Links

in no particular order...

XKCD
geek humour

Myst Online: Uru Live
open-source, free online massively multiplayer adventure

Echo Bazaar: welcome to Fallen London!
a browser-based Victorian underground extravaganza

tvtropes
extensive wiki of tropes in movies, literature, TV, everything

Board Game Geek
huge database of board and card games

Radiohead
The King of Limbs is out

Inform 7
interactive fiction made cool and easy

TED
"ideas worth spreading"

the Secret World
"dark days are coming!" -- a new MMORPG

Scotch Mist
Radiohead's "In Rainbows" live on youtube