THE SALTY ACADEMIC
This blog by a friend features hilarious insights on an eclectic range of topics including sociology, mysterious diseases and reality television.

CARTOON BREW
A blog about animation, with industry gossip, links to videos and artists' sites, and other relevant material.

NYC SUBWAY GOOGLE MAP
The New York Subway system integrated into Google Maps. Useful to see how subway stops relate to real-world addresses.

ETERAZ
A beautifully written blog by progressive muslim Ali Eteraz. His thought-provoking posts often generate intelligent debates.

HOPSTOP
A great city transit trip planner, which calculates your total travel time from point A to B. Some major U.S. cities only.

DEATH AND TAXES
A visual guide to where your federal tax dollars go. Well-researched and comprehensive, and available as a poster.

SLEEK MAGAZINE
German art/culture magazine written in English. Interesting topics, and the presentation is just good enough to get you curious.

POOJA BAKRI
Beautiful paintings by a beautiful friend. Despite the intelligence of the compositions, I always find her paintings to be all emotion.

VIDEOS.ANTVILLE.ORG
A group blog where many interesting music videos are posted. A good place to find new music but most of all good visuals.

BURST OF BEADEN
Stunningly awesome animation work and stills by Jonathan Klassen and collaborators. Very inspiring, great classic yet modern feel.

3 QUARKS DAILY
A fascinating blog edited by a small group of people, focusing on art, science, literature, current affairs, and anything else interesting.

OVERHEARD IN NEW YORK
A frequently updated log of snippets of overheard conversations from the streets, subways and public spaces of the city.

CHRISTOPH NIEMANN
Very clever and clear illustrations. Sometimes he does series of images that are like jazz musicians riffing on a theme.

MOTELSIGN.COM
A very nice collection of motel sign photographs, with some narration. There are also some shots of other things in the same vein.

ISOMETRIC SCREENSHOTS
A series of drawings in the style of isometric computer games, with popular cultural events as the subjects. Creepy cool.

ROWING COACH
A relatively thorough introduction to rowing, specifically about finding and maintaining good form when excercising.

DRAWN!
A collaborative weblog for illustrators, artists, and cartoonists... or just a good place to find cool links to artsy places.

TRA SELHTROW
I can see a number of influences in this illustrator's work, but there is a strong voice coming out of it.

DRINK AT WORK
A blog about writing comic strips by, uh, a writer of comic strips. Pretty funny, and sometimes even informative.

AMAZON'S TOP 200 FREE MP3 DOWNLOADS
Updated every 6 hours, this page features the most popular free mp3 songs on Amazon.com. A pretty cool resource.