Zotero: simple, sexy, and useful as Luke Skywalker in a Death Star. Unless you're the Emperor, in which case he isn't useful at all.

From the good folks at George Mason University comes Zotero, a Firefox plugin that helps organize and cite sources for academic research. Zotero makes a nice little library out of all your online articles and PDFs, and inputs citations directly into OpenOffice. My Herzog paper has become about twenty times neater, if not as all closer to completion. I ought to read the second half of the book.