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

• The Fierce Imagination of Haruki Murakami owl.li/761te From jazz club owner to brilliant writer.
• Charlie Kaufman: why I wrote Being John Malkovich owl.li/71yPQ
• The Drive to Be Different owl.li/71yno
• Before Succeeding, You Have To Fully Confront Failure. But How?owl.li/71lFC
• New York Times Personality Test - VisualDNA owl.li/73F1e Interesting test using images for answers.
• Everyone could use a bear hug every now and then owl.li/1ffueW
• Easily embarrassed? Study finds people will trust you more owl.li/6MTsO
• Official Google Reader Blog: Upcoming changes to Reader: a new look, new Google+ features, and some clean-up owl.li/741P3
• Dropbox: The Inside Story Of Tech's Hottest Startup - Forbes owl.li/71rd0Apple tried to buy it in 2009.
• Introducing HTML5 Resource Center - Facebook Developers owl.li/71kXD
• Adobe Reveals Next Generation Image Deblurring Software owl.li/73E2kThe concept of the algorithm behind this makes my brain hurt.
• An Interactive Whiteboard For Bell Labs Maps A Century Of Innovationowl.li/6RMFA
• Matias Duarte on the philosophy of Android, and an in-depth look at Ice Cream Sandwich owl.li/73zcY
• iPhone History in Animated Infographic owl.li/1fenTB
• Conversation Techniques For Designers owl.li/71TYz
• Adweek's Top 10 Technologists owl.li/70Nel Evidence that no matter what you do you should learn how to code.
• Digital verbosity: What's in a tweet owl.li/6MT1X A look at the code behind a tweet.
• In Praise Of The Heroic Client owl.li/71y7A
• There's music in every sound owl.li/1fdrSf
• “Why’s this so good?” No. 16: David Foster Wallace on the vagaries of cruising owl.li/71lxH
• “Why’s This So Good?” No. 15: Michael Lewis’ Greek odyssey owl.li/71lvb
• “Why’s this so good?” No. 14: Sandra Cate on DIY cooking in a county jailowl.li/71loT
• “Why’s this so good?” No. 13: Gene Weingarten peels the Great Zucchiniowl.li/71llO
• Deutsch Brings 15 Years of Sony PlayStation Characters to Life in a Tribute to the Hard-Core Gamer owl.li/71l5B
• Afraid of the Light owl.li/1fdg7J
• Taste Buds the Information is Beautiful way. owl.li/6RAhG
• Mary Meeker: 81% of Users of Top Web Sites are outside US owl.li/71BXi
• Questions I ask when reviewing a design owl.li/6Yf8u
• Google CEO Larry Page On Decision-Making owl.li/1fcjW4
• TED introduces 10 new podcasts on iTunes owl.li/71hXQ
• The word traps planners plan themselves into owl.li/6NoWh
• National Novel Writing Month is coming up, can you write a novel in a month? owl.li/71d4B
• Conversation Techniques For Designers owl.li/6MTXF
• Uncertainty, Innovation, and the Alchemy of Fear owl.li/6Mvmu
• Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone owl.li/70PoF Must have app gets even better.
• Adobe Reader App Lands On iPhone and iPad owl.li/70Oc0
• The Criminal Cloud - Technology Review owl.li/70MIf
• Creativity Top 5: October 17, 2011 owl.li/1fbxOm
• Neal Stephenson argues we are suffering from Innovation Starvationowl.li/6RAlp
• 3 Questions Every Creative Person Must Ask owl.li/6Zmgz
• The 7 Secrets Of Spellbinding Pitches owl.li/6NoOv
• 400 Free Online Courses from Top Universities | Open Culture owl.li/6MU5m
• 1950's & 60's TV Commercials owl.li/1fb8TS
• James Beard conference opens up on new media and food owl.li/6Zkwk
• What Was Your Biggest Mistake & What Did You Learn From It? owl.li/6ITQT
• Amazon Rewrites the Rules of Book Publishing - NYTimes.comowl.li/6ZknT