The Week's Links (1.29.12)

All the links posted to Twitter, Facebook and Google+ this week: 

• 6 Hugely Successful Products Originally Invented for Something Else owl.li/8IPNP
• The Fast, Fabulous, Allegedly Fraudulent Life of Megaupload's Kim Dotcom owl.li/8IPrYFascinating.
• 5 Things To Look For In This Year's Super Bowl Ads owl.li/8IP1R
• Where do good ideas come from? Rejectionowl.li/1gXJy8
• How Do We Identify Good Ideas? owl.li/8IwbITake a break and be happy.
• Vivid Pop Culture Thumbtack Art owl.li/8F0wz Fantastic.
• Embark a great new free app to plan your mass transit trip. Many cities available. It even has NJ Transit. owl.li/8HFbp
• The 350 Best Education Resources Curated by Edudemic owl.li/8EZxV
• MediaShift Idea Lab: Why Non-Profits Need a Powerful Tool for Finding Potential Alliesowl.li/8F0kp
• Leo Burnett's classic speech "When to take my name off the door" animated owl.li/1gWxsV
• Reddit: How the site went from a second-tier aggregator to the Web’s unstoppable force.owl.li/8CCe8
• M.I.T. Physicist Gives Scientists an Online Interview Outlet owl.li/8EZqz
• Creativity Top 5: Week of January 23, 2012owl.li/1gVpsY
• Who Were Fisher and Price? owl.li/8EY9w
• Take the new Vimeo for a spin owl.li/8EXqw
• Vimeo Festival + Awards - 2012 New York City is back with new categories. owl.li/8FzDK
• "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore" app/book/film nominated for Oscar for Best Animated Short owl.li/8ELfU
• Lego relaunches Rebrick as a social network for adult fans. owl.li/8EIvV
• Google's new privacy policy: The good, bad, scary owl.li/8F7na
• Notification Control, 1 minute to clean up your notifications owl.li/8EFve Inspired by My Permissions owl.li/8EFvf
• RIM Reboots: New CEO, New Board, New Plan to License QNX Software owl.li/8EEU7
• Marketing Leader Jim Stengel On The One Thing Businesses Need To Grow owl.li/8EEIv
• Celebrating Manet’s Birthday with 25 Reclining Nudes by Various Artists [Possibly NSFW]owl.li/8EC2a
• Creativity's Agency of the Year and 2011 A-Listowl.li/8DNVQ
• Creativity Top 5 owl.li/1gTLOS
• The Rhythms of Work vs The Rhythms of Creative Labor owl.li/8CcN5 Great insight from Lewis Hyde's The Gift owl.li/8CcN6
• 100 Best Companies to Work For 2012: Full list from FORTUNE owl.li/8CDAy
• 12 Things Happy People Do Differentlyowl.li/8CcF5
• L.A. Opera to start dynamic ticket pricing next season owl.li/8CcCz
• A Typographer's Letter to Brad Birdowl.li/8CCaC Verdana? Why? I had the same reaction.
• Ira Glass on the strange life of the producerowl.li/1gSxeA
• How Stanley Kubrick Invented the Modern Box-Office Report (By Accident) owl.li/8CbYz /via @daringfireball