The following is a list of sites that I thought may be beneficial to those returning to class. While the list was done with students in mind, there is still lots of good stuff for everyone. Feel free to leave a comment if you have a favorite to add. Enjoy!

Photography / Art

istockphoto.com
Buy quality stock photos for less than a coffee
or sell your illustrations and photos for extra cash.
Free featured downloads every week.

morgueFile
Free stock photos

http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/47d8df4123

Geekhouse Bikes builds custom bikes and they have developed a process to apply any digital graphics to the frames and rims.

http://www.geekhousebikes.com/index.html

The most unique cuddly laptop sleeve available! Your laptop sleeve can be built to perfectly encase your laptop. Foam-padded and built to protect. $65.00 from Barry's Farm

http://barrysfarm.net/product/monster-laptop-sleeve

Bloxes are building blocks made of interlocking pieces of corrugated cardboard, folded together. Their unique shape and structure make them exceptionally strong and lightweight — you could build yourself a platform to stand on, and then pick it up and move it wherever you need to.

http://bloxes.com/

The abstracted botanical forms of the Sarah Clock are unmistakable. It was inspired not only by the natural forms of plants, but also their movement. The unexpected use of the flexible graphite stem not only gives the Sarah Clock its tall graceful gesture, but also allows it to gently sway like a plant or limb in a breeze. It is a perfect piece to add life to any space.

http://www.esbystudio.com/sarah.html

(via makezine)
A modern take on a traditional Ping Pong table, the Pong table reinvents the classic pong game, using 2500 LEDs and two track pads. The game is programmed into an inbuilt microchip that controls a matrix of LEDs beneath the Corian surface so that the ball may bounce all over it.

http://www.waldemeyer.com/electrickid.html

The Brammo Enertia is an electric motorcycle that gets 45 miles per charge and has a top speed of 50mph. Zero to 30 mph is reached in a superfast 3.8 seconds, and it features a beautifully sculpted design.

http://www.enertiabike.com

Fresh Pressed is an interactive retail outlet in L.A. that allows customers to design and print their own shirts. I think the idea is pretty unique.

At $40 a shirt, it's expensive, though they do offer unlimited help from the design staff and screen setup/burning is done for you.

http://www.fresh-pressed.com

VGoT is a fake propaganda campaign for new, American home-front values. Inspiration for the campaign comes from events occuring a lifetime ago: the World's Fair of 1939, and the Garden for Victory campaign of 1944, and even the NASA's Apollo program of the 1960's.

Today, the campaign is represented by a series of hand screenprinted, limited edition posters made with acrylic inks and printed on synthetic, recyclable paper.

http://www.victorygardenoftomorrow.com