Ok, so I have been kneedeep in Silverlight, and other Microsoft goodies for a while…lets take a breather.

Here are some links (including a couple MS ones) from around the web about various techs and design topics.

Design
The design guys over at webdesignfromscratch.com have their list of the 10 best-designed websites in the world. Not sure if I agree with all of their choices, but its not a bad list.

For those of you who are wondering what typefaces the “big boys” use, have I gotta list for you (courtesy of stylegala)! TypoWiki has a pretty big list of companies and how they lay out their stuff.

The boys over at Sitepoint have a nice little article on how to design forms with CSS.

Apple
Everyone and their sister are all abuzz about Apple. Now that isn’t all that unusual, but you would think that Mr. Jobs cured cancer or something. I like Apple…they make some sweet stuff, but I just don’t get the frenzy. Oh well…

The big news this week is, of course, that you can now get Safari on Windows. Now supposedly this ties into developing doohickies and widgets on the beloved iPhone, but I think it is just part of Apple’s (so far successful) plan at world domination. I, of course, had to download it as soon as I could.

If you want to analyze the “why” of the release a little more, you can check out an article over on ZDNet that does just that.

Now if you just can get enough about the famous fruit company, you can also go drool over their newly redesigned site.

Freelancing
If you are a freelancer like myself, its always good to find a few resources.

Sitepoint has a nice article on managing projects (an essential tool).

My favorite freelancing site has a nice article on essential marketing skills that all freelancers need.

If you are looking for a nice and simple invoicing tool, you can always try sidejobtrack.com. Its the one that I use with my clients.

Ubiquitous List
What link roundup would be complete without a list from Smashing Magazine? This time the list is a million different ways to create a shnazzy tooltip.

Microsoft Goodies
For all the MS junkies out there, I haven’t forgotten about you.

If you are using the ASP.NET AJAX Framework then you will be happy to hear that they have recently released a new version of the toolkit.

For the WPF crowd, there is a new “lab” that walks you through how to build an Outlook 2007 with WPF. Good stuff.

Completely Random
Just in case you were tired of reading about design, here are a comple of links on stuff I just found interesting.

Apparently yesterday was “alternative search engine day” (where is the greeting card for that?). ReadWriteWeb has their take on life without Google.

And in case you missed it there is a new Ask A Ninja up, although it isn’t one of their better ones (except the part about the camel/llama or cama…). My favorite is still the minjas or the ninjelephants…