• My programming journal - at LiveJournal.com
• My LiveJournal profile
• My Amazon.com wish list - Has a list of several books in the order I'd buy them if I had the money

People I know

• Kristin - A programmer at Virginia Tech, her book wish list is worth a look
• Mike Resnick - Went to U of I and got a BS CS too, he works at Motorola now
• Candice Solomon - Still goes to U of I
• Jenny Majewski - Also still at U of I
• My sister - She goes to DePaul too

Other UIUC alumni

• Jawed - Works at PayPal
• Joel Hegg (no working link) - Was in my SE course where we used extreme programming to build this
• Andrew Wu - Shares my interests in graphics, Windows programming, C++, and pencil drawing

Comics

• Canoe Comics - A collection of several, most notably Fox Trot and Duplex

Web Development

• WebMonkey - Lots of nice tutorials, especially on CSS
• PHP Builder - My favorite site for help with coding in PHP
• The PHP Resource Index - A decent PHP script archive

Hardware

• [H]ardOCP - Reputable.
• AnandTech - Updated regularly

Politics

• C-Span - Live radio and TV feeds
• The Nation - A popular liberal magazine
• The Progressive - Even more liberal
• Cryptome - Publishes documents some people don't want you to see

Music

• Torley Wong - Great techno music
• Ginger Mackenzie - My favorite unknown mp3.com artist
• Shoutcast - mp3 streams
• Live365.com - more mp3 streams, with commercials
• Digitally Imported - Techno, Trance, House, and Classical
• Massinova - mp3 stream, "Trancemissions for life"

News & Weather

• U.S.
  • New York Times - A decent U.S. paper
  • Washington Post - A better U.S. paper
  • Congressional Quarterly - Has a good free daily e-mail newsletter, the CQ Midday update
• World
  • Yahoo News - Takes news from many sources, including Reuters and the AP wire
  • IndyMedia.org - Independent media
  • CBC - Canadian news/culture
  • Canoe - Canadian news magazine
  • BBC - British media
  • NHK - Japanese news, in print and via RealAudio
• Other
  • Slashdot - Geek news
  • UIUC's weather - Our atmospheric science department hard at work
  • Weather.com
  • WeatherBug - Very convenient for Windows users