The Week's Links (12.11.11)

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

• IQ Doesn't Always Measure Intelligence: What I Learned This Weekowl.li/1g7rxL
• Infographic Of The Day: The Metals That Enable Our Gadgets Are Vanishingowl.li/7QWKU
• For Creative People, Cheating Comes More Easily owl.li/7QtkU
• How Exercise Benefits the Brain owl.li/7Ohuf
• During REM Sleep Stress Chemicals Shut Down And The Brain Processes Emotional Experiences owl.li/7Ohtf
• The Future of Computing: A special report by NYTimes.com owl.li/7QTBm
• MIT Media Lab Director Wants to Grow US Entrepreneurs owl.li/7QxoE
• Larry Smarr - An Evolution Toward a Programmable World owl.li/7QtN0
• The Futures of Entertainment 5 owl.li/1g3SFJ
• Twine, A Tiny Gizmo That Holds The Internet's Future owl.li/7Qr0e
• Pogo's Latest Is A Fantastic Real-World Remix That Should Not Be Missedowl.li/7QWFr
• 100 Incredible Views Out Of Airplane Windows owl.li/7QufT
• Suzanne Dean: the secret to a good book cover owl.li/7OCBB
• 3.2 Million Ink Dots + 210 Hours = Hero owl.li/1g2C0t
• Could Pulitzer changes mean an award for live-tweeting? » Nieman Journalism Lab owl.li/7Oi4w
• Introducing the Regifting API: Free Tools to Destigmatize Regiftingowl.li/7Ohzz Great idea by @brainpicker
• Kodak's long fade to black owl.li/7OhrQ Or what happens when technology gets in the way of your business model.
• Announcing the 2012 TED Prize: The City 2.0 owl.li/7QCo2
• Errol Morris on the art of the interview » Nieman Journalism Lab owl.li/7Oho6
• Smarter Gum Chewing owl.li/1g1lLq
• Staying Strong Under Stress owl.li/7OgKo
• Creativity Top 5: December 5, 2011 owl.li/1g0JqN
• In the Cloud, whose laws rule? owl.li/7Ogvb
• National Endowment for the Arts forms federal task force on arts researchowl.li/7Ogrw
• Internet Access and the New Divide owl.li/7Og8i Or what happens when you are one of the few without access to the web.
• The Title Design of Saul Bass ( A Visual History Lesson ) owl.li/1g07xh
• Amazing Places To Experience Around The Globe (Part 1) owl.li/7Og4R

The Week's Links (12.4.11)

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

• Birthdays, The Catalyst Of The Social Web: What I Learned This Weekowl.li/1fZe2g
• The Top 5 Regrets In Life By Those About to Die owl.li/7LlvJ
• “Why’s this so good?” No. 22: Hank Stuever on 9-ish owl.li/7Jfnd
• “Why’s this so good?” No. 21: Neal Stephenson’s plot-free adventure storyowl.li/7JflA
• A classic from last year worth revisiting: The Santa Brand - A Pitch Perfect Spoof by Quietroom owl.li/7Lp7x
• 39 Luminaries Transforming Society: Creative Alchemy, Social Evolution + Mindful Influence owl.li/7yWKV
• Ever get lost in a mall? Google Maps now maps indoors owl.li/7LnNP
• Photoshopped or Not? A Tool to Tell owl.li/7JfDn
• Address Is Approximate: Animation, Storytelling & Technology in wonderful animation owl.li/1fWcQS
• Introducing the Federal Social Media Index owl.li/7LnCe A dashboard of Fed Agencies on Twitter
• E. O. Wilson’s Theory of Everything owl.li/7HXkZ
• A Dozen Economic Facts About Innovation owl.li/7HWBS
• What is Motion Design ? ( A Primer ) owl.li/1fUZ6N
• Leonard Weisgard's Stunning 1949 Alice in Wonderland Illustrationsowl.li/7ztBA Lovely
• Levitating Girl Natsumi Hayashi owl.li/7yWwn
• Dark Score Stories Hides Stephen King’s Secrets in Bag of Bones Photo Essay owl.li/7HWaj
• Less and More: The Design Ethos of Dieter Rams at SFMOMA owl.li/7HW6g
• The Kaleidoscope Mind: Some Easy Ways to Teach Creativity owl.li/7GxWk
• PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 10: Generative Art - Computers, Data & Humanity owl.li/1fTylN
• “Why’s this so good?” No. 20: Mr. Weschler’s magic cabinet owl.li/7yWCz
• “Why’s this so good?” No. 19: George W.S. Trow covers Sly Stone’s weddingowl.li/7yWBc
• Infographic Of The Day: Bloomberg And Frog Turn Raw Data Into Brandingowl.li/7GsdF
• 10 Online Tools for Better Attention & Focus owl.li/7Gsax
• Who's Your Brand's Editor-in-Chief? owl.li/7Gs3G
• Khoi Vinh: It All Started With Comic Books owl.li/1fSr9D
• Rethinking the food nutrition label owl.li/7yWud
• Giving thanks behind the scenes owl.li/7Ekpm
• Creativity Top 5: November 22, 2011 owl.li/1fNR5j
• New Insights on the Creative Brain owl.li/7yVT5
• What Is Sony Now? - BusinessWeek owl.li/7ytme
• 100 Masters of Animated Short Films, Part One: Disney, Barta, Cohl and Beyond owl.li/7yriq
• The Opposite of the Cloud owl.li/1fMs9N
• 8 Secrets To Creative Thinking (Hint: Steal From Others) owl.li/7yu4v
• Why Inspiration Matters - Scott Barry Kaufman owl.li/7qM1F
• Salvador Dalí Illustrates Alice in Wonderland, 1969 owl.li/7ys9x
• The 3 Biggest Barriers To Innovation, And How To Smash Them owl.li/7xkq4
• Brian Clark on Transmedia Business Models (Part Five) owl.li/7uOoy
• Brian Clark on Transmedia Business Models (Part Four) owl.li/7uOne
• Brian Clark on Transmedia Business Models (Part Three) owl.li/7uOkU
• Brian Clark on Transmedia Business Models (Part Two) owl.li/7uOjN
• Brian Clark on Transmedia Business Models (Part One) owl.li/7uOim
• 3 Powerful Game Dynamics That Create Brand Superfans owl.li/7yu2V
• The Expert Enough Manifesto owl.li/1fLho5
• Technology Footprint: Starting Up in New York owl.li/7zr1b
• Bolster Your Creative Output by Activating Your "Red Zone" owl.li/7o00A
• The Future of Self-Improvement, Part I: Grit Is More Important Than Talentowl.li/7kFdK

The Week's Links (11.20.11)

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

• Analysis: Internet Blacklist Bill Is Roadmap to ‘the End’ of the Internetowl.li/7yTuL This isn't hyperbole.
• How Facebook Tracks Its Users owl.li/7yrYG
• How Humans Became Social owl.li/7uP7v
• Need to Create? Get a Constraint owl.li/7uNGD
• Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think owl.li/7uGWQ
• Friday Morning Perspective: Time Lapse View from Space, Fly Overowl.li/1fIt3F
• Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will? owl.li/7uGG6
• Web Symbols typeface owl.li/7umIl
• At Google X, a Top-Secret Lab Dreaming Up the Future owl.li/7u5FF
• The 50 Most Influential Management Gurus - Harvard Business Reviewowl.li/7u3ZQ
• How old are you? (In Internet Years) owl.li/1fHnZj
• Penguin moves into self-publishing owl.li/7wHab
• How The World Will Shape Itself to Please Social Butterflies owl.li/7s3d2
• The Language of Advertising owl.li/7u3o2
• Famous Magazines’ First Covers owl.li/7scpr
• The Most Expensive Photo in the World owl.li/7s2Po
• Thomas Suarez, App Developer, 12 years old owl.li/1fGiAS
• JR’s “Inside Out” Project Special - Brooklyn Street Art owl.li/7u4ip
• Fort Collins to Make a Rocky Mountain Regional Arts Incubator owl.li/7uNt7
• Alfred Hitchcock: The Secret Sauce for Creating Suspense owl.li/7opr4
• Creativity Top 5: November 15, 2011 owl.li/1fFx80
• Psyop: The Role of Design in Brand Communication, this Thursday 11/17 by AIGA and MAD  owl.li/7s2Mf
• What’s the language of the future? owl.li/7s2FZ
• A Collection of Rejected Titles for Classic Books owl.li/7s2Dq
• PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 9: Fashion of Artists owl.li/1fF7xw
• Applying Lean Thinking in Advertising owl.li/7kA7R
• The Key To Long-Term Dominance? Marketing Fades, But Product Always Lasts owl.li/7u37i
• National Geographic Photo Contest 2011, Submissions due 11/30.owl.li/7rXlY
• Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice owl.li/7rVZT/via @marcoarment
• 11 Sounds That Your Kids Have Probably Never Heard owl.li/7rXic
• World Literature in 13 Parts: From Gilgamesh to García Márquez owl.li/7rVVB
• It's Your Life: The Holstee Manifesto Lifecycle Video owl.li/1fDYCx
• The Freelancer’s Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need owl.li/7ksSZ

The Week's Links (11.13.11)

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

• WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project owl.li/7rtlT Originally written 21 years ago today by Tim Berners-Lee.
• “The first duty of the artist is to survive.” How To Last in a Tough Business Filled with Rejection. owl.li/7kxby
• A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design owl.li/7qR3O
• What happens in our brains when we watch sports? owl.li/7kslt
• Daniel Kahneman: How cognitive illusions blind us to reason owl.li/7fDNm
• One Day on Earth: 11.11.11 owl.li/1fBbwi
• my.hsj.org - My High School Journalism - The World's Largest Host of Teen Generated News owl.li/7fyZn
• Facebook nearing settlement with FTC over privacy concerns owl.li/7qry7
• Google’s Chief Works to Trim a Bloated Ship owl.li/7qpTu
• go to the quiet place owl.li/7nVVk
• 10 visions of future computer interfaces from MIT Media Lab owl.li/7kszQ
• Ethan Marcotte's 20 favourite responsive sites owl.li/7fV2f
• Google Translate: Will Google's Computers Understand Languages Better Than Humans? owl.li/7eUCU
• SFX house The Mill creates a brilliant touch based portfolio display.owl.li/7ktoB
• Communication Nation The ways we choose to reach out and touch someone reveals more than we realized owl.li/7oyce
• Ballet Shoes and Ballerinas as Technology: A History En Pointe owl.li/7nLdU
• Aaron Dignan: How to Use Games to Excel at Life and Work owl.li/1fA1FY
• Docpool.co - For web developers to share documentation owl.li/7dw33
• Can you teach something extraordinary in less than 10 minutes? You could get a free pass to TED2012 owl.li/7opMh
• Stop-Motion Music Video Shot Over Two Years with 288,000 Jelly Beansowl.li/7ksEA
• thirteen movie poster trends that are here to stay and what they say about their movies owl.li/7kqNY
• Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours owl.li/7nLwG
• Balloons of Bhutan · by Jonathan Harris owl.li/7fkIG I saw a preview of this many years ago. It is fantastic.
• We always think we invented the future owl.li/1fyUGS
• Exclusive: Adobe ceases development on mobile browser Flash, refocuses efforts on HTML5 | ZDNet owl.li/7nUZc
• Recreating Masterpieces with Flower Petals owl.li/7dvqE Gorgeous
• Creativity Top 5: November 8, 2011 owl.li/1fy8gv
• Are We Really Running Out Of Everything? owl.li/7ksQt
• What A Pearl: Low-Cost, Iridescent Music Center Opens In Spainowl.li/7hRMH
• Meet the Winners of This Year’s Tech Humanitarian Awards owl.li/7fVmt
• MIT Media Lab's Leah Buechley on falling in love with technologyowl.li/1fxKMz
• The 8 Worst Fonts In The World owl.li/7eUAh
• In the next decade, more than 40% of Fortune 500 companies are doomed to die if they fail to embrace changes. owl.li/7hRCC
• Four Destructive Myths Most Companies Still Live By owl.li/7hD1X
• Made By Hand: The Knife Maker owl.li/1fwDza
• Computer Scientists Crack “Unbreakable” Code, Find Minutes of 250-Year-Old Secret Society owl.li/7fUAo
• Made By Hand: The Distiller. A short-film series on hand-made things.owl.li/1fwAwd
• A Manifesto For Free Radicals: Less Paperwork, Less Waiting, More Actionowl.li/7kFmK Fully describes my work philosophy.
• The brilliant Christoph Niemann ran the NYC marathon. And painted it. While running. And tweeted the paintings. Running...
• Thinking vs. Feeling: The Psychology of Advertising owl.li/7eUyp

The Week's Links (11.06.11)

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

• Covering Two Decades of Innovation. 20 years of Mossberg tech columns.owl.li/7kspK
• Your Brain on Facebook : Bigger Social Networks Expand the Size of Neural Networks owl.li/7jI1l
• Why Fingernails on Blackboards Sound So Horrible owl.li/7gneh
• Steven Johnson Unveils A Twitter-like Network For Sharing Long Readsowl.li/7dpaQ
• 50 of the World’s Best Breakfasts, or how the world starts the dayowl.li/7doaX
• The Harvard Classics: A Free, Digital Collection owl.li/7d7dz
• Introducing Boxie The Robot owl.li/1ftQeX
• Reading the brain: Mind-goggling owl.li/7fD8W
• The Science Of Irrationality owl.li/7dqfZ
• Webcams can now spot which ads catch your gaze, read your mood and check your vital signs owl.li/7d79j
• Official Google Blog: Giving you fresher, more recent search resultsowl.li/7ivyW Google updates their algorithm.
• How to Survive the Switch from Google Reader to Google+ owl.li/7dohO
• Internet Trends 2011 by Mary Meeker owl.li/7fZic
• First there was Kern Type, the kerning game owl.li/7fLa2 And now, Shape Type. owl.li/7fLa4
• Useful Coding Tools and JavaScript Libraries For Web Developersowl.li/7d57O
• "Life in a Day" film now available on YouTube owl.li/1fsLZc
• Popcorn.js Lets Web Filmmakers Fuse Video With Interactive Designowl.li/78Tgj
• Google is quietly experimenting in new ways for readers to access publishers’ content owl.li/7hU6M
• The Role Of Design In The Kingdom Of Content owl.li/78KXg
• Design Envy, a curated blog of design excellence by AIGA owl.li/7dplK
• Friends of Type owl.li/7ad44
• Incredible Monty Python-Inspired Phonotrope Animation Machineowl.li/78SIV
• PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 8: Video Games owl.li/1frzIP
• Check out the wonderful Museum of Obsolete Objects owl.li/78tFS /via @veryshortlist
• Creativity Top 5: November 1, 2011 owl.li/1fqS9b
• Why Leaders Should Take A Break From Talking owl.li/7d5s6
• The Silliness of Busyness owl.li/7d59H
• “Why’s this so good?” No. 18: Brady Dennis goes short owl.li/7fIZB
• 7 Things Michael Bierut Loves About Design owl.li/7d4vP
• The Creativity Awards Report 2011 Roundup - Creativity Online owl.li/7fvBH
• Education Isn't Magic owl.li/1fqt4p
• Is This the Future of Punctuation!? On the misuse of apostrophe's (did your eye just twitch?) owl.li/78Lps
• Litfy - All the free e-books you can muster owl.li/7d5oe This is fantastic.
• The Tablet Revolution | Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)owl.li/7dyYG how people use tablets
• Remodel Your Meetings To Create Internal Entrepreneurs owl.li/7d56s
• Best statistics question ever owl.li/1fpihW
• How Symphonies Grew Strong Audiences By Killing The Myth Of The Average Consumer owl.li/76hDvn