The amazing artwork (above) of David Spriggs.

Cercle et suite d’éclats, a large scale outdoor art installation.

“Natural Instincts” art print series by Tes One.

Create Democracy, an interactive exhibition.

Brian Eno three-fer: Eno, Peter Schmidt, and Cybernetics, Harmonia & Eno ‘76 Remix Album, A conversation with Brian Eno.

Roger Penrose says physics is wrong, from string theory to quantum mechanics.

IdeaPaint turns virtually anything you can paint into a dry-erase surface.

Canadian credit union gives people ten-dollar bills to give away.

The polaroid is coming back.

Huge dust storm feeds fish and eats carbon dioxide.

A.V. Club interviews John Crowley on the occassion of the 25th-anniversary of Little Big (above)

We are all mutants say scientists.

Books to read now, from Seed magazine.

Forget design thinking and try hybrid thinking.

Human Centered Design Toolkit from IDEO.

Spirograph, spirographs, spirography.

Get your Philip K. Dick collection boxed set from The Library of America and save $30.

Researchers have imaged single molecules in unprecedented detail, showing the chemical bonds that hold them together.

Camera from Athens: the most artistic vacation photos you’ve never taken.

How freelancers can use active listening to improve business.

Functioning Form: Design at Facebook.

Design Tales: Designing a successful plastic pint glass.

We Are The Friction (above) is a book of illustration and short fiction created by 12 pairs of international writers and illustrators

Hiroshima: The Lost Photographs

A short manifesto on the future of attention.

The mystery of Times New Roma.

Finalists for the 2009 James Dyson Award.

Lessons from slime mold: how to survive and thrive in ever-changing organizational environments.

Top twenty finalists of ReBurbia, a suburban design competition.

Growing ideas in the garden of innovation.

Photos of the last suppers of inmates on death row in the USA.

The Font-as-Service.

Bruce Handy on Mad Men.

Archaeologists are slowly unearthing the ghastly secrets of Cahokia, an ancient city under the American heartland.

Cuddle your electronic gear with Pijama Cases (above).

New DSLR bags from Incase look sweet.

Design your own SIGG bottle at CafePress.

Scientists at Cambridge University have discovered that electrons in quantum-scale wires can break into two smaller particles, called spinons and holons.

The iPhone ecosystem is toxic, says Steven Frank.

Costlier health care is often worse care.

The Function of identity in techno.

Scientists study distinct ecosystem at ocean’s surface.

Get your drinking water from the air.

Track and Field: Drawing from the Arena (above), by Cassandra Jones.

5 Reasons your marketing plan will fail.

New editions of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series let you create your own cover art.

An investigation by The Smoking Gun unmasks the leader of Pranknet and the miscreants behind a year-long wave of phone call criminality.

Nathan Shredoff has released a series of free syllabi and teaching materials to help instructors teach students key topics for the future.

Learn logo design from top brands.

Taking Steps toward zero waste.

Olympus announces LS-11, a compact digital audio recorder.

Get yer grub on with these Aluminum Snack Boxes (above) from SIGG.

Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson.

No Lifeguard On Duty is the name of this beautiful photographic series of abandoned swimming pools by J Bennett Fitts.

The Feast Conference gathers the world’s greatest innovators from across industries and society to empower, inspire and engage each other in creating world-shaking change.

The Forces of User Experience, an expansion on Garrett’s The Elements of User Experience.

“The most unrealistic person in the world is the cynic, not the dreamer. Hope only makes sense when it doesn’t make sense to be hopeful.” Paul Hawken’s 2009 Commencement Address at the University of Portland.

Open Emu is like having a giant visual performance synth made from the tasty innards of classic games.

When companies try to come up with new ideas, they too often look only where they always look.

What Makes Us Happy?

Modern Fire Extinguishers (above) by Fire Design.

Warp20 box set celebrates 20 years of warped goodness.

Photos of Edwardians, or “Teddy Boys”, by Ben Watts.

Mad libs official website.

OneLessOffice suite of products by Heckler Design.

Architecture of energy, by Lebbeus Woods

As the focus of design shifts from the production of finite goods to a practice of experimentation, ideas take precedence over products.

Humanoid Sound Systems releases Scanned Synth Pro for Mac.

Nokia phone charges by drawing energy out of thin air.

Brian Eno interview from Mojo magazine.

To celebrate Yayoi Kusama’s eightieth year, Gagosian Gallery is presenting two major interrelated exhibitions of her recent work (above).

Images of Brian Eno’s recent 77 Million Paintings installation at the Sydney Opera House.

New Math, by Craig Damrauer.

WANT: Neuton CE 6 Rechargeable Lawn Mower.

David Lynch’s new Interview Project.

WANT: Bali 12-Bottle Wine Rack.

Neil Voss’s music generating iPhone puzzler, xgon.

100 Abandoned Houses.

Hulu Desktop beta for Mac OS X.

Use the Mac OS X app Self Control when you need to limit your online temptations.

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.

Decorate your creative suite with hand-made pillows featuring some familiar design app icons (above).

Peruse pics from the First 100 Days in the Official White House Flickr Photostream.

25 years of logos from Duffy & Partners, one of our favorite agencies.

Rickshaw Bagworks’ Large Zero Messenger is cut and sewn from only four rectangles of fabric for zero manufacturing material waste.

Song of the Vine, an illustrated history of wine.

Skip Hulu Commercials with this nifty Greasemonkey script.

Five Ways To Market Yourself During A Recession.

jQuery Style is a resource for all things jQuery.

The history and cover art of science fiction published by Penguin Books from 1935 to 1977.

Babushka (above) is a modern, lit version of the classic Russian Doll. Turn Babushka on and off by pushing down on the top of the light, and watch it faze through its cycle revealing varied colors as it goes.

Field is an open source framework that combines code and visual views for creating dynamic media arts.

NYT food writer Mark Bitman maintains a vegan diet during the day, but says anything goes after 6 p.m.

One of our favorite sketch comedy shows, The State, is finally coming to DVD.

This Belkin surge protector is a great idea for turning off your electronics when they’re inactive.

Check out this Flickr set of vintage beer cans.

Amazing concept artwork from Andree Wallin (despite the huge, annoying site header).

The Teenage Engineering OP-1 is so cool we want one even though we don’t know what it does.

Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek have spent the last 15 years studying the dress codes of social groups and published a book and website featuring their photographs and findings, called Exactitudes.

’241543903′ is the tag for photos of people putting their head in a freezer.

MTV Cherry Girl is an impulsive character, who finds that her actions, which are seemingly self-indulgent, can have a positive effect on the people and environment around her.

Broadcast at Pratt Manhattan Gallery presents a selection of works, dating from the 1960s to the present, that interrupt broadcasting systems in order to examine or challenge the structure, influence, and power of mainstream television and radio.

Cut-up and pasted-together photos of locations in New York depict unseen herds.

J.G. Ballard proves you should live a bit before writing.

DIY camera kit (above) for the crafty geek in all of us.

Herman Miller Replaces the Sample Catalogue With a Smart Web Site; someday we’ll be able to afford such brilliance.

He Charted the Moon Before Galileo, But You’ve Probably Never Heard of Him.

Jenny Holzer’s Protect Protect Show.

The Unreleased Recordings by Hank Williams.

Wrong Tomorrow is a database of provable predictions.

Novation announces SL Mk II; sweetness.

Fantastic design work followed by fantastic increases in newspaper circulation, by Polish newspaper designer Jacek Utko. His advice: “Give power to designers.” Right on!

Get Satisfaction as a Protection Racket.

A 10-month investigation by a team of researchers at the University of Toronto uncovered a broad Chinese espionage scheme that reached into foreign embassies, news services and even the office of the Dalai Lama.

The Top 5 Greenest Laptops.