The Classical is a fantastic new sports site for the discerning sports fan that fills a much-needed hole in the sports blogosphere. Brought to you by a team of writers from (among other venerable publications) Free Darko, The Awl, n+1, and Yahoo! Sports, The Classical aims to “write about sports the way that smart people talk about sports,” which, good for them. If you're someone who enjoys both sports and reading, you should give it a look .

The Best Links:

1. The Classical Talks: The Voice Interviews the Writers Behind the New Sports Site
2. The Classical
3. “What Hasn’t The Internet Killed? Sportswriting.” - The New Yorker

Via: wonkette.com

Tumblr, the social blogging platform has experienced massive growth and just hit their 10 billionth blog post. Tumblr is celebrating by hitting you with virtual confetti right on the user dashboard.

Via: bitshare

Via: robotindisguise

Because sometimes you just need to give something the finger.

The Best Links:

1. Flip Stuff Off
2. I Need This Blog Today

In preparation for Where the Wild Things Are, Spike Jonze has started a blog which is being described as “part arts/culture blog, part Wild Things primer, and part newspaper for stuff that makes us psyched.”

The Best Links:

1. “Everyone Poops” Trailer [VIDEO]
2. ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ Trailer
3. ‘Where The Wild Things Are’ Focus Group [VIDEO]
4. We Love You So

Ben Southall got the so-called “Best Blogging Job in the World,” living on Hamilton Island in the Great Barrier Reef for 6-months.

The Best Links:

1. Ben Southall on BuzzFeed
2. The Best Blogging Job in the World (on BuzzFeed
3. Ben Southall - Island Caretaker (106343)
4. His Video Application
5. ‘Best job in the world’: profile of Briton Ben Southall
6. Your request is being processed… Ben Southall Wins “Best Job In The World”

Simply enough, a blog that tracks flaming garbage cans in hip hop videos.

The Best Links:

1. FGCIHHV on YouTube
2. Pretty Self-explanatory
3. Flaming Garbage Cans In Hip Hop Videos

While you might have seen the artsy, one-off food blog at Scanwiches and thought to yourself, “hey, what a great idea,” it's apparently just a copy cat!

The Best Links:

1. Scanwiches on BuzzFeed
2. Scanwich.com
3. The Battle of the Scanned-Sandwich Blogs

Well, they did it. Coming soon to a Borders near you… This Is Why You're Fat the book.

The Best Links:

1. This Is Why You’re Fat: The Book
2. thisiswhyyourefat.com
3. This Is Why You’re Fat: The Book
4. This Is Why You’re Fat Gets Book Deal

“The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button, and try to get as far from the camera as I can.”

Read More On runningfromcamera.blogspot.com ›

A comprehensive list of the best and worst people according to the online cultural zeitgeist. Add your own choices!

The Best Links:

1. Disaster Girl! - Featured on Buzzfeed
2. Videogum Loves Paul Rudd
3. Pop Candy’s Top 100 People
4. Keith Olbermann’s Favorite People Of 2008
5. Awful Elisabeth Hasselbeck’s 25 Most Annoying Moments Of 2008
6. Julie Klausner Loves the Obama Girls, Hates Gwenyth Paltrow
7. Videogum Hates Seth MacFarlane

The popular mail art confessions website PostSecret saw their MySpace account censored last week after administrators removed postcards, comments, and blocked 10,000 people from viewing their MySpace blog.

The Best Links:

1. PostSecret on Wikipedia
2. MoveOn Openly Battling MySpace Censorship
3. The PostSecret Blog on MySpace
4. MySpace Censorship
5. PostSecret Censorship Discussion

Nerve ranked the “buzziest” blog posts ever, proving that the inner reaches of Internet clusterf*ckery can find their way into the real world, including Jimmy Kimmel .

The Best Links:

1. Gould Vs. Kimmel: It’s ON! [Thinking Back]
2. “The Link Bait To Beat All Link Bait”
3. Pop Candy’s Personal Choices
4. The 50 Buzziest Blog Posts of All Time

Editors at Wired are removing the curtains, so to speak, on the whole process of creating a feature article, in a new blog called Storyboard . It’s a profile of a profile.

The Best Links:

1. Wired Shows How Your Magazine-Profile Sausage Gets Made
2. A Fine Example For Journalism Class
3. Profile of a Profile
4. Letting It All Hang Out
5. Wired Goes A Little Overboard (BuzzFeed)
6. The Process (Design Angle)
7. Wired editors unveil their feature-editing process in a new blog
8. Storyboard

Burning Man’s up-to-the-minute blog from the desert.

The Best Links:

1. Burning Man on Twitter
2. Burning Man on SFGate
3. Burning Man blogs
4. The Burning Blog
5. What Is Burning Man?
6. How To Experience Burning Man Remotely

Fascinating daily blog by a nameless inmate currently serving a life sentence in the Texas Penitentiary. He updates the blog daily with the help of a friend on the outside.

The Best Links:

1. Son of Sam’s Prison Blog - June 11, 2004
2. prisonblogs.net | Because every voice deserves to be heard
3. The Largest Prison Pen Pal site on the Internet!
4. Prison Proxy: Welcome - Starting from the first blog post
5. Prison Proxy

A blog by a 23-year-old, chronicling her abortion.

The Best Links:

1. “One of the few realistic portrayals of getting an abortion I’ve seen in any kind of media.”
2. What to Expect When You’re Aborting

A blog that captures the widespread misuse of quotation marks.

The Best Links:

1. McDonald’s “Gets It”
2. The Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks