Linguistics/language blogs and fun stuff

WordSpy
Paul McFedries' blog listing current neologisms. Lots of good quotes about language, too.
Sounds of the World's Animals
Find out what a pig sounds like in Vietnamese and how Estonians mimic crows.
Language and Words: Trivia and Useless Facts
Most of these 'facts' are to do with quirks of English spelling and mildly interesting etymologies, but they could come in handy in a pub quiz.
Speculative Grammarian (SpecGram)
'The premier scholarly journal featuring research in the neglected field of satirical linguistics.'
Hoover the Talking Seal
Not an instruction, but a link to an article on the world's most loquacious pinniped. Includes baffling sound clip.

John Wells' phonetics blog
What it says on the tin. Eclectic, informative, amusing, frequently updated.
Phonoloblog
Claims to cover 'all things phonology'.
Mel Blanc's vocal folds in action
The man who did the voices for Bugs Bunny, Sylvester the Cat, Tweety Pie and Porky Pig performs some of his repertoire with a laryngoscope down his throat, courtesy of YouTube.

Language Log
The premier blog of language and linguistics issues, written by Mark Liberman, Geoff Pullum, and several other well known linguists. It's dangerously absorbing, and offers years' worth of archives to trawl through.
blogos
News and views on languages and technology.
Linguablogging
By the bespectacled Billy Clark.

BBC Pronunciation Unit blog
Keeps you up-to-date with how foreign and idiosyncratic placenames and personal names in the news are pronounced.

Text-to-speech synthesis...
... this time from NeoSpeech, demonstrating the TTS system selected as the new voice of Steven Hawking.
Highlights from Dennis Klatt's history of speech synthesis
Might not sound like much fun, but some of the synthesised speech demos are worth a listen.

Linguistic 'humour'
No responsibility taken for the quality of content! Actually some of this is quite funny.
The Word Detective
Evan Morris' site on 'words and language in a humorous vein'.
Engrish.com
Bringing (blinging?) you Engrish favourites from Japan and around the world.
Molecules with silly or unusual names
This list, compiled by Paul May, a senior lecturer in chemistry at the University of Bristol, starts with 'arsole' and doesn't really improve over the next three innuendo-laden pages.