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The Week's Links: December 23, 2012

All the links posted on social networks this week:

  • 6 Simple Rituals To Reach Your Potential Every Day 
  • lorempixel - placeholder images for every case 
  • Writers’ Houses Gives You a Virtual Tour of Famous Authors’ Homes 
  • 6 Simple Yoga Stretches for Daily De-Stressing 
  • Random Mornings: A random serving of a Creative Morning from around the world. So great. 
  • Responsive Web Design Patterns 
  • Is The Internet Awake? 
  • The 10 best podcasts for designers 
  • Rebranding Santa Claus 
  • Nobody Knows What Intelligence Is, Because Intelligence and IQ Are Not the Same Thing 
  • The Web We Lost - Anil Dash 
  • 17 Things I Learned From Reading Every Last Word of The Economist's "The World in 2013" Issue 
  • George Yu's Node Gadget Can Measure Anything 
  • How fake images change our memory and behaviour 
  • Beautiful: Vibrant Skies 
  • Will This Be the Museum of the Future? 
  • Tadao Cern’s wind-in-the-face series: What 186 MPH of Wind in the Face Looks Like 
  • 55555, or, How to Laugh Online in Other Languages 
  • Journalism & Web done right: Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek - Multimedia Feature - NYTimes.com 
  • Describing Colors To Blind People 
  • The Long, Strange History of Christmas Carols 
  • 12 Mind Blowing Number Systems From Other Languages 
  • Do We Want the World to End? Is Santa Like Wrestling? & Other Relevant Questions
  • 8 logo revisions that had people howling 
  • What is Motion Design ? ( A Primer ) 
  • From Virgil to Beyoncé: 5 Great Moments of Artistic Patronage 
  • Why Did Humans Start Eating Cheese in the First Place? 
  • The Associated Press: New-found tale could be Hans Christian Andersen's 
  • Book Patrol: America's 100 largest libraries are getting larger 
  • Hey, Look At These Beautiful Glass Sculptures! Wait, Those Are Snowflakes 
  • Never Brainstorm with a "Blank Slate" 
  • The Power of Concentration & Mindfulness
  • Saul Bass Poster Sketches for Stanley Kubrick’s ‘The Shining’ 
  • Fantastic: Natural History Museum: Treasures posters 
  • 12 English Letters That Didn’t Make the Alphabet 
  • Khoi Vinh: It All Started With Comic Books 
  • Why does The Nutcracker cause such enduring fascination. 
  • Start Hoarding Your Beans, Thanks to Climate Change, $7 Coffee May Be the Norm 
  • Flower Power, Redefined by Andrew Zuckerman 
  • Before the Civil War, There Were 8,000 Different Kinds of Money in the U.S. 
  • Useful Media vs. Entertaining Media
  • Boredom Didn’t Exist as an Emotion in Darwin’s Days 
  • Gamers Are Better at Robotic Surgery Than Med Students 
  • After Nearly 70 Years, How Do Stealth Planes Stay Stealthy? 
  • The Opposite of the Cloud 
  • Which Best Practice Is Ruining Your Business? - Freek Vermeulen 
  • Workplace Distractions: Here's Why You Won't Finish This Article 
  • Cultivating design thinking in kids 
  • Frost Flowers Blooming in the Arctic Ocean are Found to be Teeming with Life 
  • 7 Young Entrepreneurs Changing The World With Their Businesses 
  • Neil Gaiman Gives Sage Advice to Aspiring Artists 
  • The Thinking Mindset vs. The Doing Mindset: Pick One (And Only One) 
  • The Neuropsychology of Persuasion: 6 Shortcuts to Winning Someone Over 
  • 185+ Very Useful and Categorized CSS Tools, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets 
  • Creativity Top 5: December 18, 2012
  • Just in case you missed it: Gift Ideas For Smarter Creativity 
  • Burberry's Christopher Bailey: Where Marketing, Dreams and Digital Meet 
  • Pentagram’s William Russell: Ten Years with Alexander McQueen  Also: 
  • How old are you? (In Internet Years) 
  • The Bias Against Creatives as Leaders 
  • An office with “library rules” by Jason Fried of 37signals 
  • The Accidental Birth of Wrapping Paper 
  • Storytelling software learns how to tell a good tale 
  • Check out Small Demons, a kind of imdb for books. 
  • The Science Of Productivity
  • The Floppy Disk means Save, and 14 other old people Icons that don't make sense anymore - Scott Hanselman 
  • What to Do When You Fall Back Into Your Old, Less Productive Ways 
  • U.S. patent office considers ending hidden patent ownership 
  • A Defense of Social Media : The New Yorker 
  • PBS Arts: Off Book - Episode 9: Fashion of Artists 
  • 19 handy Google tricks that you weren’t aware of 
  • Michael Dirda on Sherlock Holmes 
  • How to be a creative director 
  • Want To Make Your Environment More Creative? Kill Some Rules. 
  • Worth a revisit: Colours In Cultures 
  • Companies today are increasingly tying people's real-life identities to their online browsing habits. 
  • Videogames Do Belong in the Museum of Modern Art 
  • This Is Your Brain On Holiday Shopping 

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