Real life friends

• Slauderd - Amusingly cantankerous ex-coworker (Boxtop era)
• Webjones - Astronomically inclined ex-coworker (Wcom era)
• Mike - First and best of friends
• Nullify - Long ago conspirator in weirdness
• Anito - Diogenes reincarnate; married to Corinth
• Drom - Physics weenie, code mercenary, and a friend for life
• Sketch - World building, game design buddy
• Scratch - Fun long-haired cackling weirdo freak; engaged to Weeder
• Icey - Has cool, informative site on pet care
• Reah Drake - bouncy faery girl

Nerd sites

• Ars Technica is like slashdot, except all grown up and not overrun by lamer wanna-be's
• Memepool - your random links for the day
• Fark - it's not news, but I get most of my news here anyway
• Artima - a forum for those who prefer the agile programming methodologies

Web comics

• Errant Story - of elven mages and odd assassins and psychotic half-elven mages
• Life of Riley - Vampires, geeks, heaven and hell
• Faux Pas - Life on an animal actor ranch.
• Queen of Wands - A completed story, but now running with commentary
• PvP - a comic about a gaming company
• Penny Arcade - another gaming-oriented comic

Amusing strangers

• Jamie Zawinski - Programmer of the first UNIX version of Mozilla, a damn good writer whose laid-back style I've attempted to absorb. He's the owner of a nightclub in San Francisco now, called the DNA Lounge
• Dr. Ozone - The most amazing web designer I've ever seen. He gave me my first, stumbling steps into the world of graphic art, and still makes me jealous.
• Eric Raymond, self-appellated hacker culture spokesperson
• Richard Gabriel LISP proponent and self-described wierdo
• Dave Thomas, not the Wendy's guy - one of the self-described Pragmatic Programmer duo
• Musashi, a guy with some great ideas and observations on multiplayer game design