After missing footage was found in Argentina, Fritz Lang’s “Metropolis” has been restored and its narrative better understood (above).

Oxo Good Grips Designers Take on Tablet Magazines.

How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?

Apple to xplatform developers: We’re no longer suicidal.

Create Your Own Virtual Instruments With Maize Sampler v2.0.

New Alarm Bells About Chemicals and Cancer: eat organic, drink filtered water, avoid plastic containers.

Dear nerd, start a nerd sash with nerd merit badges (nerd).

SKTCH is an interesting generative drawing iPhone app.

The Pattern & Shape project brief was to design a t-shirt using a geometric shape and incorporating pattern (above).

Plants affect ecology from the bottom up.

Raiding Eternity by Joel Johnson.

Michael Lewis writes about a handful of Wall Street outsiders who realized the subprime mortgage business was a house of cards and found a way to bet against it: Part 1, Part 2.

A team of scientists has succeeded in putting an object large enough to be visible to the naked eye into a mixed quantum state of moving and not moving.

Add MoviePeg to your iPhone, adjust the angle and like magic you’ll be in relaxed viewing heaven.

Phone numbers, shortcuts, tips, contact info, reviews, and customer service details for thousands of companies worldwide.

Unlocking the secrets of Jupiter’s Giant Red Spot.

For the first time, researchers harvest raw electric current directly from algae.

Planet Money on NPR tracks its very own toxic asset.

Get Lamp: The Text Adventure documentary looks interesting.

CB2′s new outdoor collection.

Slate ad critic Seth Stevenson tries out a Google service that allows you to run your own commercial on national TV for as little as $100.

MIDIPad turns your iPad into a multi-touch MIDI controller.

Sync/Lost (above) is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music.

Philip K. Dick: A ‘plastic’ paradox. Sneak peek at an upcoming Philip K. Dick film, Radio Free Albemuth.

Steven Frank of Panic Software fame, on the next phase of computing.

Quieting the lizard brain.

The “My” water bottle from Stelton.

Researchers in Japan have shown that a slime mold can design a network in a day that is as efficient as one developed by humans over many years: the Tokyo rail system.

Imagine that instead of having just one wireless carrier, your phone would constantly search for the best connection. An algorithm on your smartphone would assess signal strengths, and balance that with roaming costs, and decide when to switch from one carrier to another.

Humor: Laugh at those quirky, Unhappy Hipster (mostly from the pages of Dwell, it seems).

Hayo Miyazaki’s Ponyo (above), a story inspired by Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale ‘The Little Mermaid.’ (video)

Futurespeak: Shane Hope’s keywords defined.

Gary Hamel on managing Generation Y.

The evidence is growing that privately owned, consumer-driven, small-scale, geographically distributed renewables could deliver a 100% green-energy future faster and cheaper than big power projects alone.

The Sears Tower is going green.

How does our language shape the way we think? by Lera Boroditsky

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s video report from their alien adventure film, Paul

The Dirty Dozen: Top 12 Foods to Buy Organic

2009 Penguin Design Awards

Get yer DIY wall clock (above) from Radius

Watch, discover and discuss independent, foreign and classic films.

Fluxx is a card game with ever-changing rules.

Ready, Set, Green: Eight Weeks to Modern Eco-Living, from the experts at TreeHugger.com

Innovation is a result — not a process.

If we had the moola, we’d snatch-up one of the last remaining copies of this stunning print (above) by LA street/gallery artist RETNA. Hint hint.

The different kinds of people that there are. Funny.

If the newspapers think they’re such hot shit, they should make their own Hulu and stop whining.

A long, rambly exploration of the state of computing with no real conclusion…, by Steven Frank of Panic software.

U2′s Linear is a short-film to accompany their latest release. Yay, Anton Corbijn.

A court rules your MySpace page isn’t private. So, don’t post anything you wouldn’t want published in your home town newspaper without your consent.

Ten graphic design paradoxes.

Paul Frank’s partnership with Bugaboo = two great tastes that go great together.

Denon’s new DP-200USB turntable rips vinyl straight to MP3; no computer required to record and encode, just to edit.

The secrets of making a vinyl record (video).

The secret, social lives of bacteria; they talk to one-another.

Top 10 Myths About Freelancers.

Free Nodal Generative Sequencer, now multi-platform.