FiveThirtyEight -- Dedicated to electoral projections and political polls; very interesting stuff.
The Cool Hunter -- It's hard to pin down the focus of this one... design, architecture, culture. Very, you know, cool.
Tifaux -- Blog about TV. I just found it... strikes me as potentially pretty funny.
Stereogum -- Music blog.
Matt Taibbi -- (Student Pick) Blog by a columnist for Rolling Stone. Politics, liberal slant.
Laura Freberg -- (Student Pick) Blog by a psychology professor about... psychology.
Tattoo Blog -- (Student Pick) A blog dedicated to photos of, and commentary about, tattoos.
Lick of the Day -- (Student Pick) That's "lick," as in, "riff." This blogger provides, as he says it, "a new guitar lick every day."
The Movie Blog -- (Student Pick) Pretty self-explanatory.
One student suggested a blog debating religion, but it seemed a little too combative to link. But it's obviously a topic that interests people, so I went looking for some with moderated views. Here are a few blogs (in no particular order) about religion, philosophy, and ethics, from different points of view -- David Kuo on BeliefNet, Planet Humanism, ThinkBuddha, Ijtema.net, Virtual Philosopher, and Civil Religion.
And what would the Internet be without cute pictures of furry animals? (Answer: one-third as big.)