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The tow truck driver’s name in Mario Kart is Lakitu. He dropped red Spiney from the sky back in the Super Mario Bros days. Now, he tows carts back to the track and referees the races in ‘Kart. 

According to Nintendo’s Wii “Everybody Votes” channel, Vermont is the only state in the US where people prefer pie over cake. 

Arg, ye mateys!  It doesn’t get any healthier than this!

Joel over at Omni Software posted a great plug for my buddy Patrick Crowley’s newly relaunched Graffletopia.

Graffletopia is a companion site for the Mac app OmniGraffle.  (Pretty much Visio for the Mac.) The site offers an extensive list of “stencils” or objects for making charts, diagrams and drawings.

Oh that Super Mario Brothers 2: The Lost levels… available on Wii Virtual Console.

I was so stoked to download this “never before seen” game.  Now, I know the reason why this game wasn’t released in the US.  It’s ridiculously hard! 

You start out pretty normally.  In fact, it looks just like the first version until you get to your first powerup.  Instead of a size increasing mushroom, you get a death-inducing one.

The game is so hard in the early levels that I could only get past the first three (and I consider myself a SMB master).  Death after death, I feel like a total noob. 

So- only buy this if:

a.) you’re a glutton for punishment

- or -

b.) if you’re some sort of immortal smb-game-playing robot from the distant future/past