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In 2005, Steve Jobs told the graduating class of Stanford a now-famous story about connecting the dots - a story about the calligraphy courses he took in his college years, which later influenced the industry-leading digital fonts that shipped with the Macintosh. He said: Again, you can’t connect the...

By Matthew Prast

CORRECTION: In this article I make that case that Mario's name is just Mario, not Super Mario. Hacker News user bitwize pointed out that in certain games Mario's bigger form (the form he turns into after picking up a Super Mushroom) is indeed referred to as...

By Matthew Prast