I hope the MoMa has called him already: Computer scientist Josh Goldberg has created a complete remake of the classic Super Mario Brothers game for the browser. And that’s not all. He open sourced the code so that everyone can edit it and create their own levels. Well, there goes your productivity for the day.

From Weekly Filet #132, in October 2013.

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