http://www.damninteresting.com/ - Inactive at the moment, but still a great archive of fascinating articles.
http://www.snopes.com/ - The truth about urban myths.
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ (NSFW) - Fair and balanced news.
http://www.nicecupofteaandasitdown.com/ - If you wish to be au fait with developments in the world of biscuits, this is the site for you.
http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm - Interesting etymology.
http://www.metafilter.com/ - Good and varied selection of links.
http://ifyoulikeitsomuchwhydontyougolivethere.com/ (NSFW) - Know. Your. Enemy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/series/theknowledge - The curiosities of football.
http://tvcreamtowers.wordpress.com/ - Telly tat (in a good way).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charliebrooker - Entertainingly bilious.
http://www.nickelinthemachine.com/ - Great London-centric blog.
http://internetarchive.wordpress.com/ - What's new at archive.org.
http://timesonline.typepad.com/timesarchive/ - History as reported by The Thunderer.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/columnists/jamesmay/ - Affable bumbler grapples with the 21st century.
http://www.forteantimes.com/latest/breaking-news/ - It's a weird world...

Lawrence Miles doesn't like the Radio Times, so he's writing his own version http://therandomnesstimes.blogspot.com/
Almost daily updated blog centred around things to be passionate about http://www.tatp.org/blog/
Thoroughly researched blog about comedy http://sotcaa.net/blogcaa
Another thoroughly researched blog about comedy, including lots of reprinted newspaper articles about great old comedy shows (ie stinking initial review for Fawlty Towers) http://smarterthantheaverage.tumblr.com/
Scourge of psychic bullshit artists, James Randi http://www.randi.org/site/
Half high court judge/Half liberal, Richard Ingrams http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/columnists/richard-ingrams/

I started with Google Reader but it was so unreliable I switched to a different freebie reader. I now have NewsGator.com – simple, easy to use, can set up your own folders to organise feeds, far more reliable than Google.

I’ve just had a look through my RSS feeds – here's some I’d suggest you have a look at:

www.thedailybeast.com (Tina Brown’s New York–based news aggregator site - heavy traffic some days, currently going to town on Bernie Madoff as well as an on-going love-in with Obama)

www.whythatsdelightful.wordpress.com (Graham ‘Father Ted/The IT Crowd’ Linehan blog)

www.thesmokinggun.com (the truth behind the headlines)

www.sixwordstories.com (does exactly what it says on the tin)

www.ourmanincameroon.com (UK volunteer, Steve, on third VSO stint, this time in Bemenda, Cameroon - not always hunky dory)

www.fabbyorshabby.blogspot.com (good/bad UK retail experiences, name and shame, what to avoid etc)

www.fmlife.com (you think you’re having a bad day...)

www.englishrussia.com (tag line is “just because something cool happens daily on 1/6th of the earth surface” – some entries NSFW)

www.stuffonmycat.com (if you like LOLcats, this is along the same lines: how much stuff can you get on a cat)

www.whatjeffkilled.com and www.jeffthegiantorangecat.com (Jeff tends to kill anything in sight, spin-off site chronicles him being looked after as he’s getting on a bit now - or how one cat has managed to manipulate the humans it lives with)

www.listuniverse.com (lists of the weird and wacky stuff out there)

www.thefoodinmybeard.com (Amercian guy transplanted to Bermuda, documenting Dan and Mandi’s adventures in home cooking with limited food availability on the island)

www.cakewrecks.blogspot.com (who knew the art of slapping icing on cakes could turn out sooooo bad?)

www.seriouseats.com (food blog from New York)

www.thisiswhyyourefat.com (worst possible junk food you could ever image, thankfully it’s on your screen and not on your plate)

www.mylifeinacube.com (cartoons on the back of office supplies by Shane Johnson. If you’ve ever worked in an office you can relate to this stuff)

And I’ve saved the best till last: www.masthead.blogspot.com
‘Magazine Man’ and his wife/three kids and Blaze the super-hero dog. Anonymous blog about his life growing up with his parents and older brother in New England and his life now with a senior job in magazine journalism, hence the ‘Somewhere on the Masthead’ title.

Fantastic writing: edge-of-your-seat adventures, will make you laugh out loud, cry buckets of tears, scream at the computer, spurt hot tea over keyboard and even make you read faster than you can with a gripping story of suspense. Sporadic current postings as he’s been made redundant and taking a bit of time to re-adjust. Set aside 20-30 minutes to read the entries – will leave you wanting more. Make time to check out the back story in the archives.

Enjoy.

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_blogs/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=3317...

Ok so he's a freind of mine but in nearly ten years as a journalist I never worked with a better writer. From the laugh out loud to the bittersweet and back again each week as a very funny man gets to knows his son.

...with Firefox, as the Sage plug-in makes them easily accessible. It's hard to pick favourites, but

http://sirenvoices.blogspot.com/ is a paramedic's blog, but boy, can he write.

http://nhsblogdoc.blogspot.com/ Dr Crippen always has something to say about the state of the NHS

http://nightjack.wordpress.com/ is probably the best-written of the Police blogs I follow, though

http://pcbloggs.blogspot.com/ has a wonderfully cynical tone.

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/ The blog of an American professor who despairs of evangelical attempts to steer science curriculae in a more religious direction. Always some fireworks here.

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/ always worth a grin, as is

http://www.lovelylisting.com/ - the darker side of US Realty

http://www.badscience.net/ is always good value too.