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The Week's Links: August 9, 2013

All the links posted on social networks this week:    

  • The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web – a practical guide to web typography 
  • Google's Street View takes you up Mount Fuji 
  • How to Trick Your Brain to Create a New Healthy Habit - Pick the Brain 
  • Rejection is more powerful than you think 
  • Douglas Engelbart’s Unfinished Revolution: MIT Technology Review 
  • 12 Insanely Ambitious Ideas For Improving Space Exploration 
  • Instrumented Bodies: Digital Prostheses For Music and Dance Performance 
  • The Origin of Tweet 
  • The 20 Most Beautiful Libraries on Film and TV 
  • Frank Chimero: Do Things The Long, Hard Stupid Way 
  • Responsive Typography: The Basics 
  • Really Dancing In The Dark 
  • Recommended: The Intellectual Devotional Health 
  • So good: Welcome to Cloud.typography - Webfonts by H&FJ 
  • Let's Talk Tech Jargon 
  • Play This Game, Get That Job 
  • NYC Creates App to Bring Voting Into the 21st Century 
  • Inside The Tech Stack Digg Used To Replace Google Reader 
  • You're Not Listening 
  • Scientists Address Wild Dolphins By Their Natural “Names” 
  • Creativity Top 5: Week of August 5, 2013 
  • 20 Creativity Quotes Beautifully Illustrated From Ogilvy & Mather 
  • Simple Responsive Images With CSS Background Images 
  • Recommended: The Intellectual Devotional Biographies 
  • Nickerblog: 11 things it took me 42 years to learn 
  • Giant Mirrors to Light Up One Dark Norwegian Town During Shadow Months 
  • The First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe was Disguised as a Man for Most of the Journey 
  • Great: National Geographic's Cartographic Typefaces  /via @daringfireball
  • Lightning storms, seen from space 
  • Opera booming in Australia 
  • Facebook explains its News Feed post ranking process, rolls out story bumping feature to improve UX 
  • Show Your Work! A new series by Austin Kleon 
  • Responsive Design Bookmarklet: a handy tool for responsive design testing 
  • Ballet v6.0, a New Festival, Makes Its Debut at the Joyce 
  • Amazon opens up a marketplace for art 
  • Footwork 
  • Ballerina Tiler Peck dances with Lil Buck & Sergei Polunin 
  • Recommended: The Intellectual Devotional Modern Culture 
  • We seldom talk about the sound design of our apps and devices - Octave: A free library of UI sounds. 
  • 8 Brilliant Scientific Screw-ups 
  • Cool: embedresponsibly.com helps build responsive embed codes for third-party media into responsive web pages. 
  • Socially Curated Discovery: How Algorithms Will Tell Us What We Like 
  • Consciousness is Still the "Hard Problem" of Neuroscience 
  • These books are stuffed with treasures 
  • Towards a fictionally biased design education 
  • The Marketplace in Your Brain 
  • Howard Goodall's Story of Music (Videos) 
  • Recommended: The Intellectual Devotional 
  • Looking in the mirror from 898,410,414 miles away. 
  • A Content Marketers Guide to Google Operators [Cheat Sheet] 
  • Superhero.js: a great collection of javascript resources. 
  • Marshall McLuhan's Four Innovation Fundamentals 
  • "This Is How We Built It" Case Studies 
  • Excavating and Restitching Myth: On Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane 
  • Umami explained 
  • Retinize It: Free Photoshop Action For Slicing Graphics For HD Screens 
  • The joy of cloudspotting: 10 incredible visions in clouds 
  • TED Radio Hour asks: “Why do we collaborate?” 
  • What Species Did You Evolve From? 
  • You Can't Do Simple Math Under Pressure 
  • A non-tech guide to launching your website 
  • Find Guidelines - The fastest way to brand assets. 
  • Cutting through classical 
  • How to work with “stupid” people 
  • How to manage smart people 
  • Joi Ito's Near-Perfect Explanation of the Next 100 Years 
  • How to use: Hyphen, En Dash, Em Dash, Minus 
  • The Marketplace in Your Brain 
  • The Complete Calvin and Hobbes Comic Strip is online. Free. Legally. 
  • Logos for the 2020 Summer Olympics Candidate Cities 
  • CSS Almanac | CSS-Tricks 
  • Amazing: Delicate Cut Leaf Images 
  • 100 Ideas that Changed Film 
  • Lessons In Creative Productivity From 24-Hour Plays