The Week's Links (8.27.11)
All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@smartercreative) this week:
- The Job Jobs Did by Steven Heller - NYTimes.com owl.li/6eCjU A who’s who of designers share their thoughts on Jobs.
- Social Media State-by-State Guide for Hurricane Irene - NYTimes.comowl.li/6evL5
- Google’s Crisis Response Map: 2011 Hurricane Season owl.li/6eaZJ
- Do Language and Music Mimic Nature?: Scientific American owl.li/5RzdA
- Creepy robot head reads music and sings owl.li/6aVbK
- 7 Must-See What’s My Line Episodes owl.li/5Q0nj Including Salvador Dali and Lucille Ball.
- Hilarious Condom Commercial with Pixar-style Bloopers ow.ly/1epZDD
- On The Creating And Sharing Of Awe ow.ly/1epXdx
- Photos of Food Taken With An Electron Microscope owl.li/5Q0iv
- Neuroskeptic: Is Sleep Brain Defragmentation? owl.li/6bkIp
- Creative Idea Generator owl.li/6cKRo
- Advertising and Marketing Psychology Infographic owl.li/5PZaV
- On the future of Apple ow.ly/1epcBJ
- Americans and Their Cell Phones | Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project owl.li/68N0g
- Screenfly by QuirkTools — Test Your Website at Different Screen Resolutionsowl.li/5RBMN
- Web Surfing Makes You Work Better, Study Says - WSJ.com owl.li/6bleE
- The 50 Best Websites of 2011 - TIME owl.li/68N1E
- Steve Jobs : Longreads owl.li/6cTzb A great collection of articles including the Playboy and Rolling Stone interviews.
- 40 useful APIs for web designers and developers owl.li/5Rz8k
- Apple, Katalyst and Martin Agency Alums Launch New S.F. Shopowl.li/6cSNF
- New parents check out The Kid Should See This, a curated collection of appropriate web stuffs for kids owl.li/6cPTQ
- New Study Explains Why Comic Sans Font So Hilarious ow.ly/1ep0Ru
- Starlee Kine: What Making Ideas Happen Has To Do With Little Orphan Annie and Phil Collins ow.ly/1eoYiS
- Apple Ads: Steve Jobs’ 10 Best Apple Advertisements owl.li/6cIWu
- 21 New Media Innovators — Daily Intel owl.li/5Q0sZ
- New Approaches To Designing Log-In Forms owl.li/6aZnI
- Scientific American takes a look at Cities owl.li/6b2jt
- The Google Puzzle owl.li/6bl36 In case you missed it before. Another HTML5 Chrome experiment.
- Time-Saving and Educational Resources for Web Designers - Smashing Magazine owl.li/5Q0q3
- Portal: No Escape, An Amazing Live-Action Short Film Based on the Game Portal ow.ly/1eoiPP
- Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple owl.li/6c47d
- Can’t Start, Won’t Start: Tricks for Overcoming Procrastination owl.li/5RFaI
- Shakespeare on the Subway owl.li/6aVmU
- New directions in advertising owl.li/6aUzC
- Frida’s Corsets - made of plaster, she wore them all her life and used then as another canvas. owl.li/6bkVX
- “Selected” is a series of animated gifs by Mike Guppy, in which the subjects of well-known paintings has been removed. owl.li/5Rz7y
- Louboutin v YSL: Lay off my red-soled shoes owl.li/6b3Pq Can a color be a trademark?
- Reconsidering the Artistic Director Model: Dance Company Looks to Past To Get to Future owl.li/6bkL6
- The artistic director behind Sleep No More is blurring the lines between art and life with Punchdrunk Travel. owl.li/6b4Q2
- Stanford D. School - An Introduction ow.ly/1enXT3
- Jim Henson’s Fantastic World, A Traveling Smithsonian Exhibit owl.li/5Q0ga
- Typeverything owl.li/5PJ5r
- Why Transmedia Is like a Walk in Patagonia owl.li/6aZzi
- Metropolitan Opera Demanded Blog Be Taken Down owl.li/6aV2T
- Original Creators: Alfred Hitchcock owl.li/5RBQh
- Innovations - A new blog by Smithsonian Magazine owl.li/68N9g
- “Why’s This So Good?” No. 9: Herbert Muschamp builds a metaphorowl.li/6aOqq
- From Technologist to Philosopher - Manage Your Career - The Chronicle of Higher Education owl.li/68LGA
- InsideOut Episode 1 by Photographer & TED Prize winner JR ow.ly/1emYMn
- Has plot driven out other kinds of story? owl.li/5PZ6U
- How “Positive” Thinking Sets You Up To Fail | Fast Company owl.li/5PMM4
- Creativity Top 5: August 22, 2011 ow.ly/1emaCC
- The CSS of Design Storytelling: Context, Spine, and Structure :: UXmattersowl.li/5RzxU
- Studying Creativity in the Age of Web 2.0: An interview with David Gauntlett (Part Three) owl.li/68PIi
- Studying Creativity in the Age of Web 2.0: An interview with David Gauntlett (Part Two) owl.li/68PHG
- Studying Creativity in the Age of Web 2.0: An Interview with David Gauntlett Part 1 owl.li/68PHz
- Getting Creative Things Done: How To Fit Hard Thinking Into a Busy Schedule owl.li/5Q0zX
- MIT Launches New Center for Mobile Learning - MIT Media Relationsowl.li/68NmF
- Joshua Foer: OK-ness is the enemy of greatness ow.ly/1elYYd
- How 50 Big Companies Got Their Names owl.li/5PPHe
- The Future Issue - An Foreign Policy Special Report owl.li/68MWw
- Hillman Curtis: On Reinvention and Taking the Courageous Path :: The 99 Percent owl.li/5Izae