The Design Observer is a great web site that covers a lot of current design issues.

Adbusters is another really fantastic publication interested in issues of design and commercialism.

The Information Architecture Institute is a website for an emerging discipline that in some ways seems fundamental, and in other ways seems absurd. I find it incredibly intriguing. I love the simple elegant design to their site.

Lulu is an amazing tool. One of the Internet's best kept secrets. I have talked with many designers who have never heard of it. Basically they provide print on demand services.