http://www.tricksandtrinkets.com/ - "Weekly insights into new, cool, fun, useful, unusual and interesting sites on the internet". Not strictly about freeware, I suppose, but may be interesting nevertheless.
http://www.freewareweb.com/ - describe
http://www.langa.com/ - describe
http://www.thisistrue.com/ - "weekly syndicated newspaper column by Colorado humorist Randy Cassingham. True reports on bizarre-but-true news items from legitimate newspapers from around the world (never "tabloids"). Each story ends with commentary by Randy -- a tagline which is humorous, ironic or opinionated. An online pioneer, True has been publishing online weekly since June 1994. "