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The Week's Links (10.9.11)

All the links posted to Facebook and Twitter (@) this week: 

  • “Stay hungry. Stay foolish.” Steve Jobs owl.li/1f08l3
  • Steve Jobs, 1955 – 2011 owl.li/6OVk7 Wired’s Steven Levy writes a beautiful and insightful eulogy.
  • The Man Who Inspired Jobs - NYTimes.com owl.li/6RLYR A great bit of unknown history.
  • Apple The Crazy Ones - NEVER BEFORE AIRED 1997 with Steve’s narration. Inspiring owl.li/6PCcL
  • How to make movies of what the brain sees owl.li/6ElMl
  • Habits form when brainwaves slow down owl.li/6KVR5
  • Wiring the Brain: How Viruses Can Be Engineered to Trace Neural Connections owl.li/6ElK5
  • 10 Stories Behind Dr. Seuss Stories on the 20th Anniversary of His Deathowl.li/6Ehan
  • BBC Dimensions: How Many Really? owl.li/6EgjS Great. Compares the # of people in historical events to the # of people in your life.
  • Storytelling: digital technology allows us to tell tales in innovative new waysowl.li/6EqEv
  • The Vignelli Subway Map Goes Digital : The New Yorker owl.li/6Eh2Y
  • Mobile HTML5 - compatibility tables for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Symbian, iPad and other mobile devices owl.li/6KVSi
  • 50+ Articles to Make You a Better Web Designer owl.li/6Egcf
  • The evolution of the web owl.li/6DVEd
  • The Original Creators: Philip K. Dick owl.li/6J4mC
  • The Last Words Of 25 Famous Dead Writers owl.li/6GmSc
  • Audi Engineers a Metal Hummingbird for A6 Avant Spot owl.li/1eZAlN
  • Good art is a kind of magic. owl.li/6Em4O DFW vs. Franzen vs. Vonnegut. /via @daringfireball
  • Danger Planet, An Animated Sci-Fi Short owl.li/6Cq8O
  • The 12 coolest libraries in the world owl.li/6IJWH
  • The Rise and Rise of Datanomics - CNBC Business owl.li/6Gn7q
  • The Next Great American Consumer: Infants to 3-Year-Olds owl.li/6KVVi
  • The 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating owl.li/6GmZ6
  • PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 6: Street Art owl.li/1eYxZr
  • TED Announcing Ads Worth Spreading, year 2 owl.li/6N9FH
  • Classical Music’s ‘Genius’ Grant Recipients Pause to Reflect owl.li/6N8JX
  • Felicia Day on Being Creatively Bored and Developing Her Own Projectowl.li/6Gm5O
  • Twelve strategies for achieving your goals from the book Willpowerowl.li/6EggL
  • Forthcoming Tome ‘Mad Women’ Will Tell Other Side of Story owl.li/6MVtV
  • Rob Schwartz: The New Golden Age of Advertising Icons owl.li/6MTbN
  • Adobe Preparing to Launch Six New Creativity Apps for Tablets owl.li/6MvIm
  • Creativity Top 5: October 3, 2011 owl.li/1eXQvo
  • Adobe Acquires Web Typography Innovator Typekit owl.li/6MoOGPerhaps this will contribute to better web typography going mainstream.
  • Boston Globe creates a Twitter board for the newsroom owl.li/6EqH0
  • The Twelve Attributes of a Truly Great Place to Work owl.li/6KWb4
  • Childhood being eroded by modern life, experts warn owl.li/6Eh6Q
  • Beth Comstock: You Have To Tell A Story, Before You Can Sell A Storyowl.li/1eXt7A
  • HEY WHIPPLE » Please give this essay your full attention. owl.li/6EfHBDo you suffer from continuous partial attention?
  • Project Classroom: Transforming Our Schools for the Future owl.li/6BNn1