Interesting links for December 6th through December 16th:

• ABC of Branding – Beautiful poster with embossed logos (or just the first letter) of brands. Some of them are so pretty and recognizable!
• The Geek Map – Ooh, a mind map of geek culture!
• These Pictures Will Melt Your Mind – Hehe, yes these pictures will melt your mind
• Countryside Church Building Converted into Luxury Home – Pretty!
• My Twitter quiz hell – Ooh, I want to go to this type of pub quiz!
• Orange/Blue Contrast in Movie Posters – After the Floating Head syndrome and the Trajan lettertype overkill, now another trend has been discovered in movie posters.
• Millennium Predictions That Got Things Right – and Those That Didn’t – Interesting article looking back at predictions made around 2000 about the future.

When I first heard that Ridley Scott would be doing a Robin Hood movie with a twist, I thought it would be awesome. Around that time the main plot was reported to be much different though and it was an interesting take on a well-known story. I’m not sure how much of that original twist is still in that movie, but none of the descriptions seem to mention it at all. It’s just another Robin Hood movie.

Now maybe that’s just because the twist is actually meant as a shock surprise twist ending that you don’t find out about until halfway (or something like that), which if that is the case would make the film awesome. Seeing this trailer though just makes me think: Gladiator in medieval times. Russell Crowe plays Robin Hood, Cate Blanchett plays Maid Marian.

It’s that time of the year again that I’m listening to Christmas music, but my playlist always has some non conventional choices. This year I thought I’d share them with you! I love Nightmare Before Christmas, so (of course) most of the songs are in my Christmas playlist.

My favourite though is What’s This? And it has the most Christmassy feel to it. I really like Danny Elfman’s voice; I’ve tried searching, but does anyone know if he has sung any other stuff? Enjoy: