I follow and read a number of other blogs, but this recent article from A List Apart is really cool.  I do some web design, mostly as a volunteer for non profits.  Most of my testing (I wont use the word designing) is done by the make a change and view in a couple browsers method.

This article was a real eye opener for me in ways to effectively manage what style sheets different browsers actually see.

A List Apart: Articles: Progressive Enhancement with CSS

Check out this daily update on the estimated outcome of the elections for the electoral college, senate and house.

This is a pretty cool website that appears to be mostly non-partisan and uses publicly available poll data to create its maps.

I have been wanting to take a number of our pictures and put them together as a nice slideshow for DVD.  This tool looks great and is easy to use, yet lets you do some really nice stuff that Windows Photo Story doesnt allow.

Check it out here DVDslideshowGUI