Interesting links for May 14th:

  • Ausiello Scoop: Bill Lawrence on Scrubs’ Move to ABC – Interview with Scrub’s Bill Lawrence on their problems with NBC and the new movie to ABC.
  • Studios’ viral marketing campaigns are vexing – I couldn’t disagree more with an article. The more times I read it the more irritated I get by it. Somehow this guy doesn’t understand the essence of these campaigns, especially when he compares it to “homework”. Then the line: “When “Cloverfield” played around with viral strategies, it was cool. Now that everyone else is copying — not so cool.” As if Cloverfield was the first one?? Sorry, but this article just rubs me the wrong way.
  • Nintendogs: The case of the non-game that barked like a game – Review of Nintendogs from a game design perspective. I had kind of dismissed that game, thinking it was just a Tamagotchi on a DS. Reading this article has me intrigued to how the game actually works.
  • Turn On, Tune In, Veg Out – An article by Neal Stephenson on Star Wars and geeking out versus vegging out. Interesting perspective.
  • Logo Mash-up – Funny mash-ups of corporate logos. Love the Windows Vista + Volkswagen and Sony + I Heart New York.
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Interesting links for May 11th through May 13th:

  • The Theology of Cylons – Interesting interview with Ron Moore, producer on Battlestar Galactica, about religious themes in the original series and the reimagined show.
  • Neal Stephenson on Science Fiction | Mssv – Nice write-up of a talk Neal Stephenson recently gave called “The Fork: Science Fiction versus Mundane Culture”. Love the bit about vulcan ears and sci-fi celebrities. And I completely agree with his thoughts on geeks!
  • Dave Devries: The Monster Engine – Crazy little pieces of art. Dave Devries takes drawing from monsters and superheroes made by children and bases his own designs on them.
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Interesting links for May 4th through May 8th:

  • Wired’s Geekster Handbook, a Field Guide to the Nerd UndergroundCubicgarden sums up my thoughts on this exactly: “But what I wonder is where is the Dj geek? Designer geek? Movie geek? Mobile phone geek? (which I would argue, isn’t the same as gadget guy). Anyway, its all stereotypes and not real. We’re all a combination and we all wear better clothes and don’t look like we just left college.
  • UnderGear: No Boxers, No Briefs – Remember the padded underwear from the International Male catalogue? Well, here’s more from their latest magazine UnderGear (borderline NSFW).
  • Portfolio – Jennifer Maestre – These “pencil-sculptures” from Maestre; they are just gorgeous. They don’t always represent an actual animal/object and I love that they’re open for your own interpretation.
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Interesting links for April 30th through May 1st:

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Interesting links for April 23rd through April 28th:

  • (Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos – Some beautiful and very creatively shot photographs. I especially love the train and the swimming pool shots. Makes me want to come up with something similarly mind warping.
  • BLDGBLOG: Hotels in the Afterlife – A collection of photos of deserted desert hotels in Egypt. Only the skeletons were built and then the whole project was abandoned. Why don’t they make a movie here?
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Interesting links for April 16th through April 22nd:

  • 25 Season 7 Cast Photo – First photo of the main cast of season 7 of 24. I am looking forward to this season; they seem to be taking a somewhat different direction. Some minor spoilers; nothing that hasn’t been shown in the earlier released trailer.
  • Creating ‘The (Former) General’ – Adrian Hon, one of the creators behind We Tell Stories, elaborates on the creation of the latest (and last) WTS story. Beware: don’t read this if you haven’t read the story yet (which you all should do, cause it’s great).
  • Ctrl+Alt+Del Choose Our Adventure Story – For the past 3 weeks the CAD comic did a Choose Your Own Adventure style comic series, with people having to vote at certain stages. Great idea, only it ended way too soon. Btw, check out the story tree at the end.
  • Top 10 Amazing People Who Cheated Death – The human body can take a lot of hardship. Some of these stories are just plain weird and I also question the authenticity of some of them.
  • The Empire Blog: How You Know You’ve Become A Sci-Fi TV Geek – Cute little quiz to see how much of a TV sci-fi geek you are (although I have to say they only mention the mainstream “sci-fi” shows). Without taking point 7 into account (cause that one just doesn’t make sense), I scored 63 points. How geeky are you?
  • Technology moves fast – Funny little post post from Matt Cutts about a book from 1996 he was reading where the character describes a cutting edge system.
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Interesting links for April 6th through April 8th:

  • Battlestar Galactica Girls Go Barbarella – The three main actresses in BSG (Starbuck, Number 6, Boomer/Athena) posing in a big-hair Barbarella style photo. I find it a bit of weird advertising. BSG is exactly not that type of show.
  • Celebrity D&D Characters – What if certain celebrities were D&D characters? What kind of stats would they have? A couple of these are pretty funny.
  • Documentary Fetishism in Battlestar Galactica – Cool graph of the number of people within the Battlestar Fleet from the past 3 seasons. (No spoilers for season 4)
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Interesting links for March 31st through April 3rd:

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Interesting links for March 29th:

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