A selection of links straight from my Bookmarks folder:

Friends:
www.cleverlikeamonkey.com Home of Darren Price
www.michaelgreenwood.com Animator at Nexus
www.matteb.com From the land of Abba, Sven Goran Eriksson and Ikea - Mattias Bjurström.
www.bradnoble.net Great animator also developer of a great animation rig.
www.rethinkfx.com Ben Cowel - Animator at Nexus
www.matt-clark.com Great modeler and CGTalk forum moderator.
Animation:
www.cgsociety.org The one stop shop for 3d news.
www.cgtalk.com The one stop talk shop for 3d stuff.
www.nexusproductions.com How many awards now... the unstopable Nexus.
www.siggraph.org When am I going to get to go again.....
www.splutterfish.com Maker's of my favourite renderer.
www.rpmanager.com life saver for Max scenes.
research.rsp.com.au Home of Cinespace and EqualEyes.
www.fxguide.com Useful compositing resource
Research:
Acm Digital Portal All of Siggraph's paper's from over the years - fantastic resource
   
ImplosionWorld Need referance for building demolition? Go no further..