News Sites
Hack In The Box - "Keeping Knowledge Free"
Techdirt - "a free service of techdirt corporate intelligence"
trimMail's Email Battles - "Spam, Security, Privacy, Spyware, Phishing & Viruses from the Front Lines"
Wired News - "Technology - Culture - Politics"
Search Engines
A9 - Amazon.com's search engine.
AltaVista - The old standby. Also has a site to translate foreign language pages called BabelFish.
DMOZ - Open Directory Project. Really a portal with search capability.
Google - A very popular search engine. Also has a translation page.
Yahoo! Search - Yet another search engine. Also has a "Babel Fish" translation page.
Software for Windows
BetaNews and FileForum - great sites to find software.
NONAGS - A great collection of separately organized freeware and shareware for Windows 95/NT.
Pricelessware - "The best of the best in Freeware - selected by alt.comp.freeware participants"
PSP updates - A good place to check out what's happening in the PSP homebrew scene.