Remember Legend of Zelda? Super Mario Brothers?

No? Then you can stop reading.

Yes? Then you probably had a Nintendo Entertainment System, aka a NES, like me.

Did you know you can play those old games on your computer?

Check out Nestopia, it is an emulator that lets you play the NES games. You can even plugin a joystick or gamepad (I recommend the wired Xbox 360 controller).

How do you get the games? Google is your friend, use one of the sites here. You will download a zip file that will contain the contents of the cartridge. Then when you run Nestopia, open one of the zip files.

You can even freeze a game anywhere you want. Keep dying in one world in SMB3? Freeze it. Want to take a break, but aren’t near a save point? Freeze it.

I think I might be able to finish SMB3 now…

Previously.

Yes, thats right, apparently in my previous incarnation I was a Barosaurus living in the late Jurassic period. Raaaowr.

New ROM Curator reveals the rare skeleton of “Gordo”, the largest dinosaur ever to be displayed in Canada

The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) held a news conference today to announce the unusual discovery of a massive Barosaurus skeleton in the Museum’s own collections. The skeleton will form the centerpiece of the ROM’s new James and Louise Temerty Galleries of the Age of Dinosaurs, opening the weekend of December 15 and 16, 2007 on Level 2 of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal. When completed and installed, the Barosaurus will be the largest dinosaur on permanent display in Canada.

Link to press release.