There are plenty of places to Grok these days without me trying to be grok-worthy. With that said here are some places that I go to when I need to get stuff done as of this writing:
The Daily Plate - Losing weight one calorie at a time
Radiolab - It's a toss-up whether this or
This American Life is my favorite radio show
Codeweavers CrossOver - they make a front end, and many tweaks to the
Wine project to make it more usable. Beats the garbage out of running a virtual machine for many applications
Ben Wright's Electronic Data Law blog - I took a class from Ben recently and it aspired to be spectacular
Chronoshark - Because I'm a watch whore.
Anchorage Food Inspection Database
Large list of Search Engines on Wikipedia
Anchorage Crime Map - Sometimes a bit out of date, but a good resource to see what's happening in Anchorage
Anchorage Live - Property map and owner/tax information tool
Pipl.com - Want to find out how much general info is available online about someone (without manually digging into deep web resources), try Pipl