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Neatorama has a cool post listing 10 things you should know about the internet. A few of them are pretty obvious but I'll admit more than a couple would have stumped me during a Trivial Pursuit game.

TEA FOR ME AND YOU Real men don’t drink tea or do they? Perhaps you think of tea as a hot beverage sipped politely from delicate china cups, pinky finger extended. After all, the British tradition of “tea mania” has often included an accompaniment of crustless sandwiches, crumpets or other sweet treats.

I really am not sure when this happened to our media, but it is clear that Jeffrey Toobin is the last honest man on television:

A preview: Did they have Cindy speak before him to make him appear dynamic by comparison? 9:58 pm- The Potemkin Presidency: According to Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign, the American people don’t care whether Sarah Palin can answer specific questions about foreign and domestic policy.

Let’s kick off this convention right with an action alert from Red State: As you know, the magazine Us Weekly will hit news stands this coming weekend with a hit job on Governor Sarah Palin. Though Us Weekly claims that its coverage is very balanced, its cover features Governor Palin holding a baby

Some predictions: 1.) I expect it will be short. Every second that McCain is speaking, Steve Schmidt and the rest of the McCain team die a thousand deaths. 2.) It will be relatively substance free. Expect more of the same biographical stuff, talk about character, putting country first, and other babble.

You Know the Drill By: John Cole at 3:03 pm By request: Consider this an open thread. Currently I am planning on taking a cocktail of vodka, dramamine, and no-doz to make it through McCain’s speech. I think we may have the server issues fixed by the end of the day, btw. *** Update *** LOL.

When you do go on vacation you can Pop into the Coral Cove CLubhouse. To Chat with your buddies or meet new people. There are also 4 new foods if you walk over to the buffet and open it. I think the waffle sandals look quite yummy !

From Rick Perlstein’s Nixonland, p. 58-59: The press had recently become Nixon’s enemy of first resort. Later generations would remember the media’s relationship to Nixon as he had wanted people to remember it: as implacably hostile from the beginning. Not so. The Los Angeles Times had supported him back when he was an unknown.

Your Webbies can also go visit the Spa. The Spa is based on how many webbies you have SOOO it can be very expensive. The Spa boosts their hunger, health and happiness levels. I did send my Webbies in a Smaller Account to the Spa today.