Our favorite tweets of the week: June 2, 2014 – June 8, 2014

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Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week.

Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out.

To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot

Watch how eerily Microsoft’s smart home of 1999 predicts our lives today http://bit.ly/1i1VXdo

Out in the Open: The Little-Known Open Source OS That Rules the Internet of Things http://www.wired.com/2014/06/contiki/

How Pentagram Rebranded The World’s Largest Book Publisher http://bit.ly/1kN4wIQ

Times New Roman is the World’s Most Famous Typeface http://bit.ly/1kPPrpL  /@Gizmodo

GitHub cofounder’s next startup is a non-profit that helps kids learn to code http://bit.ly/1j4Yh3r

Painting with Code: How generative art reveals new possibilities in visual expression and design http://labs.ideo.com/2014/06/04/painting-with-code/

Introducing a new platform for storytelling http://depot.ly/xEV3g

Opinion via @CNN: Why we developed Google Glass http://depot.ly/xEUwe

Instagram adds 10 new features, so anyone can be a photo geek http://depot.ly/xBFQ1  via @mashable

Coca-Cola launches “2nd Lives” to encourage the reuse of plastic http://depot.ly/xBFIK

Adorable illustrations by Yeka Haski http://depot.ly/xBEFb  via @CreativeBloq

Are you prepared against a hack? http://depot.ly/xBxyO

The 44 best #typography #apps – http://ow.ly/xyWzK  via @BrushLovers

Cool article from @smashingmag: Hands On With The Sigmund Freud Typeface: Making A Font For Your Shrink http://depot.ly/xyXa2

Nice news from @CreativeBloq: Pixar to release its rendering software for #free http://depot.ly/xyWnD

The Hidden Benefits of Remote Research http://ow.ly/xzU59

40 maps that explain the internet http://depot.ly/xyVgG  *Interesting read

Cool: Northern Shadow is a citybuilding first-person RPG http://depot.ly/xwnke

Interesting: Twitter to Release All Tweets to Scientists http://depot.ly/xwn3r

Classcraft makes the classroom a giant role-playing game http://depot.ly/xwmea  via @venturebeat

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Source

• The Late, Great Scientist And Educator Carl Sagan Left Us A Critical Message – “Required Reading for the Course”…
• Centrica Boss: My main focus is not on grabbing land, it’s on the Bowland shale
• Clouds on the Horizon [The Weizmann Wave]
• Dry Mesa Brachiosaurus cervical in dorsal view
• Ancient Mysteries Surrounded By Supernatural Forces In The Buzau Mountains
• Shin-Au-Av: Secret Ancient Underground City Hidden Beneath Death Valley
• Unsolved Mystery Of The Giant Footprints Outside The Ain Dara Temple
• Ancient Book Bound In Human Skin Confirmed
• Whatcha Playing?: Dokuro by GungHo Online Entertainment
• Wooster’s Fossil of the Week: A fragment of an asteroid (the sea star kind) from the Upper Cretaceous of Israel