Another Smashing Magazine Article

Here is an article from smashing magazine on how to improve your interfaces. It has some nice CSS tips built in as well - I've been playing with their tips a bit and it really makes a difference!

10 Useful Techniques To Improve Your Interface Designs

Website

Here's one that's full of tutorials on how to make cool video effects in Adobe After Effects, it plays mini-videos when you mouse over the tutorials...

videocopilot.net

Here's a good one for up and coming technology and gadgets...

http://gizmodo.com/

-Wayne

Website Layouts I like

Here's a Few:

Kotaku
(Drop Down Menus on menu bar across the top of the screen, comments section with expandable comment trees, and multiple versions of the front page (condensed vs. expanded)

Rockstar Games
Interesting and highly stylized layout.

Let it Burn
(Though I liked their last version better, this site still looks nice.)

YTMND


-Richard Trevisani

Interface

Clark and Michael

I like the interface of this site cause it's simple but there is a lot to look at and there isn't empty space. On the homepage alone there is a scroll bar, animated buttons, a video, pictures, and a lot of links.

-Brian

Website Design

I don't know many interestingly designed websites, but here's a try...

http://www.drukqs.net/

Alex Schmoyer

Website Design

Principals of Design

Unrelated to the interface examples, I thought i'd post this set of articles on principals of effective design that i found today. They're pretty easy reads and are very informative:

Design in Theory and Practice