The Week's Links: July 12, 2013
/All the links posted on social networks this week:
- Paula Scher: Once you know what you're doing, it's not as good ◉
- 6 Things Mozart Can Teach Entrepreneurs ➞
- Why you’ll share this story: The new science of memes ➞
- Why Teaching Makes You Smarter ➞
- Tale Of A Top-10 App, Part 1: Idea And Design ➞
- Fantastic: A menagerie of mechanical animals ➞
- Take a tour of Thomas Jefferson's Monticello home with Google Street View ➞
- Creativity, math, and 12-tone music ➞
- 10 Greatest Ideas in the History of Science ➞
- How clutter affects you and what you can do about it. ➞
- A Tribute To Alfred Hitchcock ◉
- A fascinating look at the history of aspect ratios ➞
- What Makes A Journal Entry Historically Interesting? ➞
- Check out the winners of 2012-13 FPO Awards ➞
- Gorgeous: Flowers X-Ray Photos - Two Ways ➞
- The Big Fat List of Documentaries About Photography ➞
- So great: The Anatomy of a New Yorker Cartoon ➞
- Knowledge + Taste = Meaningful Judgement ◉
- Perspective: The Capacity of an iPod Visualized as Vinyl ➞
- Del Close's Eleven Commandments of Improvisation ◉
- Creativity Top 5: Week of July 8, 2013 ◉
- NPR's The Songs Of The Summer, going back to 1962. ➞
- The 100 Best First Lines from Novels ➞
- Explore Harry Potter’s Diagon Alley On Google Street View ➞
- The Innovative Mosaic Of American Symphonies ➞
- 25 Free Charlie Chaplin Films Online ➞
- David Bowie Narrates Sergei Prokofiev’s Children’s Symphony Peter and the Wolf ➞
- Introducing the Wired Map Lab: Our Quest to Find, Explore, and Make Maps ➞
- 11 Famous Works of Art That Were Never Actually Completed ➞
- A Radical New Way to Look at Facebook. Matt Buchanan at The New Yorker looks at Graph Search. ➞
- Is There A Scientific Definition Of "Design"? ➞
- Gorgeous: Spectacular Tiny Sculptures Made of Recycled Watches ➞
- Absolutely engrossed by Miranda July's new art project around email. ➞
- Building Our New Shrines ◉
- The Hut Where the Internet Began ➞
- How to Be a Genius ◉
- 60 of the world's happiest facts ➞
- What Lies Beneath: Epic Scenes From NYC's Magnificent Underground Tunnels ➞
- The Public Theater Launches New Collaboration with Local Communities ➞
- Jim Jarmusch's 5 Golden Rules (or non-rules) of Moviemaking by Jim Jarmusch ➞
- 2012-13 FPO Awards Winners ➞
- Siri’s Creators Demonstrate an Assistant That Takes the Initiative ➞
- Mick Guzauski On Mixing Daft Punk's "Random Access Memories" with Universal Audio ➞
- The Surprising History of the Pencil ➞
- Gorgeous: Flowers X-Ray Photos ➞
- Why Immersion In Storytelling Is Not Wasted Time ◉
- Why Genre Rules e-Books, and What the Big Publishers Are Doing About It ➞
- The Placing Literature App Lets Your Map Scenes From Novels ➞
- Why Should Children Study the Arts? ➞
- Being a Lifelong Bookworm May Keep You Sharp in Old Age ◉
- Resources for Mac and iOS Developers ➞
- 6 Scientific Tactics to Stop Procrastinating ➞
- Another cool Google Doodle, this one a mini game commemorating the Roswell incident. ➞
- 20 Things You Might Not Know About Your Favorite Liquors ➞
- Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure ➞
- Why Did Einstein Play the Violin? ➞
- All of Terry Gilliam's animation bits from Monty Python's Flying Circus ➞
- 3 Tips on Overcoming Learning Plateaus from David Foster Wallace ➞
- Fearlessness is not the same as the absence of fear ➞
- Cavernous Subway System Transformed Into Vibrant Art Gallery ➞
- The Science Of How Applause Spreads In An Audience ➞
- Remembering Doug Engelbart ➞
- Thirteen Tenets Of User Experience ➞
- DOUGLAS C. ENGELBART, 1925-2013: Computer Visionary Who Invented the Mouse -NYTimes.com ➞
- Watch Douglas Engelbart Give The Greatest Presentation In History ➞
- Great resource: PortKit: UX Metaphor Equivalents for iOS & Android ➞ /@khoi
- So good! - Who Made That? The Magazine’s 2013 Innovations Issue ➞
- UI Animations: Celebrating animations of interest in software user interfaces. ➞
- Amazing: Jimi Hendrix "All Along The Watchtower" Isolated Guitar Track ➞ /via @theloop
- The Right Mindset for Creativity ➞
- Google uses Big Data to prove hiring puzzles useless and GPAs meaningless ➞
- The graphic art of Harry Potter ➞
- Can Brain Scans Really Tell Us What Makes Art Beautiful? ➞
- 8 Things We've Learned Lately About Thunder and Lightning ➞
- What Scientists Now Know About Repairing Memories ➞
- A Look Inside Mel Blanc’s Throat as He Performs the Voices of Bugs Bunny and Other Cartoon Legends ➞
- Introducing Wireless Philosophy: An Open Access Philosophy Project Created by Yale and MIT ➞
- Yes! Watch His Girl Friday, Howard Hawks’ Classic Screwball Comedy Starring Cary Grant, Free Online ➞
- Why the Tomato Was Feared in Europe for More Than 200 Years ➞
- Mr. Magoo’s Cartoon Version of William Shakespeare’s Comedy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream ➞
- Every Night You Lose More Than A Pound While You're Asleep (For The Oddest Reason) ➞