I love this new 8-bit map of London by Brett Camper, showing what happens when the vintage graphical power of the NES meets the cutting edge GPS data of Google maps. You can zoom in and out and search for your house, although obviously it doesn’t really have the resolution of the Google original, so you’re not going to be able to see your car parked outside or wave to your Mum. (or see your house.)

He’s also done New York…

It’s a gaming icon’s 30th anniversary as well as Friday afternoon, so Google reckon you should be playing Pacman. Yes, you can actually play Pacman in their logo- click it! Genius.

Thanks to Willem for the link. If you like this, check out Defender Of The Favicon

I’ve been saving this for Friday, so apologies of you’ve already seen it. When graphics and retro videogames collide you can be sure I’ll be there to post the video. It’s by Patrick Jean and onemoreproduction.

Amazing. Thanks to Afonso for the link.

I’m quite excited about the upcoming Apple Tablet, or iPad, even though I’m not likely to be buying one.

Not as excited as I was about the iPhone though…

Those images above are genuine Apple prototypes from 1983, the image below however is real, ladies and gentlemen, the first ever Apple Computer from 1976…

Whatever is announced in a couple of hours, it’s sure to be impressive. Steve Jobs has been allegedly quoted as saying it’s the “most important thing I’ve ever done” With rumours ranging from the reinvention of newspapers, to fingerprint identification and impressive gaming capabilities, the idea is that you really DO need another shiny Apple product in your life.

We’ll see.

This is amazing. I won’t spoil it for you, click the picture above and have a go.

Funny how life works, after I posted Paul Rand’s business card I found this similarly minimal letterhead belonging to another genius.

Letterheady is a blog of old letterhead examples, so if you’ve ever wondered what Adolf Hitler’s letterhead looked like, wonder no more:

…let’s hope he was writing with good news. In the interests of fairness here’s Winston Churchill’s:

…and to complete the Paul Rand circle of logic, here’s an old IBM one:

…even if I do prefer Clive Sinclair’s:

An interesting site and the collection is growing. Remember, you spell stationery with an e when you mean envelopes.