• The emotional highs and lows of spending $17,500 on a decades-old video game.

• Wikipedia in hardcopy. Good for pressing flowers.

• I love that Capcom are trying this, even though I fear it mightn’t work out.

• What happened when Link booted a chicken into the deep fat frier? The Ocarina of Thigh.

• When PC and health and safety go mad at the same time.

• The death of empathy on the Internet. I only agree with some of what he’s saying, but it’s all good conversation.

• The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain perform the theme from The Good the Bad the Ugly:

• Marilyn glances. She was definitely trouble, right?

• ‘You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style’. I read this page every six months or so.

• Celebrity death TV journalism a comic.

• This makes my house a boil on Britain’s left butt cheek. Still, better that than being pretty much anywhere in France.

• The Human Printer. CMYK by hand. Because life isn’t tough enough already.

• Frog’s porn. (I will never better this pun )

• Rap lyrics deciphered. “If you are unconvinced, ask Puff Daddy.” Amazing.

• Super Mario World Italian Shoes. They have a pair of these in Akihabara’s Super Potato for, like, a brazillion dollars.

• The girl who does not age. That’s quite some way to troll a paedophile.

• “It took me three days to discover the other side to the tape.” Boy swaps iPod for his Dad’s Walkman. Ready to feel old?

• Did you know Tetris was invented by the Romans? Me neither.

• The mono-myth: how Potter, Stars Trek and Wars, Matrix are all the same movie.

• The Architects’ Journals picks out their favourite architecture from computer games.