After being commisioned to cover an entire train station consisting of  8-bit artwork, Finnish artist Lars Arrhenius went to work. The Thorildsplan Tunnelbana station, a train station in Stockholm, Sweden, was redecoratred in 2008.

 

The entire station is covered in artwork inspired by early 1980′s Nintendo games. The artowrk consists of Dig Dug, Pacman, Super Mario Bros, and Legend of Zelda.

It is a quite the popular piece of artwork. It has even been used in a video. MadCraft, a punkpop band from Finland, used the creation as a backdrop for the music video for the song NeverAgain.

Tags: 8-Bit, Design, Finland, ghost, Madcraft, Music, nintendo, Pacman, punk pop, Stockholm, Sweden, Tiles, train station, video game

So the grandfather of all popular gaming turns 31 today. Happy Birthday Pakkuman! Anything in italics needs to be said in Japanese. But Puck Man, as he was known in Japan, and transferred to PacMan here in the States and on into history. Head on over to Google and Play a little Pacman through the Google logo , or play a never ending game. Either way Happy birthday Big Guy. We’re big fans of you around these parts.

31 years old and the venerable yellow man is still just as heavy as ever. Must be all those high fat ghosts.

You know what would make this occasion more festive? A lady in a Pacman dress, along with a couple of her friends dressed as ghosts. But let me put this out there, I think they can do better.

 

It actually looks a bit like Laurie from That 70′s Show… weird

Happy Birthday, Pac-Man!.

Tags: Neverending Pacman, Pacman, Pacman Birthday, Pacman Google Birthday Logo, Pacman Google Doodle

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So we’ll see how long tonight’s show ends up being

I get sick every spring. this time it just took a bit longer to get here, and quite honestly I don’t know where it came from. I’m loosing my voice and if there is one thing I like it’s talking! So I’ll attempt to do the show solo tonight, Batman Returns. Because when I hear my own voice inside my head I sound like Batman when I’m loosing my voice, it probably isn’t true for the rest of you listening, but hey let a man dream.

What to Expect for today’s show? Well I have a great rundown of some of the fun things and stories we’ve talked about this past week. You want a primer for the show? Start checking CaffiNation.com daily to see new content appear, almost as if by magic. be the show is new takes on the content, opinion and bad jokes… how can you pass that up? For tonight we have coffee warming gadgets of the future, pacman’s never-ending  journey, and a bunch of fun concept pieces

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Geek Cruft

• Does the awesome button come with healing powers?
• Modern Art, Banksy style
• Touchscreen Guitar? is the world ready to lose feeling in music?
• Tolkien Geeks cry out as the lidless eye watches
• Behold the Legend of the Fuzz!
• Ben Heck uses his powers for good
• High Score? Space invaders tells the tale of the tape
• Just fun Art Lovecraft Style
• Than Upset Avian?
• Flip the script
• Pacman’s World

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Aww shucks for Me? Bacon Roses FTW
• Hate cold coffee? there may be hope
• Handsome coffee?
• Coffee or Tea?

Thanks for Listening & Stay Caffeinated!
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Finding Fun and Telling Tales

Tonight’s show is a fun mix of Content collect this past week. I actually like doing the show a bit more this way. I gotta say i felt a bit stagnant in how things were going it’s nice to bring in some fresh content and a new person to share with writing. Steve has been great. I hope you’re enjoying his articles. We cover ground from Pop culture interpretations of Video game Art (Angry Birdsky / a la warhol) to Modern looks at the early days of Exploration. history comes alive in color pictures from Shakelton’s 1915 assault on the south pole, Alas no scotch in that story.

We are also working on some fun new stories for the coming days, more reviews, more zombies, more sketching more Lord of the rings. Don’t just stay for the show, but bookmark us and ass us to your reader for later too!

We’re constantly looking for awesome and fun content so make sure to contact us if you find a story or would like to contribute!

Geek Cruft

• Yellow Book Eradication
• Star Wars in 3D, what are you expecting?
• Pac Man’s Secrets
• Pixel Trashcan
• Cyborg Cockroaches? time to update the Zombie Plan
• Up! Balloon Payment takes on a whole new meaning
• Lego Liberty Bell?
• Angry birdsky, ala Warhol
• Are you enthused for Captain America
• Zelda Link to the Past
• Shakelton’s Antarctic Expedition in color
• Noob Guide to SEO, Infographics

Food and Caffeinated Bits:

• Das Beer boot, Viral Marketing
• 8 bit breathalyser
• Tattoo Concept? Death Before Decaf
• Old Concept Caffeine Injection
• New Concept High Octane
• Bai Jamaican Blue Berry
• Shakelton’s 1907 Scotch. Again

Many Thanks for listening,

Stay Caffeinated!

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But Tonight’s show is going to be a fun one. I’ve taken all the news I would normally talk about and pulled out only the best stories from the past two weeks. Hopefully it will go as smooth as I planned. But honestly, does anything really every go that well around here?

Tags: Antikythera Mechanism, botulism, Coffee, coffee mug, coffee sack, dmca, egypt, egypt internet blackout, gawker media, gawker redesign, iphone confession, Lego, Mario, Pacman, RiP!, sadness, st valentine's day, technology news, valentines day

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We discuss Pacman’s Anniversary, Pixel Shaped Glasses, Coffee leaf rust, and the wonders of robots with cupcakes! So many topics and such a fun time with the live event that I simply had to use the full extent of the time. This actually is one of the longer shows we have done in a while. I hope you enjoy

Tags: brain jello, coffee leaf rust, dixie elixir, fair trade coffee, googletv, Lawsuits, lifesaver, nintendo, Pacman, papercraft, Pixels, robot cupcake holder, starwars

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Tonight We’re Talking about Pacman, Nintendo, Wii, Sony, iPads, iPhones, Beverages, Coffee Tea and Bacon Beer, Invisible sharks, and walls of plants. With so many off the wall topics you need to listen in to get a handle on all of them.

Tags: Bacon Beer, beverages, Caffination, Coffee, Invisible sharks, iPads, iPhones, nintendo, Pacman, sony, Tea, walls of plants, Wii

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Tonights show is a cobbled together bit of fun from the wilds of the internet. Space, Privacy, Aliens, Robots and Coffee are all big. So we talk about a bit from each of those categories as well as a few select nuggets from beyond those as well.

Tags: aliens, apple, Coffee, fcc, greek coffee, humans, ibrik, luigi, Mario, Pacman, pepsi, Robots, space, Space invaders, Star Trek, Star Wars, stephen hawking, toaster, turkish coffee, twisted

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So I’m 30 now, new decade, same mission. I’ve sworn to bring the fun, and often overlooked bits of web detritus and caffeinated goodness to your ears, twice weekly. While not yet at the age of adulthood for a hobbit i find myself once more just the right age for a man. This week’s show has a mix of both old and new, retro goodies nestles in between bits of current news and interesting stories. Bonus points for the first person to tell me what the hobbit age of adulthood is. :-D

Tags: 3d, apple, birthday, boxee, facebook, Geeks, hobbits, lightsaber, nerds, Pacman, Retro, roku, Star Wars, tmnt

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I love snow and i love the cold so i’v been in a very tired heaven this year. This is also not the officially snowiest winter in Philadelphia history with over 60 inches of snowfall since December. Wow! Tonights bit of snowy awesomeness covers robots, design principles, retro game cakes and coffee best practices, and new wave building materials.

Tags: Cake, cheetos, Coffee, Cupid, gramophone, green tech, Ink, Mario, mug, pac-man, Pacman, printer, valentines day, Vday

I know I’ve put a moratorium on new mugs in the house, but i might have to either break the moratorium or snap a couple of mugs. These new offerings from Thinkgeek are pretty dang awesome. Take the power of retro and the cool factor of the temperature sensitive paint and you get one spiffy mug. Space Invaders or Pacman flavors are available, for $7.99 each. I’m definitely a PacMan guy myself so this mug might end up in  Sop now i just need to find out which one of the current soldiers is getting retired.

ThinkGeek

Tags: Cool Art, Hot Mug, mug, Pacman, Retro, Space invaders, Temperatuire

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Discussing Net Neutrality, Pacman, Rouge Robots, R2d2, steampunk lovelies, Podcamp Philly and fine wine

Tags: beer, Bud Light, DITH, drones, Energy Drinks, Geekazine, Grooler, Net Nuetrality, Oven, Pacman, Robots, Snuggie, Steampunk, wine

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So this week is going to be crazy. Its a short week for me in work and out. Listen in to get a general idea of whats going to happen to the show over the next week or so. Things are going to be a bit up in the air so we’re trying to keep the episodes short and sweet. Hence the title, not only did i not want to take the time to spell out the whole word but its also a perl function/library, which makes it geeky too!

Today’s show comes with Homework. I’m always surprised when I speak with people who don’t know what TED is. So today’s show has two of the most stunning presentations I’ve seen from TED, you are required to watch them… no excuses, there will be a test.

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft

• Quirky name, awesome stuff, WolframAlpha Deploys
  • TED: Tim Bernards-Lee, Give us the Data
• Glasses for the 3rd world, More data, and simply stunning
• Its a great big universe and we’re all really puny, Nasa and Tiny little specs
• Skulls have always fascinated me, now you can own a cyborg skull
  • TED: Obsessions are a way of learning, Adam Savage from mythbusters
• Pac-man mural impresses
• Two unbelievable paper-crafts, Chocobo or Bob-omb
• Classic Lego video game scenes
• TSA really won’t like this, firestarting knife wielding laser pointing credit card
• Algae powered transformer?
• Recycled USB drive
• Light brite cubed
• Mario cart proves you can’t txt and drive

Food & Caffeinated Bits

• Today’s fantastic coffee was purchase from the House of Coffee in Lahaska PA
• Tweet and cook at the same time
• Floating cooler and coozy
• Dirty rotten trick, swiss army chocolate

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: Algae, chocolate, Coffee, cooler, credit card, house of coffee pa, houseofcoffee, Lego, litebrite, pac-man, Pacman, recycled, Skulls, TSA, USB, wolframalpha

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Today’s Show is dedicated to the Moms of the world

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First off happy Mother’s Day to everyone out there responsible for bringing life into this world. Today’s show is special because i shared it with my mother. We set up a time and sat down and recorded the whole thing this past week. If you listen closely you can also hear a the background noise that is my son playing in the studio.

I’ve never had a co-host on the show before so this was a learning experiance. The mobile lair for the caffination needs a little tweaking before the sound quality is as good as the episodes produced regularly but I look forward to trying more on the spot recordings. I’d like to thank my mom for taking time out to spend discussing geeky things and trying to embarrass me.

Shared with my mom, and delivered to you, here is episode 333 packed with stories and laughs

Enjoy the show and Stay Caffeinated!

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Geek Cruft:

• The Amazon Kindle, Problems and solutions.
  • Patent given as well
• A new type of dumpster diving
• Pool or disco you decide
• NYPD Green? PR stunt or real commitment
• Are blogs weapons? Weapons of mass distraction maybe. Slippery slope
• Self healing concrete. Time heals all wounds and now so does rain
  
• LED grow light, turn your basement into a disco
  
• USB Necklaces? What do the ladies think

Raising Geek

• Stories about raising a geek

Caffeinated Bits

• Play with your food, or print on your eggs
• Finger food, or how to poke your eye out while eating cheese
  
• Spices per page, a new way of cooking?
• More chemicals in your beverage sir?
• Power pellets, why did this candy not come out a while ago
• Swords and cooking, how could this not work
• Artsy glass for your wine, confusing to drink from
• A flavor infusion pitcher. neat idea

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People!

Tags: amazon, blogs, books, co-host, concrete, eggs, green tech. dumpsters, Kindle, LED, Mothers Day, NYPD, Pacman, pools, Spices, swords, USB, weapons, wine

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Today’s Show:  Joy, Lego, Mario, Carbon Fibre, Carbon Footprint, Gold, Green Tech, Gardens, Helicopters, Pools, Peeps, LEDs, Linux, Pacman, Japan

Before I get down into the show I wanted to again mention how happy I am for my good friends Jimmy and Cathy. As they start their life together I wish them nothing but the best the world has to offer, but know that they already found that in each other.

Today’s show is all about things that make me happy, not really a few of my favorite things but definitely a stream of consciousness show pulled together from stories which struck my fancy, and intrigued me to know more. Sometimes its simply a headline, other times the whole concept spoke to me on some level. I really enjoy putting shows together like this so hopefully that comes through in the final take.

So I ask you to come with me on this fun little adventure as we stroll through he gardens of tech jokes and the glades of  caffeinated dreams. A bit flowery of a description but hey its springtime.

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• Congrats to Jimmy and Cathy! Again, and Thank you

Quick Hits:

• April 1 is a big day for virus’ Patch your machine
• Countdown to Lawsuit, Lawn Darts return
• Heat your food for camping, but try and pass this by the TSA
• Let it Shine, LED Headlamp theater
• Phantom limbs, and further study
• Collection of Tesla Coil Geek Anthems

Geek Cruft

• Linux Error, Did you mean windows?
• Telecommuting is down, but who could afford and Office Pod?
• Gold bars from Recycled jewlery, for green gold
  
• Physics gone wrogn with Pacman? Almost a great game
• Twitter me from the road, via OnStar?
• Banjo Hero
• Timelapse Garden Camera
• Economy of Space, projector screen is hidden
• A Helicopter Hotel? 5 years of work  lifts off  June 26th
• Bean bags in the pool? Genius!
• I might need this shirt, Rubic’s revealed
• Carbon Fibre is the new Platinum
• See the Music, audio tape as an art medium
• Super mario Coffee Table
• Visit Japan, before the Space  Squids do her in

Consumable & Caffeinated Bits

• CaffiNation Reviews Foosh Energy Mints
• Largest Lego birthday Cake Ever. Legoland celebrates 10 years
• Birth of a Demon, The peeps are coming
• USb Cup warmer, clock, they just don’t work well people
• R2D2 pepper mill? what can’t he do
• Take a shot out of anything
• Friend Foe or Fuel, you decide

Thanks and Stay Caffeinated People

Tags: Carbon Fibre, Carbon Footprint, gardens, Gold, green tech, Helicopters, Japan, LEDs, Lego, Linux, Mario, Pacman, Peeps, pools