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 ➞

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