The Week's Links: 8/19/12
Antonio Ortiz
All the items posted to Facebook and Twitter this week:
- "Misquotations are often stickier than actual quotes," Lincoln once joked. Why Misquotations Catch On owl.li/d1YKJ
- U.S. Tax Code is Four Times Longer Than Shakespeare's Complete Works, Not as Goodowl.li/d1VOt
- Disneyland's IR-controlled Mickey Mouse ears turn the crowd into a synchronized light showowl.li/d1HAh
- Where Do Sentences Come From? Thinking Patiently. owl.li/d1mW8
- 4 Rules For Creating Interactive Content For A Multi-Platform, Multi-Device Worldowl.li/d1mdv
- The Philosophical Roots of Science Fictionowl.li/d1lNd
- How Marin Alsop plans to put São Paulo Orchestra on the map owl.li/d1ltN
- Reinventing the Seattle Symphony: The goal: become "a contemporary orchestra."owl.li/d1lew
- The Met Gets Spooky: Paul Miller aka DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid Is Artist In Residence At 'The Met Reframed' owl.li/d1dVp
- Discover the beauty of extreme Venn diagrams owl.li/d12oU
- Shakespeare finds a summer backdrop in Berlin owl.li/d0Zoq
- Dr. Michio Kaku's Playlist: Five Science Videos You Must See owl.li/d0aUV
- Incredible raindrops on spiders - Stunning photography from Wired UK owl.li/d08ub
- Chocolate that’s good for you? Scientists create fruit-juice infused treat with all the benefits minus unhealthy fats owl.li/cYVuS
- MoMA Unadulterated: Kids say the darndest things about MoMA's permanent collectionowl.li/cYVqq
- Fantastic: An archive of book cover designs and designers. owl.li/cYy87
- The Architecture of Memory owl.li/cYx0j
- The ins and outs of Instapaper. Great tips.owl.li/cYkwA
- Loving MoMA's Century of the Child exhibition website. owl.li/cYktv
- The Filter Bubble In The [Google]Plexowl.li/cUCla
- This Is Your Brain on 'Call Me Maybe': The Scientific Power of Music owl.li/cYfzQ
- Pallets: The single most important object in the global economy. owl.li/cYeU4
- Meet the Dictionary's New Words: F-Bomb, Sexting, Bucket List owl.li/cYeRG
- Algorithm predicts your location in 24 hours with 20-metre accuracy owl.li/cYeyj
- 10 Iconic Movie Scenes Recreated In Video Games Using Valve's Source Filmmakerowl.li/cYd8y
- How to Draw Inspiration In the “Publish Or Perish” Field of Academia owl.li/cYd5V
- amiina: Mixing it up, Iceland styleowl.li/1m114b
- Steven Meisel shoots cinemagraphs for Dieselowl.li/cYaoP
- 10 Rules for Students and Teachers (and Life) by John Cage and Sister Corita Kentowl.li/cY9Rq
- The Winners from National Geographic's Traveler Photo Contest 2012. Amazing.owl.li/d1N7X
- Judge rules Facebook users can share friends' profiles with the feds owl.li/d1KIT
- From STEM to STEAM: John Maeda on adding art to science owl.li/cY9fO
- So Great: Taking eye-trickery to a whole new level – the otherworldly New Zealand sculpture park Gibbs Farm owl.li/cXZax
- Original Creators: Stop-Motion Animators Of The Surreal, The Brothers Quay owl.li/cXYTO
- Splitscreen: A Love Story - wonderful short film shot entirely on a phone. Just in case you missed it. owl.li/cUCkt
- Gorgeous: Passionately Dancing the Tango Underwater owl.li/cXOdD
- MIT created Cardiio: Heart-Monitor App Works By Scanning The Blood In Your Face. Amazing how well it works. owl.li/cXNR7
- A Critic’s Case for Critics Who Are Actually Critical owl.li/1m00pq
- The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg McKeown owl.li/cXB9E
- The Olympics' Greatest Feat: An Unpaid, Highly Engaged Workforce of Volunteers - Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones owl.li/d0WkR
- Now for some fun: 25 of the Best Dance Numbers in TV History owl.li/cXAwS
- The Getty and Rome form cultural partnership, will exchange art owl.li/cXzVT
- Tina Seelig: On Unleashing Your Creative Potential owl.li/cWQPH
- A Clever Branding System For An Orchestra That Visualizes Sound owl.li/cWQHC
- Gaming the library: holding books hostage and seeing who comes to free themowl.li/cUCjf
- 11 More Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent owl.li/cWO3Y
- "Shakespeare in the Park" turns 50owl.li/cWN3h
- The algorithm that runs the world - physics-math owl.li/cYUhQ
- Sight: A Short Film About Augmented Reality & Gamification owl.li/1lYZMY
- 9 Reasons Why Failure Is Not Fatalowl.li/cWMEN
- Replacing The Classroom-As-Factory With Collaborative Learning owl.li/cVrwV
- How to Write a Great Novel: Junot Diaz, Anne Rice, Margaret Atwood and Other Authors Tellowl.li/cVqRy
- A St Petersburg’s cultural revolutionowl.li/cVqAJ
- What does the Mars rover have to do with art?owl.li/cVqxJ
- Bessies’ New Categories Limit Definitions of Dance owl.li/cVqti
- Kevin Kelly: The Future in 6 Verbs owl.li/cUCib
- Creative Review - London 2012: the creative Olympics owl.li/cY0iz
- Why did it take me so long to discover this: The Martini FAQ owl.li/cUUiR /via @
- The Advertising Artwork of Dr. Seussowl.li/cUUdS
- A Student's Guide to Web Design owl.li/cUUbe
- Celebrating 80 Years of LEGO owl.li/cXHcI
- LEGO's 80th Birthday: An Animated Historyowl.li/1lY2vx
- Little Big Details: A daily dose of UI inspiration.owl.li/cUU4P
- Official Olympics numbers: online engagement was mostly mobile owl.li/cXBWS
- The Story of the Guitar: The Complete Three-Part Documentary owl.li/cUU2R
- Creativity Top 5: August 13, 2012 owl.li/1lXyZP
- A Look Back at Discovery's Killer Shark Week Ads owl.li/cWMvz
- Creativity Top 5: August 13, 2012 owl.li/cWLK0
- He Hit Send: On the Awkward but Necessary Role of Technology in Fiction owl.li/cUTZS
- Great interview with Watchmen legend Dave Gibbons owl.li/cUTXU
- 20 Obscure Words to Describe Collectorsowl.li/cUTQb
- Seth Godin: Are you wow blind? owl.li/cUChk
- Before Green Eggs: See The Advertising Work Of Dr. Seuss owl.li/cUTO4
- Publisher Pulls Controversial Thomas Jefferson Book, Citing Loss Of Confidenceowl.li/cUSTD
- Even in Death a Choreographer Is Mixing Art and Technology. The Merce Cunningham Appowl.li/cUSPW
- Embracing The Remix: An Act To Promote The Progress Of Useful Arts owl.li/cVU3e
- Paintings from the masters as pie chartsowl.li/cUSva
- Form Is Content: On Fonts And Credibilityowl.li/cURja
- The Bard and Stratford... Ontario. owl.li/cURhY
- Song Reader, Beck’s New Album to be Released as Sheet Music Only owl.li/cURam
- ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmersowl.li/cUR5Z
- Why Web Literacy Should Be Part of Every Education owl.li/cUR4Z
- How to Get Motivated for Self-Promotionowl.li/cUR4p
- 10 of the Coolest Niche Bookstores From Around the World owl.li/cUR3c
- A Timeline Of Future Events Based on Literary Predictions owl.li/cUQSO
- The IT Challenge of the London Olympicsowl.li/cUSwa
- Can We Quit It With the "Right Brain, Left Brain" Stuff Already? owl.li/cUIsm
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