This page is a clearinghouse for all sorts of wood- and woodshop-related projects I'm either working on, intend to work on, or fervently hope to one day have time to work on.
The Way Wood Works - an interesting (and fairly in-depth, for a magazine article) look at wood grain, moisture content and retention, etc.
While looking for information on relative hardness of wood, I stumbled across The Wood Database, which was fascinating. Related: Wikipedia's page on the Janka test lists out (in hardest → softest order) the Janka value for various domestic and exotic species.
Buying woodworking lumber is different than buying dimensional lumber. The former is sold as S2S (surfaced, two sides) whereas the latter is S4S (all sides). This is why a 2x4 from Lowe's is actually 1-¾" x 3-½" when measured. Additionally, rough-sawn boards are sold by the board-foot (a measure of volume) and their thickness is specified in quarters - i.e. 4/4 is 1" thick, 6/4 is 1-½", etc.
Found this good introductory article: Woodworking 101: What Does 4/4 Mean In Lumber?.
Fine Woodworking has a good article, How to Mill Lumber, that will come in handy for the furniture projects I'm planning.
Found this roundup of Popular Woodworking's Bench Articles, which was neat.
This was my first Popular Woodworking magazine, which hit newsstands right after we bought our first house (in Illinois). I built the bench out of pine (without milling or any real skill) the following spring, and vowed that one day I would have a jointer and a planer and could do it right, in White Ash.
Several people have built this bench.
Eventually, they released the build video, on Youtube.
Robert Lang wrote a retrospective in September of 2016, called Another 2st Century Workbench.
There are freely available Sketchup models.
In my googlings, I ran across a Sawmill Creek Forum Thread, in which a handful of woodworkers (the aptly named "Rob Bois" included) were attempting to build this bench.
Here's the PDF of the October 2008 article.
I used Wood Finder, but they didn't have much in the local area.
Woodworkers Source sells lumber (domestic and exotic) by BF, and ships freight to your door (for a fee); it seems like its worth it to avoid the truck rental (or haul capacity problems), drive time, and gas.
Bell Forest Products has an amazing selection of domestic and exotic species, in both blank and board form.