The New York Times Magazine has a great new feature full of interesting little write-ups on the best innovations of 2009. Titled The Ninth Annual Year in Ideas, all of it is really well-designed and illustrated, just as online information should be (but rarely is). You can navigate through the ideas alphabetically or with handy tags & icons in Business, Design, Natural Science, Technology, etc.

One example of a good idea is The Cul-de-Sac Ban:

Virginia expects the new rules to relieve its strained infrastructure budget: through streets are more efficient and cheaper to maintain, and they take pressure off arterial roads that otherwise need to be widened.