Things we love

Skype's insouciant little whistle when you have an instant message

A good dust-up in Gawker about Anderson Cooper and where he might be headed with that large stack of papers

Syndicators who offer us nonexclusive agreements, so we can crawl into bed with more than one at a time

Neighborhood spats

That prison blogs are possible

When we get our email box down to 400 messages and we feel so clean

Blogs written by sock monkeys (even if they desperately need updating)