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Prior to seeing this website I had only the vaguest of memories of having had a few Game & Watch's when I was a nipper. Now I know that it wasn't some weird dream and that I really did play Donkey Kong Jr. on a small monochrome LCD screen. And now I can play it again online! Looking at it now I'm amazed it held my attention for more than 10 seconds. I'm sure there was another one involving penguins or something but I couldn't find it here. Seeing the state of handheld games like this back in the early 80's just reminds me what a huge deal it was when the Gameboy came out. Swappable games! Actual pixels! Man how mindblowing was that. via boingboing

Out of the following three headlines, guess which one is real: Blackberry ban in Gulf States averted with agreement to distribute "Blackberry burqas" Monkeys hate flying squirrels, report monkey-annoyance experts Budget Cuts Force British Government To Shut Down Mysterious Seaside Village It would have been too easy if I'd replaced the last one with a headline that started off "Area man.." The real headline via mefi

Charlie Brooker absolutely nails BBC style news here. And Irish news for that matter. Even still this fake report is leagues ahead of the dreggs from Channel 7 and 9 here. via boingboing

This funky gibberish from 1972 is a nice example of fake English.. It's like the lyrics are just out of reach when listening but there are real words there somewhere. via boingboing