Google News: Google goes out and groups all the big stories together.
Chicago Tribune: One of Chicago's fine political machines.
Chicago Weather: usually the worst possible.
Chicago Reader: a great entertainment resource.
Slashdot - relevant nerd news
Arts and Letters Daily: A great place to see some highly intellectual stuff.
Piled Higher and Deeper: How graduate school really is,
Questionable Content: Indie kids having fun,
Sam and Fuzzy: There really are too many web comics to read.
Something Positive: Sick and twisted ... but funny
Dr. McNinja: Quite ridiculous.
Penny Arcade: Gamers .... need I say more.
Barkeater Lake: Small town life at its finest.
Dilbert: Classic.
Get Fuzzy: Down right hilarious
en.wikipedia.org: Open source encylpedia. It's great just don't get addicted to the random page button.
www.dictionary.com: Compilation of many dictionaries.
www.thesaurus.com: Just like dictionary.com.
www.mathworld.wolfram.com: Great for getting definitions of math terms but that is about it.
www.mathforum.org: Great for looking up those really hard math questions.