We, Tyler Fisher and I, decided to have a little fun with NPR’s Election Night Scorecard. With Brian Boyer‘s blessing, we helped along the NPR news app team’s scorecard to its natural conclusion: an old-school, NES-style.
To best enjoy the night’s election results the way they are meant to be seen, just drag the bookmarklet button below to into your bookmarks bar. Then head on over to the NPR Election Night Scorecard, click your bookmarklet and you’re set.
8-bit NPR
Update – Mentions in the media:
- Poynter Online: 5 really cool things we saw on election night
- Mashable: NPR’s 8-Bit Election Site Is Awesome
Tags: CSS, Election 2012, NPR


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I just get a number…
Sorry it’s was not working for you. What browser are you using? Have you tried again?
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[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
I’m having the same issue. Firefox latest version, Win7.
The NYT site is goin tits up, so that’s probably why. Downside of being the best.
What a fun way to watch the election results! Thanks for sharing that!
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
I’m working with someone at Mozilla to see if I can get that working. As soon as I can I’ll report progress.
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
[...] Site Is Awesome MashableNov 072012 A college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night Scorecard.According to creator Jeremy [...]
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
Very nice! Compliments from an old IBM mainframe programmer who also liked to play around with 8-bit programming on the Atari 800 with the 6502 processor.
Thanks. I suspect that CSS makes it al little easier to work than an old IBM mainframe.
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]
[...] college professor and his student developed a CSS jack that applies an 8-bit treatment to NPR’s Election Night [...]