The Week's Links: December 23, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• 6 Simple Rituals To Reach Your Potential Every Day ➞
• lorempixel - placeholder images for every case ➞
• Writers’ Houses Gives You a Virtual Tour of Famous Authors’ Homes ➞
• 6 Simple Yoga Stretches for Daily De-Stressing ➞
• Random Mornings: A random serving of a Creative Morning from around the world. So great. ➞
• Responsive Web Design Patterns ➞
• Is The Internet Awake? ➞
• The 10 best podcasts for designers ➞
• Rebranding Santa Claus ➞
• Nobody Knows What Intelligence Is, Because Intelligence and IQ Are Not the Same Thing ➞
• The Web We Lost - Anil Dash ➞
• 17 Things I Learned From Reading Every Last Word of The Economist's "The World in 2013" Issue ➞
• George Yu's Node Gadget Can Measure Anything ➞
• How fake images change our memory and behaviour ➞
• Beautiful: Vibrant Skies ➞
• Will This Be the Museum of the Future? ➞
• Tadao Cern’s wind-in-the-face series: What 186 MPH of Wind in the Face Looks Like ➞
• 55555, or, How to Laugh Online in Other Languages ➞
• Journalism & Web done right: Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - Multimedia Feature - NYTimes.com ➞
• Describing Colors To Blind People ➞
• The Long, Strange History of Christmas Carols ➞
• 12 Mind Blowing Number Systems From Other Languages ➞
• Do We Want the World to End? Is Santa Like Wrestling? & Other Relevant Questions ◉
• 8 logo revisions that had people howling ➞
• What is Motion Design ? ( A Primer ) ◉
• From Virgil to Beyoncé: 5 Great Moments of Artistic Patronage ➞
• Why Did Humans Start Eating Cheese in the First Place? ➞
• The Associated Press: New-found tale could be Hans Christian Andersen's ➞
• Book Patrol: America's 100 largest libraries are getting larger ➞
• Hey, Look At These Beautiful Glass Sculptures! Wait, Those Are Snowflakes ➞
• Never Brainstorm with a "Blank Slate" ➞
• The Power of Concentration & Mindfulness ◉
• Saul Bass Poster Sketches for Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ ➞
• Fantastic: Natural History Museum: Treasures posters ➞
• 12 English Letters That Didn’t Make the Alphabet ➞
• Khoi Vinh: It All Started With Comic Books ◉
• Why does The Nutcracker cause such enduring fascination. ➞
• Start Hoarding Your Beans, Thanks to Climate Change, $7 Coffee May Be the Norm ➞
• Flower Power, Redefined by Andrew Zuckerman ➞
• Before the Civil War, There Were 8,000 Different Kinds of Money in the U.S. ➞
• Useful Media vs. Entertaining Media ◉
• Boredom Didn’t Exist as an Emotion in Darwin’s Days ➞
• Gamers Are Better at Robotic Surgery Than Med Students ➞
• After Nearly 70 Years, How Do Stealth Planes Stay Stealthy? ➞
• The Opposite of the Cloud ◉
• Which Best Practice Is Ruining Your Business? - Freek Vermeulen ➞
• Workplace Distractions: Here's Why You Won't Finish This Article ➞
• Cultivating design thinking in kids ➞
• Frost Flowers Blooming in the Arctic Ocean are Found to be Teeming with Life ➞
• 7 Young Entrepreneurs Changing The World With Their Businesses ➞
• Neil Gaiman Gives Sage Advice to Aspiring Artists ➞
• The Thinking Mindset vs. The Doing Mindset: Pick One (And Only One) ➞
• The Neuropsychology of Persuasion: 6 Shortcuts to Winning Someone Over ➞
• 185+ Very Useful and Categorized CSS Tools, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets ➞
• Creativity Top 5: December 18, 2012 ◉
• Just in case you missed it: Gift Ideas For Smarter Creativity ➞
• Burberry's Christopher Bailey: Where Marketing, Dreams and Digital Meet ➞
• Pentagram’s William Russell: Ten Years with Alexander McQueen ➞ Also: ◉
• How old are you? (In Internet Years) ◉
• The Bias Against Creatives as Leaders ➞
• An office with “library rules” by Jason Fried of 37signals ➞
• The Accidental Birth of Wrapping Paper ➞
• Storytelling software learns how to tell a good tale ➞
• Check out Small Demons, a kind of imdb for books. ➞
• The Science Of Productivity ◉
• The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore - Scott Hanselman ➞
• What to Do When You Fall Back Into Your Old, Less Productive Ways ➞
• U.S. patent office considers ending hidden patent ownership ➞
• A Defense of Social Media : The New Yorker ➞
• PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 9: Fashion of Artists ◉
• 19 handy Google tricks that you weren’t aware of ➞
• Michael Dirda on Sherlock Holmes ➞
• How to be a creative director ➞
• Want To Make Your Environment More Creative? Kill Some Rules. ➞
• Worth a revisit: Colours In Cultures ➞
• Companies today are increasingly tying people's real-life identities to their online browsing habits. ➞
• Videogames Do Belong in the Museum of Modern Art ➞
• This Is Your Brain On Holiday Shopping ➞

Recommended This Week: 

The Week's Links: December 16, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• The Making of XOXO, plus all the session videos. ➞
• The Pleasures of Imperfection ➞
• Love Of Spicy Food Is Built Into Your Personality ➞
• 30 Great Moments In The History Of Robots ➞
• What Schools Can Learn From Google, IDEO, and Pixar ➞
• TED's Ads Worth Spreading Report (PDF) ➞
• The Top 10 Smartest Cities In North America ➞
• How to Train an Animator, by Walt Disney ➞
• What storytelling does to our brains ➞
• The sad, surprising story of Google Reader. ➞ 
• Gift Ideas For Smarter Creativity ◉
• The Design of a Site Meant to be Read ➞
• Gestures as a New Dimension in Mobile Design ➞
• Behind The App: The Making of Twitterrific 5 ➞
• Why your computer is getting cheaper but your broadband bill isn’t ➞
• A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 9 - A 50th Birthday ◉
• PBS series 'Shakespeare Uncovered' to dig deep into Bard's plays ➞
• Researchers Create the Most Complex Virtual Brain So Far ➞
• Listen to the BBC's radio version of Asimov's 'Foundation' trilogy online ➞
• It's Your Life: The Holstee Manifesto Lifecycle Video ◉
• Start your day with Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's Object of the Day. ➞
• Start your day with History.com's What Happened Today in History ➞
• Woody Allen answers 12 unusual questions ➞
• A Year Inside The Australian Ballet: Episode 8 - The corps de ballet ◉
• Amazing: Birds of a Feather ➞
• Remarkable Macro Photographs of Ice Structures and Snowflakes ➞
• Aaron Dignan: How to Use Games to Excel at Life and Work ◉
• Ten things you never knew about Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol ➞
• Why Leaders Should Constantly Reiterate What's Important ➞
• Loren Brichter: Designs on the future of iOS apps ➞
• How To Win At Self-Distribution If You're Not Louis C.K.: A Case Study For Creators And Marketers ➞
• The Orchestra ◉
• Have the Courage to Be Direct - Anthony Tjan ➞
• MIT Media Lab's Leah Buechley on falling in love with technology ◉
• Cavemen Were Much Better At Illustrating Animals Than Artists Today ➞
• Collecting the World's Collections of Small Oddities One Day at a Time ➞
• Why Do We Hiccup? And Other Scientific Mysteries—Seen Through the Eyes of Artists ➞
• The Insane Amount of Biodiversity in One Cubic Foot ➞
• Ambient Noise Spurs Creativity ➞
• Bacterial Life Abounds in Antarctic Lake, Cut Off From the World for 2,800 Years ➞
• The First Use of OMG Was in a 1917 Letter to Winston Churchill ➞
• For Adults, TV Can Serve the Same Role as an Imaginary Friend ➞
• Understand Music ◉
• Creativity Top 5 ◉
• Made By Hand: The Knife Maker ◉
• Amazing Modernist Sandcastles Sculpted by Calvin Seibert ➞
• There Are More Brainteasers About Crossing Rivers Than You Ever Imagined ➞
• 20 Game-Changing Technology Trends That Will Create Both Disruption and Opportunity on a Global Level ➞
• The Paper That Changed Type Design ➞
• Beautiful: 20 Inspiring Typography Posters ➞
• Kafka’s Nightmare Tale, ‘A Country Doctor,’ Told in Award-Winning Japanese Animation ➞
• The Four Fears Blocking You from Great Ideas ➞
• World's Largest Brain Simulation Has 2.5 Million Neurons ➞
• A great new tumblr: Photoshop Secrets ➞
• New research suggests specially selected nocturnal odors can inspire creativity. ➞
• Give A Damn, Damn It: Reddit Co-founder Alexis Ohanian ◉
• Learning by Design: It's Not What You Know, But How You Think ➞
• What Neuroscience Really Teaches Us, and What It Doesn't ➞
• The Neuroscience of Creativity ➞
• Made By Hand: The Distiller. A short-film series on hand-made things. ◉
• Raymond Chandler, "The Simple Art of Murder"(1950) ➞
• New Cadbury chocolate doesn't melt, even at 104 degrees ➞
• The Code Side Of Color ➞
• 7 Basic Types of Stories: Which One Is Your Brand Telling? ➞
• The Best Ads And Creative Talent Of The Last 50 Years, According to Britain's D&AD ➞
• How encryption works in your web browser. ➞

Recommended this week:

The Week's Links: December 9, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• Gift Ideas For Smarter Creativity ◉
• How encryption works in your web browser. ➞
• Which Is Greater, The Number Of Sand Grains On Earth Or Stars In The Sky? ➞
• Experimentation Is The New Planning ➞
• Past philanthropists: How giving has evolved ➞
• Boston Public Library treasures abound on Flickr ➞
• The Best (and Worst) of Mobile Connectivity by Pew Internet ➞
• The Science Behind Those Obama Campaign E-Mails ➞
• A Triumph of the Comic-Book Novel by Gabriel Winslow-Yost ➞
• Making Advertising Work In A Responsive World ➞
• The wide open future of the art museum: Q&A with William Noel ➞
• On Great Novels with Bad Endings ➞
• García Márquez Among the Best-Selling Writers in China ➞
• 11 Weirdly Spelled Words—And How They Got That Way ➞
• Why Is it Impossible to Stop Thinking, to Render the Mind a Complete Blank? ➞
• Dzine: "Listen, I Have This Crazy Idea…" ➞
• Rare Dictionaries May Reach $1 Million in NYC Next Week ➞
• The Beauty Of Slow Motion ◉
• 4 Lessons to Learn from Charles and Ray Eames ➞
• MoMA Adds Video Games to Its Collection ➞
• The 14 Video Games MoMA has acquired for their permanent collection. ➞
• PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 8: Video Games ◉
• Journey’s Soundtrack Nominated for a Grammy. The first video game score ever given the honor. ➞
• How to welcome and nurture the poets and painters of the future ➞
• Search engine for the full text and descriptions of every Calvin and Hobbes script ➞
• Atari Teenage Riot: The Inside Story Of Pong And The Video Game Industry's Big Bang ➞
• Alexis Madrigal: Why Startups Need To Solve Real Problems Again ◉
• Why people spend so many hours stitching footage into YouTube supercuts. ➞
• Lead-proton collisions yield surprising results, may be producing a new type of matter. ➞
• After ‘The End’: 10 Memorable End-Credit Scenes ➞
• Best statistics question ever ◉
• How we read, not what we read, may be contributing to our information overload ➞
• Old Media, New Tricks. Can The New York Times' R&D Lab tech-heads help save the battered news brand? ➞
• AIGA: Identifying red flags to avoid trouble clients ➞
• The Real Problem With Neuroscience Today ◉
• General-Purpose AI is the Logical Endpoint for Task Management Software ➞
• How Computers Understand Speech—in 7 Steps ➞
• Exhibition Explores The Invisible Art Of Perfume Making ➞
• Brand identity style guides from around the world ➞
• Chris Poole: Our identity is like a diamond, multi-faceted ◉
• Leonard Bernstein’s First “Young People’s Concert” at Carnegie Hall Asks, “What Does Music Mean?” ➞
• Newly Developed Live Nanoscale Imaging Technique Promises Improvement in Li-ion Batteries ➞
• 9 Leadership Myths--& How to Overcome Them ➞
• Human Brain Is Wired for Harmony ➞
• Coming soon to a theatre near you: Demand-based ticket pricing ➞
• Edwin Land invented not just instant photography but the culture that came with it ➞
• Bad Robot Meets MIT Media Lab: In Conversation With JJ Abrams ◉
• frog design releases Collective Action Toolkit- A resource for change makers ➞
• With Pirate Cinema, Cory Doctorow Grows His Young Hacker Army ➞
• Mary Meeker releases stunning data on the state of the Internet ➞
• UN internet regulation treaty talks begin in Dubai ➞
• Technology Is Useless If It Doesn't Address A Human Need ➞
• PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 7: Etsy Art & Culture ◉
• Designers: here's your master list of Lorem Ipsum alternatives ➞
• 10 Best Commercials of 2012: The Year's Most Entertaining, Intriguing and Beautiful Spots ➞
• What Neuroscience Really Teaches Us, and What It Doesn't ➞
• Can Money Change the Brain? ➞
• Fascinating: Theresa Christy On The Ups and Downs of Making Elevators Go ➞
• How to Power Through Any Demanding Task ➞
• Beautiful: Woodchip Animal Sculptures ➞
• He sent the first text message 20 years ago, and forever changed the world ➞
• 9 More Gorgeous European Libraries ➞
• Creativity Top 5: December 3, 2012 ◉
• Google’s Searches for UnGoogleable Information to Make Mobile Search Smarter ➞
• The 7 Greatest Engineering Innovations Of 2012 ➞
• Simple scents make you part with most cash ➞
• Ultrasound Video Captures Fetuses Yawning ➞
• 8 TED Talks on the importance of listening ➞ Also: ➞
• 5 Moments in Sauce History That Changed The Way We Eat ➞
• Does Creativity Come With A Price? New Insight On Creatives And Mental Illness ➞
• Elmore Leonard: 10 Rules ◉
• University Of California Rebrands Itself With Surfer Charm ➞
• Maker's Row: A Comprehensive Database Of American Manufacturers ➞
• Have we, like, lost our conviction? You know? ◉
• Original Creator: Hip-Hop And Electro Pioneer Afrika Bambaataa ➞
• Imagination Illustrated: Muppets Creator Jim Henson's Never-Before-Seen Journals and Sketches ➞
• How Memory Works: 10 Things Most People Get Wrong ➞
• Infographic: History's most influential people, ranked by Wikipedia reach ➞
• M.I.T. Lab Hatches Ideas, and Companies, by the Dozens ➞
• Lincoln, Shakespeare, and Tony Kushner ➞
• Nine Dangerous Things You Learned In School ➞
• The Autism Advantage, fascinating article about a company that only hires people with autism. ➞
• The Harvard Classics: A Free, Digital Collection ➞

Recommended This Week: 

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The Week's Links: December 2, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• 7 arts festivals that break the boundary between audience + performer  ➞
• Seth's Blog: The decline of fascination and the rise in ennui ➞
• 11 Facts from the American Museum of Natural History’s New Food-Themed Exhibit ➞
• Why Do Our Ears Pop When We Ride In Airplanes? ➞
• Spanish Writer Wins Cervantes Prize ➞
• The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema (The greatest films not in the English language...) ➞
• Redefining finger painting. ➞
• Check this out in Chrome and be prepared to have your place in the universe put into question: ➞
• Breakfast, lunch and dinner: Have we always eaten them? ➞
• Physical Evidence Confirms Albert Einstein’s Brain Was Superior to Yours ➞
• Ken Burns on the Making of His New Documentary The Dust Bowl ➞
• The Origin of the Crossword Puzzle ➞
• 100 Urban Trends That You Should Know About ➞
• Frog Creates An Open-Source Guide To Design Thinking ➞
• With Scriptkit, Code Simple iPad Apps In The Time It Takes To Read This Post ➞
• Neurons can silence each other without any direct connections ➞
• NatGeo has a GIF tumblr. Mesmerizing. ➞
• Where is your mind? The thin line between cultural and neural networks. ➞
• Beautiful: The Color Printer in 1892 ➞
• Everyone could use a bear hug every now and then ◉
• Making music logos ➞
• Ray of light in the right location boosts motivation ➞
• How Does GPS Know Where You Are? ➞
• 40+ Fresh and Free Web UI and Mobile Kits for Developers and Designers ➞
• Ten Tricks To Make Yourself a Gmail Master ➞
• Scientists See Advances in Deep Learning, a Part of Artificial Intelligence ➞
• What happens to art that gets damaged? An exhibition of artwork deemed, by insurance companies, no longer art. ➞
• Simple rarely means easy.
• There's music in every sound ◉
• The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals - Vijay Govindarajan ➞
• If you’re 27 or younger, you’ve never experienced a colder-than-average month ➞
• Gamers prove equal to surgeons in operating robotic surgery tools ➞
• Another Great Interview by The Great Discontent: Cameron Moll ➞
• How Rejection Breeds Creativity ➞
• Afraid of the Light, Great animated short. ➞
• Free iPad App Helps Train Future Neurosurgeons ➞
• Creating The Sound of Lincoln ➞
• Creating The Sound of Skyfall ➞
• National Endowment for the Arts Awards 832 Art Works Grants Totaling $23.3 million ➞
• Self-Taught Sierra Leone Teen Wows MIT ➞
• Creativity Top 5: November 27, 2012 ◉
• In case you missed it before, must read: Kill the Password: Why a String of Characters Can't Protect Us Anymore ➞
• Amazing: Lego New York ➞
• So You Think You're Creative? ◉
• Flaming Nudes And Liquid Skulls: A Look At The Evolving Iconography Of The Bond Title Sequence ➞
• How Queasy Games Turned Beck's Music Into A Video Game ➞
• Google CEO Larry Page On Decision-Making ◉
• Playing Catch and Juggling with a Humanoid Robot created by Disney Research ➞
• Chrysler Group Is Ad Age's Marketer of the Year | Special: Marketer A-List 2012 - Advertising Age ➞
• In Which Philip Roth Gave Me Life Advice by Julian Tepper ➞
• His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman ➞
• Andrew Piper argues that reading on a Kindle is not the same as reading a book, in fact it isn't even reading. ➞
• Playmaking for Families:  Using Drama to Help Kids and Parents Communicate ➞
• Will Shortz, NYT's Crosswords Editor, on How a Crossword is Made ◉
• In case you missed it before. Fantastic article by Princeton's Christy Wampole: How to Live Without Irony ➞
• Cindy Gallop: GW@MIT Empowerment Conference Keynote Address ◉
• How art history is failing at the Internet ➞
• What Studying Einstein’s Brain Can And Can’t Tell Us ➞
• Avoiding common HTML5 mistakes: HTML5 Doctor ➞
• Cool: SeptemberIndustry - The best in international graphic design and everything in between every week. ➞
• Neuro Images - a blog with all kinds of neuro related images ➞
• How the Internet is Shaping Our "Global Brain" - Tiffany Shlain ➞
• Adweek's 2012 Media All-Stars ➞
• Damon Lindelof: 5 TEDTalks I Sent to My Friends ➞
• 7 fascinating TED Talks on the benefits of gaming ➞
• New Device Digitally Projects Braille Directly onto Blind Patient's Retina ➞
• The Week's Links: November 24, 2012 ◉
• 10 Ways Travel Is Getting Better ➞

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The Week's Links: November 24, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

• 10 Ways Travel Is Getting Better ➞
• People Have Been Using Stone-Tipped Spears For Way Longer Than We Thought ➞
• We Can Only Process Thirty Smells at a Time ➞
• Watch the World’s Oldest Working Computer Turn On ➞
• Happy Kids Are More Likely To Grow Into Rich Adults ➞
• The History of Boredom: You’ve never been so interested in being bored ➞
• In Space, Flames Behave in Ways Nobody Thought Possible ➞
• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: A Guide to the Meaning and Usefulness of Punctuation Marks. ➞ So great.
• Building a Design-Driven Culture ➞
• 3 Big Insights From Today's Top Design Thinkers ➞
• Tim O'Reilly: 9 TEDTalks That Stretched My Mind ➞
• Ray Kurzweil: Are you still you if your brain is enhanced with neural implants? ➞
• Love this: The Biblio-Mat, for old and unusual books ➞
• Harry Potter spell book makes augmented reality magic ➞
• Neuroscience gets behind the mask of Greek theatre ➞
• Some thoughts and musings about making things for the web by The Oatmeal. What he said. ➞
• Design Salary Guide - by Coroflot ➞
• Creative & Marketing Salary Information – The Creative Group ➞
• AIGA | Aquent Survey of Design Salaries ➞
• O Brave New World That Has Such Apps In It! Shakespeare Goes Social ➞
• 8 math talks to blow your mind ➞
• How the Beatles' Yellow Submarine gave rise to modern animation ➞
• “Education provides the foundation of our global possibilities. We design this well, and the whole world changes.” ➞
• The Syncing of the Screens ➞
• The History of Beaujolais Nouveau Day: From the French Countryside to the Thanksgiving Table ➞
• Mother Birds Teach Their Eggs a Secret ‘Feed Me!’ Password ➞
• The Science Behind These Amazing Photographs of the Human Eye ➞
• The $.99 itunes rental this week is a great documentary about creativity, innovation and the world's best restaurant. ➞
• Why Do People Hate Dissonant Music? (And What Does It Say About Those Who Don’t?) ➞
• Creativity Top 5: November 20, 2012 ◉
• The Physics of Flocking ➞
• What Studying Einstein’s Brain Can And Can’t Tell Us ➞
• The Creativity Awards Report, 2012➞
• What Girl Talk And Cover Bands Teach Us About the Biology of Surprise ➞
• Introducing Mind Lab: The all singing, all dancing, interactive psychology class ➞
• The Most Amazing Race: Reverse-Engineering the Brain ➞
• Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning ➞
• 9 Mind-Blowing Technologies Changing The Film Industry’s Future ➞
• Gorgeous Fractal-made Flowers ➞
• Original Creators: Biomechanical Surrealist H.R.Giger ➞
• Esquire To Make Print Magazine Interactive Through Netpage App ➞
• Tod Machover invents instruments, robot operas –- oh, and Guitar Hero ➞
• Nokia Hires Orchestra To Create New Ringtones ➞
• An App That Turns Any Surface Into An iPhone Keyboard ➞
• On using funny videos to start serious classroom discussions ➞
• How To Use If-Then Planning To Achieve Any Goal ➞
• 10 TED talks about the beauty — and difficulty — of being creative ➞
• The Breathtaking Colors of Iceland's Landmannalaugar Region ➞
• 11 Artists Doing Amazing Things With Recycled Materials ➞
  
• As Boom Lures App Creators, Tough Part Is Making a Living ➞