Places that I go, when I want to find the following:

News
CNN.com (typical news outlet)
news.bbc.co.uk (news outlet from a more worldwide perspective)
newscientist.com (science and technology news)
slashdot.org (news for nerds. stuff that matters.)
newsarama.com (sequential art and storytelling news)
boingboing.net (a directory of wonderful things)
projectcensored.org (things you won't hear about on mainstream media)
npr.org (national public radio)
fark.com (weird, wild stuff)
factcheck.org (getting the facts straight)

Information
google.com (best search engine ever)
wikipedia.com (an online editable encyclopedia)
answers.com (resource gathering engine)
maps.google.com (quickly becoming the best mapping software on the web)

Cool free software
mozilla.org
openoffice.org
download.com

Cool not free software
macromedia.com
adobe.com

Mythology
mythicjourneys.org/bigmyth/
godchecker.com

Nerd music
frontalot.com
mcchris.com
metroidmetal.com
badddspellah.em411.com/

Webcomics
penny-arcade.com
dieselsweeties.com
pvp.com