You may have already seen this (since at time of writing it’s seen 614 diggs), but it’s nice enough to pass along anyway.  Smashing Magazine has taken the time to compile a list of 45 Excellent Blog Designs that represent some really smart thinking and very fresh web desgin.  Hopefully these can provide fodder for your own design process even though, and I think I’ve mentioned this before, I really do find it interesting to see the amount of freedom that web designers seem to feel compared to application UI designers.  Would you create application UI that looks like this or this?