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5 days worth of quick links:

• Not weird at all: David Lynch talks to a Barbie head about his coffee - laughing squid
• The first words ever published in the Guardian:”Taken up a black, newfoundland bitch” – Guardian
• David Byrne discusses how Architecture shapes Music – open culture
• Words and photography by Gus VanSant - juxtapoz
• Children have memories from when they were as young as 18 months old; they just forget them when they grow up – bbc
• The kindness of Quentin Tarantino: Rock on Sarah – letters of note
• Minnesota: the hipster state – buzzfeed
• An ode to worn out gadgets – design mind

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Mostly things from the past in this selection of links:

• “I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat—don’t ask, it’s a long story” and other pretentious quotes from Gwyneth Paltrow’s cookbook – eater
• Truly interesting: what is newsgathering, what is curating, what is piracy? – boingboing
• Nostalgia: Commodore 64 is back on the market (same exterior, new processor) - New York Times
• In other retro news, 100 Atari games come to the iPhone and iPad – boingboing
• And in other iPad news, here is a gallery of the best iPad self-portraits – mashable
• 600 year old stone markers Japan offer tsunami advice, like: “Always be prepared for unexpected tsunamis. Choose life over your possessions and valuables.” – GOOD.is

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Quick links:

• “If every single bee disappeared…humanity would also die out within four years” – good.is
• An ode to Japanese creativity – Core77
• The biggest egoists on Twitter – uproxx
• The emotion vending machine – The Creators Project
• When to drop Google and prefer some other search engine – Lifehacker
• The best April Fool prank: the cartridge that turns every film camera to digital – re35 via popphoto
• This is what the world would look like if every country’s area was proportionate to its population – I love charts

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Some bad news, but mostly good news and a positive vibe:

• Where do the young and educated want to live? (infograph) – GOOD.IS
• Tragic irony: Japanese tsunami survivors sheltered in a nuclear power plant - boingboing
• In the mean time, it’s a new, carefree dawn for the wildlife at Chernobyl (audio) – gruenrekorder via boing boing
• TweetWhen is a web app that tells you when your tweets get the most retweets (we do on fridays around 5pm) – TweetWhen
• Kinda creepy: Google to launch app that scans a face and then finds the person’s google profile (including their contact details) - mashable
• Honest, down-to-earth, inspiring advice: “how to steal like an artist (9 other things that nobody told me)” – austin kleon via drawn
• Now I feel old. An exhibition to celebrate South Park’s 15th birthday – lost at E minor

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Jeff Koons gets the video game treatment, Time Zones get analyzed and religion falls out of fashion:

• Jeff Koons Must Die, the video game - Hunter Jonakin via boingboing
• What if Angry Birds were an action movie directed by Michael Bay (video) – the curious brain
• The fascinating and often absurd convention of Time Zones – BBC
• Rare Beatles photos – npr
• Since Radiohead published a newspaper (The Universal Sigh), Guardian writers are challenging them at their game, by covering Creep – Guardian
• Are symmetrical faces more beautiful? – toxel via holykaw
• 50% of tweets come from 0,05% of users – mashable
• Is religion falling out of fashion? – Discovery news
• Sex is no accident (MTV’s safe sex campaign) – buzzfeed
• This blogger asks his favorite authors to sign their books. The twist? Instead for dedications he asks for insults – insulted by authors via flavorwire
• Read it horizontally, read it vertically; the genius of Lewis Caroll - i love charts

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Pure randomness today:

• What do Liberia, Myanmar and the United States of America have in common? They are the only 3 countries in the world not to use the metric system – Gizmodo
• Our sense of smell might be explained by quantum physics – BBC
• The end of the telephone? – The New York Times
• An argument against earth hour – good.is
• 8-bit deaths (video) – Vulture
• Google.uk’s Think Quarterly: the data issue – Think Quarterly
• Types of typsos – Rosscott, Inc.

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A bitter-sweet mix of links:

• Too close for comfort? Portraits by Martin Schoeller – live journal
• Love is like an app store – diesel sweeties
• The facebook you vs the real you – comical concept
• Civilization has something similar: a video of all the major historical events (according to Wikipedia) in 100 seconds – ragtag
• In the same vein, an infograph of every person who has ever lived – la femme belletrist
• Nuclear boy suffers from gas (video) – youtube
• David Lynch’s hair compared to art masterpieces – world of wonder
• The answer to the burning question: “what is better, a facebook like or a tweet?” – mashable
• Meet the world’s busiest extra who’s credits include tv shows like , glee, curb your enthousiasm, arrested development, and movies like the social network, catch me if you can and spiderman (video) - vulture
• Despite recent criticism, more designers have created art inspired but the recent disaster in Japan – design for japan tumblr
• But none as strong as these radioactive cherry blossoms on the cover of New Yorker – kottke

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The Beatles, Social Media and more Japan aid:

• For mixtape nostalgics: Stereolizer is the app that turns your iPad into an 80′s cassette player – wired
• Etsy users find themselves exposed to world as a result of the new privacy policy – boingboing
• Taking a stand on the McCartney – Lennon feud – Though Catalog
• In other Beatles news Apple files to trademark the old Beatles Apple Logo – patently apple
• Fear of missing out in the social media – caterina.net via swissmiss
• Isn’t that a surprise: poor countries have more digital piracy – boingboing
• Happy people stick together in Twitter (so do the miserable also) – mashable
• The history of web browser (infograph) – bit rebels
• More designers come to the aid of Japan – this is colosal & imprint

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Blogs, stamps, philosophers, libraries, Google Earth and what’s-his-name:

• A brief history of blogging – web designer depot
• The end of the stamp. From April Denmark will start replacing postage stamps with mobile text messages – quipsologies
• I have a Philosophy degree. I’m in good company – Raymont’s Lists
• Japanese librarians document the damage after the earthquake and tsunami – togetter
• Qaddafi. Qazzafi. Qadhdhafi. Qaththafi. Gadhdhafi. Khadafy. Gazafy. Hizzafizzle. Schlebaffi. LOLdaffy - boingboing
• This music video by Lux Repeat, directed by Bartholomäus Traubeck, is made entirely by Google Earth images – fastcodesign

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It’s been a long time:

• Passive aggressive emails in the business context are equivalent to drunk dialing in the relationship context: initially gratifying and eventually terrifying. And unavoidable when you are heating up in anger. But worry no more, there’s an app for that too: the ToneCheck plugin for Outlook – mashable
• Half (!) of German doctors prescribe placebos – Guardian
• If you judge a movie by its opening sequence, here are the top 50 movies of all time – IFC
• Compare people and other fallen Facebook fads from the old days – Think Catalog
• Take good care of your books, please - apartment therapy
• What happens to subway trains when they grow old? They become marine reefs – fastcodesign
• The parallels between the Qaddafi family and the Bluth family of Arrested Development – The New Republic
• It was bound to happen. After movie bar codes, here is every second of Star Wars, organized by luminosity - Jason Salavon

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The longest list yet:

• Did you accidentally wash your USB stick with your laundry? Well, everybody else has too – Gizmodo
• Nearly half of Americans uses Facebook, only 7% use Twitter – mashable
• Will it catch on? Free, augmented reality iPhone app – alltop
• The long-awaited Oscars infographs – mashable
• Design and order online a little black dress (described also as Fembot meets John Galliano) – fastcodesign
• 1 million workers. 90 million iPhones. 17 suicides. Who’s to Blame? – wired
• The best films-within-films – shortlist
• Meet the 26-year-old who bypassed publishing companies and made millions by selling her books directly on kindle – business insider
• Meanwhile, somebody else is writing a book and posting it page by page on lamp posts in NYC - nymag
• Algorithmic columns – boingboing

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Radiohead’s new album generates the latest web meme, and other news:

• Listen to a (huge) medley consisting of 5 sec samples of all number 1 singles in history, up to 1992 – BuzzFeed
• Good typography helps clarify everything, even Kanye West’s mind – brain pickings
• How to built your own Stonehenge with IKEA instructions – designboom
• Until recently MoMA featured only one typeface in its permanent collection: Helvetica. Now it acquired two dozens digital typefaces. See a slide show of the 11 most important ones – fastcodesign
• Dancing Thom is the new Sad Keanu – dancingthom
• The King of Limbs review: Are Radiohead the only band that makes so many fans turn quite so studiously patient and open-minded – vulture
• Poignant anti-Berlusconi, anti-censorship ad – Lost at E minor
• United States of America as movies – reddit

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Stories that came up during the week:

• Are we the only ones on this earth to have heard of Arcade Fire? See twitter reactions from people who were REALLY surprised of their win in the Grammys – who is Arcade Fire
• After Google’s Art Project, here is street art view: graffiti from all over the world put on Google Maps – street art view
• 10 artists who work with video games – boingboing
• WTF: the little girl on the cover of Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese Dream is their new bass player – kottke
• Science breakthrough: software that prints photos for the blind – msnbc
• The trailer for Harumi Murakami’s Norwegian Wood movie adaptation is finally here:

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Tuesday links:

• Double meanings: the egyptian presidency website is under construction – egyptian presidency via boingboing
• Knowledge is not dead: global data are more than 295 billion gigabytes – bbc
• Facebook pretty much owns all the photos in the universe (ah! and women upload twice as many photos as men) – mashable
• Play the Great Gatsby but mind the waiters – great Gatsby game
• Paris, London, Beijing, and Barcelona through typefaces (videos) – albin holmovist
• Ridley Scott and 9 other directors who sold out – flavorwire
• 20 years since Twin Peaks: the exhibition – in the trees art preview

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To sum things up:

• We’ve recently seen footage of an Amazonian uncontacted tribe what other uncontacted tribes are there, though? – wired
• The most influential twitter users in the arab world – Kovas Boguta
• 10 best film noir posters – where danger lives
• The many faces of Woody Allen – FlowingData
• Lazy archaeologists now use Google Maps – boingboing
• We’ve seen what goes in our favorite cocktails, now we’ve put them under the microscope, only to discover a beautiful, psychedelic microcosmos – bevshots via  npr

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It’s that time again:

• Organized crime is the world’s largest social network – wired
• Do you feel squeezed? Cubicles are becoming (even) smaller – Time
• Are you obscene? – via csandis
• The role of virtual worlds in a changing arab world – mashable
• Before there were computers, there were women: Top Secret Rosies  - boingboing
• Watch the world getting fatter infront of your eyes (interactive infograph) – Washington Post
• Isn’t it tweet? Tweets as animated love stories – creative review
• Redemption song: Tokyo, Kinshasa, Livorno, Kingston, St. Ann, Chennai, Mamallapuram, Sao Vicente – open culture

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Miscellanea:

• Discover for yourself how easy it is to become unemployed and homeless in the US. Play Spent. – spent
• One week before its official release, you can listen to PJ Harvey’s new album Let England Shake in its entirety online – npr
• In the same vein, and just for 48 hours, you can download the Strokes’ new single “Under Cover of Darkness” for free (starting Feb. 9) – the strokes
• BTW, what is the most pirated media? Hint: it’s not music - design taxi
• Why the Twitter Whale and other “cute” fail pages are a design and service crime – fastcodesign
• What kind of Twitter user are you? – thought catalog
• We can now see both sides of the sun, at the same time – dvice
• You’ve seen the Mondrian cake, now see what an algorithm created Mondrian-like painting looks like – kottke

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What you might have missed during the weekend:

• Remember what Facebook looked like 7 years ago (when it was still called TheFacebook)? – mashable
• Facebook is the Internet – think vitamin
• The largest ever Syd Barrett exhibition – lost at E minor
• What are antifeatures? – boingboing
• There are still uncontacted tribes in the Amazon. What is the ethical choice, to contact them or not? - open culture / the guardian

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Mainly about Internet, but some other stuff too:

• Time to panic, the web is running out of addresses – The Wall Street Journal
• Everybody googles their exes – New York Post
• Don’t drink and go online – Thought Catalog
• The blog is dead, long live the blog – The Observer
• Ringo the brand. Ringo Starr trademarks his name - New York Mag
• Mobile device rehab - 99%
• How does Beethoven vibrate through milk? – Lost at E Minor
• Mondrian and other, Art-inspired cakes – Atypical Type A

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Some laughs, some art, some beautiful Polaroids:

• Clean. Simple. Wet. Water by Apple – scoopertino
• Arrested Development paper dolls. LOL – flannel animal
• Most Wikipedia contributors are men – ny mag
• Van Gogh’s paintings as pie-charts – boing boing
• Francis Ford Coppola and the death of copyright: “Art will be free” – 99%
• Academic overachiever and notorious multitasker James Franco has his own college course – movieline
• Your favorite color is actually determined by whether you are near-sighted or far-sighted – design taxi
• Nostalgia. Tarkovsky’s Polaroids – riowang (thanks go to our friend George S. for the tip)