recommended tutorials, cheap software for students, etc.

Here are some tutorial sites recommended to me highly:

http://positioniseverything.net/

http://www.alistapart.com/

And another web design site:

http://webitect.net/

Here's the link for college buys.org:

http://foundationccc.org/CollegeBuys/ForStudents/tabid/468/Default.aspx

To buy a Mac - go to Caltech Wired. (the mac is not a burger, pc users.)