It’s been a quiet week here at Chewing Pixels, a counterpoint to last week’s flurry of heightened activity. Good happenings behind the curtain though some of which will hopefully take the stage next week. In the meantime, here are the Twitter farm link destinations to fix what ails ya.

• I for one welcome our dope-ass breakdancing robot overlords.

• My Sega Astro City‘s screen has now totally died. This is the point at which I regret not being a Japanese TV repairman from the late 1980s. x 5000

• L.A. Noire, Rockstar’s first stab at gaming noir. This is a good setting for those minds.

• There has never been a better panel:

• London Olympics sailing advertisement. Beautiful design.

• Obtuse goose. Not photoshopped!

• Earth is so big! Wait. (Make sure you keep watching).

• Fish is sushi

• This week the number of my twitter followers matched the number of characters one is allowed to use in constructing a tweet. This announcement (‘characters = followers’) led Zen Bullets to suggest a Twitter RPG mod, whereby the number of followers always equals the number of characters available to use in a post. This would force one to start pithy, before working up to essays as you ‘levelled’. Neat.

• “2 very outgoing people under 4’0-4’2 needed to dress in costume and run amock (SP) in LA. You CANNOT be shy.” E3 lol.

• The man who swallowed Satan’s baby.

• Monkey Island for XBLA? After the excellent Director’s Cut of Broken Sword I think I’d prefer it on Wii but still: whoop!

• ‘Laugh at the dreams of a child. I hear that’s how you power your car in hell.’ Brockway on real-life game weapons.

• Facebook gives you face AIDS: Ben Goldacre on Susan Greenfield. Needs a longer post methinks.

• Far Cry 2′s Clint Hocking makes some smart and useful observations about Naruto’s own smart and useful design choices.

• Use of Flash in the new Star Trek movie. Interesting use of the technology.

• (You’ve already seen this by now but still.)

Concept footage of Team Ico’s next title leaks: Just wow. (Also: Yorda’s put on some weight…)

• Wired.com vs Wired magazine. It’s in the comments that things really start to get interesting.

• Spam subject line of the day: “It’s your enemy writing”.

• As Alan Moore grows older, the obscure cultural references in his comics become more conspicuous than the sheer quality of writing. Discuss.

• Old Stereograms as Animated GIFs.

• Super Mario Galaxy is the best game of the last five years. THERE I SAID IT.

• “All the work I have done that’s meaningful and significant came out of an affectionate relationship with the client.”

• ‘Dr. Ralph Bunche and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt examine the first “anthropologically true” colored doll’

• But where is the third man?

• Nils Völker’s ‘Drawing Lego Robot’: So, what do you see, Rorschach? A Lego butterfly.

• Hangin’ tough, stayin’ hungry:

• Do they do a Eurovision-type competition for the American states? Because they totally should. If I had time + money + American genes I would totally set this up.

• Where is everyone? Super sweet graphical depiction of media consumption trends from 1800-2020.

• In response to this comment here on Chewing Pixels, Mitch Krpata from the Boston Phoenix makes the shrewd observation: “I own all 3 systems” is the fanboy equivalent of “I’m not racist, but…”

• The sad tale of Connie Converse, whose mistake was to write her songs before Elvis and Dylan wrote theirs.

• Art created from naught but paper folds.