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These are the arti­cles, blogs, and resources I found inter­est­ing and wor­thy of shar­ing for 30 April 2009 through 01 May 2009:

• 24 Free Exclusive Vector Icons: ‘Handy’ — ‘Handy’ is a set of 24 free and exclu­sive vec­tor icons that can be used on web­sites, logos and more.

  The icons have a unique hand drawn feel­ing and look great in color or black and white. The set also includes most social media web­sites, such as Delicious, Digg and many more.

  These icons are com­pletely free for per­sonal and com­mer­cial use and they’re being released exclu­sively to all our RSS subscribers.

• One Family’s Fight Against Grisly Web Photos | Newsweek Technology | Newsweek​.com — This is a story about a photo—an image so hor­rific we can’t print it in NEWSWEEK. The pic­ture shows the life­less body of an 18-year-old Orange County girl named Nikki Catsouras, who was killed in a dev­as­tat­ing car crash on Halloween day in 2006. The acci­dent was so grue­some the coro­ner wouldn’t allow her par­ents, Christos and Lesli Catsouras, to iden­tify their daughter’s body. But because of two California Highway Patrol offi­cers, a dig­i­tal cam­era and e-mail users’ easy access to the “Forward” but­ton, there are now nine pho­tos of the acci­dent scene, taken just moments after Nikki’s death, cir­cu­lat­ing virally on the Web. In one, her nearly decap­i­tated head is droop­ing out the shat­tered win­dow of her father’s Porsche.
• Dear White House…. » Photoshop Insider Blog By Scott Kelby — I heard what they wanted was a shot of Air Force One (of course, it’s only called Air Force One if the President is actu­ally on board, so we’ll just call it “Big Blue and White 747″) fly­ing over the statue of Liberty with Manhattan in the back­ground. There were prob­a­bly more cost effi­cient ways get­ting that image, and so in lit­er­ally less than two min­utes I hacked together the com­pos­ite you see above in Adobe Photoshop CS4, using a back­ground from iStock​Photo​.com and an offi­cial White House shot of “Big Blue and White 747″ from their web site.
• Freelance Resources: Government rules and reg­u­la­tions — Free PDF — No-Nonsense Guide to Government rules and reg­u­la­tions
  A detailed guide pro­vid­ing an overview of all areas of start­ing a busi­ness (PDF download)

  Published by HMRC con­tents include:

  * Help with rules, reg­u­la­tions and forms
  * Using Business Link to get a head start
  * Health and Safety
  * Intellectual Property
  * Trading reg­u­la­tions
  * Data pro­tec­tion
  * Employing oth­ers and employee rights
  * Getting Government advice and support

• 101 Creative Publicity Stunts —
• 11 Sites to Make Money Selling Old Gadgets — As tech­nol­ogy becomes a larger part of our lives, we find our­selves cast­ing aside our old gad­gets in favor of new ones. As a result, cell phones, PDAs, and GPS units end up in a junk drawer. But they don’t have to end up there. Here are 11 sites where you can trade your old — and some­times dead — gad­gets in for actual money, gift cards, and even char­i­ta­ble dona­tions to your favorite causes.
• 100 WordPress Video Tutorials, from Basic to Advanced : Speckyboy Design Magazine — All of these tuto­ri­als range from basic learn­ing for the begin­ner, to advanced for the expert who wants to learn new tech­niques. Basically every­one can take some­thing from these tuts.
• How To Successfully Work With People Long Distance — Workflow: Freelance — As a free­lancer and as a web-worker, one of the biggest chal­lenges that I face nearly every day is that of work­ing with peo­ple who I’ve never met face to face. Although a few clients con­tact me by tele­phone, most pre­fer to deal with me through e-mail (which is actu­ally my pref­er­ence too).

  Since experts say that non­ver­bal com­mu­ni­ca­tion accounts for well over half of how we inter­act with peo­ple, work­ing through the Internet can some­times seem a bit like play­ing a game of golf blindfolded.

• Your Social Links On Your Twitter Profile — “Today, I spot­ted a new thing on Twitter’s pro­files: Social links to your other social pro­files like Delicious, Flickr, and so on. I saw it on this person’s pro­file: BILL_ROMANO. Right away, I sent him a tweet ask­ing how he did it.“

  Apparently it’s on new accounts as well. I’ve seen it on accounts set up within the last 7 days, with fewer than a dozen fol­low­ers. When will the rest of us get them?

• Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 impres­sions, insights, and expec­ta­tions (thanks to Bob Levine for the link) —