Zed's nice and simple little Python-based SMTP server that dispatches to handlers much like a modern web framework, and uses Mako templates. Can relay to postfix and the like for big volume.

Some pretty wild and interesting business cards. Kevin Mitnick's is awesome :-)

Nicely produced 8-minute breakdown.

Terragen™ is a scenery generator for Windows and the Mac OS. Terragen is free for personal non-commercial use. Terragen™ is capable of photorealistic results for professional landscape visualisation, special effects, art and recreation.

Save your files effortlessly and open your folders instantly—Default Folder X makes Mac OS X's Open and Save dialogs work as quickly as you do. Custom keyboard shortcuts put your favorite and recent folders at your fingertips. Pop-up menus let you navigate your folders and open Finder windows. Open, save, and get back to work: Default Folder X is workflow for the rest of us.

Tahl Niran's breakdown of a typical setup for compositing multipass 3D renders in Shake. Principals naturally apply to any compositing app.

Lots of interesting compositing-related computer graphics research.

Basically what the title says.

Very fast JS library with rich CSS selector support. The idea of DOMAssistant is to provide a simpler and more consistent way to script against the Document Object Model (DOM) in web browsers. The idea is that everything starts with the element(s) in question, selected through id or CSS selectors, and then perform various methods on it, such as adding or removing classes, events etc.

The potential for this in a distributed, collaborative media creation environment is awesome. Store, share and (delta!) sync files between Mac, Windows and Linux clients with versioning/snapshots and web access. Now let's have door-to-door fibre :-)

Brooklyn freelance VFX veteran.

This one's frivolous -- I *need* a longer one, but the cut and color of this are nice for more of a medium weight. It's cheap so maybe I could get it along with longer, more formal coat...

Maatkit makes MySQL easier and safer to manage. It provides simple, predictable ways to do things you cannot otherwise do.

Cool breakdown and examination of layer blend modes like Photoshop's, including formulas.

Some nice, free (as in beer) Nuke plugins, including some intended for transitioning from Shake. New version coming soon with 5.x support.

Sweet. A GrandCentral integration app for OS X. Maybe GrandCentral is alive?

Some interesting notes and reference material from an instructor at Otis.