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Here’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.