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.

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

Turn Nocturnal (above) is a great online shop of type-related apparel.

Incredible 3D isometric map of Hong Kong.

Amon Tobin and the Music of ‘Infamous’ (YouTube).

The New Negroponte Switch: designing things that think they are servies and services that think they are things.

MUJI Global.

Akai APC40 Hacking Guide.

HTML 5: Could it kill Flash and Silverlight? Here’s hoping…

Design mind issue 10: Power, by frog design.

Lady Gaga wants to restore an aura of magic and mystery to the pop star.

Top Gear ‘Throughly Tests’ a Ford Fiesta (YouTube).

Lewis Hyde and The Enclosure of Silence.

Design is the Problem: An Interview with Nathan Shedroff.

All maps advocate.

R&D 2.0: Fewer Engineers, More Anthropologists.

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.