Via @DigiDNA, Mimeo and the Kleptopus King is a videogame for iPhone and iPod Touch developped by Shaun Inman, which pays homage to older systems and evolves from 2 bits to 4 bits, then from 4 to 8 bits, to 16 bits etc., as Mimeo gains his resolution back from the evil King.

Perhaps the very first level could look even more minimalistic, with fewer, bigger pixels, à la Space Invaders? Anyway, it’s cute, it’s clever, and it’s pretty.

I want to address my love of pixels. The aesthetics of Mimeo (and Horror Vacui before it) are not born solely from nostalgia. Good pixel art strikes the perfect balance between appreciable craftsmanship and the gestalt. A single pixel out of place, one too few or too many, ruins the illusion. There’s an unmuddied, economy of expression, the thankless result of the limitations of cartridge-based consoles.

A little demo video from the author below:

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Magnus Muhr is 39 and lives in the small town of Karlskoga, Sweden. In his free time, he’s a photographer. And he has a great sense of humor.

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The overwhelmingly cool deliciousness of discovering and listening for the first time some singing by Shiina Ringo I never heard before. It’s like finding out there was one more chocolate coated almond in a pack that I thought was empty, except much much better.

1000 years in the future, the legacy of John, Paul, Greg, and Scottie remains.

More at http://www.scottgairdner.com

7:33 minutes of pure, simple, pasta bliss.

In anticipation of there upcoming new full length dropping October on the french hip-hop label Ascetic Music, the dDamage brothers have made this amazing mix for us to give to all of you, seriously Twisted and unexpected firey mixes of hits from the Beastie Boys, Tiga, Digitalism, Krazy Baldhead, Tes, Midfield General, Ministry, Bomb the Bass, Lil’Flip, Oizo, Mobb Deep, Suave Smooth, Run DMC, Crunc Tesla, dj Assault, Aphex Twin, Paul Bowles, I-Cube, RZA, Ultramagnetic MC’s, Ratatat, Run DMC, Tone Loc, and many more!

Download or stream at http://soundcloud.com/tigerbeat6/ddamage-tbass-mix-series-7

Just got an invite (thank you very much Oliver!) to Web Trend Map, and I have to say it’s one of the sexiest websites I’ve seen in a while. Of course, it’s not surprising from iA, but I have to admit there was some rare wow factor (understand: outside of a Google product) when I started playing with it a little to make my first map. I’m still not convinced by Twitter in general, but I do appreciate the way WTM is going, scrapping the logorrhea to keep only the core. And I suppose it could soon become open to just any RSS feed, for example del.icio.us or whatever the next Twitter is, right?

Well done Oliver, and thank you.