Game Design and Development: Links and Resources

Game design and development
PyGame and Python
sound and image resources
GIMP and image editing
Audacity and sound editing
Open source flash links
Misc. links


Game design and development
I have an idea, what do I do next?
or (more optimistically) how do I pitch my game?
Game design: Wikipedia
Game development: Wikipedia
GameDev.Net
DevMaster.net
GamaSutra.com
IGDA (International Game Developers Association)
International Journal of Computer Games Technology

Sound and image resources
image collections (read the fine print to ensure you are permitted to use these)
sound collections (read the fine print to ensure you are permitted to use these)
List of links from gamedev.net (read the fine print to ensure you are permitted to use these)  

Other image editors
ArtWeaver

GIMP and image editing
gimp.org (The GIMP site)
The GIMP site's tutorials page
minihowto.org: basic gimp intro
The GIMP Users Group tutorials
Wikiversity's GIMP site
Colour palettes in GIMP
You Tube tutorials
About.com's:
Scripting and GIMP:

Audacity and sound editing
Audacity's sourceforge site (The Audacity site)
Audacity's tutorials page
CIS Audacity tutorial
Dan James' tutorial on Audacity

Open source flash links
FlashDevelop.org
OSFlash.org
SWFTOOLS

Misc. links and stuff
lifehacker.com