Some electronics links

A few favorites in alphabetical order:

Hobby Electronics
www.acroname.com
www.dontronics.com
http://microcontrollershop.com/
www.modtronix.com/
www.parallax.com
www.rentron.com
www.sparkfun.com

Large Parts Suppliers:
www.digikey.com
www.futureelectronics.com
www.jameco.com
www.mouser.com
www.newark.com

Surplus Electronics:
http://www.allelectronics.com
www.goldmine-elec.com
www.halted.com

Development Boards:
www.melabs.com
www.microcontrollershop.com/
www.mikroe.com
www.olimex.com
www.scalerobotics.com (shameless plug)
www.sparkfun.com/categories/9

PCB Production:
http://batchpcb.com/index.php/Products
http://www.expresspcb.com/
http://ezpcb.com/
http://www.pcbcart.com
http://www.pcbexpress.com
http://www.pcbinternational.com
http://www.pcb-pool.com/

PIC Software Simulators: (Not favorites, as I have not tried them all, just all the ones I could find)
http://www.labcenter.com/products/vsm_overview.cfm commercial product, nice!
http://www.picemulator.com/
http://www.oshonsoft.com/ another commercial product
http://bellota.ele.uva.es/~jesus/pic/
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/pic/psim/
http://www.virtualbreadboard.com free, nice graphics, some bugs, and some rebooting reported
Might work better with XP than newer Windows OS's.
http://www.pic-basic.com/