Language

Ethnologue: Languages of the World http://www.ethnologue.com: A collection of many resources to help you with research of the world's languages Contains language maps, a language family index, language names & codes, a catalogue of language software products, and online bookstore and a bibliography with more than 12,000 references.
I love languages http://www.ilovelanguages.com: Claims to be the biggest and best guide to language-related web sites. It contains more than 2000 links, including information about online language lessons, dictionaries, translation services, and language schools. Also contains some links that are useful to language researches such as links to research groups and organizations related to language research.
Language Jokes & translation humour http://www.ventdelaitue.org/blagues-l/ http://www.all-languages.com/perles.html: BLAGUES-L is a BILINGUAL (English / French) joke mailing list. Subscribers receive one joke a day, for free and without any ads. Fully searchable archives are kept. Among other things, it contains a great joke about language standardization in the European union.
Online translation services AltaVista Babelfish http://www.freetranslation.com http://www.systransoft.com: These websites will allow you to get the "gist" of foreign language text and web pages. However, be careful in relying on them for all but the simplest text translations.