This week’s tasty tidbits from the business and technology front, as well as other recommended links:

• Tough Talk for Tough Times: What the CEO Should Be Saying Now — Guy Kawasaki offers tips for demonstrating that you, as a small business owner, are clueful and on top of things.
• USB Stress Ball Allows You To Virtually Strangle Your Enemies — A fun new toy for all-important stress relief!
• America’s Most Wired Cities — Forbes surveyed the nation and compiled a list of the most wired cities. #1: Seattle!
• What Plato Can Teach Us About Social Media — “Plato’s dialogues and approach to conversation are practically a blueprint for online engagement. Here’s five quick point about why that might be…”
• 10 Brilliant Multi Level Navigation Menu Techniques — “Brilliant” is a bit of an oversell, but there are some good ideas here for web designers looking to organize their site’s content in a clean, coherent way.
• List Your Business on Google Maps, Yahoo Local & More — GetListed.org helps your business take advantage of free local listings in the major search engines.
• Communicating with code — FriendFeed (and former Google) programmer Paul Buchheit explains why fast prototyping and constant iteration is the key to successful development.
• Hacking Road Signs Is Frightningly Easy and Funny — Not to mention illegal, of course, but this example is still quite funny.