Anti-Super Mario propaganda posters from the Mushroom Kingdom

Show your support for Bowser and hate for Super Mario with these propaganda posters on sale at Fro Design.

Pro-Bowser propaganda poster

Gallery 1988's video game-themed show is now available for purchase.


Super Mario World by Fernando Reza.



Ghost n' Goblins by Matt Pringle.

Yoshi by Melissa Sue Stanley

Yoshi by Melissa Sue Stanley for the upcoming video game-themed show at Oh No Doom.

*Previously: Plush Tetris blocks.

Illustration roundup

One of the illustrations by Jillian Tamaki for an article on political sex scandals.



X-Men by Dan Hipp.



Super Mario posers by Olly Moss.

New Threadless t-shirts

Some of today's new Threadless t-shirts:



KFC logo update by Blair Sayer.




Red Riding Hood by Ellen Ward.




Pluto is a planet by Kathleen Wang.




Mario X-Ray by Chawit Waewsawangwong. (One of two Mario shirts this week.)

If classic paintings featured the Mushroom Kingdom

Georges le Mercenaire posted several images reimaging classic paintings as starring Mario and friends. Can You identify these three?

Link roundup

1. I always wondered why you never see a view of all 22 players on the field when watching football on tv - - the NFL guards the footage as "proprietary NFL coaching information." (It's thanks to John Madden football that I actually learned how offense and defense work.)

2. From an article on women running marathons and ultramarathons:

If seeing athletes later described as "pretty little dedicated things" compete in that race took some getting used to, imagine the reaction a few months earlier in 1966, when, to quote another SI piece, a "shapely blonde housewife" named Roberta "Bobbi" Gibb Bingay snuck onto the course of the venerated Boston Marathon and not only finished the whole damn thing, but did so ahead of nearly 70 percent of the field. Not officially, of course. "Mrs. Bingay did not run in the Boston Marathon," SI quoted the event's organizer as asserting. "She merely covered the same route as the official race while it was in progress."

The next year, a Syracuse student named Kathrine Switzer officially registered for Boston by filling out her entrant form as "K.V. Switzer." When race officials realized what was going on, they tried to tackle her, a move they later defended as a valiant attempt to enforce AAU rules that banned women — for their own good, of course — from competing in any race of more than those 1.5 miles.

3. Destructoid on Super Mario 3D Land:

The biggest issue with Super Mario 3D Land is that, as fun as it is, it feels more like the beginning of something more rather than a full experience. One feels like they're merely getting a taste of what Nintendo can do -- an admittedly delicious taste, but one that still leaves a bit of a gap once finished. It feels like it was prepared to tantalize 3DS owners without giving them lasting satisfaction, to demonstrate that good things are in the handheld's future and that more games like this will come if they stay loyal. I would not go so far as to call the game a tech demo, but it certainly acts like a whirlwind tour of Mario's new 3D world, rather than a full vacation.

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4. Let me save you some time and money - - the Adventure Time toys look terrible (videos at the bottom of the post).

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