LEARNING&STUDY

the open university - web and snailmail based learning, from single 3-month courses to 6-year long degrees, masters and PHds. I'm currently studying part-time for a psychology degree with this university.
hp online learning center - offering free online classes in all kinds of business and IT related stuff.
master russian - russian language forum with lots of native speakers and other learners.
a spoonful of russian - regular Russian podcast teaching the language a bit at a time, excellent for downloading and taking to work on my mp3 player to listen at lunchtime while i eat.
sign station - brilliant resource and set of lessons for those wishing to learn british sign language.

GEEKERY

looking for group - an excellent online d&g spoof style comic, excellent artwork and some great humour.
icon buffet - little tiny shiny useless images! Wheeee!
serpentine road - londonskaters inline skating forum, excellent for equipment advice and technique info.
geek monthly - website and blog for the new geek magazine.

LOLZ!

i can has cheezburger? - yes, jus can not has gramur lesuns. :P
not that you asked... - entertaining blog by someone who talks about having a kid in a totally not boring way (for some reason that's coming across as really sarcastic. it's not meant to, i mean it!).

STORES

american soda - the american soda and candy import company i use, very good delivery times and lots of peannuttt butterrrr....mmm...