Links
Development
http://www.opengl.org/
The OpenGL website.
http://java.sun.com/
The Java website.
http://www.mingw.org/
"Include files and import libraries that allow a console-mode or a gui-mode program to use microsoft's standard C runtime library" - distributed under the gnu general public license.
http://www.gamedev.net/
Game development resources, forums and tutorials.
http://www.flipcode.com/
"Daily game development news & resources"
http://www.gamasutra.com/
"The art & science of making games"
http://www.vterrain.org/
The virtual terrain project: to foster the creation of tools for easily constructing any part of the real world in interactive, 3d digital form.
http://www.sourceforge.net/
Open source development website.
http://www.borland.com/
Borland - download their free command-line win32 C/C++ compiler tools!
Spending
http://www.dabs.com/
Good online pc hardware shop. (UK)
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/
Overclocking shop (UK) and forums. Watch those CPU's smoke.
http://www.techbuy.com.au/
Online pc hardware shop very similiar to Dabs.. (Australia)
http://www.amazon.com/
You know, that online bookshop place. Yes, that one.
Hedonism & Procrastination
http://www.wotmud.org/
The Wheel of Time MUD.
http://www.silklantern.com/
Wheel of Time news, discussion & RP website.
http://www.whitetower.net/
Wheel of Time RP website.
News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
BBC news website.
http://www.ntk.net/
Need To Know - "*the* weekly high-tech sarcastic update for the uk"
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
"Biting the hand that feeds IT": UK IT news site.
Help (also see here)
http://www.greenpeace.org/
Greenpeace.
http://www.oxfam.org/
Oxfam.
http://www.amnesty.org/
Amnesty International.
http://www.un.org/
The United Nations.
Miscallaneous (don't ask)
ftp://ftp.etext.org/pub/Zines/IBFT/
I Bleed For This? (Especially ftp://ftp.etext.org/pub/Zines/IBFT/ibft045.txt.newest)
http://www.urban75.org/
Political activism, intelligent discussion forums & other cool stuff. (UK)
http://www.politicalcompass.org/
Are you a Marxist, Fascist or Neo-Liberalist? (take with pinch of salt...)