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Friday Links: The secret power of introverts

• We’ve added pics from last night’s Open House & Spirit Showcase to the Spirit Week album on Facebook.
• This is how you sell products, on the adorable movie about the new red Field Notes notebook.
• The secret power of introverts.
• Five year old analyzes logos.
• In defense of video games: more than just an entertaining time sink.
• You’ve seen the LEGO Moleskine notebooks, right? Please tell me you’ve seen them, they’re awesome.
• Where’s the pixel? Does not work with a dirty monitor. Also it might make your eyes a little wiggy. Finally, lots of fun.
• A peek inside LEGO Headquarters.
• Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Kevin Roberts claims marketing is dead.
• The Flaming Lips have a new song called “Now I Understand” featuring Siri.
• Unreal estate.

Friday Links: Facebook filing for IPO?

• It’s rumored that Facebook will file its IPO next week.
• Twitter says it will censor country-specific tweets.
• Remarkably useful & expressive words that deserve more chances to enrich our language, including transmogrify which always makes me think of Calvin & Hobbes.
• Vintage photos turned into geek icons.
• Who were Fisher and Price?
• David Ogilvy: I am a lousy copywriter.
• 10 Misconceptions Rundown: a video about gum swallowing, seeing things from space, and spiders.
• If you missed it, check out the man behind the Honey Badger.
• Much ado about Google’s new privacy policy.
• The secret language of stamps, delightfully nerdy.

Friday Links: DC Comics launches new brand & Hipster StarWars

• DC Comics unveils new brand (a follow up to this).
• Don’t forget to RSVP for our February 2nd Open House.
• Matt Haughey shares lessons for Kickstarter creators fomr the worse project he ever funded.
• Animated Leo Burnett tells agency “When to take my name of the door”. Highly recommended for people enamored with the history of advertising (and cute animations).
• Hipster StarWars. You know you wanna look. Also, If StarWars were made today, and finally I’ll follow you into the dark, a valentine for your StarWars loving sweetie.
• 12 sci-fi film locations you can actually visit.
• Is new Google the new Coke?
• LEGO slowly revealing Lord of the Rings minifigs.

Friday Links: Triskaidekaphobic edition

• Why Tim O’Reilly is fighting SOPA.
• A follow-up to the illin’-whack controversy, Mike D of the Beastie Boys weighs in on The Colbert Report (much hilarity ensues).
• Don’t forget to RSVP for The Nerdery’s Agile webinar coming up Tuesday, January 17 & Thursday, January 19.
• We’ve all had our cell phones go off at inopportune times, but nothing is as bad as when it happened at the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday.
• What’s up with the weather?
• Star Trek vs StarWars: Which is better?
• Attention Design Nerds! PBS has posted the Charles & Ray Eames documentary.
• Why JRR Tolkien never won a Nobel prize.
• Ending an endless game: an interview with Julian Gough, author of Minecraft’s epic finale.
• Forecasting next week’s Apple education event.
• Lifehacker has the best tech-friendly airports and airlines.
• World’s most stunning beauty product: Fotoshop by Adobe.
• The magic & madness of the creative process.

Friday Links: Whiskey advertisers knew the future?

• Men who plan beyond tomorrow: How 1940s whiskey ads predicted the cell phone, the 3D movie, videoconferencing, and sports bars…and a bunch of stuff that hasn’t happened yet.
• 13 Simpsons’ jokes that actually came true.
• 10 New Year’s resolutions for designers.
• Why marketers love QR codes and consumers do not. They forgot to mention that perhaps we consumers don’t want to be marketed to every waking moment of our entire lives.
• “Inspired” by Apple, a tumblr blog.
• Read the 1958 memo Leo Burnett sent to his agency. In case you need a refresher, Burnett is the man who, “had a hand in creating, amongst many other things, the Jolly Green Giant, Tony the Tiger, and Marlboro Man.”
• Batman meets Dr. Seuss.
• Remember Douchey Account Guy? Well now there’s a response: F—ing Creatives. (If you find the f— word offensive and/or distasteful, you might not want to visit that link. If you find it hilarious, visit away).
• How one startup got 100,000 users in two days.

Friday Links: So long 2011 edition

• How your privacy will be invaded in 2012.
• Do you want to see a picture featuring 340 Nintendo characters? Of course you do.
• Recommended resolutions for advertising types, but probably good idea for all office types.
• Gamification sucks.
• 14 of the year’s best ideas in interface design.
• Brand New has the the worst and the best identities of 2011.
• Reddit’s Top 20 popular pics of 2011.
• Short order designer notepads are kind of awesome.
• The 8 Worst print ads of 2011. Warning: You will be offended.
• 40 most shared articles on Facebook in 2011.

Thursday Links: The Happy Holiday’s edition

• Dear Congress, it’s no longer ok to not know how the Internet works.
• Zeus Jones serves up 50% packaging, 50% app, 100% scotch.
• The 5 hardest jobs to fill in 2012.
• the Lost Mail Order Mysteries or how totally disappointing that stuff advertised in the back of comic books is.
• How to get to Mordor from the Shire.
• Desingineer the mythical person every startup is looking for.
• Good for a chuckle: douchey account guy.
• The ultimate Dr. Who Timeline.
• Can an iPad app make you more productive and inspired?
• AdWeek presents 2011′s best & worst agency holiday cards.

A video tribute to Calvin & Hobbes’ snow men

Friday Links: Google Zeitgeist 2011

• Today’s the last day to Give Toys for Tots and remember the Bucklin Boys.
• Google Zeitgeist 2011 (aka The Year of Rebecca Black).
• 10 documentaries tailor-made for nerds.
• What A List Apart readers learned about the web in 2011.
• You know you want it, StarWars Nutcracker.
• Gifts for your Design Snob Best Friend.
• The messy art of UX sketching.
• Anatomy of an advertising emergency.
• An open letter to writers of open letters.
• The woman behind the iconic “Let’s get Mikey” ad for Life cereal has died. So has the co-creator of Captain America. Also, Christopher Hitchens.
• Okay, now that you’re sufficiently bummed out, here’s a penguin fetching a newspaper.

Probably the best year-end list ever: The year in pictures in LEGO

So much brilliance to choose from. I had to go with Pepper Spray Cop.

Hop on over to The Guardian to see them all.