Society and Culture

• Metafilter - Venerable community weblog founded in 1999, dedicated even now to seeking out the best of the web.
• News From Me - The long-lived blog of Mark Evanier, comic and cartoon writer, old-time Hanna-Barbera stalwart, and his opinions on basically everything.
• Everlasting Blort - Long-lived and prolific image and link blog of cool and interesting finds, run by Madam Jujujive and Quonsar. Posts very often!
• Sleep Baseball - A podcast and sleep aid, releases long audio files of relaxing fake baseball games to help listeners sleep at night. Featured in the New Yorker.
• 404 Media - Excellent longform tech, internet and culture blog, with podcast. Notable bloggers: Jason Koebler, Sam Cole, Joseph Cox, Emanuel Maiberg, (Paywall: $10/mo)
• jwz.org - Tech culture blog by Jamie Zawinski, a founder of Netscape and Mozilla, programmer, proprietor of DNA Lounge.
• textfiles.com - Jason Scott's (Internet Archive) haven for early computer and internet culture, remembered in the form of ASCII text files.
• Waxy - Andy Baio's (XOXO, co-founder of Kickstarter) internet culture blog. Infrequent updates, but always excellent content.
• Today In Tabs - Rusty Foster's (formerly Suck.com, Plastic) weekdaily listing of cool internet, tech and news finds.
• Mike Sterling's Progressive Ruin - Popular blog of ruminations of a long-time comics fan and comic shop owner. Fan of Sluggo and Swamp Thing, home of the End of Civilization.
• Defector - Popular sports (and other things) group blog founded by Deadspin refugees. Consistently great. (Partly paywalled: $8/mo)
• Tedium - NEWSLETTER. Free with light ads, Ernie Smith's newsletter of interesting finds and longform writing.
• Whatever - Writing, book and other-things blog by popular sci-fi writer John Scalzi and editor Athena Scalzi, founded in 1998 and still going.
• The Bleat - Blog by columnist and writer James Lileks, of various pieces of cultural ephemera, often humorous.
• The Gallery of Regrettable Food - James Lileks' collection of pages and images of old cookbooks, when popular culinary ideals were rather different from today. My god, it's full of aspics!
• The Onion - Long-lived satirical newspaper and website, regarded by many as the best of internet humor.
• The AV Club - Pop culture news and commentary site.
• WWWF Grudge Match - Defunct (yet still online) site that ran parody polls and commentary on pop culture figures fighting each other, a probable inspiration for MTV's Celebrity Death Match.
• Urban Dictionary - Crowdsourced online slang and dictionary, documenting how words, phrases and textual memes are used throughout the internet.
• Green's Dictionary of Slang - A dictionary of historical English slang