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The Week's Links (1.29.12)

All the links posted to TwitterFacebook 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