Jamaican Asafa Powell, sets a news 100m world record by clocking 9.74 seconds, breaking his own previous record of 9.77 seconds.

As part of their one year anniversary Smashing Magazine is giving away Anivers, a free font; and Smashing Theme, a free WordPress theme.

Sounds more like Amazon is remodeling a house, but take look at some of the design changes coming soon to the Amazon website.

37Signals breaks down the alikeness of plant growth and software growth.

A neat twist to photoshop tennis: Veer creative team puts together a lighbox of 6 images/types, invites two designers to compete based on a theme and using images/types from the lightbox.

Ninja | Mad Scientist | Fembot

In an open letter to the poor souls who spent $599 on an iPhone, Steve Jobs explains the risks one takes in being early adopters of technology, and eases their pain and suffering by giving back $100.

“He who Binds Himself to a Joy
Does the winged life destroy
He who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in Eternity’s sunrise”
-William Blake

Charles H. Traub’s long list of do’s and don’ts of photography, including truisms.

- Do Bend your knees
- Don’t do it about yourself—or your friend—or your family
- Photographers are the only creative people that don’t pay attention to their predecessors work—if you imitate something good, you are more likely to succeed

Snook, shares his experience and opinion about building a twitter like application (snitter) with Adobe AIR.

Over 170 suggestions, tips and ideas from well-knows web developers, by Smashing Magazine

Creativebits shares a few branding resources found on the DHL website.