*** Cool Custom Lists ***

Do you have any cool custom lists you want to show off? Post it here and I'll include it in the first thread. By 'cool', I mean ones that have a lot of information, notes, good use of HTML codes, or HTTP links, such as what was discussed in this thread.


Movies
IMDb Top 250 (current as of Apr. 6th, 2008)

* AFI's 100 Best Films (original version)
* AFI's 100 Best Films (2007 version)
* The Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures
* Top Box Office Hits (adjusted for inflation)
* Famous Movie Kisses Part I (1896-1960)
* Famous Movie Kisses Part II (1961-present)

Hall of Shame: Product Placement

James Bond 007

Movie Awards
* Best Picture Academy Awards
* Palme d'Or de Cannes (Cannes film festival)
* Leone d Oro di Venezia (Venice film festival)

Music
[img id=products width=80/B000001I1O/music/rough] Beginner's Guide to Reggae

[img id=products width=80/B0000CFXX3/music/good] Blur discography


TV Shows
Cop / Detective Shows

Bubble Media


Games

15 Most Influential Games of All Time

Greatest 100 Video Games of Their Time

Most Controversial Games

Worst Games of All Time

Half-Life series

Tomb Raider series

Space Quest series

:: Huge collection of Game Series ::

:: New & Upcoming Games ::


Books
[img id=productsus width=40/0425143325/books/without] Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan/John Clark books

[img id=productsus width=40/0141439475/books/frankenstein] 20 Science Fiction Novels that will change your life

Comic Books to Movies

:: Huge collection of Book Series ::


DVDs


FREE DOWNLOADS
* Movies for Free @ Archive.org
* Thrillers, Mysteries & Suspense @ Archive.org
* Westerns @ Archive.org
* Charlie Chaplin collection @ Archive.org
* Alrred Hitchcock collection @ Archive.org
* Buster Keaton collection @ Archive.org
* Sherlock Holmes @ Archive.org
* Laurel & Hardy collection @ Archive.org
* Three Stooges @ Archive.org
* Horror classics @ Archive.org
* Books for Free @ Project Gutenberg
* Games for Free @ Abandonia.com
* Freeware Games

*updated*

Any book or TV awards lists out there?

I did my first list with thumbnails! For cop shows.

www.listal.com/list/detectives

Well I've only got the top ten done so far...it takes bloody ages. Its not worth putting up there yet, but one day I it will be.

I like that Freeware Games list. "Frets of Fire" looked pretty cool, so I downloaded it. Despite the cussing narrator while my mom was in the room....it's pretty cool. If only it could load a song without crashing.

I added some flair to my GrandAssault-despised list :P

www.listal.com/list/hall-fame-product-placement

GemLil, love your chief wiggum mascot. :D

Haha! Usb....mothership....

Cheers P. Its some what addictive; this new wave of custom lists you've created.

I hate double posting; but I want people to actually look at some of these; rather than letting the thread hit the bottom of the page in a day. I added Dexter....funny how you can forget such obvious things!

Incidentaly; what are you using to thumbnail your images?

no. He we all say cheers when we drink in England...and we're all bitterly agnostic.

“Cheer” is first recorded in English in the 13th century. Its source was a Middle English word behind which was the Latin word for “face”.By the mid 1400's 'What chere be with you?' was a common greeting. At this time 'chere' also began to mean good humour. It wasn't until 1919 that "Cheers" was written a salutation before a drink.
Now, its an informal expression of saying 'Thank you' or 'Goodbye'. Its become a cheerful little word !!!

They're all ignorant of its meaning I suppose. Tell them it orignates from England and anyone can use it...although it sounds best in a cockney accent with a pint of Carling in your hand.

Incidentaly; what are you using to thumbnail your images?

Just use Listal.

step 1: upload the picture to an item's picture page, example: www.listal.com/movie/dr-no-1962/pictures
and there, click on 'Post a image'

setp 2: Listal makes a new image file, as well as a smaller thumbnail file, for each image uploaded. Example, here is full one:
list.lisimg.com/image/263294/600full-dr.-no-screenshot.jpg

and here is thumbnail one:
list.lisimg.com/image/263294/160full.jpg

notice it calls one 600full and the other 160full?

So simply make sure you copy the link to the 160full image that you upload, and no matter what size it was originally, it will fine beautifully in your list.

hope it makes sense. PM me if it doesnt. 'cheers' (getting drunk here)

Oh you damn fine man. Thanks. I've been going about things in a very ridiculous way.

well, there is the ridiculous way, and the the 'lude way. ;P

I participated in the Game series alot... that's sweating work... well... not for me :D

any good book or dvd lists out there?

I added tartanskirt's collection thread of book series. any of those stand out on their own with lots of links/images/notes?

Just gave the 'lude treatment to the Half-Life series. Hope you guys like it. No, there is no way I'm doing this to all my game series. lol... just the good ones.

www.listal.com/list/halflife-series

Here's my contribution.

www.listal.com/list/twenty-science-fiction-novels-change

Thanks Spiegalr, i'll add it.

p.s. I updated my Product Placement list. Added a few entries, as well as sponsors and a bunch of videos too.
www.listal.com/list/hall-fame-product-placement

p.p.s. do click on the panda :)

ok, i must ask. Bubble Media? huh? i dont get it....

Still working on it, but www.listal.com/list/blur-discography

It is (or at least will be) a comprehensive list of Blur's releases. A couple of important promos still missing, and notes still to be added, but you get the idea from the ones I've done so far.

I've also got another music list in the works at the moment, but it's not even close to ready, so I won't mention it for now.

My tribute to Lara Croft, #1 game goddess.
A lot of work went into this one. hope you guys like it...

Tomb Raider series
www.listal.com/list/tomb-raider-series

Try not to get distracted by the ton of eye candy on the right panel. haha

thanks everyone. Updated (and jazzed up) the first post.

Links ahoy! www.listal.com/list/comics-to-movies

I`m debating whether or not to throw Japanese comics into the mix. What does everyone think?

thanks spiegalr, added

if anyone wants a specific image to be used for their link, let me know. and yeah, had to improvise yours, Thilian :)

Just make a rule only to do comics that are made into live action movies so you don't break your back. :)

Ah, great idea. I will go add some Initial D right away.

p.s. Updated my IMdb Top250

FYI, here are the changes, most of them good

- Once Upon a Time in the West overtook Fellowship of the Ring for 18th place

- both 'There Will be Blood' and 'No Coutnry for Old Men' finally dropped to more realistic spots, not the Top20 they sat at before (probably skewed as my last update was around Oscar season)

- 'Fight Club' advanced a few spots, as well as Matrix

- A Clockwork Orange finally broke the Top50. Rock on!

- Ratatouille is STILL in this list (arghh!!!!!!!!!) but it dropped 10 spots. And finding nemo & incredibles still occupy the list, ahead of Children of Mena and V for Vendettta.... (ok.... breathe.... calm down........)

- Sean Penn's 'Into the Wild' enters the list at #126

- Sweeney Todd did a big drop all the way out of the list

- Totoro enters the list at #250. In nice to see good animation in the list, unlike the crap that is Toy Story, Toy Story 2, and all the other pixar flicks

'Lude... I have a new list.

IMdb Coming Soons & New in U.S.
I looked on imdb.com, on coming soons, also added the movies from the small "more" button.

sasaki, its a good start. however, for any 'new releases' list, i think we'd all like to see two key things:

- Release Date (and have the list sorted in that order)

- link to trailer, if available

Genre, Director, and Plot Synopsis would also be nice ;)

www.listal.com/list/space-quest-series

pimped up my Space Quest list to honor one of the greatest adventure series from the retro DOS gaming days. Revive SQ7, Sierra!!

Very cool lists

and here is thumbnail one:
list.lisimg.com/image/263294/160full.jpg

You can change the 160 to any number to get different sizes, you can also leave off the 'full' to get a square image



I've also allowed the align tag for images (example left)

hey, thanks Tom! exactly what I was looking for :)

www.listal.com/list/15-most-influential-games-all

p.s. Tom, any chance for Lists to get their own sort of 'Explore' area, or maybe if a term is searched, like Tomb Raider, have the list with Tomb Raider in its name show up in a green box at top of results page, similar to how searching for an actor's name is currently displayed?

This way, if someone searches the term Tomb Raider, they can easily go to the public list and explore there, rather than pages and pages of search results.

'Lude, I'll update my list just now.

UPDATE: Added information and trailers *if available* to the first ten main movies.

getting better :)

if you don't mind, i made an example that would jazz up the list nicely:

www.listal.com/list/temp2

go to the movie's page, go the thumbnail of the trailer, right click and copy the image. than use the image in a 'img src=' tag and put the 'a href=' link around the image. pictures = 10 times better than a simple 'trailer' word

Also, try to stick to just Upcoming releases, and sort it by date (sort it by what's coming up first)

once its released, wait say 1 week and then delete it form the list, to keep it fresh.

and in terms of multiple releases on same day (as it usually happens every friday), sort those by most popular films (i do something similar with my upcoming games lists)

also, maybe rename the title, so its just 'New North American Releases' or something to that affect. IMDB Coming Soon's sounds a bit wonky.

p.s. also drop that country name. try to stick to only north american release dates. seeing (UK) and (australia) is confusing, as its also being released in US at same time. IMDB is a bit weird in how it displays first country of release.

basically, i suggest sticking to north american release dates, and let others make australian or uk release date lists.

Okay. I'll do that.
UPDATE: Added pictures as you asked.

sasaki, the images for trailers aren't working.

link it (and use) listal's trailer, not IMDB's trailer. I dont think IMDB support bandwith hijacking.

Uhh... where ARE the Listal trailers? Where can I find them?

on the left side, below the actors list, for each movie. MOST new ones have trailers.

you can also look here:
www.listal.com/movies/trailers

Tom is uploading tons of high-def trailers. No need to bother with IMDB trailers :)

OK. I'll update this post when I edited the list.
UPDATED New Releases in N.A. list, Prelude.