The Week's Links: July 18, 2014

All the links posted on social networks this week: 

• 10 Brands That Will Disappear This Year- TIMEowl.li/z9NQ9
• Ricky Gervais Shares His Secrets for Success: Be a "Cocky Little Nobody" owl.li/z9Agk
• Why Are Songs on the Radio About the Same Length? owl.li/z9JDF
• BBC News - The costs and benefits of publishing your own books owl.li/z9A9n
• Can Memes Exist Outside of the Internet?owl.li/z9Jmx
• Inside Disney's Virtual Playground for Fantasies: Video - Bloomberg owl.li/z9A1A
• Cult Novels: An Essential List owl.li/z9HtL
• How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall? Talent -NYTimes.com owl.li/z9wL1
• Facebook’s algorithm — why our assumptions are wrong, and our concerns are rightowl.li/z9Biv
• Contemplative practices boost creativity in problem-solving owl.li/z9B2x
• Dungeons & Dragons Has Influenced a Generation of Writers - NYTimes.com owl.li/z9wkU
• Relevance Is The New Remarkableowl.li/z94SK
• It’s Time for Boards to Cross the Digital Divide - Didier Bonnet owl.li/z9weK
• The software design trends that we love to hateowl.li/z8Z2e
• Ethics for Technologists (and Facebook) - Michael Schrage owl.li/z9waa
• Does Anyone Even Want a Smartwatch?owl.li/z8WBN
• Advice From 10 Creative Technologists We Love owl.li/z9vZy
• Lessons From The Man Who Managed Reddit's Community Of Millions owl.li/z8MhV
• 10 Tech Trends That Are Too Big To Seeowl.li/z9vVg
• MIT's new material opens the door to squishable, shape-shifting robots owl.li/z9usZ
• Pondering Platform Monopolies – AVCowl.li/z8M9Q
• How to be more confident, according to scienceowl.li/z8rGC
• Why I’m so negative about positivity — Paul Jarvis owl.li/z8Kbp
• 4 Surprising Things Facebook Has Learned From Your Relationship Status owl.li/z8mLj
• The secretive billionaire who built Silicon Valleyowl.li/z8sEp
• Nescafé Unveils New Logo and Global Branding owl.li/z8inp
• Cutting the High Cost of Digital Living -NYTimes.com owl.li/z8skH
• Down but Not Out: The Uncertain Future of the Crossword Puzzle owl.li/z813W
• FontShop Joins Monotype owl.li/zdNyi
• Unexpected: Apple, IBM in Deal to Create Apps, Sell Phones - WSJ owl.li/zdLz9
• Digitizing the Family History - NYTimes.comowl.li/z8s7b
• How to Take Your Cellphone Abroad (and Not Come Home Broke) owl.li/z8rWs
• Creativity Top 5: Week of July 14, 2014owl.li/zcRbK
• Ikea Gets Into Your Dreams With Trippy, Shakespearean New Ad owl.li/z5FfU
• Discover the Music Vault: A Massive YouTube Archive of 13,000 Live Concert Videosowl.li/z5DdB
• The Best And Worst Design Of The 2014 World Cup owl.li/z5FaZ
• The Power of Maps, Past and Presentowl.li/z5Da1
• 100 Famous Directors’ Filmmaking Adviceowl.li/z5F7p
• 15 Music Videos Filmed In One Shotowl.li/z5D8I
• The CIA's Style Manual & Writer's Guide: 185 Pages of Tips for Writing Like a Spyowl.li/z5Dpm
• Apple launches developer blog for new Swift programming language owl.li/z5keY
• When Your Skin Smells Sandalwood Oil, It Heals Itself owl.li/z5Dol
• Download Over 250 Free Art Books From the Getty Museum owl.li/z5Df0
• 11 Grammar Lessons From the Leaked CIA Style Book owl.li/z2kCj
• Trust Us: The Ethics of Our Automated Futureowl.li/yYQcu
• Secrets From The Brains Of 13 Creative Geniuses owl.li/z1AZc
• Amazing: Museum of Natural History Announces First Adult-Only Sleepoverowl.li/yYQa3
• The 20 most popular talks of all time: TED.comowl.li/z1jZ0
• 10 Fashion and Beauty Items That Are Older Than You Think owl.li/yYQ6F
• The 10 Most Viral Ads of 2014 (So Far)owl.li/z1jTZ
• How to thrive in a world where change is constant owl.li/yW99b
• TED Playlist: Kickstart your creativityowl.li/z13A0
• The Best And Worst Design Of The 2014 World Cup owl.li/yYQrL
• Do People Only Use 10% of Their Brains?owl.li/yW952
• English Is The World's Top Borrower And Lender Of Words owl.li/yTdf1
• Praise the artist who dances on the edgeowl.li/yVzEB
• Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio Explains Emotions | MIT Technology Review owl.li/yTd15
• Listen to the Oldest Song in the World: A Sumerian Hymn Written 3,400 Years Agoowl.li/yVzg5
• Never-Before-Seen Photos Show How Gone With The Wind Was Made. owl.li/yTczs
• What Will Happen To English As More And More People Worldwide Speak It? owl.li/yUfjv
• Creativity: It’s not what we make, it’s how we live. owl.li/yTc0W
• Disney Picks 11 Tech and Media Firms for Startup-Accelerator Program owl.li/yTdvF
• A Billionaire Mathematician’s Life of Ferocious Curiosity - NYTimes.com owl.li/yTdpB
• Milton Glaser on Making Miracles on Vimeoowl.li/yTbiN
• Ikea Built Something New: An Instagram Website owl.li/yPHMr
• In 1938, the New York Times Thought Disney Toys Would Save the U.S. Economy owl.li/yTajk
• 6 Surprising Things That Can Influence Your Dreams owl.li/yPHL0
• The Ultra-Simple App That Lets Anyone Encrypt Anything owl.li/yTa5V
• Jake Scott Directs Jude Law in Stylish New Johnnie Walker Film To Be Shown at Venice Film Festival owl.li/yPHEj
• Meet the game that shows us the future of storytelling owl.li/yT9Yg
• 11 Photographs of Mysterious Megalithsowl.li/yPHAJ
• New York Police Department's Facebook page now includes posts that read like newspaper articles - WSJ owl.li/yPWP7
• The World's 17 Best Print Campaigns of 2013-14 owl.li/yPS8j
• Norman Mailer's 1191-Page Harlot's Ghost Outlined in One Handwritten Sheetowl.li/yPHy0
• Debate: Are We Trying To Save Arts Or Organizations? (Why Some Arts Organizations Should Die) owl.li/yONZw
• Winners of the 2014 Apple Design Awardsowl.li/yOP8O
• Wolf Trap to unveil supertitles on your smartphone for opera performancesowl.li/yONTm
• Meet Del Harvey, Twitter’s VP of Trust and Safety owl.li/yOOSD
• Why the Research on Viewing TV Is Best Ignored - NYTimes.com owl.li/yONSh
• Want to Brainstorm New Ideas? Then Limit Your Online Connections owl.li/yOOOE
• Box-Office Data on New Met Productions Illustrate the Company's Struggle - WSJowl.li/yONRx