Cool Stuff

VR and Modeling

Blender 3D creations --  http://www.blender.org/

Pro Forma Rapid Modeling and Rendering, Pan Qi -- http://mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/~qp202/my_papers/BMVC09/

Virtual Reality Panoramas, Brian Greenstone  -- http://www.panomundo.com/panos/index.html

Saint Martin Cathedral VR Web view  --  http://www.qtbridge.com/pleinpot/gallery_pleinpot/SaintMartin/p01.html

Photography

Apple's Inside the Image Science --  http://www.apple.com/science/insidetheimage/

High Dynamic Range, HDR imaging  --  http://qtpfsgui.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php

Virtual Reality Panoramas, Brian Greenstone  -- http://www.panomundo.com/panos/index.html

Saint Martin Cathedral VR Web view  --  http://www.qtbridge.com/pleinpot/gallery_pleinpot/SaintMartin/p01.html

Canon Powershot Unleashed (Hacked)  --  http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/CHDK

Hugin - Panorama photo stitching  --  http://hugin.sourceforge.net/

Highest Definition Digital Movie Camera  --  http://www.red.com/shot_on_red

Satellite Imagery  --  http://wmt.jpl.nasa.gov/landsat.cgi

Cool People

Anil Dash  -- http://dashes.com/anil/about.html

 -- http://dashes.com/anil/2009/11/the-web-in-danger.html

Binny VA -- http://www.bin-co.com/blog/

 --http://binnyva.blogspot.com/2007/03/using-twitter-part-1-command-line.html

Tim O'Reilly  --  http://radar.oreilly.com/

 --  Web 2.0 http://www.oreillynet.com/lpt/a/6228

 --  http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/03/state-of-internet-operating-system.html

Paul Schmehl - UT-Dallas -- http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/

Bruce Schneier - Security - http://www.schneier.com/

Gordon Lyon, aka fyodor - http://insecure.org

Bob Young, Red Hat, lulu, open source - http://www.linux.com/archive/feed/49449

Bernard Treo --  http://cutedgesystems.com/weblog/Tutorials/OfficeMac.html

Marc Liyanage  --  http://www.entropy.ch/home/

Dan Gillmor, new media journalism  --  http://dangillmor.com/

Wil Jon Shipley  -- http://www.wilshipley.com/blog/  http://www.delicious-monster.com/

Gene Spafford, CERIAS, Purdue --  http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/site/blog/author/spaf/

Many Ayromlou  -- http://www.nerdlogger.com/

Frank Furedi  --  http://www.frankfuredi.com/  

 --  PRECAUTIONARY CULTURE AND THE RISE OF POSSIBILISTIC RISK ASSESSMENT - Scare tactics 101 - http://www.frankfuredi.com/images/uploads/Furedi_-_issue_Pieterman_d.d._27_augustus1.pdf

Education

http://academicearth.org/

http://www.apple.com/education/itunes-u/

Humorous

Don't kill the beast.  To fix complexity, add yet another layer of processes and procedures.  Roger Sessions -- http://objectwatch.com/ 

Multimedia

Audacity audio toolbox  --  http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/

VLC multimedia toolbox --  http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

internet tv for any platform  --  http://www.boxee.tv/

Open Source Radio communications  --  http://gnuradio.org/redmine/wiki/gnuradio

 --http://www.ettus.com/products

Misc

ASF - Apache Software Foundation, among their many "bests", best security incident report ever.  --  https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_org_04_09_2010

Handwriting turned into fonts  --  http://www.yourfonts.com/

Home automation  -- http://www.openremote.org/display/HOME/OpenRemote

An old js fireworks page  --  http://www.maylin.net/Fireworks.html

ocarina - iPhone as a musical instrument  --  http://ocarina.smule.com/

Language courses - public domain  -- http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php

Somewhat dated (timeless?) ideas re tagging and relationships built in to xhtml  --  http://gmpg.org/

Sites

Lyon Airport --  http://www.lyonaeroports.com/  highly styled, sometimes too highly, multi-lingual info site using eZ Publish

Twisted Throttle -- http://twistedthrottle.com  cool eZ Publish e-commerce site

JM Family Enterprises  -- http://jmfamily.com/  it is an aspx site, but don't hold that against it.  Beautiful design and layouts

More sites using eZ Publish  --  http://lakedata.net/index.php/eng/LinkBrain/eZ-Publish/Sites-using-eZ-Publish