Lester and Sue Smith Breast Center at Baylor College of Medicine

MGI: information on existing mice, strains, and genes

Affymetrix: useful for primer design, create a free profile to search NetAffy for a lot of bioinformatics questions

This website is useful to compare antibodies or other reagents from many vendors at once.

NEBcutter is a must for any cloning endeavors

The Chronicle of Higher Education is an excellent read for people in academia, addressing policy issues, and lots of other salient topics.