Links for academic whiteboxers

The Inquirer (Hardware news, gossip, and damn lies with a tabloid flair and great wit)
Tom's Hardware (News and product reviews geared towards the desktop enthusiast)
X-Bit Labs (Product reviews, often with very detailed analysis)
Slashdot (Notorious Linux news site. Lusers not welcome)
C't (Respected German hardware magazine. Some English articles are available)
The Register (Close cousin of the Inq, with more software coverage.)
Geek.com (News and commentary with lively forums)
DigiTimes (Unvarnished news covering most areas of the IT industry)
CNet News (News, reviews, and price comparisons aimed at end-users)
EBN News (Covers the business aspects of the tech sector)
EE Times (News from the lowest machine level)
Mike's Hardware (Current roadmaps for CPU's, chipsets, video cards, etc)
Dr. Dobbs Journal (Programmer, debug thyself)
InfoStor Magazine (Storage system news and reviews)

Start with these invaluable tools: Pricewatch and Reseller Ratings
Newegg (Best online retailer. Highly recommended)
ZipZoomFly (Formerly GoogleGear. Good prices, excellent service)
Acme Micro (Good prices)*
Page Computers (Best prices overall, but some brain-damaged suit decided to impose a 10% markup on PO's)*
Provantage (Good prices on major brands)
eWiz (Formerly Knowledge Micro. Good prices)
PC Power & Cooling (Custom power supplies at very reasonable prices. Can do PSU's for DIY drive boxes)
CS Electronics (Custom SCSI cables. A bit pricey)
MultiWave Direct (Ok prices, good service)
Enpc (OK prices, good service)*
CDW-G (GSA site but prices still fairly high)*
Directron (OK prices, great selection of oddball stuff)*
Rackmount Pro (Good selection, great service)*
KRI Computers (Good selection of chassis and PSUs)
California PC (Great site for big chassis & PSUs)*
Crucial Tech (Great memory, GSA pricing, good service)
SCSI Cables for enclosures

* Retailer accepts purchase orders

3ware (Very good ATA-RAID controllers with solid Linux support)
Adaptec (Popular SCSI & RAID adapters. Linux support has improved somewhat, but performance still lags)
AMD (Hanging in there, waiting for a hammer)
ASUS (Best feature-ridden desktop mobo's and graphics cards)
Chenbro Cases (Several good cases for do-it-yourself drive enclosures)
Chipzilla (La Intella)
Crucial Technology (GSA) (The retail arm of Micron Technology)
LSI Logic (High-performance SCSI and RAID controllers. Linux supported)
Maxtor (All of my first generation Atlas 10k drives are still purring right along)
Seagate (The 15K.3 series of Cheetah drives are as good as the hype)
Supermicro (The only serious choice for high-volume/backend server motherboards)
Tyan (Motherboards well-suited for workstations and auxiliary servers)
The Vole (Not evil, just awful ...)
Western Digital (Nowadays, the cutting edge of ATA drive technology)
Zippy Power Supplies (The finest stock power supplies available)