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