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  • Fonts 500. Lots of free fonts for anyone to use. Most are crap, but there are a couple of gems in there.
  • Coda - an insanely great application. Just in case you missed it. Coda is the best thing for web developers in a long time.
  • Hans Rosling at TED. A truly inspiring presentation on international health by a fellow swede (opens in iTunes).
  • Why people still use tables and frames. Believe it or not, this is the personal web site of some swedish programming and web design teacher.
  • Rush - Snakes & Arrows This is some very nice artwork. I really like how that font is kind of clean but with a twist, especially the ampersand. Looking forward to the album too!
  • HTML is back on track. Now let's hope for a good relationship between W3C and WHATWG, so things can start happening.
  • May be old but this gorgeous animation about trusted computing must be seen!
  • Web accessibility study observing screen reader users and their habits when using the web. Interesting and useful.
  • Photoshop CS3 Beta! Finally, it's universal. My MacBook screams! Yay!
  • Custom Google styles to make your searches look even better.
  • New Shauninman.com. Beautiful. Exactly what I was talking about in "Useless design, part deux". No clutter, just text.
  • PS Brushes has hundreds of Photoshop brushes in many categories. Great resource.
  • Tasty Tatoo. More great photoshop brushes from Jason Gaylor. Love it.
  • Bluesfear Worm. Collaborative design at it's best. Lots of cool stuff, and some less cool.
  • Get aware of microformats with this outstanding CSS-file from Jon Hicks. Finally, microformats for the people!
  • Dream Theater - Score. A must have for every DT-fan. Their best live release yet.
  • Snakes on a plane. Can it really be this good? Bad movie on purpose equals good movie it seems. Interesting...
  • Free fonts from Fontshop. At least two of them are definitely worth a download.
  • Autumn Continent is friend and talented composer Stefan Jönsson's third ambient album. Masterpiece as usual.
  • Iconfactory goes web standards I like the overall look, and the top navigation is really nice. It feels a bit small, though.
  • We Are The Web Preserving "net neutrality" in a rather... uhm... bizarre way. Success? You judge.
  • High resolution Photoshop brushes Some really nice graffiti-style brushes. Check out this guy's other brushes too, lots of great stuff there that I've used in the past.
  • Graphic design in the 1930's Some great print work from the USSR to be inspired from.
  • Visor Get a Quake-like terminal in OS X that slides down from the top of your screen. Useful, and really cool!
  • Veerle's CSS links Hundreds of useful CSS and webdesign related links. A great resource.
  • Remote Buddy Use your Apple Remote for more than just Frontrow.
  • Apple Mail for wide screens A great hack for a better view in Mail.
  • The most important drum loop I've used it a couple of times, though I never knew where it came from.
  • Photos from swedish piracy demonstration There was a demonstration in my home town as well, but I managed miss that. Would be nice to have been there.
  • Japanese comedian Hard Gay Priceless. He's like a more human version of the "masturbating bear" from Conan O'Brien.
  • Apple Pro site I totally missed this one until now! A great resource for anyone doing creative work with Macs.
  • Web development with Safari by Jon Hicks. I'm usually a no-no when it comes to plug-ins, but this is really useful.
  • Insanely great photography A fellow swede shows off some very nice photographs here. I want more!
  • Mutado So simple, yet so beautiful. I love everything about it.
  • The new MacBook Holy crap! This one exceeded all my expectations. It's got it all! Now, where's that purchase button...
  • Craptracker Oldskool music making revisited. Really cool. Gotta try it.
  • Firefox 2 alpha 2 I'm going to download and test it right now. You should too.
  • Anchor Head Darth Metal Really skillful guys. Maybe the growl parts kill it a bit, but it's nontheless really nice to hear.
  • MacOS oil paintings The MacOS experience recreated on canvas with oil paint. Maybe something for your livingroom walls...or not.
  • Custom fonts with CSS This would be pure heaven if implemented.
  • Apple event next tuesday! Finally I’ll be able to order a successor to my white iBook G3.
  • Section 9 - Ghost Hack EP Stunning, as usual. Stefan can’t be bad, it’s as simple as that. And look out for his upcoming ambient release.
  • Vote Lordi Kind of like fighting fire with fire. And no, Finland’s not going to win this year either. Sorry ;)
  • Finally! I’ve been waiting for the original Star Wars on DVD for ages, and now it arrives in september. (Linked site in swedish).

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Olof Lönnroth is a music producer and web designer from Gothenburg, Sweden. Besides designing and producing, he is currently studying Information Systems Science at the university. You can read more about him here.