I just stumbled on a collection of Wordpress themes attractive enough that they’re making me think about changing out some of the themes for some of my other sites. My last Wordpress theme roundup was a while ago, so I figured it might be worthwhile to check out a few fresh ones.

The one above is just one of a new batch of gorgeous themes, from one that’ll make your blog look like Newsweek to another that will make your blog look like a notebook surrounded by art-deco paint splashes. Even though the article says there are 30 themes, there’s a few more than that and they range from the whimsical to the very professional and clean. If you have a Wordpress blog, check it out; if not, try setting one up to get the theme you’re looking for!

[ Smashing Magazine :: 30 Free High Quality Wordpress Themes ]

What would happen if fonts were people? And if they got together and had a conference? And hilarity ensued?

I know I’m running a lot of PC Mag content, but I can’t complain when the content is so good. Sadly, Gears and Widgets isn’t on the list, but we’ve got some growing to do before we’re up there with some of the other sites and services on the list.

The list includes some Web services and blogs that are anything but undiscovered (at least to me) like Plurk, Drop.io, Someecards, Songza, and TheSixtyOne, but if you haven’t been to those sites, you should definitely check them out. Hell, if you’re a Plurk user, feel free to add me, and if you dig music discovery at TheSixtyOne, feel free to check out what I’m listening to.

There are certainly some lesser known names on the list as well, services worth looking into; like TotLol, a web video site for kids, Orato, a citizen journalism site for anyone interested, and Songza, which will find and play just about any song you can throw at it.

[ PC Mag: PC Mag's Top 100 Undiscovered Web Sites ]

Ah, the air is getting a touch chillier and the days are getting a little shorter. You know what that means: it’s time to start thinking about going back to school! Thankfully, the only back-to-school tech I have to worry about is the kind I might buy to make my day job easier, but a lot of my closest friends are headed back to campus in a few short weeks, and we need to make sure they’re prepared.

The fine folks (and my friends) at PC Mag are on the case; from cell phones to gaming rigs that can also crunch reports and research papers to questions to ask your school’s IT department that they really ought to know the answers to, the Back to School Guide is complete with product recommendations, reviews, and tips and tricks to make on-campus life much much easier.

[ PC Mag: PC Mag's Back to School Guide ]

Partially because I desperately need this how-to for myself, and partially because the fine folks at Lifehacker always make it so easy to understand, this little how-to is more than worth a post even though it’s a little aged. I tend to use iTunes to find my album art, but since it’s not perfect at the job, I’m sometimes lost looking for other sources to grab the artwork to go with all of my digital music.

Thanks to Kevin over at Lifehacker, I have a couple of bookmarks to scrub up every time I have to go hunting for some new album art, including the venerable AlbumArt.org and All CD Covers. Or, I could just download the media player/organizer that everyone seems to love on Windows; MediaMonkey, and let it do a lot of the work for me.

Need more tips? Click through for the complete article!

[ Lifehacker: Find and Embed Album Art in Your MP3 Collection ]

Entertainment Weekly has some very interesting ideas on what technologies have really made a difference in our lives. I can’t say I agree with them all, but I can see why they think they’re important, mostly because they’re coming at this from an entertainment angle. Stadium seating in multiplexes and the Star Tours ride at Disneyland? Yikes.

I can get down with MySpace (although I prefer Facebook) and TiVO, Netflix and Netscape. I don’t know about “Bullet Time” though, I think it’s a little played out.

[ Entertainment Weekly: 25 Tech Toys We Can't Live Without ]

Sustainable energy is always good stuff, and being the leading producer of wind energy in the world shows that finally, energy companies in the United States are serious about taking this technology into the mainstream. Even so, a dismal percentage of America’s power demand is supplied by wind, but it looks like the numbers are only going up, and that’s good news.

Investing in renewable energies and technologies is definitely the way forward, and leaving behind older, dirty technologies that exploit natural resources and leave our home, our planet, barren and lifeless is probably the last thing we all want. Here’s to hoping the trend continues and that we really do see a revolution in green tech. Wind energy is just the beginning, and the US is sitting on enough land and varied climate zones to really make wind power a significant part of our energy profile.

[ Treehugger: USA is the Number One Biggest Wind Energy Producer ]

By now you’ve probably heard all about the “I Am Rich” app for the iPhone; the most expensive app on the Apple App Store. At a whopping $1000, iPhone and iPod Touch users could download the App from the store, run it on their device, and see a red glowing crystal that hid a secret mantra about the importance of being rich.

Or not.

The creator of the app has tried to defend it, claiming it was a “work of art” and a “status symbol” for the wealthy, but in reality, the app does nothing, and now you can see for yourself. The fine folks over at Cult of Mac have shown off a guided tour of the app, now posted on YouTube (and below so you can see) that shows you exactly what that c-note really gets you.

[ Cult of Mac: Guided Tour of "I Am Rich" ]