Links!

I just stumbled upon this and am quickly getting sucked into the writing... Brave New Traveler

Also, in case anyone is looking up budgeting for rail journeys or ship journeys, this site is quite useful: Seat 61 - How to travel by train or ship in many parts of the world

Travel Pod! - Read thousands of blogs of people who have gone almost everywhere.

WikiTravel! - The Wikipedia of travel information. Of course whatever you find here is dubious, but it's definitely a great starting point. They have pages on lots of places!

And then if you hear of a cool place and want to see what it looks like...

Flickr! - Type the name of the place you want to check out in their search. Can be biased toward pictures that people with cameras would take - for example, I was looking at Kinshasa, Congo, a while back and was surprised to see lots of nightlife pictures. This site really puts a human face on a lot of travel destinations!