The Week's Links (12.17.10)

 All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week: 

• Apple publishes six free e-books for developershttp://ow.ly/3rae2
• Word Lens - An AR app that translates text in real time. http://ow.ly/1avlHO
• Doyen of type design: The most-read man in the worldhttp://ow.ly/3r7Mb
• Vaughan Oliver designs record sleeve for David Lynch http://ow.ly/3r1Fg
• A Pre-Production Typographic Checklist | CreativePro.com http://ow.ly/3pLQ4
• The 10th Annual Year in Ideas - Interactive Feature - NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/3r1AC
• In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture - NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/3r1rI
• 37 Productivity Tips for Working From Anywherehttp://ow.ly/3oqFK
• The Once and Future Brain | Psychology Todayhttp://ow.ly/3og9L
• The Fonts of Popular TV Shows http://ow.ly/3mChp
• Twitter for Business is now updated to reflect company updates. http://ow.ly/3pLIc
• Why We Should Start Using CSS3 and HTML5 Today - Smashing Magazine http://ow.ly/3orF6
• NounProject http://ow.ly/3oqMJ Identifying the designers behind the icons of our lives.
• Sex, Drugs, and the Biggest Cybercrime of All Time | Rolling Stone http://ow.ly/3nTYP
• Breaking News on EFF Victory: Appeals Court Holds that Email Privacy Protected by Fourth Amendmenthttp://ow.ly/3pUWu
• The Future of Public Media http://ow.ly/3nTUF
• Send your parents an educational care package via Teach Parents Tech by Google . Great.http://ow.ly/3pMER
• The Periodic Table of HTML5 Elements by Josh Duckhttp://ow.ly/3nLNN
• Mark Zuckerberg - Person of the Year 2010 - TIMEhttp://ow.ly/3pLJo
• Whisperlude, Pogo remixes “A Little Princess”http://ow.ly/1asQPS
• Christopher Nolan’s Map of the Dream Layers in ‘Inception’ http://ow.ly/3nKH7 Another peek at the creation of elaborate worlds.
• NudgeMail | Manage Your Reminders and To-Dos With Email http://ow.ly/3nwVL A really simple, really useful app.
• John Sculley On Steve Jobs, The Full Interview Transcript http://ow.ly/3nwUM
• Tumblr’s 24 Year Old CEO on Blogging, Online Anonymity - Newsweek http://ow.ly/3mQj1
• Daniel Pink’s Think Tank: Flip-thinking – the new buzz word sweeping the US. http://ow.ly/3mCCm
• Creativity Top 5: December 13, 2010http://ow.ly/1ar6rH
• Figment is a community where you can share your writing and discover new stories and authors.http://ow.ly/3mCwm
• Scotch & Ginger - A bottomless glass of advertising resources. http://ow.ly/3lqS9
• Exclusive: Wally Pfister, Inception’s Cinematographer, On Designing Dreamworlds | Co.Designhttp://ow.ly/3or0O
• GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface galleryhttp://ow.ly/3lg5T

The Week's Links (12.10.10)

All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week:

• SOUR / MIRROR http://ow.ly/3nU8Z In case you missed it last week. Another brilliant music video browser experiment.
• Charming, Text-Based Video for Jonathan Coulton’s Shop Vac http://ow.ly/1aoB19
• Artists get own micro-philanthropy sitehttp://ow.ly/3mBZw
• What is next for Your Creative Career? Explore new ideas with books from the Smarter Creativity Resources Store - http://ow.ly/3kZRM
• Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on Why He Loves Twitter, Thinks Facebook Is ‘Like a Mall,’ and Much More http://ow.ly/3l1lj
• Angry Birds: Why We Can’t Stop Playing. Mixing Psychology With Physics, Cute Characters, And Lots of Cheering http://ow.ly/3l1iT
• Great holiday tip: Imagining yourself stuffed with food will curb your appetite - New Scientisthttp://ow.ly/3naWM
• Introducing Codex, the journal of typographyhttp://ow.ly/3l1gz
• The Hyperlink Grows Up: The Times Releases New Linking Features http://ow.ly/3l1cY
• Gorilla Glass, the Smartphone’s Unsung Hero - NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/3mJhr
• Enhance Your Creative Life with books from the Smarter Creativity Resources Store -http://ow.ly/3kZNa
• Persuasion Triggers in Web Design - Smashing Magazine http://ow.ly/3l1aZ
• Who is Banksy? http://ow.ly/1antif
• NEWSWEEK takes a tour through the late David Foster Wallace’s personal files. http://ow.ly/3l19W
• A Puzzle Solver Moves On to Life’s Riddles.http://ow.ly/3mBPm
• Teller Ponders an Enigma - Making the Mind Jump Through Hoops http://ow.ly/3mBHR
• Crafting the Perfect Crossword http://ow.ly/3mBoR
• Searching the Brain for the Spark of Creative Problem-Solving. http://ow.ly/3mB6U Turns out comedy helps.
• The Rush of the ‘Crossword Puzzle Moment’http://ow.ly/3mAX9
• Apple Ban on IPhone Donation Apps Anger Nonprofits - NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/3mAFL
• Inside the Wild, Wacky, Profitable World of Boing Boing | Fast Company http://ow.ly/3hAAV
• Capsule Built by SpaceX Returns Safely From Orbit - NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/3mcR9
• Jonathan Harris’ Cold:Bold Presentation at Gain: AIGA Business and Design Conferencehttp://ow.ly/1amByX
• How Online Reading Habits Have Changed Over 2010 http://ow.ly/3m8k4
• Be surprised by The Brain & Creativity with books from the Smarter Creativity Resources Store.http://ow.ly/3kZJe
• Jeff Gomez Reveals Secrets to Transmedia Franchise Development at CineKid http://ow.ly/3l0ix
• Top Production Company Report 2010 - Creativity Online http://ow.ly/3kZUF
• Richard Wilkinson’s Process Gifs http://ow.ly/3hhXp Riveted by these illustrations.
• Laser Light Can Lift Tiny Objects http://ow.ly/3kS5z
• 10 Trends That Are Shaping Global Media Consumption - Advertising Age http://ow.ly/3ltyy
• Learn Something New Everyday with books from the Smarter Creativity Resources Store. Perfect for holiday gifts. http://ow.ly/3kZB2
• The Blood Test Gets a Makeover http://ow.ly/3lrmnFantastic redesign of medical tests to help you understand.
• Thwarting Waste with a File Format That Can’t Be Printed http://ow.ly/1almtU
• Strip Word Formatting When Importing Text into InDesign and Quark. http://ow.ly/3kj7s Worth revisiting.
• New Contexts/New Practices: Six Views of the AIGA Design Educators Conference http://ow.ly/3kgNM
• 100+ Upcoming Social Media and Tech Eventshttp://ow.ly/3leI5
• Looking for a holiday gift for the creatives in your life? Check out the Smarter Creativity Resources Storehttp://ow.ly/3kX7B
• Creativity Top 5: December 6, 2010http://ow.ly/1akuV8
• Diagrams that changed the world http://ow.ly/3hBRc
• 3 Degrees of Wikipedia | An iPhone App of Memory and Enlightenment http://ow.ly/3hi0a Great way to lose many hours on wikipedia.
• Telling Stories with Data, A VisWeek 2010 Workshophttp://ow.ly/3hhQI
• ontwik | Lectures, Screencasts and conferences for real web developers & designers http://ow.ly/3hhGz
• The In Our Time podcasts explores the history of ideas, one idea at a time. http://ow.ly/3kKyG Great podcast /HT @veryshortlist
• The Grammar Cheat Sheet http://ow.ly/3hhEU
• Fascinating Social Media Facts of Year 2010http://ow.ly/3hhD7

The Week's Links (12.3.10)

 All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week:

• A history of the brown paper bag by MoMAhttp://ow.ly/3hheK
• A Comprehensive Study of Trends in Mobile Design by Smashing Magazine http://ow.ly/3jCmO
• The 12 Timeless Rules for Making a Good Publication - The Atlantic http://ow.ly/3hhcq
• Bilboard Launches Social 50 Music Chart Tracking Artists Popularity Online. http://ow.ly/3jAPH
• The New York Subway Announcement Lady -NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/3hh5t
• The Top Ten Daily Consequences of Having Evolved | Smithsonian Magazine http://ow.ly/3hf2a
• Ten Life Lessons from Richard Bransonhttp://ow.ly/3jlrV
• The Future of Advertising by Fast Companyhttp://ow.ly/3hhBf
• Are You Listening To The Future of Advertising? - Forbes http://ow.ly/3hi2Q
• Advertising Lab: 15 Stories From Fast Company About The Future of Advertising http://ow.ly/3hhC9
• Stella Artois introduces new beer with interactive theater ‘The Night Chauffer’ http://ow.ly/3hhw1
• Insights & Ideas From The Razorfish Client Summit (Video Roundup) - PSFK http://ow.ly/3hhtf
• The Cognitive Cost Of Expertise http://ow.ly/3hhjT
• National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010 - The Big Picture http://ow.ly/3hhgQ
• Jonathan Safran Foer Talks Tree of Codes and Conceptual Art http://ow.ly/3hh74
• Bring your own fonts to Typekit http://ow.ly/3ikPfThis is fantastic.
• What Jazz Soloists Know About Creative Collaboration - An article and music mix.http://ow.ly/3ijB4
• Vintage Packaging: Coffee from the 1800shttp://ow.ly/3he9H
• Information overload: 500 yrs ago, a new tech swamped the world with data. What we can learn from the aftermath. http://ow.ly/3hdCH
• OK Go’s Damian Kulash: I Spend More Hours on the Business Than the Party | Fast Companyhttp://ow.ly/3hdjI
• Getting Creative Things Done: How To Fit Hard Thinking Into a Busy Schedule http://ow.ly/3hd7Z
• Last month Empire Strikes Back director Irvin Kershner spoke to VanityFair’s Mike Ryan, the director’s last interview. http://ow.ly/3hDVt
• One Club / Best of the Digital Decade > Top 10http://ow.ly/3hCQV
• Web type news: iPhone and iPad now support TrueType font embedding. This is huge. – Jeffrey Zeldman http://ow.ly/3hC4s
• Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom?http://ow.ly/3hBBu
• Top Trends of 2010: The Rise of Tumblr, Posterous & Light Blogging http://ow.ly/3hcIC
• 45 Great Cultural Icons Revisited | Open Culturehttp://ow.ly/3hcEf Fantastic insights in audio and video.
• Sir Ken Robinson Mixergy Interview: Why should business people care about creativity?http://ow.ly/1aejag
• Irvin Kershner, The True Soul of Star Wars & Director of ‘The Empire Strikes Back,’ Has Died at 87http://ow.ly/3hbLe
• The Three Threats to Creativity - Teresa Amabile - Harvard Business Review http://ow.ly/3gBEK
• Take this 1931 8th grade test (you will probably flunk)http://ow.ly/3h6Ti
• Gmail’s Hidden Talents: 21 Tips, Tricks And Tools You Need To Know http://ow.ly/3gBBJ
• Inside Jonathan Safran Foer’s “Unmakeable” Interactive Book | Co.Design http://ow.ly/3gBnA
• Ideas: Five Minutes With Philosopher Alain de Bottonhttp://ow.ly/1ad9wo

The Week's Links (11.26.10)

All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week: 

• Robin Day, Who Designed ‘Polychair,’ Dies at 95 -NYTimes.com http://ow.ly/3fWaA
• Google ThinkHoliday - Analytics and trends about the holidays the Google way. http://ow.ly/3akw3
• Mediaweek Selects App Czars: Five to Watch In Mobile Publishing. http://ow.ly/3a9sq
• How Microsoft Hit CTRL+ALT+DEL And Rebooted Windows Phone http://ow.ly/3aWMR
• The 30 CSS Selectors you Must Memorizehttp://ow.ly/3ai7F
• Facebook Accounts For 23% Of All US Ad Impressions - PSFK http://ow.ly/3aYWX
• Fall Test: The 39 Best Products of 2010. Wired.comhttp://ow.ly/3aWHk
• Vintage Packaging: Labels from the 18-1900s -TheDieline.com http://ow.ly/3aVBZ
• Ideo: Nine Examples of Branded Environments That Mimic the Web’s Fluidity http://ow.ly/3albR
• Here is your chance to collaborate with Tim Burton. Tim Burton’s Cadavre Exquis http://ow.ly/3eyNl
• Incredible Images from Inside the Brain.http://ow.ly/3alAc
• Media surfaces: Incidental Media http://ow.ly/1a7L38
• Planning-ness 2010 Presentations http://ow.ly/3ajkL
• ‘Berlin’ Is Revealed as Kryptos Cluehttp://ow.ly/3e0wM
• Creativity Top 5: November 22, 2010http://ow.ly/1a6T18
• The Ultimate Dropbox Toolkit & Guidehttp://ow.ly/3akuw
• All Market Research is Wrong http://ow.ly/3ahAW
• Introduction to Computer Science & Programming: Free Courses | Open Culture http://ow.ly/3ahr4
• The Agency Of The Future http://ow.ly/3agjZ

The Week's Links (11.19.10)

 All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week: 

• This Is Your Brain on Metaphors. http://ow.ly/3cLmiGood article about how the brain is wired to confuse the real and the symbolic.
• The Mythologies Behind Harry Potter http://ow.ly/3aflT
• Does Branding Still Matter? - PSFK http://ow.ly/3aZqF
• American Copywriter makes some great Follow Friday suggestions. http://ow.ly/3aUYO
• Scientists capture antimatter atoms in particle breakthrough - CNN.com http://ow.ly/3cG1r
• What Alcohol Actually Does to Your Brain and Bodyhttp://ow.ly/3afhv
• What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brainhttp://ow.ly/3affQ
• Expedia on how one extra data field can cost $12m and how they used analytics to fix the problem.http://ow.ly/39u9i
• 20 Things I Learned About Browsers and the Web - an online book by the Chrome team.http://ow.ly/3cub4
• The Great Cyberheist - NYTimes.comhttp://ow.ly/3aggk
• Behind the scenes – The Great Piggy Bank Adventure: A Disney.com game to teach kids finance. http://ow.ly/3afXn
• Peking Opera, Spanish Flamenco and French gastronomy added to UNESCO’s list of intangible world heritages to preserve. http://ow.ly/3c3hN
• iMedia 25: Internet Marketing Leaders and Innovators – 2010 edition http://ow.ly/3c1on
• Introduction to Computer Science & Programming: Free Courses | Open Culture http://ow.ly/36xLJ
• 40 People Who Changed the Internethttp://ow.ly/368TV
• The Origins of 8 Classic Board Games. Scrabble’s origin story is fascinating. http://ow.ly/3bQWm
• Museum of Modern Art Releases Free iPad App For “Abstract Expressionist New York” Exhibition.http://ow.ly/3byQo
• John Maeda: Innovation is born when art meets science. http://ow.ly/3agc9
• Stella Artois uses interactive theatre to launch lagerhttp://ow.ly/3aYJu
• Most Popular Colors of the Year 2010 [infographic]http://ow.ly/3afRR
• What Google knows about you and how to tweak ithttp://ow.ly/3bo9e
• A List Apart: Art Direction and Web Designhttp://ow.ly/38N1f
• Heart Directed :: A Gallery of Art Directed Blog Postshttp://ow.ly/38MZ1
• How EMI’s New CEO Helped Beatles Clear iTunes Hurdles - WSJ.com http://ow.ly/3bcjx
• A Thought About The Beatles on iTuneshttp://ow.ly/1a0IqU
• The Habits of Online Newspaper Readers - WSJ.com http://ow.ly/3aUoY
• 5000 Years of Board Games (Part One)http://ow.ly/3ag8G
• Vanity Fair invades the work spaces of over-achievers from Aaron Sorkin to Oprah Winfrey.http://ow.ly/3aQ7n
• Advertising – It’s a Love Hate Thing http://ow.ly/1a0jye
• The future of writing on tablets: A Q&A with Information Architects. http://ow.ly/3aftk
• Everything You Need To Know About How People Use The iPad http://ow.ly/3afsl
• For those of you that care about this kind of thing: The Beatles are now on iTunes. http://ow.ly/3aDdU
• Learn How Google Works (In Gory Detail): Search Engine + AdWords http://ow.ly/3afev
• Feeling The Future: Is Precognition Possible?http://ow.ly/3ai5m
• Creativity Top 5: November 15, 2010http://ow.ly/19Zohw
• Special Report: America’s Hottest Brands 2010 by Advertising Age http://ow.ly/3aaOt
• Neenah Paper introduces some fantastic resources, including mobile apps. http://ow.ly/3a9jZ
• Longreads: The best long-form stories on the webhttp://ow.ly/31a3b
• Damon Albarn records new Gorillaz album on an iPad. To be released before Christmas.http://ow.ly/396af