Here follows a running list of books, magazines, hardware, software and other online (and off) items of interest to folks in creative careers. I'll continue to flesh out this list, as well as welcome additional suggestions, as time permits, but these, to me, are salient points in the sometimes foreboding landscape that confronts the young creative professional.
Books
Getting Things Done, David Allen
Graphic Artists Handbook: Pricing and Ethical Guidelines, The Graphic Artists Guild
The Rise of the Creative Class, Richard Florida
The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink
Periodicals
Advanced Photoshop
Art in America
Art Calendar
ARTNews
Beautiful Decay
CRAFT Mag
Computer Arts
MAKE Mag
Modern Painters
New American Paintings
Photoshop Creative
Photoshop User
Juxtapoz
Online Resources & Opportunities
43 Folders
Creative Commons
Google
Lifehacker
Lynda.com
Wordpress
Social Networking
Bebo - facebook for europe and the brits
Facebook - create a fan page for yourself
Myspace (meh)
SecondLife
Hardware
Mac
Software
Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Photoshop Elements
Firefox
Google --> Analytics, Blogger, Docs, Gmail, Sites
iChat
iLife --> iMovie, iPhoto, iWeb
iWork Suite --> Keynote, Numbers, Pages
MobileMe (formerly .Mac)
Processing.Org
SkypeVisual Understanding Environment