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