Academhack

Academhack is a really decent instructional technology blog. It is biased towards the humanities and many of the applications highlighted are Mac only, however, there are plenty of resources for non-humanities disciplines and non-Mac users. I often find great new technologies here, but the blog also lays out some best practices for the less high-tech stuff (e.g., Handling E-mail for Professors).

Cool Tools, Street Use, Out of Control

Kevin Kelly, the former editor of Wired and Whole Earth Review has a collection of web pages called Cool tools full of gear, gadgets and approaches that ate more of my time than I care to admit. A related site is Street Use which includes backyard pulse jets and match box cameras. He also wrote the acclaimed Out of Control, a book about technology, biology, decentralization and self-sustaining systems. (It was also required reading for some of the cast of the Matrix movies.)