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 Roomba Art Pool on Flickr (above).

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party (video).

Why do we often care more about imaginary characters than real people? A new book suggests that fiction is crucial to our survival as a species.

Everything Tracy Jordan Said in Season 3 of 30 Rock.

Danger Mouse to release blank CD after record label EMI reportedly cancelled his new album.

The coming wave of cellphone novels, Twitter fiction, sudden fiction, and flash fiction.

How using gestures can make you smarter.

The duplicability of recordings has had another unexpected effect. The pressure is on to develop content that isn’t easily copyable—so now everything other than the recorded music is becoming the valuable part of what artists sell.

Yudo announces 8Bitone Retro 8-bit Synthesizer + Sequencer for iPhone/iPod Touch.

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.

Be a Music Geek Ninja with Electronic Music Programming in Pd. We heart Pd, because it’s open source—though perpetually on our To Learn list.

Wacom Intros New DJ Touch-Sensitive Nextbeat Consoles: looks sweet.

Tea Cup Stool: want.

Computer security expert Bruce Schneier gives his vision of the challenges facing society because of technology.

Old Growth Media And The Future Of News, by Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air and Everything Bad is Good for You.

How to Switch from Personal to Business Branding, because you know, you might want to take a day off or sell your company and retire some day.