This blog by a friend features hilarious insights on an eclectic range of topics including sociology, mysterious diseases and reality television.
A blog about animation, with industry gossip, links to videos and artists' sites, and other relevant material.
The New York Subway system integrated into Google Maps. Useful to see how subway stops relate to real-world addresses.
A beautifully written blog by progressive muslim Ali Eteraz. His thought-provoking posts often generate intelligent debates.
A great city transit trip planner, which calculates your total travel time from point A to B. Some major U.S. cities only.
A visual guide to where your federal tax dollars go. Well-researched and comprehensive, and available as a poster.
German art/culture magazine written in English. Interesting topics, and the presentation is just good enough to get you curious.
Beautiful paintings by a beautiful friend. Despite the intelligence of the compositions, I always find her paintings to be all emotion.
A group blog where many interesting music videos are posted. A good place to find new music but most of all good visuals.
Stunningly awesome animation work and stills by Jonathan Klassen and collaborators. Very inspiring, great classic yet modern feel.
A fascinating blog edited by a small group of people, focusing on art, science, literature, current affairs, and anything else interesting.
A frequently updated log of snippets of overheard conversations from the streets, subways and public spaces of the city.
Very clever and clear illustrations. Sometimes he does series of images that are like jazz musicians riffing on a theme.
A very nice collection of motel sign photographs, with some narration. There are also some shots of other things in the same vein.
A series of drawings in the style of isometric computer games, with popular cultural events as the subjects. Creepy cool.
A relatively thorough introduction to rowing, specifically about finding and maintaining good form when excercising.
A collaborative weblog for illustrators, artists, and cartoonists... or just a good place to find cool links to artsy places.
I can see a number of influences in this illustrator's work, but there is a strong voice coming out of it.
A blog about writing comic strips by, uh, a writer of comic strips. Pretty funny, and sometimes even informative.
Updated every 6 hours, this page features the most popular free mp3 songs on Amazon.com. A pretty cool resource.