Hosted

• Fiskmeshi
• Smush - music

Friends

• Daniel Aley
• Craig Timpany
• Curt Clason
• Jen Rocha

Funny

• The Brunching Shuttlecocks
• Cigarro & Cerveja
• Cruel Site of the Day
• Diesel Sweeties
• Home Star Runner - check out strong bad emails if nothing else. [mirror]
• Old Man Murray - miraculously funny. if you're not familiar with it, the E3 2000 Wrap-Up is a good starting point.
• The Onion
• Penny Arcade
• Pokey the Penguin - brace yourself. or, ease yourself into it with the mostly-accessible The Hands Are Not Clean!! and Pokey Has Marital Bliss
• Scary-Go-Round
• Seanbaby - similar in style to old man murray
• Tardblog - a teacher's perspective (dead, now links to archive.org mirror)
• Wigu

Games (reading material)

• GameFAQs - faqs plus gaming community
• Insert Credit - online game "magazine." excellent content. once you get past all the links to anime porn, i mean.
• The Mushroom Kingdom - mario et al
• Quake Done Quick - get through quake fast, polished and packaged nicely
  
• Rare - come for the games, stay for "scribes." now that microsoft's taken over, come for scribes too.
• Speed Demos Archive - get through quake fast, current best times
• SDA "Other Games" - get through lots of games fast

Games (to play)

• Adom - great roguelike, hard
• ElastoMania - fantastic 2D motocross platformer with cartoony physics [scene]
• Freeciv - free remake of civilization 2
• Grand Theft Auto - gta is now a Classic. isn't that grand? (yes, they really do let you download it -- the refresh button is your friend)
• Hamumu Software - dumb, fun games
• The Interactive Fiction Archive - text games. you know, like infocom
• Nethack - great roguelike, fun
• PopCap - java games

Interesting

• Armadillo Aerospace - rocket scientists
• 99 Bottles of Beer - 99 bottles in [many] programming languages
• Long Bets - Long-Term Predictions made and contested
• The Oldskool PC - fascinating old pc info
• Snopes - myth busters
• The Straight Dope - minutiae

Links

• Fark
• Boing-Boing
• Memepool
• Slashdot - "news for nerds" [anti-slashdot]

Movies

• Drew's Script-O-Rama - screenplays
• The Filthy Critic - movie reviews. hilarious
• The Internet Movie Database
• Movie Review Query Engine
• Roger Ebert - movie reviews

Music (reading material)

• Allan W. Pollack's 'Notes On' Series - notes on: the music of the beatles
• Analogue Heaven Archives - analogue synth mailing list

Music (hardware)

• Elektron Sidstation - own it. cool
• Nanoloop - own it. fun
• Synthesizers.com - don't i wish

People

• Adam Cadre - writer, i-f author
• Andrew Plotkin - i-f author, programmer
• Dan Schmidt - i-f author, musician
• Gregg Tavares - game programmer
• Jamie Zawinski - programmer, club owner
• Joel Spolsky - programmer
• John Carmack - game developer, rocket scientist
• Lore Sjöberg - erstwhile brunching shuttlecock
• Ken Silverman - programmer. claim to fame:build engine.
• Paul Graham - you know him as the author of canonical lisp references, everyone else knows him as the guy who came up with "a plan for spam." good essays.
• "Rands" - in repose
• Raymond Chen - microsoft programmer -- a real human being!
• Tim Rogers - writer, gamer. old blog. old old blog.
• Wouter van Oortmerssen - programmer, level designer. cube engine is cool.

Software

• DJGPP - c/c++ compiler for ms-dos
• Impulse Tracker - fantastic music software (sequencer+sampler) for ms-dos. win2k/xp does not make mouths happy.
• MikT_EX - typesetting software (Windows implementation of L^AT_EX)
• Nasm - excellent intel-syntax x86 assembler
• Mozilla - god's own web browser

Useful

• Babel Fish - natural language translator
• Google - search engine
• Google sets - list search engine
  
• Google Usenet Archive - news search engine