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Mind bending Javascript

For anyone who works on the web and grew up in the 80s playing the original Nintendo Super Mario Bros. who wants to have their mind bent (in a good way), go and check out an implementation of the game in pure Javascript, downloadable as one 14kb file!

It is a true sign on how many processor cycles we've gained in the past 25 years that this can be done in a high-level language meant to execute simple web scripts.

Whenever I see folks on the bleeding edge of web development pushing the envelope like this, I think of that old Apple commercial that celebrated the crazy ones who just "think different" and show the rest of us how much is starting to fall under the realm of the possible.

Update: John Resig has done a great dissection of how the data is packed in one file.

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