Resources
Bill Goffe's resources for economists (AEA)
Data
Econdata, Regional Science Association International (RSAI), Consumer Expenditure Survey (BLS - Tables by MSA), Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW)
Journals and economic departments' rankings
Robert Kollmann's webpage, Tom Coupe's ranking page
Precious advices by those who made it
Daniel Hamermesh's, Hal Varian's and John Cochrane's guides on how to write a paper.
Research Centers (... I visited for long enough)
ECARES, EIEF (formerly Ente Einaudi), Harvard University (Economic Department), CEP and SERC (LSE)
Traveller's utilities
Google maps, mappy, mapquest, Tuttocitta (top maps for Italy), XE currency converter, metric conversion
Software
MikTeX, Winedt, Speedometer, ...