Blogs
Hyperbole and a Half: The Alot is Better Than You at Everything
Language Log
The Laughorist
Williamsburg Spelling Blog
Yet Another Life in France
A City Reader
Gayle Forman, friend and awesome young-adult novelist
Frank151, all about design
Evolving English The new British Library show’s blog
Suzi Feay’s Book Bag A great independent critic’s blog
The Capuchin Classics Blog Dedicated to reviving unjustly neglected great works of fiction

Word sites
Wordnik: All the Words.
Double-Tongued Dictionary
Jennifer Dziura.com
Wordle – Beautiful Word Clouds
Oxford Dictionaries Online – English Dictionary and Thesaurus
Scripps National Spelling Bee
Merriam-Webster Online
Urban Dictionary
Sign Spotting
Save the Words
Wordsmith Subscribe to a daily email that will stretch your vocabulary — they have definitions, pronunciation guides, etymology and usage guides as well as weekly themes.
The 100 most beautiful English words (in one guy’s opinion!)

Design sites
The Daily Heller Subscribe to the brilliant Steven Heller’s daily must-read, sponsored by Print. Heller is co-founder and co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author program at the School of Visual Arts. He writes the Visuals column for the New York Times Book Review and the Graphic Content blog for T Style. He is the author, coauthor, and/or editor of more than 120 books on design and popular culture, including the recent book Born Modern: The Life and Design of Alvin Lustig (Chronicle).
Design Observer Subscribe to William Drenttel and Jessica Helfand’s intelligent, design-oriented website—they cover a diverse range of subjects, all the way from advertising to urbanism.

Articles
Does slang make you stupid? – The Observer
Obama’s state of the union speech – The Guardian
Hate speech – The New York Times

Books
Roberta Price, Across the Great Divide

Radio
Ben Zimmer on the Worst Words of 2010 on Leonard Lopate’s WNYC show. Zimmer, the New York Times Magazine’s “On Language” columnist and executive producer of the Visual Thesaurus, discusses the worst words of 2010—from “enhanced pat-down” to “anchor baby” to “mama grizzly.” He’ll be speaking with listeners about the words they hope will disappear with the year’s end.

Education/Creativity
Spread the Word, a London-based community site for aspiring writers.
UNESCO’s World Book Capital City programme–get your city nominated!