Interesting links for March 31st through April 3rd:

• Cool Hunting: Charles Cumming: The 21 Steps – Short interview with Charles Cumming, who wrote the first episode in the We Tell Stories project.
• Asylum – Jeremy Harris Photography – Creepy photos from an abandoned asylum. Just looks plain spooky.
• And Great Lyrics Quiz Rock Roll The by Matthew Baldwin – Can you guess which songs these are? They’ve taken the complete lyrics, sorted the words alphabetically and taken all the doubles out. Pretty difficult!
• Interview: Jane Espenson Talks About Writing for Firefly and Battlestar – Remember the Buffy Musical? The parking ticket song? That woman was Jane Espenson, one of the writer on Buffy, Firefly and now BSG. Short little interview about the differences between Firefly and BSG.
• Pasta Shape Identification Quiz – Do you know your pasta shapes? I thought I did, but I only got half of them right (12 out of 24).

Interesting links for March 29th:

• Six Earth Cities That Will Provide Blueprints for Martian Settlers [Colonizing Mars] – Yes, we need to study these cities very closely. The experience we gain while building these cities, will help us so so much when we colonize Mars.
• Top 10 April Fools’ Pranks for Nerds – A couple of these pranks are funny, but I can’t help but wonder is this all they could come up with? What are nerdiest pranks you’ve pulled off?
• 59 Of The Coolest Toilet Signs Around The World – Some of these I had seen before, but there are a couple of cool designed ones between them.

I just love me some Threadless t-shirts. They’re having another sale with all tees $9 and I again couldn’t resist not buying some. Normally the tees cost $17, so the discount seems too good to pass up on. The first tee I’m getting is Adorable Disaster. I saw this one more than a year ago and I still have to smile every time I see it.

The second tee is called A Voyage of Discovery and I just love the detail of this design:

I’ve got 4 other t-shirts from Threadless and so far I’m pretty impressed by them. I used to get a lot of Emily Strange and David & Goliath T-shirts, but I always had problems with those (shrinking in the wash, fading, etc). These Threadless ones though are much better and a whole lot cheaper. So head on over to Threadless, while the sale still lasts!

Interesting links for March 11th through March 20th:

• A la Cart: The Secret Lives of Grocey Shoppers – A book by Hilary Carlip about discarded shopping lists. Based on 26 lists she’s found, she creates and imagines the people who would have written them and turns herself into those characters. Take a look at the flash intro; it explains it all.
• We Tell Stories – Six authors, six stories, six weeks. For the next six weeks, stories will come out, each with a different unique method of presentation. This week’s The 21 Steps, for instance, uses Google Maps.
• By Ken Levine: If a major studio gave notes on JUNO – What if the screenplay of Juno had landed in the hands of a major Hollywood studio? Can you imagine what the demands of the studio would have been? How the story would have been rewritten?
• Interview: David Hewlett – Great interview with Hewlett who plays Dr. Rodney McKay in Stargate: Atlantis. It’s cool to see how much of a geek he is himself.

Episode 44: “Oh, I’ve been transformed… into your dream girl”

This first video is a bit cheesy and I honestly don’t find it that funny. It’s a hotline with nerd girls that will talk nerdy to you and do “standard” nerdy things for/with you like light saber fighting. Sigh…

This second video is a pretty funny response to that first one by nerd girl zendulo, enraged by them claiming that nerd girls don’t exist. She proceeds to proove her nerdiness.

I always see myself more as a geek, but I have to admit I know:

1. what TIE fighter stands for.
2. the names of all Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
3. which colour each of them are,
4. which weapon each one of them wields.
5. the Lord of the Rings ring inscription by heart.
6. what Mandalorian armor is.

Does this make me more of a nerd? Nah, I’m much more of a geek. Besides, Miss Nerdy doesn’t sound nearly as cool as Miss Geeky does!

Interesting links for March 7th through March 10th:

• Top 10 Interesting Abandoned Places – Cool list of places that have been abandoned, ranging from Western ghost towns to Japanese theme park.
• BankWest Singing Kittens – This is just way too cute! The whistling cat on the right is so sweet, I want to take it home and cuddle it 😀
• Aaron Eckhart Q&A The Dark Knight – Short interview with Aaron Eckhart about his role as Harvey Dent/Two Face in the upcoming Batman movie.

Interesting links for February 27th:

• Evolution of Nintendo Characters – The various depictions of Mario, Link and Donkey Kong throughout the years. Those last ones though aren’t in-game, right?
• Playboy Towel – When you hear “Playboy towel” I bet you’re thinking it’s a pink towel with the rabbit on it, right? It isn’t. This is slightly different. I can’t imagine a girl actually getting this towel and using it.
• The neurobiology of the Mona Lisa’s smile – Pretty neat explanation of why Mona Lisa’s smile looks so mysterious.
• mydeco – Cool design-your-room web app. Not the first of it’s kind, but better than the ones I’ve seen so far.
• Hitchcock Classics – Again the collection of Hitchcock photos, but now from the original source (Vanity Fair).

Interesting links for February 23rd through February 25th:

• The Clbuttic Mistake – The Daily WTF – Hehe, brilliant. A clbuttic tale. Another reason to always proofread anything you write.
• Dating Sites For Geeks – For all you single geeks out there: The Great Geek Manual got a list of all the geek dating sites out there. Find your own geeky girl/boyfriend.
• Spell with flickr – Cool little site that let’s you create words with images from flickr.

Interesting links for February 17th through February 22nd:

• David Jon Kassan – Brooklyn Artist – Wow,these paintings look realistic.
• FreakAngels – New webcomic (only 1 episode so far) with an interesting premise: 12 children born on the same day at the same time with (I’m guessing here) special powers in a steampunk setting.
• Seashell House Is Unbelievably Awesome – Cool design for a house, but I couldn’t picture myself living in such a thing.

Interesting links for February 9th through February 12th:

• Gallery: How Google Got Its Colorful Logo – The evolution of the design of the Google logo. I love the little magnifying glass.
• Lori Nix Photography – Beautiful photography of miniatures and models.
• French Artist Talks To Aliens Using Crazy Font [Art] – Can you figure out what these messages say?
• How to Fold a Towel Monkey – wikiHow – Cute tutorial on how to fold your towels into a monkey shape. You’ve got to love that posing cat in all of the photos. Attention seeker!