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I love Photoshop, and going through detailed tutorials is an incredible way to build your skills. This is an incredible list of great tutorials.
50 Excellent Digital Photography Photoshop Tutorials | Tutorials | Smashing Magazine

WIRED is a great blog, and they have a list of top ten clean breakthroughs for 2008. It’s an excellent list. I think they forgot one very, very important one – Gas going to $4/gallon. Of course, it also went back down, but for that period, everyone was interested in clean tech, [...]

Good – Tax breaks for people who bike to work.
Silly/Moronic – The tax break goes to the company. The company decides if and how to pass it on.
I suppose the idea is that with the tax break, companies will be incentivized to provide better facilities or other benefits to bike commuters, but there is no [...]

Seeing lot’s of cool bike related ideas lately.
This guy outlines a way to use reflective tape to make your entire bike reflective, without looking horrible.  i think this could be cool for all kind of applications, not just bike.  I used to paddle my sea kayak at night all the time, and things like this [...]

Cool rack for storing 5 bikes.  only $25, and free standing, so great for places where permanant mounts would be frowned upon.
$25 Rack stores five bicycles!

I love Gmail and many other google products. My wife calls me, probably accurately, a Google fanboy. But I’ve always felt that Google Calendar could be better integrated into Gmail. You’ve been able to add a puny side bar for a while, but I wanted more. Using the experimental Firefox add-on [...]

If you’ve ever wondered why we should support NASA (tongue somewhat in cheek here) check out this awesome list of 10 products derived or developed from NASA research. Click through to Wired’s original article for the links.

Life’s DHA and ARA
Algae- and fungus-based baby formula additives that are chock-full of brain-developing fatty acids.
Liquidmetal
A unique [...]

I do a lot of research online.  Having the right tool can make it much simpler.  I’ve been using Google Notebook for several years, and have been really happy with it.  Get the Firefox extension, and taking a note is as simple as highlighting the text/images you want to save, and right-clicking and choosing “Note [...]

In the relatively short time I’ve been keeping this blog, I’ve reviewed a few different online photo editors. Daily Gyan has done a nice roundup of 10 photo editors.  Unfortunately, they don’t really cover the pros and cons of each one, but if you want to try some, this would be a good place to [...]

Sometimes I feel like a shill for Google.   But they just keep introducing cool, free tools.  This isn’t really anything that will increase productivity, and certainly isn’t a new tool, but for those of us that spend a lot of time in Gmail, a little eye candy to freshen up the look is nice.   Google [...]