Friends

TIGSource - A great news site for indie game devs and gamers.
Hinchy.us - This guy makes games and sometimes cartoons.
Cymon's Games - Learn C/C++. Awesome dude.
JWB Project - This person does web things, and he does it well.
Levande System - Hire these people.

Cool places you should go

Reddit - I've lost way too much time here.
Kotaku - Sounds like a street fighter attack.
Steam - I have way too many games. :(

Things you should use

FlashDevelop - Fantastic IDE for Actionscript 3.