Interesting links for July 8th through July 18th:

• How 16 Electronics Companies Got Their Names – I somehow just always assumed that a lot of these companies were just named after someone, but most of them have pretty interesting origins.
• The Wertzone: Multimedia storytelling in support of TVs and movies – Great article about how storytelling evolved from just one medium to multiple media. Formerly everything other than the main movie/tv show wasn't considered cannon (just filler). For example, anything that happened in the Star Trek books never happened in the TV show. But slowly that changed, with other platforms being used as part of the story. I loved Babylon 5, but I didn't know that all Babylon 5 books and comics are actually part of the complete story. Or that the answer to "What do the numbers mean in Lost?" has actually already been answered in the ARG.
• 10 Things We’ve Learned From Failed Threequels – Film School Rejects – The sequel to a sequel: there aren't really that many good ones out there. Here's a great list of 10 things those movies do wrong.
• iPhone Apps For Movie Geeks | /Film – I don't have an iPhone yet, but this is a handy list of movie apps for those who have one. I wonder though it there are any UK based apps out there?

Interesting links for July 3rd through July 5th:

• Blade Runner and Spike and Angel’s House For Sale – The real name of this place is the Ennis House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and it's just so weird and quirky.
• Book Reviews (Sort of): Paradise Island, The New Mars, and The News Mars (A Family Vacation) by John L. Manning, Jr. – I got two of these books for review one and a half year ago, but they were just so bad, I couldn't even get past the first chapter. This review (although not really a review cause this blogger also barely made pass the first couple of chapters) explains exactly what's so bad about it.
• The top 250 best movies of all time Map – Interesting "tube map" style visualization of IMDB's Top 250 movies; are those really all 250 movies listed there?
• A Paper Craft Castle On the Ocean « Tokyobling’s Blog – Wow, now that's some serious origami!

Interesting links for June 25th through June 26th:

• 20 Effective Reflection Photos – Beautiful photos making great use of reflections. I love the one with the window in the puddle.
• Light Breakfast – A cool photo of the "lightest" breakfast.
• Mac Dock Icon Spelling – Screenshots of Mac docks with apps spelling out words.
• Jun Takahashi’s Graces – Cool exhibition photos of the "Graces", an imagined creation of designer Takahashi.

Interesting links for June 17th through June 23rd:

• Plastic Flashback: A visual history of the credit card. – Interesting little piece on the backstory of the credit card.
• The Uniform Project – 1 Dress, 365 Days. Cool project from a girl who's wearing the same dress for 365 days, but uses accessories/layers to create different outfits (not sure, but I also think there's the rule: no using the same accessory twice)
• The Usability of Passwords – Great post about the security of passwords. If you've never understood why simple words like "sun" won't do as a password, read this. It also explains why "pass-phrases" are better than random letters/numbers.
• Grilla styling – Blog about the Grilla styling "game". Two girls, two cameras, 52 cards with random colours, countries, styles, etc on it. Walk into a store, take 2 cards and you've got 10 minutes to create that look. I loved the combos the cards create like "Welsh Navy" or "Gold Emo".
• Alice and Kev – Brilliant experiment about Alice and Kev, two homeless characters created in Sims 3. It makes me want to try out Sims 3 for myself and create my own characters.

Interesting links for June 16th:

• Picture of the Week: Legal Threat – Wow, some people really don't understand the ways of the internetz.
• For God’s Sake The Problem With The Star Wars Prequels Was Not Green Screen | The Movie Blog – Nope, the problem with the Star Wars prequels was simply bad writing. Don't blame the technology.
• Tube Exits for the London Underground – If I had an iPhone, I would want this app. It shows you where on the tube you have to get in, so that at your exit station you're exactly at the "way out" part.
• Girls on Film: A Desire for Varied Female Protagonists is Not a Political Agenda – Cinematical – Great post and I agree completely with her; why is it so strange to some people that girls would want strong female protagonists in movies?

Interesting links for May 14th through June 11th:

• "The Heart of the Female Warrior" – Cool interview with Mary McDonnell about Battlerstar Galactica.
• April 1, 2009: Theodore Wilson’s Last Ride – Funny April Fools prank from one of the writers of Stargate.
• How to Win at Boggle – Great illustration with tips on how to win Boggle. (makes me want to play Boggle now)
• 25 logos with hidden messages – Hmm, some of these aren't really "hidden", but still a nice list to go through.

Interesting links for May 13th through May 14th:

• Kris Kuksi : Sculpture – These sculptures are just creepy! And yet at the same time still beautiful.
• Top 10 Incredible Time Capsules – Ooh, I hadn't heard of most of these time capsules. Interesting read.
• io9 – 15 Evil Corporations in Science Fiction – Hehe, some of my favourite evil corporations are mentioned here, like Blue Sun and Fatboy Industries. But how about Umbrella Corp? Or Shinra?
• The 10 Most Visually Stunning Movies of the Last 10 Years – I don't agree with the order of this list (Sunshine on #1??), but it's almost spot on with which movies are included. I would have replaced Transformers with something else.
• The next generation of The Next Generation – Post about who might play the characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation if they ever make a reappearance in Abrams world.

Interesting links for April 27th through May 5th:

• Flickr: Norby’s Photostream – Now that's an innovative way of using Flickr. Brilliant!
• Interview with the Mainstream Film Industry – Funny blog post with movie quotes from the Top 100 Movies.
• Black and White Fractals That Capture Creativity – Wow, stunning collection of fractal art!
• Gameboy Timeline – Great overview of the evolution of the Gameboy and other related products. I still own 5 of these!

Interesting links for April 13th through April 15th:

• Kyle XY writer/co-producer Julie Plec answers questions about the ‘Kyle XY’ finale – Interview with one of the writers behind Kyle XY. She explains what would have happened on the show, if it hadn't been cancelled.
• The Pursuit of Laziness – Post from the genius behind XKCD about reading in bed with a Kindle and how to create the most optimal solution of holding your "book" aloft.
• If We Ran Battlestar Galactica – Huge list of repsonse/review from sci-fi authors/bloggers about the finale of Battlestar Galactica. I still haven't read all of them, but it's great to read the different views of everybody. Pretty obvious, but: SPOILERS for the finale.
• The Top Ten Evil Queens of Fantasy – Evil Queens, yay! The post only sticks to movie queens though; there are so much more brilliant evil queens from fantasy novels that would put all this villainesses to shame.

I came across this little saying on For Me, For You and it’s just so so true:

Wonderful way to always keep positive 😀