Modern Games Get the 8-Bit Treatment, Wikileaks' Julian Assange's Poetry
There's a load of great tech news happening out there every day, and, unfortunately, we just can't cover it all. Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web.
- Pixel artist Junkboy reimagines video games of today, such as 'Bioshock' and 'Super Smash Bros. Brawl,' if they'd been released 20 years ago. [From: Geekosystem]
- Gawker uncovered the early poetry and journals of Wikileaks' Julian Assange via the Wayback Machine. [From: Wayback Machine, via: Gawker]
- Today's top single-serving Tumblr is CAPTCHArt, a blog that gathers illustrations of the crazy phrases spit out by the machines that test your humanity. [From: CAPTCHArt, via: Urlesque]
- Staying in the literary vein, artist Jason Huff pumped the top 100 most-downloaded, copyright free books through Microsoft Word's AutoSummarize. The wonderfully bizarre ten-sentence abstracts turn things like 'The Iliad,' for example, into "Gods! Gods! Gods! Hector! Gods! Gods! Hector! Gods! Gods! God!" [From: The Atlantic]
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