(via Kottke, who posted his best links of 2006. There’s some great stuff in there)

This is a great little place to nose around: del.icio.us/adobe. As Adobe explains:

Looking for some great new Adobe Photoshop tutorials or maybe some amazing Adobe ActionScript samples? Adobe is now tagging useful sites and tutorials using a del.icio.us account, so that we can share our favorite links with you.

I particularly like the Photoshop section. Adobe also accepts link suggestions from other delicious users so it’s a great place to look for tutorials, plugins, resources etc…

I haven’t tried it yet, but its features seem quite promising. Time.com reports:

Just when you thought online photo sharing couldn’t get any better, along came YouRep. Like popular photo community flickr, YouRep lets you upload and tag your photos or search through other people’s shots. But its interface is arguably easier to use, and special features like photos on a map are easier to find. Most importantly, it provides two gigabytes of free storage space—100 times more than flickr’s free account—and gives you a share of the revenue made from ads placed on pages with your photos. Flickr’s community aspect feel isn’t here yet, but YouRep is still new: I predict it will eventually give flickr a run for its money. (Source: Time top 10 list of websites in 2006)

Try it out at yourep.com.

Create a virtual shelf of your books at Shelfari!

Shelfari makes it easy to see what your friends are reading and even get and give book recommendations.

(via swissmiss)

Enter a book you like and the site will analyse our database of real readers’ favourite books (over 20,000 and growing) to suggest what you could read next.

Try it out at www.whatshouldireadnext.com!

14. It’s possible for a human to blow up balloons via the ear. A 55-year-old factory worker from China reportedly discovered 20 years ago that air leaked from his ears, and he can now inflate balloons and blow out candles.

Each week BBC Magazine picks out snippets from the news, and compiles them into “10 Things We Didn’t Know This Time Last Week”. This is an end of year almanac.

Talk about social networks! Why not just fake your space and buy yourself a friend:

An exciting new service allows users of MySpace and Facebook to purchase hot models as friends for only 99 cents a month. For only 99 cents you receive 2 customized messages per week, totaling 8 per month. Fake your space offers all different kinds of ethnicities, sexual preferences, and body types. Feel free to browse our Men and Women and pick the ones you like. By purchasing multiple models you will be multiplying the number of comments and friends you have. It’s that easy!

That’s what it says. I don’t think so, but it sure is a nice brush collection over at psbrushes.net.

I don’t have a television at home, but I do like to watch the news daily on BBC News and my local TV-station VRT. Today I came across Channelchooser, a free TV-portal featuring a nice collection of embedded streams of different online TV-channels.

Cucumis is a community of translators who share their linguistic knowledge and help each other online. You gain points when you translate a text and you need points to submit a text to be translated.

Does it lead to a decent translation? Well, I haven’t tested it yet, but the website says:

All translations are rated by administrators and experts. A member is promoted “Expert” for a given language when he or she has completed many translations which were rated with an average of over 7/10. If you want to be sure about the quality of a translation, you can ask that only an “Expert” make it but it will cost you more points.

Social recommendation at its best! Try it at cucumis.org.