The internet is so boring nowadays, here are some sites that might prove to be useful.

Useful Stuff

• Yahoo! - Best Search engine
• Google - Just like Yahoo, might be better in some cases
• Ad Aware - Great program to get rid of spyware
• Movie Fone - Good for movie show times and theater locations
• eBay - It's like an online black market store :)
• Fatwallet - Bargains which might save you a dollar or two
• VGTalk - Video game deals
• AnandTech - More deals & hardware news
• TestMySpeed - Gives you an idea how fast your ISP connection is
• GMail - Currently the best free e-mail service around
• mIRC - An internet relay chat
• AddALL - Great tool if you want to find cheap books
• AnyBook4Less - Same as AddALL, use if you want additional results
• Wikipedia - A free online encyclopedia

Music

• Winamp - A great MP3 player
• Shoutcast - Stream any kind of music genre here
• Morpheus - Good program to find specific MP3 and media
• Kazaa Lite - Another good program to find MP3 and media
• OverClocked ReMix - Music site dedicated to reviving the video and computer game music of yesterday
• Digitally Imported - Best trance streaming

News & Politics

• The New York Times - One of the most well known and respected newspapers around
• Seattle PI - The Seattle Newspaper
• Japan Today - Pretty cool site which describes some of Japan's latest innovation

Games

• Blues News - My primary source for PC gaming news
• Blizzard - My personal favorite of game makers, loved all of the stuff they made
• GameFAQs - Good site containing walkthroughs if you are ever stuck on a game
• Orisinal - Great flash game site
• Chess.net - Chess, what else?
• Chess Games for Web Pages - Cool applet used to record chess games

Fun Stuff

• Anime & Manga Torrents - If you ever want to watch some Japanese cartoons :)
• Penny Arcade! - Interesting comics and entertainment
• ChessGames - A huge database of grandmasters and worthy chess games played
• DeviantART - Very nice image collection, guarantee you'll find good wallpaper