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8-Bit Mission

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) | March 31st, 2012 @ 10:00am

If you nerds haven't already heard, Google's big April Fool's joke was to make their maps all 8-bit NES like. And they totally pranked me; I woke up this morning terrified I entered into some sort of Hot Tub Time Machine situation after attending a questionable hot tub party at Jello Biafra's condo.

Turns out everything is cool—good on you Google (and bad on you, Jello Biafra—everyone agreed the “you”-themed Jell-O shots were in bad taste!). Even Google's directions still work:

So if you need me, my bros and I will be at my house trading Pogs.

The Mission Gets a New Heliport

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) | January 30th, 2012 @ 2:40am

Okay, not really; but Google Maps seems to think the neighborhood has one down some sketch alley off of 25th.

(To Google's credit, there actually appears to be a “China Basin Heliport” somewhere in SF (airport code JCC), but it's most definitely not sandwiched between Capp and Cypress.)

(But seriously, how rad would it be to chopper in like Rambo for a round of bloodies at Phone Booth?)

[h/t @cowperthwait]