The Week's Links: April 19, 2013
/All the links posted on social networks this week:
- Type Talk: The Definitive Guide to Smart Quotes ➞
- "Ode to the Book" by Pablo Neruda, exquisitely read by Tom O'Bedlam ➞
- Great in-depth article: The making of Medium.com ➞
- Mind. Blown: The Big Squeeze: Can Cities Save The Earth? ➞
- Google's Reader retirement is leading to lots of content being collected in non RSS ways: Links to Inspire ➞
- CourseSmart E-Textbooks Track Students’ Progress for Teachers ➞
- Fascinating: Is Stanford a university or "a giant tech incubator with a football team." ➞ /via @davepell
- How to get better feedback ➞
- Three Points Of View On Fandom, Fan Fiction & Fan Art ◉
- So great: Andrew Zuckerman's vast collection of beautiful animal images: The Creature Book ➞
- From touch displays to the Surface: A brief history of touchscreen technology ➞
- Cool: Paper Sculptures That Defy Expectations ➞
- You're Distracted. This Professor Can Help. - The Chronicle of Higher Education ➞
- Better By Design: Keith Yamashita On CEOs and Designers ◉
- Q&A: Bill Gates on Flying Cars, the Malaria Epidemic, and Article-Writing Robots ➞
- Title Treatment for Disney's “Wreck-It Ralph” ➞
- Creating Your Artist Resume ➞
- The Timelapse Project: El Morro & El Yunque ◉
- The Story Behind Smithsonian Castle's Red Sandstone ➞
- From TEDGlobal speakers: 11 websites you didn’t know you needed ➞
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs Post Sign at Concert Asking Fans to Put Away Phones & Cameras During Show ➞
- Video: "MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom" - MIT Comparative Media Studies ➞
- Visualization as Process, Not Output - Jer Thorp ➞
- Karloff: the convergence of beauty and ugliness on a typeface ◉
- Pulitzer Prize Winner David Mamet Wants to Direct Commercials Again ➞
- The most frequently highlighted passages in famous business and management books ➞
- Richard Branson on the role of creativity in business ◉
- Andrew DeVigal: Smart Readers Are Too Distracted to Dig Smart Content ➞
- The Minecraft Creator Markus Persson Faces Life After Fame ➞
- Was Shakespeare Shakespeare? 11 Rules for Critical Thinking ➞
- Frank Rich on the State of Journalism ➞
- Jason Silva: The Nature Of Creativity And How We Can Embrace It ➞
- Warby Parker Co-Founder: Creating A Strong Brand Without Marketing ➞
- Whiny Rants Are Inversely Proportional to Accomplishments (and Other Lessons) ➞
- Why designers never retire ➞
- The World’s Oldest Photography Museum Goes Digital ➞
- Smithsonian Magazine: Educating Americans for the 21st Century - Special Reports ➞
- Shakespeare scholars unite to see off claims of the 'Bard deniers' ➞
- Creativity Top 5: Week of April 15, 2013 ◉
- Scary-Smart People Really Do Accomplish a Lot ◉
- Dance and the brain: Bill T. Jones and Oliver Sacks Connect at Live Arts ➞
- Effective Perfectionism ◉
- Longform Articles Tagged '2013 National Magazine Awards Finalists' ➞
- What it's like running an arts org in Australia: Juggling the craft of cultural leadership ➞
- Intrigued by the process of UX design? Want to learn the basics? UX Apprentice ➞
- Elegant and useful, easy way to show what responsive design is. - Define :: Responsive ➞
- Sapphire Could Replace Gorilla Glass in the iPhone and other Smartphones | MIT Technology Review ➞
- Creative Collaboration Lessons From A NY City Ballet Pas De Deux ◉
- Ted Greenwald Reconstructs the Invention of Wired Magazine a Pioneering Publication ➞
- A History of Graphic Design: Chapter 61 : A History of Wine Labels ➞ /via @Coudal
- Rare Books on Calligraphy and Penmanship ➞
- Ten Great "Lost" Text Faces ➞
- Why you hate the sound of your own voice ➞
- The 12 Most Influential Cell Phones ➞
- What Aspiring Designers Need to Know About Strategy ➞
- Watch: Modern Dance Melds With Projection Art ➞
- A look at how a great story came together: “How’d you find that secret-compartments story, Brendan Koerner?” ➞
- Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour Sings Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 ➞
- Beautiful: JF Rauzier's Bibliothèques idéales ➞
- A $5 app isn't expensive: Customers need to help fix the App Store economy ➞
- David Foster Wallace: On Real Freedom ◉
- What is a book? ➞
- NASA Best of Satellite 2012 ➞
- Is Instagram the Best Thing to Ever Happen to Photography? ◉
- Russian Landmarks Imagined as Small Parts of Much Larger Buildings in Ad Campaign ➞
- 26 Time Management Hacks I Wish I'd Known at 20 ➞
- 10 Terms to Describe the Anatomy of a Book ➞
- Orson Welles Explains Why Ignorance Was the Genius Behind Citizen Kane ➞
- Ha! Famous Artworks Recreated With Food Items On Toast ➞
- How did supercomputer Watson beat Jeopardy champion Ken Jennings? ➞
- 10 Very Costly Typos ➞
- 35 Astounding And Uplifting Facts About The Universe ➞
- Love this: Flashmob recreates Rembrandt painting in Breda shopping centre - video ➞
- 24 Dates To Take Yourself On ➞
- Trapped By The Web — But For How Long? Take the Kelberman Challenge ➞
- MIT and Harvard fund software that grades essays at college level ➞
- The standardization of chess set design ➞
- David Bowie Releases a Collection of His Vintage Videos Online ➞
- Yesteryear’s stereotype-defiers: Kick-ass vintage public domain photos of women in science. ➞
- The beautiful landscape photography of Michael Bollino ➞
- Tech cycles: The untold story behind Apple's $13,000 operating system ➞
- So great, web tech to demonstrate: How Far is it to Mars? ➞ /via @daringfireball
- RIP Maria Tallchief: Chicago dance legend, Balanchine muse ➞
- McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Comma From Which My Heart Hangs. ➞
- Isaac Asimov on Curiosity, Taking Risk, and the Value of Space Exploration in Muppets Magazine, 1983 ➞