Smashing Magazine has been lately posting some really wonderful photos in their site on their Monday Inspiration section: 35 Fantastic HDR Pictures (Really) Stunning Pictures and Photos Beautiful Black and White Photography Let There Be Light: Light Paintings and Sculptures 45 Beautiful Motion Blur Photos 35 Beautiful Examples of Rain Photography The also have some nice CSS & Photoshop tutorials really worth checking out.

Updated on 2008/09/17: Fixed problem when skipping elements. Updated on 2008/09/15: Fixed problem when trying to read missing attributes. One of new features introduced in .NET 3.5 that I welcomed the most was LINQ to XML. The old DOM API was a bit clumsy to use, and the simple fact that you don't need owner documents any more makes the new XElement much more flexible and pleasant to work with than the old XmlElement. Also new is an API for streaming XML output, XStreamingElement, that by using defe[...]

Did you know that the Avalon project (the original name of WPF) was started back in 2001, even before .NET Framework 1.0 was released, from the team that originally developed Internet Explorer 4 DHTML support and the XMLHttpRequest API that enables AJAX? I've learned that and some other interesting trivia from this Channel 9 video: Michael Wallent: Advent and Evolution of WPF