros turned 25 yesterday. Now Mario himself is a bit older, having starred in Donkey Kong and Mario Bros prior to the release of Super Mario Bros, but Super Mario Bros is somehow special.

Not only did it start its own series of great games, but you could play pretty much the same game as the arcade version at home, which at the time was revolutionary. Add to this a world to explore, full of secrets, and amazing character and sound design and you have a classic.

Check out the ad that Nintendo released to commemorate the occasion.

(I’d embed the video but YouTube seems to be down today and Kotaku’s video isn’t embedable.)

If any of you play video games and are very cheap you might be interested in knowing that Portal is free until May 24th. The reason is to promote the launch of Steam for Mac, but it is free for both Mac and PC. Here’s the link. That is all.

I’ve been wasting my spare time developing an iPhone game rather blogging. I’ve been reticent to post about it here since I don’t want to use KB to sell my game. However, today it is free, so I feel relatively unrestrained. So go grab Battle for Vesta while the price is right.

I read and enjoy xkcd, a seriously geeky web comic. But somehow this had escaped my attention until now. Someone took a fairly lengthy strip and animated each panel. I present it for your geeky enjoyment. The prudish should note that it includes two scenes of stick figures writhing in bed, though covered by sheets.

http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7151435&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=00ADEF&fullscreen=1

I Love xkcd from NoamR on Vimeo.

There are some places in Utah with a good selection of soda, such as Liberty Heights Fresh, Pirate O’s, and there is a small soda shop in St. George that I discovered recently but can’t remember the name of. But there is nothing that I am aware of that is anything like Galcos Soda Pop Stop. Which reminds me that I need to order more Dublin Dr Pepper…

I have never had any desire to join Facebook.  But over the weekend I was forced to.  I offer this post as a public service and warning to others.

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The Cowabunga Bay Water Park recently sprouted up near my house. It is on a frontage road in Draper, UT, just north of 123rd South.  It looked like a lot of fun, with a giant maze of a tower and multicolored sliders sprouting in all directions:

Unfortunately it isn’t nearly as fun as it looks.
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There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens…
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