The Week's Links (8.14.11)
/All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week:
- Who invented the high five? The history and mystery of the high five.owl.li/5ZmUs
- Brain in a Dish Comes Alive owl.li/5IxoP A computer chip marinated in neurons and stem cells creates super bursts of activity
- Are Your Co-Workers Killing You? owl.li/61f6J
- The Shocking True Tale Of The Mad Genius Who Invented Sea-Monkeysowl.li/5IwuM
- Space Classics, Sci-Fi Film Themed Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Adshttp://owl.li/61fbW So great.
- Beyond Fashion: The Met’s “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty”ow.ly/1edhZ2
- How Do You Keep Your Creative Edge? http://owl.li/60WJ4
- ‘Brain Bugs’: Cognitive Flaws That ‘Shape Our Lives’ : NPR http://owl.li/5Iddq
- Phase Change Materials Bring Us Closer to ‘Brain-like’ Computers : Discovery News http://owl.li/5IxQI
- Publishers and the internet: a changing role | Cory Doctorow http://owl.li/5IxKl
- Stop Fetishising The Insight http://owl.li/60W06
- A Box You Want to Uncheck on LinkedIn - remove the new default to use your name and photos in ads http://owl.li/60SLU (Thanks @brainpicker)
- beta620 | Experimental Projects From The New York Timeshttp://owl.li/5YURs
- Museum 2.0: No! More! Exclamation Points! http://owl.li/60SoA
- The player IS the story: why the big gaming publishers don’t get transmediahttp://ow.ly/1eclTq
- Agile Web Development That Works http://owl.li/5Imd0
- The Only Way is Londinium, Roman London is Revealed with Augmented Reality in New App http://owl.li/5Idpg
- UK riots: every verified incident - interactive map | The Guardianhttp://owl.li/60IsI
- UK Govt. to meet Facebook, Twitter and RIM about their responsibility to not fuel riots - TNW UK http://owl.li/60Inq
- HTML5 Video Voting http://owl.li/5IcKx
- all that inspires me http://owl.li/5Zfyt
- Phillip Toledano: Make Stuff That Matters :: The 99 Percent http://owl.li/5Iz0w
- Critic’s Notebook: Lucille Ball, 100 and ageless http://owl.li/5YV1q
- “Why’s this so good?” No. 7: Barry Siegel and the weight of consequenceshttp://owl.li/5Zil6
- “Why’s this so good?” No. 6: Alma Guillermoprieto’s view on Bogotahttp://owl.li/5Zik8
- “Why’s this so good?” No. 5: Raymond Chandler sticks it to Hollywoodhttp://owl.li/5Zij3
- “Why’s this so good?” No. 4: W.C. Heinz on Air Lift, son of Bold Venturehttp://owl.li/5Zih7
- “Why’s this so good?” No. 3: André Aciman on the geography of longinghttp://owl.li/5ZigT
- Melissa: The Power of Love, 350,000 Post-Its Animation http://ow.ly/1ebtdZ
- 15 Top Instagram Users http://owl.li/5IxVm
- Designers Go To Heaven http://owl.li/5ZdWV
- Typeverything http://owl.li/5ZdY7
- The Marvelous Floating Stage of the Bregenz Festival In Austriahttp://owl.li/5YUGZ This is, wow, just wow.
- STICKERS: From Punk Rock to Contemporary Art http://ow.ly/1ebn0T
- Introducing: The Periodic Table Of SEO Ranking Factors http://owl.li/5Id3I
- Web Typography for the Lonely http://owl.li/5IcU8 Fantastic.
- The Habits of Highly Creative Marketers - Creativity Online http://owl.li/5Zdcr
- Celebrating Kenneth Grange, Unsung Hero Of Everyday Designhttp://owl.li/5IzIO
- Following A Web Design Process - Smashing Magazine http://owl.li/5IyIY
- Analyzing Culture with Google Books: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?http://owl.li/5YV8Q
- Why It’s Smart to Be Bilingual http://owl.li/5YUvi
- Twitter’s Jack Dorsey reportedly invests in “new kind” of marketing firm lead by Ex-Apple Exec http://owl.li/5YU9X
- Google’s Astro Teller on Innovation at Singularity Universityhttp://ow.ly/1eanDI
- The Talks is weekly interview magazine with some great interviews already.http://owl.li/5IyBK
- An 80-page dissertation on what makes Instagram tick http://owl.li/5Imy8
- Creativity Top 5: August 8, 2011 http://ow.ly/1e9QJb
- On Web Typography: Notes from An Event Apart http://owl.li/5WV1S
- Folklore.org: Anecdotes about the development of Apple’s original Macintosh computer, and the people who created it. http://owl.li/5IyRT
- Delivereads - Curated Content for Your Kindle http://owl.li/5IxnM
- PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 2: Typography http://ow.ly/1e9pHT
- Are Smart People Getting Smarter? http://owl.li/5WSU9
- PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 1: Light Painting http://ow.ly/1e9mOb
- Among Six Types Of Failure, Only A Few Help You Innovate http://owl.li/5ImiE
The Week's Links (8.7.11)
/All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week:
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web celebrates 20th birthdayhttp://owl.li/5X5hE
- App Makes Buying Broadway Tickets Easier - NYTimes.comhttp://owl.li/5WQda
- Ten Principles to Live by in Fiercely Complex Times http://owl.li/5GwRd
- Search Engines Change How Memory Works http://owl.li/5GwrB
- Move, Eat, Learn - A Philosophy for Life in 3 Short Films http://ow.ly/1e75kg
- Human behavior: To resist temptation, forget guilt or shame and think positivehttp://owl.li/5EZkr
- Schooling Increases Your IQ Year by Year http://ow.ly/1e72oI
- The Creative Imperative. How innovation and play beget wellbeinghttp://owl.li/5Rzk3
- Rafinha Bastos, Brazilian Comedian, Harnesses Twitter http://owl.li/5VHPjRafinha is considered twitter’s most influential person.
- The Neurobiology of Bliss—Sacred and Profane: Scientific Americanhttp://owl.li/5EZdz
- Classical Music Moves From Concert Halls to Cafes - NYTimes.comhttp://owl.li/5VTBt
- Building Better E-books http://owl.li/5VT8J
- ‘Let’s meet’ doesn’t have to be death knell for productivity http://owl.li/5REHX
- PhotoSwipe- free HTML/CSS/Javascript based image gallery for mobile.http://owl.li/5EYHm
- Meet Comex, The 19-Year-Old iPhone Uber-Hacker Who Keeps Outsmarting Apple http://owl.li/5TrqR
- Contrast Rebellion - to hell with unreadable, low-contrast texts!http://owl.li/5T6Rf
- Beginner’s guide for journalists who want to understand API documentationhttp://owl.li/5EMO9
- 26 Useful jQuery Navigation Menu Tutorials http://owl.li/5EMB4
- What Are You Curious About? Discovery Channel Launches Curiosityhttp://ow.ly/1e66pd
- The interactive trailer for One Life by BBC Earth Film is fantastic.http://owl.li/5Vca1
- Lincoln Center launches iPhone App http://owl.li/5Va9R
- Picking A Mobile Support Strategy For Your Website - Smashing Magazinehttp://owl.li/5ChOX
- 100 Días de tipografía - 100 days of typography http://owl.li/5Gwyc
- iABC- The history, shape and sound pattern of each letter w/ beautiful specimen for each letter. http://owl.li/5T7Q4
- Superb Idea: Virgin America Rolls Out Water-Bottle Refill Stationshttp://owl.li/5GwqL
- W&Cie’s offices now features a periodic table of brands http://owl.li/5RGG4
- Ask the Author: Nicholas Schmidle on the Osama bin Laden Raid and the article he wrote for the NYer. Today 3pmEST http://owl.li/5UltK
- 2011 Emmy Nominations for Outstanding Main Title Designhttp://owl.li/5RHbI
- Story Behind Those Stunning Cinematic Gifs http://owl.li/5EYp8 Absolutely love these.
- How To Make Dill Deviled Eggs - An Animated Recipe http://ow.ly/1e53Nd
- ‘Adweek’ Announces ‘Talent 100’ List of Creatives http://owl.li/5TDj7
- Shepard Fairey, street artists brighten West Hollywood library - latimes.comhttp://owl.li/5RzwJ
- The end of mass media: Coming full circle | The Economist http://owl.li/5EY7Z
- Facebook Buys E-book Maker Push Pop Press, Plans to Integrate its Techhttp://owl.li/5TCXc
- SomeOne makes splash for Maritime Museum http://owl.li/5GzSvInteresting rebranding.
- Adobe’s New HTML5 Tool Is Web Designer Duct Tape http://owl.li/5TqWb
- 25 Quotables from the 99% Conference http://owl.li/5REfs
- The metrics are the message: how analytics is shaping social gameshttp://owl.li/5GwMg
- Fineo Creates Tufte-Worthy Diagrams With Just A Few Clickshttp://owl.li/5EYKh
- The Theft That Made The ‘Mona Lisa’ A Masterpiece http://owl.li/5TcsL
- Skype for iPad is Here [Updated] - TNW Apple http://owl.li/5T8Ob
- Simon Sinek: If You Don’t Understand People, You Don’t Understand Business http://ow.ly/1e41Qg
- The Sneaky Psychology Of Advertising http://owl.li/5EY3w
- Creativity Top 5: August 1, 2011 http://ow.ly/1e3ASK
- Apple Opens iCloud to Developers, May Be Planning Google Docs/Office 365 Competitor http://owl.li/5SFQD
- A Gap Year for Grown-ups - Marc Freedman http://owl.li/5GwcG
- MetaFilter founder Matt Haughey put the blog in blogosphere. Now he looks to the future. http://owl.li/5EZlC
- Favorite Snacks of the Great Writers http://owl.li/5RGwq
- Planning and executing the mission to get Bin Laden- The New Yorkerhttp://owl.li/5Sg9T
- Why You Can’t Buy Creativity http://owl.li/5EYfc
- The Medium is the Massage: Marshall McLuhan and his legacyhttp://ow.ly/1e37Y4
- NYTimes.com’s most looked-up words for 2011 are…even more morose than last year’s list http://owl.li/5Rziq
- Questions for Baratunde Thurston: What The Onion can teach real news organizations about social media. http://owl.li/5RzgU
- Three Steps to Handling the Unexpected http://owl.li/5AWaa
- Longshot Magazine, Issue 2: Debt http://owl.li/5REaq Produced in its entirety over the weekend. /via @brainpicker
- To go with Edge, Adobe launches The Expressive Web HTML5 showcase and uses a game layer. http://owl.li/5RV9p
- Adobe Labs announces Adobe® Edge, a new web motion and interaction design tool using HTML5 http://owl.li/5RV8X
The Week's Links (7.31.11)
/All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week:
- Telecommute Nation: If Half of Us Could Work Remotely, Why Don’t We? - The Atlantic http://owl.li/5NZYZ
- Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops http://owl.li/5ENC1
- Is the Life You’re Living Worth the Price You’re Paying to Live It?http://owl.li/5O66Q
- How to Memorize Anything http://owl.li/5CgMt
- 6 Benefits of Alone Time | Psychology Today http://owl.li/5AW4x
- Email Newsletters Worth Subscribing To - Smashing Magazinehttp://owl.li/5POXz
- Vintage Jazz Album Covers to Life With Motion Graphics http://ow.ly/1e0ZfK
- Scientists turn memories off and on with flip of switch http://owl.li/5AW1u
- How Spotify Works http://owl.li/5Q0FH
- Google Offers To Re-Write Your Webpages On The Fly, Promising 25% To 60% Speed Improvements http://owl.li/5PWzS
- Who Needs CGI? - A round up of amazing feats, captured completely in camera. http://owl.li/5PVP5
- 2wice app - Merce Cunningham Dances Across iPad Screenshttp://owl.li/5NZPM
- Inside Pandora’s New Social Music Mind-Meld | Fast Companyhttp://owl.li/5PQQS
- Shortmail: “Twitter For Email” Has 500 Character Limit, Forces Concisenesshttp://owl.li/5AYj6
- Making Desktop Webapps in Lion http://owl.li/5M6i0
- Searching for Good Reasons Behind Google Labs’ Demise - Michael Schrage http://owl.li/5PMR9
- Arrogance and Creativity Linked in New Study - Miller-McCunehttp://owl.li/5AWLx
- The iOS Design Cheat Sheet / Ivo Mynttinen http://owl.li/5AW6J
- Here’s The Presentation That Inspired Google+ http://owl.li/5M682
- Emotion Reading Technology May Soon Become Big Businesshttp://owl.li/5M5ih
- Genius Marketing: Artsy Animated GIFs Show Beer-Making Processhttp://owl.li/5O5Ac
- Information Architects – iPad: Scroll or Card? http://owl.li/5vVER
- Specs that see right through you http://owl.li/5M5gu
- Frank Chimero on The Shape of Design at Interlink Conference 2011http://ow.ly/1e02cq
- The Stagecraft of Steve Jobs http://owl.li/5AWe9
- ReadWriteWeb’s Top Trends of 2011: Privacy http://owl.li/5NNtv
- 243 Ad Agencies Share How They are Different from the Rest for New Business http://owl.li/5AWbA
- NYTimes coverage on OK GO’s new video with Pilobolus, includes behind the scenes. http://owl.li/5OL37
- OK GO and Pilobolus, first at The Joyce Theater and now in your browser.http://owl.li/5OKLX
- Ten Things Beginners Should Know in Photoshop http://owl.li/5NJG4
- Don’t Fear the Internet - Basic HTML & CSS for non-web designers.http://owl.li/5ws53
- Sydney Opera House: The Ship Song Project - Moving Campaign for the Cultural Hub http://ow.ly/1dZb1w
- Hierarchy of Digital Distractions @ MoMA http://owl.li/5NHbk
- MoMA Preview: 12 Brilliant Projects That Explore How Tech Helps Us Talkhttp://owl.li/5NJzX
- Method & Craft http://owl.li/5vWaP
- This Dorothy Parker Telegram from 1945 Brightens Our Dayhttp://owl.li/5O5sx
- ‘Red Cloud Rising’ Is Experiential Theater - NYTimes.com http://owl.li/5NZDF The opposite of Sleep No More, immersive outside the buildings
- My Favorite Programming Mistakes http://owl.li/5AW0f
- #The50 Things Every Creative Should Know http://owl.li/5AVYo
- A History of the Title Sequence http://ow.ly/1dYoMu
- The New York Times Insights - The Psychology of Sharing http://owl.li/5NP0t
- Sidestepping Apple: From Amazon to Condé Nast, Companies Rethink App Strategies http://owl.li/5NNq1
- Rouxbe- Online Video Cooking School http://owl.li/5NJvh
- The seven tricks everyone can learn from game designers http://owl.li/5NJ8J
- What Interm Blogs Say About Corporate Culture At Twitter, Intel, IBM, And Google http://owl.li/5NIkQ
- Creativity Bytes: A Brief Guide To HDR Photography http://owl.li/5vW8a
- Crowd-funding books: A novel idea | The Economist http://owl.li/5M6mL
- MIT Creates The One Video Game You’ll Be Thrilled To See Your Kid Get Hooked On http://owl.li/5vVVF
- Conde Nast Magazines Flock to Flipboard and Bring Their Adshttp://owl.li/5NtWv
- Why Some Advertising Agencies Aren’t Buying ‘The Pitch’ http://owl.li/5Ntf6
- Creativity Top 5: July 25, 2011 http://ow.ly/1dXHWV
- Apple makes Xcode free to all with release of 4.1 on Mac App Storehttp://owl.li/5M7z0
- Design Thinking for Educators http://owl.li/5vW1v
- Intellectual Ventures And The War Over Software Patents : Planet Moneyhttp://owl.li/5M6gc
- Longform.org’s Guide to Rupert Murdoch: 34 years in the life of our favorite media villain. http://owl.li/5M6sG
- John Gruber - Auteur Theory of Design http://owl.li/5M52F
- What Apple Has That Google Doesn’t - An Auteur - NYTimes.comhttp://owl.li/5M502
The Week's Links (7.24.11)
/All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week:
- The Innovation Issue | Think Quarterly by Google finally hits the US.http://owl.li/5M2pP
- The School of Life : Dr Dan Siegel on Recommended Daily Activities for a Healthy Mind http://owl.li/5vV3o
- Greatest Hits of TED Videos http://owl.li/5vVSG
- The Power of Uncertainty http://owl.li/5vVhC
- The World’s 26 Best Cities for Business, Life, and Innovationhttp://owl.li/5vUpb
- Negative Images Boost Unrelated Memories http://ow.ly/1dVfxF
- George Orwell: Confessions of a Book Reviewer http://owl.li/5vSf0
- The Web Is Your New Memory : Discovery News http://owl.li/5KJ0f
- RIP Alex Steinweiss: The Inventor of the Modern Album Cover | Brain Pickings http://owl.li/5KxR7
- The Staggering Cost of Broadway - NYTimes.com http://owl.li/5KIWN
- R.I.P., Google Labs http://owl.li/5KqQc
- Findings from the A LIST APART Survey, 2010 http://owl.li/5IzEQ
- Andy Hertzfeld on Google+, UI design how Bob Dylan influenced the Machttp://owl.li/5GwXN
- Translation technology may let humans speak with dolphinshttp://owl.li/5vUhi
- Marissa Mayer on the day she ‘broke’ the Internet. http://owl.li/5Igzo
- What Caricatures Can Teach Us About Facial Recognition http://owl.li/5GQiH
- Seven Guidelines For Designing High-Performance Mobile User Experiences - Smashing Magazine http://owl.li/5IduM
- Apple’s Genius Idea: Donating Your Old iPad to Teach For America Classrooms http://owl.li/5IdKE
- In the Future, Will We All Be Apps? http://owl.li/5vUce
- Amazing 3D Posters for the Band Dry The River http://ow.ly/1dUkEi
- Reinvent NYC.gov - Civic participation meets the digital age.http://owl.li/5GqGO
- Speed Matters: How Ethernet Went From 3 Mbps to 100 Gbps … and Beyondhttp://owl.li/5Gw9K
- Why Ad Agencies Should Act More Like Tech Startups http://owl.li/5vT5e
- App developers withdraw from US as patent fears reach ‘tipping point’http://owl.li/5GQHM
- Brain scans reveal the power of art http://owl.li/5vVcV
- 2011 International Design Excellence Awards | Co. Design http://owl.li/5Iyqh
- Play Thomas Dolby’s new game, “The Floating City” http://owl.li/5IALh
- Internet Use Affects Memory, Study Finds - NYTimes.com http://owl.li/5Gzpj
- Type Matters - On The Type for NYTimes Magazine http://owl.li/5vV5D
- Museums, libraries and the arts have much to gain from each otherhttp://owl.li/5GQo5
- How Online Companies Get You to Share More and Spend Morehttp://owl.li/5IdDA
- The Ad Agency Bloodline- a look at the milestones that have shaped the digital landscape http://owl.li/5vUv6
- Welcome to Ephemicropolis: A cityscape made with stapleshttp://ow.ly/1dTnxm
- The Story of O, Part 3: Inside Pages http://owl.li/5vT3l
- The Story of O, Part 2: The Covers http://owl.li/5vT2J
- The Story of O: The Feature Section Openers http://owl.li/5vT24
- Sebastian Wernicke’s TEDTalk analysis updated http://owl.li/5IAHT
- I.D. Magazine Re-launches as Online Design Showcase http://owl.li/5Izf1
- What Happens When The Band Stops Playing? http://owl.li/5IxC8 What is going on with orchestras?
- Summer Semester: A Quick Guide To Kindle Rentals and the World of Digital Textbooks http://owl.li/5ItVR
- Ow. I’ve got a TED-ache http://owl.li/5GwVp Hugh MacLeod reacts to TED Global 2011
- What the hell *is* Transmedia? http://owl.li/5vVaC
- Malcolm Gladwell: When technology fails, and other TED Global questions - CNN.com http://owl.li/5Ie0U
- Resurrecting Moleskine Notebooks - how an iconic notebook was rescued from obscurity http://owl.li/5vUHW
- A whiff of history. When smells vanish, we lose a whole dimension of the world. http://owl.li/5GQkH
- Can We Prevent the Next Bubble? http://owl.li/5vUg1
- Trollbäck’s TED conference opening titles http://owl.li/5I7sl
- Pixar’s Scott Clark, Michael B. Johnson, and Ricky Nierva on Making UPhttp://ow.ly/1dSqV9
- Upending the restaurant model http://owl.li/5safG
- 250 Cultural Icons: Great Artists, Writers & Thinkers in Their Own Words | Open Culture http://owl.li/5vUL0
- Creativity Top 5: July 18, 2011 http://ow.ly/1dRIum
- TED’s Chris Anderson: the man who made YouTube cleverhttp://owl.li/5GQV0
- Google: The Beginning - WSJ.com http://owl.li/5Gwz2 An insider recounts the early days
- The 100 greatest non-fiction books curated by The Guardianhttp://owl.li/5vUG3
- Great Advice for Creatives http://ow.ly/1dRAwh
- TED’s Chris Anderson: the man who made YouTube cleverhttp://owl.li/5GQMr
- The Best Magazine Articles Ever Curated by Kevin Kelly http://owl.li/5vT7k
- The return of Marshall McLuhan http://owl.li/5GR1h
- How to Write Great Fiction http://owl.li/5qB5J
- Dances for an iPhone, Richard Daniels’s Intimate App - NYTimes.comhttp://owl.li/5GQlg
- One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind http://owl.li/5GQge