Webcomic: Hark! A Vagrant (www.harkavagrant.com). Effortlessly charming, Kate Beaton affectionately satirizes British, Canadian and, er, miscellaneous historical characters and events. The only qualm is that it is so irregularly updated.
Blog: Zeitgasm (www.zeitgasm.com), by British games journalist Graham Smith, one of many proofs that when it comes to original, intelligent journalism, it's always best to look to the mother country.
Music: Sky Larkin (http://www.myspace.com/skylarkinskylarkin), a Leeds-based band, who basically just make good tunes and play them with energy, which is a pretty obviously good plan, but one that few artists go for.
Writer: Samuel Johnson, who is worth investigating very thoroughly. His essays can be difficult to read, but contain many gems, while his conversation (recorded in Boswell's Life of Johnson) is glorious. His sole novel, Rasselas, is a marvelous distillation of his philosophy (which I find very sensible), as is his poem, The Vanity of Human Wishes, a powerful work which deserves a close reading. All in all, he is quite probably history's greatest literary all-rounder. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson)
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