Textures to give your image of photo "oomph".

Statistics comparing the GOP and Democratic Party stewardship of the economy.

Infographics of the Apocalypse – bailouts by the US government in handy chart form. Almost all are done at the end of a GOP Administration, and the biggest by far have all been undertaken by a President named "Bush".

Backgrounds from old Warner Bros. cartoons. Not hi-res, but useful.

Curiously, this page contains 45 photoshop effects that are extremely colorful. Explosive? Possibly.

Pirates! Arrrr…..

Excellent tutorial on how to create realistic fire in Photoshop. Has downloadable, free brushes as well.

Website of graphic designer Keith Bowman. Awesome!

How many of these things are there?

Another lightbox/slideshow that doesn't require Scriptilicous.

Lightbox clone – all file types supported.

Free application Artweaver isn't just a Photoshop alternative like GIMP, but a fair clone of Photoshop itself. While Artweaver lacks the polish and advanced feature sets of Photoshop, the menus are laid out like they are in Photoshop and the tools function close enough that use is intuitive.

Critique of the NBA's latest logo from a graphic design perspective.

Creativecommons.org's list of audio resources.