September and October LinkPosts
So it turns out that it's November. I have no idea what happened to October but it's gone and I don't think I'll be getting it back. I suppose that the lapse in time has more to do with a project I'm working on than actual missing time 
September and October had some pretty good releases, only a couple of font resources, but plenty of image and jQuery links. Also you should find an abundance of miscellaneous links 
Keep in mind that it was September or October when the links were found, so some context may be broken on my descriptions. As always, some links may be broken, but let me know in the comments and I'll try to get them fixed right away.
-= Images, Brushes, and the like =-
http://speckyboy.com/2009/10/23/40-amazing-photoshop-brush-directories-and-collections/ - Big post with all the best free brush sites (some we've covered in previous linkposts, but some are new )
http://www.creativecloseup.com/30-great-free-paper-backgrounds-and-textures - I've used some of these recently, but here are some good (and some whacky) paper textures.
http://designreviver.com/freebies/25-great-free-photoshop-texture-packs/ - Awesome texture packs
http://www.noupe.com/design/80-stunning-background-patterns-for-your-websites.html - Some really nice patterns and backgrounds
http://www.tutoriallounge.com/2009/09/35-startling-free-adobe-photoshop-brushes/ - get some free brushes
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/08/50-clever-tutorials-and-techniques-on-traditional-drawing/ - I love to draw (although I'm not very good), so here are some tips for you traditional artists
http://www.visualpharm.com/free_icons.html - Free icons, not sure you'd use'm, but they are handy to have around... thanks WRD for the link
http://www.area1.info/resources/over-5000-free-adobe-photoshop-brushes/ - 5000 brushes! (remember gimp'ers you can use most of these too!)
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/16/50-fresh-free-hiqh-quality-icon-sets/ - Yay! more free icons!
http://speckyboy.com/2009/09/18/49-amazing-resources-for-free-vector-graphics/ - When you have a vector program, these links are awesome (Inkscape can use some of them )
http://www.readyphotosite.com/blog/photo-website-news/12-ultimate-free-stock-photo-resources/ - I've covered a few of these stock photo resources before, but this list has some new ones too.
-= Fonts =-
http://www.instantshift.com/2009/09/04/36-high-quality-latest-free-fonts-to-enhance-your-designs/ - More free fonts
http://designreviver.com/freebies/10-great-font-resources/ - yep, just what it sounds like, a list of where to get fonts.
-= jQuery =-
http://ajaxian.com/archives/queryloader-a-full-page-preloader - nice, pre-load your whole site, or just a piece of it.
http://www.artzstudio.com/2009/04/jquery-performance-rules/#eliminate-query-waste - another helpful article on how to speed up and clean up your jQ code. I haven't tried some of the tips, but if they work, booyah.
http://srobbin.com/jquery-plugins/jquery-approach/ - a fun new look at animation based on distance rather than time.
http://pelfusion.com/tutorials/25-excellent-collection-of-jquery-tutorials/ - I've been to some of these sites, and some are in the old links, but some are new and very helpful
http://designreviver.com/tips/a-round-up-of-the-best-and-latest-javascript-and-jquery-plugins/ - A list of tables, navs, and misc jQuery plugins
http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/greyscale-hover-effect-w-css-jquery/ - Nice tutorial on a cool grayscale-hover effect (uses a sprite)
http://ara-abcarians.com/jquery/atooltip/ - I like tool-tips... well usually I like tool-tips, this one is pretty light and easy to use.
http://speckyboy.com/2009/09/16/25-useful-jquery-tooltip-plugins-and-tutorials/ - I know I've linked to tooltips before, but here's another 25 of them
http://www.bennadel.com/index.cfm?dax=blog:1710.view - This is a plugin to trace your selector paths, no I didn't try it, but thought the peoples might want to take a look at it.
http://www.learningjquery.com/2009/09/working-with-events-part-3-more-event-delegation-with-jquery - Working with event delegation, this is pretty cool, I usually end up setting a $this var and then .children'ning it to find what I want, so this was a good read for me.
http://www.devirtuoso.com/2009/09/making-a-3d-engine-in-jquery/ - blew my mind-hole. This is sweet, some day when I wrap my head around this, I'm going to build something spectacularly useless (not that this is, cos it's awesome, but whatever I build won't have a use).
http://labs.pimsworld.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/demo-content-aware-image-resizing-2/ - I love liquid scaling, mix that with jQuery and boom! instant awesome!
http://woork.blogspot.com/2009/09/jquery-visual-cheat-sheet.html - another jQ cheat sheet (the pdf is hosted at box.net, so your work proxy may block it).
http://www.marcofolio.net/webdesign/create_a_better_jquery_stylesheet_switcher.html - Sometimes switching the stylesheet is fun, I didn't read this, but it sounded like it would explain how to do that.
-= HTML & Javascript =-
http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/html-5-and-css3-cheat-sheets-collection/ - cheatsheets are your friend, and I like to spread the buzz on html5 and css3
http://monc.se/kitchen/59/scalable-css-buttons-using-png-and-background-colors - Pretty cool way to make scalable css buttons... does contain ie hacks
http://ajaxian.com/archives/doloto-the-javascript-optimizer-released-by-microsoft-research - Doloto, uses eval, which everyone claims is evil, and its by m$, so yeah, probably evil
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/09/22/google-turns-internet-explorer-into-chrome-yes-seriously/ - awesome! integrate chrome into IE! this solves sooo many problems
http://iwebskel.com/ - A pre-packed ready-to-go collection of web resources to you can uncompress and get coding (comes with a few thousand icons, and your choice of mootools or prototype) I've been using my own version of this for months (only bundled with jQ )
http://piwik.org/ - free analytics suite, has an air app that hooks into it so you can keep an eye on your stats without logging into the site (I haven't tried it yet, but since woopra just left beta, maybe it's time for me to switch).
http://ajaxian.com/archives/yui-3-is-out - YUI 3 has dropped (and if you're not using prototype, google whatever, or of course jQuery, you can now rejoice
http://code.google.com/p/pinwheel/ - Awesome Prototype/Scriptaculous effect... ok jQ guru's rip this apart and make me a plugin (cos I'm lazy and don't want to)!
http://g.raphaeljs.com/ - Charting lib, not bad, fairly simple, and generates the content in vml, so it works across most browsers (including the demon ie6)
-= Miscellaneous Links =-
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/tools/flash/13-essential-flash-video-and-audio-players-for-your-website-or-blog.html - Nice assortment of commercial and cheap-as-free media players for your site.
http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/tools/tools/55-seriously-useful-front-end-web-developer-cheat-sheets.html - Who doesn't need more cheat-sheets?
http://www.tutoriallounge.com/2009/09/25-overwhelming-adobe-after-effects-tutorials/ - After Effects is very cool, and well if you have it, these may come in handy.
http://speckyboy.com/2009/09/15/45-cool-google-android-apps-the-perfect-iphone-replacement/ - I'm eye-balling the HTC Hero when it drops in a month or two at sprint, so I found this article rather informative
http://ajaxian.com/archives/talk-like-a-pirate-day-is-coming-heres-a-script-to-join-the-fun - by the time this post hits the net, this will be old news, but you can use the bookmarklet now for fun.
http://setmy.browsersize.com/ - This has some bookmarklets for screen resizing (useful if developing on a platform with out developer tools) (thanks Kat)
http://www.fuelyourinterface.com/how-to-use-textures-better-than-you-used-to/ - not a bad little photoshop tutorial on using textures... I'll admit, I get lazy with them sometimes and just layer them in, nice to see a more in-depth approach.
http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/09/28/definitive-list-of-free-wordpress-theme-frameworks/ - It's been a while since I posted anything about wordpress, so here are some 'frameworks' for wordpress that help you build your own theme/template
http://inspiks.com/2009/08/26/best-of-the-web-for-free-applications/ - Web Apps, who doesn't need a good list of them?
http://cookbooks.adobe.com/home - Need adobe snippets? this is adobe newly branded hotness of snippetry
http://www.neilturner.me.uk/2005/02/05/quickly_compress_png_images.html - So this is 4 years old, but when I learn new things I like to pass them on, and this is pretty cool, remember though, there are many options for png crushing (punypng, smush.it, etc)
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Noupe/~3/ZEQQi8lbCTM/fresh-web-development-goodies-bag.html - Good list of tools for the web developer
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1743 - Firefox addon to view information about page requests (page size, #of requests, length of requests, etc)
http://www.owasp.org/index.php/Category:OWASP_WebScarab_Project - WebScarab is a http/https testing tool that can help you find holes in your security and fix them. It runs as a proxy and will show you GET, POSTS, etc. Built from Java, so you can run it just about anywhere...
http://code.google.com/p/pinwheel/ - Awesome Prototype/Scriptaculous effect... ok jQ guru's rip this apart and make me a plugin (cos I'm lazy and don't want to.. well now I'm too busy)!
http://g.raphaeljs.com/ - Charting lib, not bad, fairly simple, and generates the content in vml, so it works across most browsers (including the demon ie6)
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