The Week's Links: May 17, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • These Stunning Photos Show Miraculous Plane Crashes Where No One Died ➞
  • This 17-Year-Old Coder Is Saving Twitter From TV Spoilers (Spoiler: She's a Girl) ➞
  • The 10-Year-Old Inventor and the World's Cutest Patent Drawing ➞
  • Shakespeare 'first great writer entrepreneur' ➞
  • BBC: The arts get less than .1% of public spending but deliver four times that in gross domestic product, report says. ➞
  • Is Massively Open Online Education A Threat Or A Blessing? ➞
  • 50 Jaw-Dropping Examples Of Street Art From Around The World ➞
  • Richard Branson Wants You To Be Good ◉
  • Creative Review names Bloomberg Businessweek Design Studio of the Year ➞
  • Ballet students from 18 international schools perform together via livestream at Toronto conference ➞
  • A Focus on Distraction ➞
  • Masterpiece In A Mug: Japanese Latte Art Will Perk You Up ➞
  • The robots speak! Daft Punk On 'The Soul That A Musician Can Bring' : NPR ➞ 
  • Lessons in Creativity. ➞
  • Two Dozen 15,000-Year-Old Words We Still Use Today ➞
  • Apple : Lincoln Center :: Google : Broadway ◉
  • 5 Lessons From Warren Buffett's Office Hours ➞
  • If you want to see which kids will grow up to be the most successful adults, visit their second-grade classroom. ➞
  • Steven Heller: Do Good Logos Need to Actually, You Know, Look Good? ➞
  • The Design That Conquered Google ◉
  • A brief history of admission tickets. ➞
  • The true value of a live performance audience. ➞
  • Artists behind iconic Houston sculpture sue Honda over ad claiming the ad stole design. ➞
  • The Most Important Details From Google I/O So Far ➞
  • A year inside The Australian Ballet: Boys' Day, Episode 4 ◉
  • Adobe Explores the Future of Responsive Digital Layout with National Geographic Content ➞
  • Lost Lands Found by Scientists ➞
  • Street Art Across The Globe: The Best Cities In The World For Graffiti And Urban Art ➞
  • Ha: 38 Signs You’ve Been in Advertising Agencies Too Long ➞
  • Amazing: National Geographic Traveler Magazine 2013 Photo Contest ➞
  • How to Spot a Weak Argument ◉
  • YouTube Launches Trend Map To Show Who's Watching What Where ➞
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of May 13, 2013 ◉
  • Games Before Bed Will Help Kids Sleep Better ➞
  • Elephants Communicate in Sophisticated Sign Language, Researchers Say ➞
  • How to Listen When Someone Is Venting ➞
  • Project Re:Brief, the documentary ◉
  • Mario Batali on digital strategy: How a Restaurant Menu Is Like a Website ➞
  • Rock’n’roll + Typography = Rock That Font ➞
  • Cheap Nanotech Filter Clears Hazardous Microbes and Chemicals from Drinking Water ➞
  • The Story Behind 'This Is Water'. Without permission, video agency created an amazing homage to David Foster Wallace ➞
  • A Few Rare People Hallucinate Musical Scores ➞
  • Eight New Things We've Learned About Music ➞
  • What Countries Around The World Eat For Breakfast ➞
  • Joi Ito’s Trends to Watch in 2013 ➞
  • The Scientific 7-Minute Workout ➞
  • Businessweek has a fantastic profile of Reed Hastings and the Netflix turnaround from a year ago. ➞
  • It Is in Our Nature to Need Stories ◉
  • Space Is Now a Reality TV Show. A very good reality show. ➞
  • 10 Great Quotes From The Great Gatsby ➞
  • Oreo's New "Wonderfilled" Campaign Wants to Sap the Cynicism Out of Your Day ➞
  • Fast Company's The 100 Most Creative People 2013. Topping the list, Nate Silver. ➞
  • Charlie Rose interviews 'Bill Gates 2.0' on 60 Minutes: the man after Microsoft ➞
  • Fmr. Frog Design Strategist: What We Need For Wearable Computing To Work ➞
  • The Quest For Perfection ◉
  • Linguists identify 15,000-year-old ‘ultraconserved words’ ➞
  • The Invention of David Bowie by Ian Buruma: The New York Review of Books ➞
  • Around the World in 80 Instagrams ➞
  • The illusion of simplicity: photographer Peter Belanger on shooting for Apple ➞
  • Two.js is a two-dimensional drawing api geared towards modern web browsers. ➞
  • Molecules in the brain trigger aging. Activity in the hypothalamus affects cognitive and physical decline. ➞
  • Creative People Say No ◉
  • The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI ➞
  • What Is Nothing? A Mind-Bending Debate about the Universe Moderated by Neil deGrasse Tyson ➞
  • The 100 Most Creative People In Business ➞
  • Merlin Mann: Broken Meetings (And How You'll Fix Them) ◉
  • Sir Ken Robinson: 10 talks on education ➞
  • Our Very Normal Solar System Isn't Normal Anymore ➞
  • Theater's Expiring Subscription Model ➞
  • Watch ABC app: First live stream by broadcaster ➞
  • Merrill Brockway, Producer of TV’s ‘Dance in America,’ Dies at 90 ➞
  • iPad apps for young coders ➞
  • Infographic: Majority Of Earth’s Population Resides In This One Relatively Small Circle ➞
  • The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI ➞
  • Five overlooked abilities of the Finder's Path Bar ➞
  • Why Is Facebook Blue? The Science Behind Colors In Marketing ➞
  • A Clever iPad App Gets Kids Drawing On Paper Again ➞
  • Better way to add Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and any other external scripts ➞
  • Colours: The colors of the web. ➞
  • MIT Can Put A Digital Interface On Any Object ➞
  • Type design inspiration: Inside the evolution of typography at Monotype ➞
  • Behind The Scenes Shots From Popular Movies ➞
  • How I Work: IDEO's Duane Bray On Creating Great Digital Experiences ➞
  • 27 Bits of Wisdom from 2012 Commencement Addresses ➞
  • The coming era of ‘on-demand’ marketing ➞
  • How to Really Understand Someone Else's Point of View - Mark Goulston and John Ullmen ➞
  • José Luis Antúnez: What is Design? ➞
  • Can you tell a four-word story? ➞
  • The Economist explains: How does China censor the internet? ➞
  • The 12 Trends That Will Rule Products In 2013 ➞
  • What happens to our brains when we have stage fright: The science of public speaking ➞
  • 25 Gorgeous Typographic Experiments ➞
  • 10 Display Faces that Digital Forgot ➞
  • Study: Teenagers Feel More Entitled Than Ever. Teens are less willing than ever to work hard ➞
  • Bringing Backstage Onstage with Social Media ➞
  • Are you scaring your customers with how you talk about your art? ➞
  • Steven Soderbergh on the state of cinema. ➞
  • Meet A Modern-Day Master Of The Classic Neon Sign ➞
  • Why "The Great Gatsby" Endures: The New Yorker ➞
  • Carl Sagan’s Undergrad Reading List: 40 Essential Texts for a Well-Rounded Thinker ➞
  • Google teams up with the RSC to create Shakespeare for the internet age ➞
  • What makes The Great Gatsby great? ➞
  • So clever: An Ingenious Cookbook Uses Infographics Instead Of Words ➞
  • Scientists Figure Out What You See While You're Dreaming ➞

Recommended This Week: 

The Sparrow: A Novel
By Mary Doria Russell
Tree of Codes
By Jonathan Safran Foer
 
 
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The Week's Links: May 10, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Nikola Tesla's Amazing Predictions for the 21st Century ➞
  • The Newspaper of Tomorrow: 11 Predictions from Yesteryear ➞
  • The Secret to a Long Life May Be Deep Inside Your Brain ➞
  • Eight New Things We've Learned About Music ➞
  • 10 New Things We Know About Food and Diets ➞
  • Five Innovative Technologies that Bring Energy to the Developing World ➞
  • Pop Culture Through The Lens Of Nostalgia: The Evolution Of 8-Bit Art ◉
  • Five Surprising Facts About the Common Cold ➞
  • Scientists Figure Out What You See While You're Dreaming ➞
  • So clever: An Ingenious Cookbook Uses Infographics Instead Of Words ➞
  • 'Vogue,' 'Wired' to Launch Online TV Channels This Month ➞
  • How To Be Gracious, And Why ◉
  • The Story Behind the QWERTY Keyboard ➞
  • Michael Benson's Awe-Inspiring Views of the Solar System ➞
  • The Vast World Of Lego Art ◉
  • The Strange Beauty of David Maisel's Aerial Photographs ➞
  • The Earliest Stop Motion Animations are Weirdly Wonderful ➞
  • Can Cloning Giant Redwoods Save the Planet? ➞
  • Ancient Maya Were Cultural Sponges ➞
  • The Center of the Earth Is as Hot as the Sun ➞
  • Slaves To The Algorithm ◉
  • The First LPs Weren’t for Music—They Were Audiobooks for the Blind ➞
  • This New Robot Has a Sense of Touch ➞
  • PBS Idea Channel: Are Hologram Tupac and Hologram Freddie Mercury Nostalgia or New Aesthetic? ◉
  • Saturn’s Mysterious Hexagon Is a Raging Hurricane ➞
  • It’s Crazy to Move a Hundred-Year-Old Tree, But This One Is Thriving ➞
  • Physicists Have Been Waiting For This Painfully Slow Experiment for Nearly 86 Years ➞
  • Check out today's fantastic Google Doodle celebrating the birthday of brilliant opening title designer Saul Bass. ➞
  • Where Are the Centers for Education Innovation? ➞
  • 6 Influential Stop-Motion Movies From Ray Harryhausen (RIP) ➞
  • And now a few moments of joyful humanity, brought to you by Russian dash cams. ➞
  • Tribeca transmedia: The power of "Sandy Storylines" ➞
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of May 6, 2013 ◉
  • Inside the MIT Media Lab ◉
  • Mark Zuckerberg and Kevin Systrom on What Really Happened When Facebook Bought Instagram: Vanity Fair ➞
  • MIT Brain Scans Show That Entrepreneurs Really Do Think Different ➞
  • Typecast: How New Technology Is Reinventing Typography ➞
  • 47 Top Typography Tools and Resources ➞
  • Adobe Abandons Its Creative Suite to Focus on Creative Cloud ➞
  • New York Times launches web-only documentaries with Retro Report ➞
  • Brand Thinking: Seth Godin, Dan Pink, and Other Mavens on How and Why We Define Ourselves Through Stuff ➞
  • Robert Krulwich On Becoming Yourself ◉
  • High Speed Photos of Flying Liquids by Manon Wethly ➞
  • Gorgeous: Incredibly Surreal Scenes Where Women Defy Gravity ➞
  • What do we talk about when we talk about the economic impact of the arts? ➞
  • Permission to Play: Let's Make Fixing Things Cool Again ➞
  • World's smallest movie: IBM uses individual atoms to make record-breaking short film of boy kicking football ➞
  • Some timely perspective: HERE IS TODAY ➞
  • Musicals are booming ◉
  • Good Science Fiction ◉
  • Michael Bierut: Typography, Modern Applications, and Timeless Communication Challenges ➞
  • The 15 Most Important Minutes Of The Work Week ➞
  • Tony Fadell: Building With Atoms, Electrons, Frustrations & Constraints ◉
  • How to Get More Done: The 1-3-5 Rule ➞
  • Why Kickstarter Can't Usurp the Hollywood Entertainment-Industrial Complex ➞
  • How Australia is transforming their libraries. ➞
  • How Coffee Influenced The Course Of History ➞
  • Why Caffeine In Coffee Is A Miracle Drug For The Tired ➞
  • WSJ. asks six luminaries to weigh in on a single topic. This month: Design. ➞
  • Life in the City Is Essentially One Giant Math Problem ➞
  • The 50 Most Perfectly Timed Photos Ever ➞
  • 10 Beautiful Words About Love That Don’t Exist in English ➞
  • Who Was Mather? Meet the Lesser-Known Men Behind Famous Agency Names ➞
  • Meet The Accidental Designer Of The GitHub And Twitter Logos ➞
  • MIT Technology Review: Your Body Does Not Want to Be an Interface ➞
  • An Introduction To Programming Type Systems: Smashing Coding ➞
  • 20 Amazing Outdoor Libraries and Bookstores From All Over the World ➞
  • Sir Ken Robinson: Why We Need to Reform Education Now ➞
  • Hermione Hoby spends an evening backstage with the unsung heroes of opera: the dressers ➞
  • What Happened To Opera? When you weren't looking… some things changed. ➞
  • TED Playlists: Words, words, words. Ten talks on the wonder of words. ➞
  • Secrets of the Most Successful College Students ➞
  • Amazon's bid for rights to sell secondhand ebooks ➞
  • For the First Time Ever, You Can Now Hear What Alexander Graham Bell Sounded Like - Technology ➞
  • NYTimes, Grantland and now Microsoft deliver a responsive essay: 88 Acres ➞
  • Well done BBH, well done: This Heartwarming Tale of Friendship out of BBH London is a Must-Watch for Parents: ➞
  • First NYTimes and now Grantland deliver a responsive essay: Out in the Great Alone ➞
  • Artificial Intelligence Is The New Uncanny Valley ➞
  • David Lynch Explains How Meditation Enhances Our Creativity ➞
  • How to Tell a Story with Data ➞
  • 10 Secrets to Eye-Popping Package Designs ➞
  • An Exit Interview With the Man Who Transformed the Oxford English Dictionary ➞
  • How the Egyptian Pyramids Were Built: A New Theory in 3D Animation ➞
  • The Abstraction Method of Problem Solving ➞

Recommended This Week: 

Hallucinations
By Oliver Sacks
 
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The Week's Links: May 3, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Muddy Colors: How I Make a Picture Book ➞
  • 10 Practices from the Most Innovative Organizations ➞
  • Digital Public Library of America Launches with 2 Million Items ➞
  • Neuroscience Explores Why Humans Feel Empathy for Robots ➞
  • Best of Fluent 2012: /Reg(exp){2}lained/: Demystifying Regular Expressions ➞
  • Sleep: Everything You Need To Know ➞
  • Daily Rituals: A Guided Tour of Writers' and Artists' Creative Habits ➞
  • "This Is Coffee" A Vintage Film For Coffee Lovers ◉
  • Scientists Identify Neurons That Register Itch ➞
  • A Night at the Museum with the Smithsonian's Laser Cowboys ➞
  • Why Hewlett-Packard is hiring dancers ➞
  • Chili Peppers Do To Your Skin What Migraines Do To Your Brain ➞
  • The Film before The Film ◉
  • Read the book in one go, great intro to it here: How to Find Fulfilling Work ➞
  • Paul Miller: back online after a year without the internet ➞
  • Coffee: From Balzac to Beethoven, it has fueled artistic endeavor for centuries. ➞
  • The Mathematics of Planet Earth ➞
  • Ken Burns: A Great Story is 1+1=3 ◉
  • Gorgeous timelapse: MIDNIGHT BARCELONA ➞
  • Top 14 World Albums, Spring 2013 ➞
  • TED Playlists: How to tell a story ➞
  • When Will We See A Macklemore Or 50 Shades-Style Blockbuster--In Movies? ➞
  • Will we ever… understand why music makes us feel good? ➞
  • Sketchnoting 101: How To Create Awesome Visual Notes ➞
  • The Digital Public Library of America: a hub for books, made an API so anyone can build a reading room. ➞
  • How Pixar Used Moore's Law to Predict the Future ➞
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of April 29, 2013 ◉
  • The Harvard Classics: A Free, Digital Collection ➞
  • A sperm whale’s head is actually an oversized nose ➞
  • 10 Incredible Repurposed Train Stations ➞
  • Jonathan Harris On Reshaping Culture In The Digital Age ◉
  • A Brief History of the High Five ➞
  • Say It Out Loud: How David Sedaris Makes His Writing Better ➞
  • The 10 Fastest Growing Megacities In The World ➞
  • This Art Is Made From Food, But It's More Than Just Playing ➞
  • This Art Is All Made From A Newly Invented Kind Of Wood ➞
  • What Job Candidates Really Want: Meaningful Work ➞
  • Brain Puzzle: What is Perception? ➞
  • 10 Inspiring Type Designers From A New Generation ➞
  • Get that tune out of your head ◉
  • The Future Of Opera Is An FX Extravaganza ➞
  • The Company That's Buying Up All the Key Pieces of the Online-News Ecosystem - Technology ➞
  • The Digital Public Library of America Opens its Doors ➞
  • Have Headphones Changed Your World? ◉
  • 20 Things You Didn't Know About... Hair ➞
  • The Story Of Superstorm Sandy Through The Eyes Of NYC's Digital First Responders ➞
  • Hopscotch: Coding for Kids ➞
  • How to Work with Creative People ➞
  • An important reminder that the universe has three spatial dimensions and is best appreciated with all three engaged. ➞
  • Click a few dots, and this program will try to guess your age. ➞
  • Amazing: Insects Caught Mid-Air With Laserbeam HD Camera Rig ➞
  • How Pixar Used Moore's Law to Predict the Future ◉
  • Infographic: Plotting Comic Books' Rapid Takeover of Hollywood ➞
  • Intuition as the Basis for Creativity ➞
  • From Love To Bingo In 873 Images ◉
  • Michael Bierut: Typography, Modern Applications, and Timeless Communication Challenges ➞
  • Illustrations from a Victorian book on Magic (1897) ➞ /via @Coudal
  • How Sriracha was introduced to the US. ➞ /via @Coudal
  • More Than 50 Years Of Putting Kids' Creativity To The Test ➞
  • What 15,000 Years Of Cooking Fish Tells Us About Humanity ➞
  • Jill Bolte Taylor: 10 TED talks on human nature ➞
  • How Google Creative Lab Links Product to Stellar Storytelling ➞
  • TED-Ed: Who invented writing? - Matthew Winkler ➞
  • Fantastic: Revisiting the Original 1992 WIRED Media Kit ➞
  • Cool: Branding the Presidents of the United States ➞ /via @Coudal
  • Was Shakespeare a Humble Schoolmaster During His ‘Lost Years’? ➞
  • Andy Day: Documenting the high-flying world of parkour ➞
  • Some of these are terrifying: 11 of the Most Unusual Elevators ➞
  • The Writer's Technique in Thirteen Theses: Walter Benjamin's Timeless Advice on Writing ➞
  • The Reading Brain in the Digital Age: The Science of Paper versus Screens: Scientific American ➞
  • How an accountant created an entire RPG inside an Excel spreadsheet ➞
  • Kickstarter for Surgery Lets You Help Those in Need ➞
  • My Video Gamer Is Smarter Than Your Honor Roll Student ➞
  • The greatness of the grilled cheese, explained. ➞
  • How One Family Helped Change the Way We Eat Ham ➞
  • Seven Counterintuitive Ways to Be Insanely Productive ➞
  • E-Book Subscriptions Are Coming ➞
  • Brain scans predict how much you'll pay for music ➞
  • In A Fragmented Cultureverse, Can Pop References Still Pop? ➞
  • CSS-Tricks: Slide In (as you scroll down) Boxes ➞
  • Design/UX: Transitional Interfaces ➞

Recommended This Week: 

 
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The Week's Links: April 26, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • 1930s Fashion Designers Imagine Year 2000 ➞
  • MIT Technology Review: Moore's Law and the Origin of Life ➞
  • Say It Out Loud: How David Sedaris Makes His Writing Better ➞
  • Your Office's Fluorescent Lights Really Are Draining Your Will To Work ➞
  • Mindfulness: Observing Without Questioning ➞
  • What the Brain Can Tell Us About Art ➞
  • Clay Shirky On Pushing Creative Boundaries ◉
  • A shorthand for designing UI flows by Ryan of 37signals ➞
  • Design/UX: Transitional Interfaces ➞
  • 10 super-helpful mnemonic tricks ➞
  • Dieter Rams: Ten Principles For Good Design ➞
  • The Productivity Diet ◉
  • What motivates us at work? 7 fascinating studies that give insights ➞
  • The New $100 Note is, well, see for yourself: ➞
  • Powerful, Emotional: Boston Magazine's May cover, made from the runners shoes. ➞
  • The 55 TEDGlobal 2013 speakers who tweet ➞
  • A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: On The Road, Episode 3 ◉
  • Netflix CEO Reed Hastings Predicts the Future of Streaming Video ➞
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of April 22, 2013 ◉
  • How a Gang of Pickpockets Shut Down the Louvre ➞
  • What's the Real Origin of "OK"? ➞
  • Great Big Ideas: Free Course Features Top Thinkers Tackling the World’s Most Important Ideas ➞
  • Everything we have to do ◉
  • Your Favorite Authors’ Favorite Musicians ➞
  • The Lavish Sets of Baz Lurhmann's The Great Gatsby ➞
  • Frank Chimero on Ideas ◉
  • The Killer Feature Every Cloud-Based App Should Have ➞
  • Street Artist JR Creates iPad App to Help You Track Down His Work ➞
  • HOW TO WRITE LIKE SHAKESPEARE - More Intelligent Life ➞
  • Work Mode: The Writer Behind "Dark Knight" And "Man of Steel" On Multitasking, Meditation, And Using Your Good Ideas ➞
  • How to Think Like Shakespeare: The Positive Value of Negative Capability ➞
  • 20 Words We Owe to William Shakespeare ➞
  • If you happen to be the first person to make contact with aliens, here’s a handy guide: ➞
  • A Wandering Brain Zips Around Toronto To Encourage Creativity ➞
  • Content or Objects: Neil Gaiman and the future of books ◉
  • Wow, just wow: 7 Billion World - 7 billion people on 1 page ➞
  • Forecast Makers: "It's now a web app. It's an app you install from the web." ➞
  • Cocktails with Stan Lee and Jane Espenson ◉
  • Earth Chorus: Dancing to the beat of Earth ◉
  • Globe launches indoor theatre with The Duchess of Malfi and opera ➞
  • Jorge Luis Borges’ 1967-8 Norton Lectures On Poetry (And Everything Else Literary) ➞
  • Lovely: Haunting Figure of a Woman Made with Wood and Bamboo ➞
  • When Dickens met Dostoevsky ➞
  • 10 Words That Will Win You Any Game of Scrabble ➞
  • World Book Night is tomorrow! ➞
  • The brand is a story. But it's a story about you, not about the brand. ➞
  • How To Make Your Websites Faster On Mobile Devices ➞
  • Check out the new and fully responsive Wired.co.uk ➞
  • Should we be suspicious of stories? ➞
  • How to win at poker: Sleight of hand ◉
  • This Is Your Brain on E-Books. When we read on dead trees, do we retain more? ➞
  • Audio Branding: Company Logos Expand Into The Sonic Realm ◉
  • The McKinsey Global Institute just released a fas­ci­nat­ing new iPad app, Urban World ➞
  • The Modern Data Nerd Isn't as Nerdy as You Think ➞
  • Massive Volunteer Collective Proofreads 25,000 Public-Domain Books ➞
  • Stop Doubting Yourself. Be Bold. ➞
  • How the Banner Ad Was Born ➞ /via @daringfireball
  • How to Stimulate Curiosity ➞
  • What e-learning can teach us about journalism ➞
  • The 25 Books Every Kid Should Have on Their Bookshelf ➞
  • The Story of a Revolution: The best of Wired 1993-2013 ➞
  • Revealed: The Part of Our Brain That Makes Us Like New Music ➞
  • Outsider Thinking: What Science Can Learn From Art ➞
  • Enjoy this New Yorker article while having a nice cup: In the Land of the Coffee Nerds ➞
  • Thousands of Roman Artifacts Have Just Been Sitting Under London’s Financial District ➞
  • Merlin Mann: On Chasing the Right "Zero" ➞
  • jQuery 2.0 Released ➞
  • Study: There Seems to Be a Universal Brain Response to Music ➞
  • How great plays are (eventually) made ➞
  • Great resournce: The Collective Legal Guide For Designers (Contract Samples) ➞
  • Art of the Title takes an in-depth look at the title sequence for Skyfall (2012) ➞
  • How To Raise Your Email Above Inbox Noise ➞
  • A field guide to the Meeting Troll ➞
  • TED-Ed and CERN unveil “The beginning of the universe” ➞
  • 5 Things to Know When Designing for iOS ➞
  • Redesigning the Save symbol. ➞
  • The Grammar of Interactivity ➞
  • Responsive Nav: A Simple JavaScript Plugin For Responsive Navigation ➞
  • One man's quest to build an AI that can create games ➞
  • David Byrne on bypassing waffling and his remote collaborations with Brian Eno. ➞
  • You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help. - The Chronicle of Higher Education ➞
  • Cool: Paper Sculptures That Defy Expectations ➞

Recommended This Week: 

 
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The Week's Links: April 19, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • Type Talk: The Definitive Guide to Smart Quotes ➞
  • "Ode to the Book" by Pablo Neruda, exquisitely read by Tom O'Bedlam ➞
  • Great in-depth article: The making of Medium.com ➞
  • Mind. Blown: The Big Squeeze: Can Cities Save The Earth? ➞
  • Google's Reader retirement is leading to lots of content being collected in non RSS ways: Links to Inspire ➞
  • CourseSmart E-Textbooks Track Students’ Progress for Teachers ➞
  • Fascinating: Is Stanford a university or "a giant tech incubator with a football team." ➞ /via @davepell
  • How to get better feedback ➞
  • Three Points Of View On Fandom, Fan Fiction & Fan Art ◉
  • So great: Andrew Zuckerman's vast collection of beautiful animal images: The Creature Book ➞
  • From touch displays to the Surface: A brief history of touchscreen technology ➞
  • Cool: Paper Sculptures That Defy Expectations ➞
  • You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help. - The Chronicle of Higher Education ➞
  • Better By Design: Keith Yamashita On CEOs and Designers ◉
  • Q&A: Bill Gates on Flying Cars, the Malaria Epidemic, and Article-Writing Robots ➞
  • Title Treatment for Disney's “Wreck-It Ralph” ➞
  • Creating Your Artist Resume ➞
  • The Timelapse Project: El Morro & El Yunque ◉
  • The Story Behind Smithsonian Castle's Red Sandstone ➞
  • From TEDGlobal speakers: 11 websites you didn’t know you needed ➞
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs Post Sign at Concert Asking Fans to Put Away Phones & Cameras During Show ➞
  • Video: "MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom" - MIT Comparative Media Studies ➞
  • Visualization as Process, Not Output - Jer Thorp ➞
  • Karloff: the convergence of beauty and ugliness on a typeface ◉
  • Pulitzer Prize Winner David Mamet Wants to Direct Commercials Again ➞
  • The most frequently highlighted passages in famous business and management books ➞
  • Richard Branson on the role of creativity in business ◉
  • Andrew DeVigal: Smart Readers Are Too Distracted to Dig Smart Content ➞
  • The Minecraft Creator Markus Persson Faces Life After Fame ➞
  • Was Shakespeare Shakespeare? 11 Rules for Critical Thinking ➞
  • Frank Rich on the State of Journalism ➞
  • Jason Silva: The Nature Of Creativity And How We Can Embrace It ➞
  • Warby Parker Co-Founder: Creating A Strong Brand Without Marketing ➞
  • Whiny Rants Are Inversely Proportional to Accomplishments (and Other Lessons) ➞
  • Why designers never retire ➞
  • The World’s Oldest Photography Museum Goes Digital ➞
  • Smithsonian Magazine: Educating Americans for the 21st Century - Special Reports ➞
  • Shakespeare scholars unite to see off claims of the 'Bard deniers' ➞
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  • Scary-Smart People Really Do Accomplish a Lot ◉
  • Dance and the brain: Bill T. Jones and Oliver Sacks Connect at Live Arts ➞
  • Effective Perfectionism ◉
  • Longform Articles Tagged '2013 National Magazine Awards Finalists' ➞
  • What it's like running an arts org in Australia: Juggling the craft of cultural leadership ➞
  • Intrigued by the process of UX design? Want to learn the basics? UX Apprentice ➞
  • Elegant and useful, easy way to show what responsive design is. - Define :: Responsive ➞
  • Sapphire Could Replace Gorilla Glass in the iPhone and other Smartphones | MIT Technology Review ➞
  • Creative Collaboration Lessons From A NY City Ballet Pas De Deux ◉
  • Ted Greenwald Reconstructs the Invention of Wired Magazine a Pioneering Publication ➞
  • A History of Graphic Design: Chapter 61 : A History of Wine Labels ➞ /via @Coudal
  • Rare Books on Calligraphy and Penmanship ➞
  • Ten Great "Lost" Text Faces ➞
  • Why you hate the sound of your own voice ➞
  • The 12 Most Influential Cell Phones ➞
  • What Aspiring Designers Need to Know About Strategy ➞
  • Watch: Modern Dance Melds With Projection Art ➞
  • A look at how a great story came together: “How’d you find that secret-compartments story, Brendan Koerner?” ➞
  • Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sings Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 ➞
  • Beautiful: JF Rauzier's Bibliothèques idéales ➞
  • A $5 app isn't expensive: Customers need to help fix the App Store economy ➞
  • David Foster Wallace: On Real Freedom ◉
  • What is a book? ➞
  • NASA Best of Satellite 2012 ➞
  • Is Instagram the Best Thing to Ever Happen to Photography? ◉
  • Russian Landmarks Imagined as Small Parts of Much Larger Buildings in Ad Campaign ➞
  • 26 Time Management Hacks I Wish I'd Known at 20 ➞
  • 10 Terms to Describe the Anatomy of a Book ➞
  • Orson Welles Explains Why Ignorance Was the Genius Behind Citizen Kane ➞
  • Ha! Famous Artworks Recreated With Food Items On Toast ➞
  • How did supercomputer Watson beat Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings? ➞
  • 10 Very Costly Typos ➞
  • 35 Astounding And Uplifting Facts About The Universe ➞
  • Love this: Flashmob recreates Rembrandt painting in Breda shopping centre - video ➞
  • 24 Dates To Take Yourself On ➞
  • Trapped By The Web — But For How Long? Take the Kelberman Challenge ➞
  • MIT and Harvard fund software that grades essays at college level ➞
  • The standardization of chess set design ➞
  • David Bowie Releases a Collection of His Vintage Videos Online ➞
  • Yesteryear’s stereotype-defiers: Kick-ass vintage public domain photos of women in science. ➞
  • The beautiful landscape photography of Michael Bollino ➞
  • Tech cycles: The untold story behind Apple's $13,000 operating system ➞
  • So great, web tech to demonstrate: How Far is it to Mars? ➞ /via @daringfireball
  • RIP Maria Tallchief: Chicago dance legend, Balanchine muse ➞
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