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.

Interesting links for November 17th through November 29th:

• My brain abscess and me – Interesting post about discovering and dealing with a brain abscess.
• Think ‘DGIQSXZ’ is a Terrible Scrabble Rack? Think Again! – Most awesome Scrabble word ever!
• The Un-Scary Screwdriver – Cool post about how the writer's 5-year old daughter asked if she could try installing Linux after overhearing an old man say that it would be too complicated for him (the girls' reasoning: 'if I can do it, so can he').
• USC professor creates an entire alien language for ‘Avatar’ – What the title says: there's an entire language created for Avatar.
• FXRant: Converging Lines: "The Dark Knight" – Post about the cinematography of the Dark Knight on how there are tons of shots with converging lines in them and what it might represent.

Interesting links for October 27th through November 12th:

• 10 Geeky Laws That Should Exist, But Don’t – I agree the most with #1: Munroe’s Law: A person in a geeky argument who can quote xkcd to support his position automatically wins the argument.
• London Underground Tube Station Maps – Maps of the stations underground; I always like figuring out what the best shortcuts etc are.
• How to Win the DARPA Network Challenge – On December 5th DARPA will 'release' 10 huge red balloons over the US, the first person to give the coordinates through from all them will win $40,000. The idea is to use online communication and networks to find the balloons within the 6 hour time frame.
• /Film Goes To Disneyland, Club 33 and the Disney Animation Research Library – Interesting post from /Film about his special behind-the-scenes tour at Disneyland, visiting VIP parts of the theme park, like the "Dream Suite" and Club 33.

Interesting links for October 4th through October 20th:

• People With Same Name as Tube Stations – Hehehe, love this post. Especially because of some of the more 'hidden' tube names like Edward G Ware. (Ed G Ware -> Edgeware) or Stephen Bury, who entered the army and became Gunner S Bury. Lol.
• Thoughts on my “How To Be A Good Interviewer” Session at Blogworld : Ewan Spence’s All New Musings. – Great slides on how to interview people (something I should really work on).
• Bazaaro – Gorgeous and weird Tim Burton spread in October's Bazaar. I'm not sure though it it's just "inspired" by TIm Burton, or if he actually also worked on it. (I'm thinking the former)
• Kashiwa Mystery Cafe – Great idea, and it must be amazing to stumble on something like that while on holiday.
• Ironic Sans: So you think you can tell Arial from Helvetica? Quiz – Yay! I got 19 out of 20. How did you score?

Interesting links for September 28th through September 29th:

• Neil deGrasse Tyson’s worst science movie of all time? Titanic. – Great anecdotal story from astrophysicist Neil deGrasse on how he met James Cameron and talked about his problem with Titanic.
• SpY, street art, urban art – Wonderful art from SpY, a former graffiti artist turned ‘urban remodeler’. Definitely have a look at the urban furniture and interventions.
• William Safire’s Finest Speech – The speech William Safire drafted for Nixon to read in case the Apollo 11 Astronauts became stranded on the moon. Interesting peek into an alternate history scenario…

Interesting links for September 2nd through September 27th:

• Clive Thompson on the New Literacy – Article about how the online world actually makes the current generation write more (than previous generations) and that we are on the cusp of a literacy revolution.
• Lego Art by Mike Stimpson – I love some of these photos! My favourites are American Beauty and the V.J. Times Square kiss.
• Snow Leopard Review – Best Snow Leopard review I’ve read so far!

Interesting links for August 23rd through August 27th:

• Anagram Map – Lovely map of the London Tube, but with anagrams of the station/line names. Without looking can you tell me which tube stops the following anagrams are: Chronic Grass, Crux For Disco, Concerning Torments and Blood Rending.
• How much harm does a bad book cover do? – Marketing classics to the Twilight generation.
• The Measure of a Robot – Cute chart of robots: “where they fall on a scale of good to evil, and a scale of being humanoid-shaped to being AIs-in-a-box”.

Interesting links for August 10th through August 16th:

• Life-Size – Cute art project from Cynthia Greig who created miniature every day objects.
• The World’s Most Amazing Hotel Pools – Wow, some of these pools are just gorgeous!
• Nerds, Jocks, and Lockers – Programming algorithm puzzle. I came across the same puzzle a couple years back while practicing for a programming contest, although in a different "story" (with Romans, goblets and coins).
• Chroma-Hash – "a smart jQuery plugin that dynamically visualizes secure text-field values using ambient color bars".
• 21 Amazing Movie Posters Recreated with Lego – Lol!

Interesting links for July 28th through August 9th:

• How Different Groups Spend Their Day – Cool interactive graph of how americans spend their day.
• Shooting Stars: 71 Portraits From Comic-Con 2009 – Ooh, pretty famous people. Love some of these pics.
• 25 Various Styles of The Wizard of Oz Illustrations | The Design Inspiration – I especially love the one on the second row.
• Melancholia – “I didn’t say she stole my money.” A sentence with 7 meanings.

Interesting links for July 20th through July 27th:

• Melancholia – I didn't say she stole my money. A sentence with 7 meanings.
• Comic Con Live Blog: CHUCK Panel – Great write up of the panel of Chuck at Comic Con. I loved how Season 2 ended, and I think Chuck might be one of the most under-appreciated shows at the moment.
• Flickr: The Anaglyph (Red-Cyan 3D Pictures) Pool – I remember ages ago I got a magazine with photos of Mars in them in 3D, and you got one of those flimsy paper red/green 3D glasses with it.
• Ridiculous Life Lessons From New Girl Games – Ugh, list of the "girl" games coming out this year, and most of them are horrible; they're all about fashion, modeling, makeup, boys, etc. Why do game developers think these are the only type of games girls would be interested in?