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http://www.blender.org/education-help/

Education & Help

Blender's user manual is available online in several languages in wiki format, and is constantly updated by a worldwide collaboration of volunteers every day. You can get involved as an author here . Blender is avaliable cross platform, but utilizes OpenGL for drawing the entire interface.
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Machinima_Content_Companies A Planet Video is a professional machinima company operating full time and exclusively in Second Life.

Machinima Content Companies - Second Life Wiki

Gimp

A few times a each month we revisit some of our reader’s favorite posts from throughout the history of Vectortuts+. This tutorial by Jonathan was first published on April 14th 2010. Merge form and function to create outstanding modern infographics.

How To Create Outstanding Modern Infographics | Vectortuts+

http://vector.tutsplus.com/tutorials/designing/how-to-create-outstanding-modern-infographics/
Fractal/sparkline analogy? http://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=0001OR

Ask E.T.: Sparkline theory and practice

Graphic Art

Blogs

http://www.mapcrunch.com/

MapCrunch - Random Google Street View

Explore the world via Google Street View. MapCrunch teleports you to a random place in the world. It allows you to explore the vast array of imagery captured by Google in over 27 countries, featuring spectacular scenery, magical moments and the utterly unexplainable.
While animated GIFs have been around for a while, they’ve recently been adopted by photographers to add small amounts of looping motion to otherwise still images. It’s no wonder they’ve been seen all over the web lately, as the result is often a quite entrancing moving photograph. If you’re interested in making your own, Photojojo offers a detailed write up of how to make these so-called “cinemagraphs,” from planning the right motion to the final assembly in Photoshop.

Make: Online | How-To: Cinemagraphs

http://blog.makezine.com/2011/06/19/how-to-cinemagraphs/
However, there are not very many good GIF editing programs available for free. Those which are available for free usually have some pretty hefty strings attached, such automatically placing a watermark on the image or requiring that the image size be below some ridiculous standard.

How To Make Animated GIF Images

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-make-an-animated-gif-image-with-gimp/
The print subscribers we lose are typically loyal readers who spent 40-plus minutes with The Post each day and have done so for years. http://gigaom.com/2011/06/12/future-of-media-this-is-no-time-for-incrementalism/

Future of media: This is no time for incrementalism — Tech News and Analysis

Do You Have an E-Mail You Really Don't Want to Write? Hire Someone to Write It for You!

ShameBeGone is a hilarious service that helps people with their e-mail etiquette. http://gizmodo.com/5805191/do-you-have-an-e+mail-you-really-dont-want-to-write-hire-someone-to-write-it-for-you
http://www.team-mediaportal.com/ MediaPortal is a free open source media center software, ideal for turning your PC into a very advanced multimedia center, or Home Theater PC, to view all your digital media in your living room.

MEDIAPORTAL - a HTPC Media Center for free!

The Idea Swap

The Idea Swap lets you take those ideas you got that really didn't come to any use, and exchange them with actual ideas from other people. We in the Hyper Island IAD10 class believe this is a nice way to start the exciting year to come!
Online Generators for Web Designers can be a great way to save time in your web design projects.

40 Online Generators for Web Designers Should Bookmark - tripwire magazine

Smart webmasters do not work everything out from scratch; instead, we make good use of the free tools available online.

30 Must See Web Generator for Lazy Webmasters

Alchemy is used for sketching or drawing using a computer. It's not necessarily used for creating finished artwork.

ZeroDibs : best of free & opensource software

Infographics