• YourAccompanist.com: You can buy piano tracks to songs and sing along. Very useful if you perform art songs and opera and stuff.

• Music Map: Type in a musical artist, and then see other similar musical artists "mapped" to them in a cool visual format. Find artists you'll like!

• Copic Markers: My favorite markers, and you can order them individually or in sets.

• Good Ear: Online Ear Training.

• Portrait Art Tips: Some basics and reference stuff for drawing realistic pencil art.

• Internet Broadway Database: You can look up musicals and plays and see who's been in what.

• Manga University: Cool stuff on how to draw manga.

• Manga Helpers: These guys offer scanlations of comics that aren't available in the U.S., and it even has forums where you can talk with other fans.

• ListenToYouTube.com: If you like a song or need a sound clip from something on YouTube, you can translate it into an mp3 you can download here.

• TV Tropes: Chronicles the many patterns and clichés of fiction of all types (despite the "TV" reference in the name). So addictive that in some places on the Internet you're required to warn people if you're posting a TV Tropes link since it often results in the loss of hours.

• Chef2Chef: A chef's practical guide to practically everything.

• Supercook.com: Find recipes that use ingredients you have at home!

• Fitday.com: Track your food and nutrition.

• The Cook's Thesaurus: A cooking encyclopedia that covers thousands of ingredients and kitchen tools. Entries include pictures, descriptions, synonyms, pronunciations, and suggested substitutions.

• Free Translation Online: Translate short passages of text into any language.

• Chicago Manual of Style: Find answers to your most puzzling grammar and style questions.

• Urban Dictionary: You can find out what all those ridiculous things people say mean if you're just too out of touch to know every single piece of slang on the planet.

LITERATURE:

• What Should I Read Next?: A cross-reference database to find new things you like based on things you read.

• All Our Worlds: A searchable database of science fiction and fantasy that allows you to search for diverse and underrepresented elements. Want SF featuring characters with disabilities? Want to read fantasy with gender fluid protagonists? Want an all-female cast? Got you covered!

• Goodreads: You can join, make a profile, rate and review your favorite books, and get a friends list going so you can have your friends' reading habits and recommendations mailed to you!

NAMES:

• The Baby Name Wizard: Plug in names to look them up.

• The Baby Name Wizard: The Art and Science of Baby Names. Play with the Java utility!

• What's in YOUR Name?: Tells you all about yourself based on your name.

PRODUCTS I LIKE:

• DivaCup: Hopefully that's not TMI, but I really like the DivaCup as an alternative to traditional methods of dealing with the monthly visitor.

• Converse All-Stars: My favorite shoes.

• Graze: For five bucks a week, Graze delivers boxes of four different snacks to your mailbox. You can rate the snacks on their website, and the ones you rate most highly you will receive more often, while if you get something you hate, you can rate it in a way that makes them not send it anymore. Great for work!

• Jelly Belly: I like jellybeans.

REFERENCE:

• Wikipedia.org: The best research site to get lost in ever. . . .

• The Wayback Machine: Use this site to type in any URL and find out what it used to look like at any particular time. This is especially useful if a dead page used to have great content and you can't get it anymore; it might be archived here and saved after all!

• The Average Woman from Each Country: Through blended photos of thousands of women, the photographer comes up with a basic "average" of what a woman from each featured country looks like.

• Skeptic's Annotated Bible: Notes for understanding the Bible, mainly to point out contradictions and absurdities.

• Pharyngula: Some of the best biologically oriented and snarkily skeptic articles around. This guy is quite a joy to read.

• Skepchick.org: A nice blend of science, skepticism, and feminism that I love to read.

• RichardDawkins.net: This English biologist has contributed much to science.

• SamHarris.org: I appreciate Sam Harris's views on faith and religion when balanced with science.

WRITING:

• Writers' Relief: Literary Services and Resources.

• Publishers Marketplace: Sales, reviews, agents, editors, and news in the publishing industry.

• Critique Circle: Online writing workshop.

• Limyaael's Fantasy Rants: Fantasy writers (and any kind of writer in some general sense) will need to avoid doing some of these things that annoy Limyaael. Because if you avoid these things, you will be a much better writer.

• Authonomy: Run by HarperCollins, this is a site where serious authors can post fiction--preferably whole novels--and, through a rating system and promotion and whatnot, can end up getting it read by an editor at this major publisher. Skip the slush pile!

• Duotrope's Digest: A database of thousands of current markets for short fiction, poetry, and novels/collections.

• The (Submission) Grinder: Search for markets for your work, filtering for word count, genre, story subject, pay rate, and more!

• Absolute Write forums: Talk with other writers about publishing, story ideas, critique, or agent searches. It has a great "bewares" section to avoid scams.

• Preditors & Editors: Look up writing-industry professionals to make sure they're not scam artists.

• Writers Conferences and Workshops: Look up what writing events are happening near you.