I've come across a handful of nice blogs lately and in blogospheric tradition, I wanna throw out a couple shoutouts.   Most of these new guys will land on my blogroll but I wanted to give them some specific attention and direct my vast readership towards them to give their blogs a whirl:

Daily Ablution (http://dailyablution.blogs.com/) is published by a brit with a decidedly Pro-american sentiment (lowercase "a" = the Western values and ideals;  not necessarily American).   He delivers a sharp writing style with a very British tongue-in-cheek jab at current events emanating from the UK.  

Belmont club (Belmont Club) is a FANTASTIC military + analysis blog.   Very cultured, erudite, and deeply schooled in military history and current technology.   His parable of today's Eloi's and Morlocks is funny, depressing, and so true.   A majority of his posts are like this one with detailed historical data interspersed with current military events (in this case, the evolution of Jihadi tactics vs. Soviet Helicopters)

"TJ" is a tech entrepreneur in Germany who's in that middle ground of being a linker + thinker.   Lots of links to out-of-the-way tech news & investment data occasionally interspersed with his own, short, thoughts.  Gives you some flavor for what the startup scene looks like across the pond.

And finally, Carl Zimmer is a science reporter who's been published in Science, NYT, Discover, and a host of other top tier rags.   His blog is a survey of current topics in science backed up by Zimmer's deep background.   Always educational.