Hyped: The Week In Links 12/9

This week marked Georges Méliès’ 150th birthday, and to celebrate, guest columnist Helen Papagiannis crowned him the ” the patron saint of Augmented Reality (AR)” on our blog. Julius Von Bismark became CERN’s first artist-in-residence, it’ll be interesting to see the creative fruit him and his science mentors bear. Vintage computers managed a pretty amazing cover of “House of the Rising Sun” and we welcomed Jamie xx as a new Creator.

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the web…

· How do you make a live multichannel audiovisual mix of a bustling city of over 7 million people? Pretty much like this.

· 42: Have scientists at CERN discovered the Higgs boson? Rumors are afoot that at a seminar next Tuesday they’ll reveal some details about this mysterious particle that is supposedly the missing piece of The Standard Model that explains the universe.

· Algorhythm: Finnish artist Ville-Matias Heikkila is using the output of simple computer programs on an infinite loop to create music. And now he needs your help to investigate it further.

· Nintendo’s other mascot, Shigeru Miyamoto, steps down. Or maybe not.

· Pulp Fiction in chronological order, meaning the movie starts with the Christopher Walken scene. “Little man…” [via]

· The good old days: Google+, Facebook and YouTube recreated by Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied as they might’ve looked circa 1997. “Best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.03 and a screen resolution of 1024×768 pixels, running under Windows 95”.