Fri 8 May 2009
The Week in Links #2
ByHere’s the cream of the Chewing Pixels Twitter Link farm from the past seven days. There’s bound to be something in here that interests you, right?
• It’s all fun and games until someone gets their head stuck in a 3,600-year-old Sumerian pot.
• “I actually think that it’s a very natural thing for players to grow out of the Final Fantasy series.” Yoshinori Kitase zings anyone over 25 who still loves his series.
• The Spatial Distribution of the Seven Deadly Sins Within Nevada. So I was gonna read this but, y’know, sloth…
• Crush the Castle. Ace Flash game with Trebuchets and splatting princesses. Probably better than Darkfall.
• This is how you steal a tractor. Also, ‘Panique au Village’ is the greatest of the film titles.
• Lego.com Architecture. Wow. Wait. What? Wow.
• Sunken office, autumn leaves, two-tone floorboards: jealousy.
• Box Art & Chewing Pixels featured in this month’s Wired (p.74). Good column in the issue on whether videogame culture may have made bankers more reckless.
• Bloggers’ favourite tracks of April 2009 as measured by Hype Machine. Chiddy Bang FTW.
• The Tarantino Mix-tape. So, somebody should totally do that to the Ingmar Bergman oeuvre.
• “We had to be very careful putting it in the wall. We wanted at least our names and numbers to be left behind.”
• World’s Oldest Dog. Under the sunglasses he is saying: “I am the world’s oldest dog. And yet where is my dignity?”
• Step 1. Build Time Machine. Step 2: Give Capability Brown a box of Tectonic Grenades: Amazing scenes. Literally.
• I call it: Moth’s Wings is going to be Pitchfork’s song of 2009. It is the sound of 10,000 hipsters swooning. Until it appears on All Tomorrow’s Adverts, at least
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• Chicken in a Can. This is not OK, FEI.
• Stevie Wonder’s Clavinet playing on Superstition broken apart. Woah.
• Ben Goldacre jumps the shark re: being the dude who always jumps the science shark. Or something.
• Inmates + Rescue Dogs Programme = Aw.
