Planet of the Abes

A roundup of the week’s best links in design, comics, tech, nerdery, and fuzzy animals – posted every Tuesday at noon. If you’ve got some amazingness, send it my way at nickmain(at)gmail(dot)com.

Sorry for the late lunch links. I had some technical difficulties and couldn’t get online this morning. Some good stuff though. Natal has me psyched…

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Project Natal read

Lionhead Studio’s Peter Molyneux’s experiments with Natal watch

What the World Eats see

Spider-Man vs Pigeon Girl watch

Cartoony vs Realistic read

Ebon Heath’s Visual Poetry sculptures see

Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse, and David Lynch’s Dark Night of the Soul read see listen

Curve Wall Mounted Pet Bed buy

Dave Fullarton’s What I do at Work When I’m Supposed to be Working exhibition see

Girl Guitar God Kaki King’s TED Talk watch

Geekchart interact

22 Extremely Well Written Icon Design Tutorials learn

For my one reader who uses Windows, I thought this Lifehacker list of essential free Windows downloads was really useful. read or get the pack download

MMMMound is FFFFound for piles of stuff see

Student project for a “Wes Anderson Film Festival” see

The Art of Up (yay! Xblog’s got pictures) see

Star Wars ABC’s keeewt see

8 bit band Anamanaguchi presents Dawn Metropolis watch

I love this. When someone asks you a question via IM, that they could have just as easily googled, gently slap them in the face with LMGTGY interact

Awesomely Illegible Infographic of the week see

Robot Link of the Week read

Animals Drinking Link of the Week watch