The Week's Links: 7/29/12

All the links posted to Twitter and Facebook this week: 

• A history of superstition by Lapham’s Quarterlyowl.li/ct8cj
• 8 Television Pioneers owl.li/ct7gT
• This is your planet. It's beautiful. owl.li/ct65F
• The encouraging letter the legendary editor Ursula Nordstrom sent to Maurice Sendak.owl.li/ct4Ct
• The Personality Layer of UX Designowl.li/ct4pr
• Venice Backstage. How does Venice work?owl.li/cpzaM
• From 1912 to 1948, Art Competitions Were Part of the Olympics owl.li/ct3Uc
• Money as You Grow – A great site to teach your kids about money. owl.li/ct3NR
• Good design is invisible: an interview with iA's Oliver Reichenstein owl.li/ct3Dq
• 25 Must-See Music Documentaries owl.li/ct3xv
• Do You Know How Much Data is Created Every Minute? owl.li/1lFXkq
• While everyone talks about London, check out the development of the beautiful Rio 2016™ font owl.li/ct3rW
• First team enters the race to sequence DNA of 100 centenarians owl.li/csXdE
• Gamer's Paradise: Mass Entertainment Doesn’t Need To Be Mindless owl.li/csPUL
• Convert Word Documents to Clean HTML. Not perfect but a great free tool. owl.li/csLHV
• Our brains are hardwired to fear creativityowl.li/csLq2
• 35 Inspiring Quotes from Einstein owl.li/crStt
• 30 Amazing Stanley Kubrick Cinemagraphsowl.li/crSmS
• How to enjoy opera, including The Guardian's Top 50 operas. owl.li/crSiR
• When Famous Artists Moonlight as Magazine Cover Designers owl.li/crSdP
• Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time owl.li/crS5Y
• Breakfast Interrupted, A Perfect Breakfast Meets Slow Motion Mayhem owl.li/cpz6u
• The Art of Asking Questions owl.li/crRZY
• The Difference Between Design and Artowl.li/crRXp
• How to Explain Why Typography Mattersowl.li/crRDo
• Developing an Appetite for Hard Ideasowl.li/crRoq
• James Victore: In The Particular Lies The Universal owl.li/1lEpG5
• Silja Ómarsdóttir: On Writing Iceland’s New Constitution owl.li/crQzf
• Henry Jenkins: The Many Worlds of San Diego Comic-Con owl.li/crQ4a
• Letter to a Young Poet. The letter that started it all with Rilke. owl.li/crOKk
• How Goals and Good Intentions Can Hold Us Back owl.li/crOGi
• Art and the Limits of Neuroscienceowl.li/crOD4
• In a culture that celebrates delivering fast and often, is being prolific a good thing?owl.li/crOBz
• Hands-On Experience: The Rehabilitation Of The Script owl.li/crNIL
• Public Books — A curated monthly review devoted to spirited debate about books and the arts owl.li/crNFN
• History Mesh: Explore a woven world of technological whimsy. Fantastic. owl.li/crNBe
• Once Upon A Time: The Lure of the Fairy Taleowl.li/crNdz
• Above Everything Else, An Absurdly Photorealistic CGI Animation owl.li/cpz4L
• The data detective: Uri Simonsohn explains how he uncovered wrongdoing in psychology research. owl.li/crN6n
• Michael Bierut On The New Philbrook Museum of Art Brand owl.li/1lCR4n
• Wiring the Brain: The genetics of stupidityowl.li/crN0r
• Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?owl.li/crMLe
• The Reading Lists of Your Favorite Fictional Characters owl.li/crLFU
• Creativity Top 5: July 24, 2012 owl.li/1lBOQO
• How can you help non-programmers understand the development process?owl.li/crLCe
• Jared Spool - Anatomy of a Design Decisionowl.li/cpz3y
• Pixels Nervosos Transforms A São Paulo Eyesore With Playful Projection Mappingowl.li/ct45E
• Adweek's Media Plan of the Year 2012owl.li/crKXg
• The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread: A Brief History of Sliced Bread owl.li/crKJE /via @davepell
• The Art of the Profile with David Remnick of ‘The New Yorker’ owl.li/crKw1
• When His Project Was Canceled, an Unemployed Programmer Kept Sneaking Into Apple to Finish the Job owl.li/cpWab
• Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Netflix-Style Membership. All you can hear for $5 a month. Let's see if it works. owl.li/cpVZX
• Transmedia Hollywood 3: Rethinking Creative Relations [Panel Videos] owl.li/1lBky2
• Rethinking theater, and ways to make it, in the digital age owl.li/cpVR3
• How To Make It: 15 Rules For Success From Creative Industry Insiders owl.li/cpVKz
• Futures of Entertainment 6 at MIT Nov. 9-10 - Now open for registration. owl.li/cpVEE
• The Underground New York Public Library is a visual library featuring the Reading-Riders of the NYC subways. Lovely. owl.li/cpVyk
• Oscar Wilde writes to an editor of a pub that criticized him and called him the wrong name. Witty. owl.li/cpVsb
• Yes, There IS a Creativity Crisis! owl.li/cpV7l
• 54 Smart thinkers everyone should follow on twitter. owl.li/cpV5J
• John C Jay’s Top 10 Rules For Creatingowl.li/cpz1E
• This is interesting. NextStories: a one click discovery tool. owl.li/cpV1i
• 15 Famous Authors on Why They Writeowl.li/cpUY2
• Click Here If You Are You Missing Outowl.li/1lzOeS
• Great Brands Are About Fusing Product And Service. How Do You Do It? owl.li/cpUVO
• Cheryl Strayed: On "Binge Writing," Doling Out Advice & Finding Clarity owl.li/cpUU3
• Tips For A Finely Crafted Websiteowl.li/cpUQM
• .Mail by Tobias van Schneider. A proposal for re-designing the classic email client.owl.li/cpUOx
• Fantastic Case Study of a Chrome project: Ramayana owl.li/cpUIz
• The novel is a wonder: Fitzgerald writes his editor with the first draft of Gatsby.owl.li/cpUD5
• AmoeBAND, A Smart Bandage Concept. Brilliant. owl.li/cpUzr
• This Podcast Is Kicking Ass: How 99% Invisible Will Change Public Radioowl.li/cpTw1
• A Collection of Brilliant and Inspiring Letters From Famous Authors to Their Young Fansowl.li/cpQIy
• Original Creators: Walt Disney owl.li/cpQEr
• Top 10 Most Read Books in the Worldowl.li/cpEYu
• Researchers Have Found The Part Of The Brain Where Selfishness Lives http://owl.li/cpEEO
• Is Philosophy Literature? http://owl.li/cpdOi
• Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost artowl.li/cpdBB
• Neurosecurity Lets You Store a Password In Your Brain Without Remembering Itowl.li/cp39f

Recommended this week:

• Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager By Michael Lopp owl.li/cpvmC
• Life's A Pitch By Roger Mavity, Stephen Bayley owl.li/cpvk8
• Screw Business As Usual By Richard Branson owl.li/cpvgP
• The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles By Steven Pressfield owl.li/cpvf9
• Turning Pro By Steven Pressfield owl.li/cpv9L