Computers:

• News
  • Slashdot - A good overall site for all kinds of computer and technical related news.
  • Newsforge - The online newspaper of record for the Open Source and Linux communities.
  • OS News - Another good operating system site.
  • The Register - Biting the hand that feeds IT.
• Resources
  • Netcraft - Netcraft tells you the operating system, web server, and uptime of any web site. Pretty cool.
  • CNet Bandwidth Tester - Test your bandwidth. Results may vary.
• Unix
  • BYU Unix Users Group - A BYU club for Linux/Unix enthusiasts, advocating open source software and open standards.
  • Free Software Foundation - "Free software is a matter of liberty, not price."
  • Linux ISOs - Dozens of free Linux and Unix disk images hot 'n fresh. Go ahead and try another operating system!
• Character Encoding
  • Alan Wood's Unicode Resources - Excellent. More useful than Unicode's own page.

Linguistics:

• Associations
  • Lacus - The Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States.
  • LSA - The Linguistic Society of America.
• Tools
  • Glossary of linguistic terms - SIL's excellent introduction to many linguistic terms.
  • PC-Kimmo - A two level finite-state morphological parser (open source).
  • Xerox Finite State Technology - Xerox Finite-State Compiler.

Persian - Farsi:

• News
  • Payvand News of Iran - An excellent up-to-date roundup of news on Iran. In English.
  • Iran News Page - Another Iran news roundup. In English.
  • Hayat-e-No - An independent daily newspaper. In Persian, content in pdf format.
  • Kayhan News - A conservative, state-controlled newspaper. In Persian, Win-1256 encoding.
  • BBC Persian - The BBC news in Persian, UTF-8 encoding.
• Dictionaries
  • The Steingass Comprehensive Persian - English dictionary - The Standard for over a century.
  • Online English - Persian Dictionary - Uses the Oxford English - Persian Dictionary.

Arabic:

• News
  • Al-Jazeera - The leading independent, international Arabic news source
  • BBC Middle East News - An great English language news site covering Middle East news pretty objectively (as opposed to the strongly biased Associated Press).
• Dictionaries
• Xerox Arabic Morphological Analyzer - The best Arabic -English dictionary on the Internet, created by a BYU alumnus.

Other:

• Open CourseWare at MIT - MIT's program to make all of their course material freely accessible to anyone.
• Wikipedia - The most comprehensive, multilingual free-content encyclopedia in the world.
• Wiktionary - A project aimed at producing a free multilingual dictionary in every language, with meanings, etymologies and pronunciations.