Spotify is spectacularly popular in the Wired office, thanks to its slick interface and ability to find tracks missing from our iTunes libraries. Sometimes, though, it doesn’t come up with the goods and we have to make do with a substandard covers band or miss out on Back in Black completely. We’re also too stingy to buy a subscription, and the adverts are becoming increasingly frequent.

Fimusy.com is the solution.

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“We’re going to be dropped into World 1.1 dressed like plumbers, and we’re going to be doing one thing, and one thing only, killing Koopas”. So says Toadsworth in this faux trailer for The Inglorious Plumbers, which merges Super Mario Bros. with the Tarantino remake Inglourious Basterds.

OK it’s a bit silly, but anyone who spent hours, months, years of their youth trying to rescue Princess Daisy will at least manage a nostalgic smile.

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“We’re going to be dropped into World 1.1 dressed like plumbers, and we’re going to be doing one thing, and one thing only, killing Koopas”. So says Toadsworth in this faux trailer for The Inglorious Plumbers, which merges Super Mario Bros. with the Tarantino remake Inglourious Basterds.

OK it’s a bit silly, but anyone who spent hours, months, years of their youth trying to rescue Princess Daisy will at least manage a nostalgic smile.

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Here’s a question – what would you say to an alien? Or to be more exact, what would you text?

The HelloFromEarth.net is now calling for text messages to be broadcast to Gliese 581d, which Geekologie describes as a planet “20-light years away that may or may not support life”.

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London-based designer Oscar Diaz has achieved the seemingly impossible and created a cool calendar. His design is based on capillary action, which causes ink to move slowly along an imprinted surface. The ink will fill in the blank white calendar day-by-day each month. “New months can be done in different seasonal colours with a blank embossed slate to start with each time,” says Dornob.

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Don’t know what to see at the Edinburgh Fringe? Try asking the crowd. Based on the premise that criticism by the many is wiser than by the few, EdTwinge seeks to offer cultural counsel by measuring the Twitter noise for each act and ranking them with a “karma” rating based on the positivity of the comments.

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In the UK, we got all excited about fire-fighting robots a couple of weeks ago, but Japan is not to be outdone. They’ve developed a device that has pincer-like hands to lift victims onto a built-in conveyor belt that pulls them inside the machine until they reach safety.

Yes, we’ll admit that it does look incredibly sinister, and the title that NewsPaperOnline has given the YouTube video of the machine in action (‘Human Body Shredding Machine’) doesn’t help.

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While trawling Amazon a Wired colleague came across a novel called Death Troopers, by Joe Schreiber. The novel is set in the Star Wars universe, and the plot summary describes a prison ship which breaks down in deep space. The crew finds an abandoned Star Destroyer nearby, and goes aboard to loot it for parts.

Then it all goes wrong. The boarding party brings back a horrific disease that kills all but six of the crew and then… the dead start rising.

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I have no idea whether the sequence above is an accurate forecast for the next 120 million years, but it’s a certainly a hypnotic video. Watching 650 million years slip past in little more than a minute puts things into perspective.

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You always switch your TV off standby, you won’t find dirty bottles in your recycling, and you never, ever buy coffee from Starbucks. Or do you?

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