Here’s summary of some of the April Fools’ shenanigans going on via the internet machine. Mike Allen’s Playbook Good Tuesday morning. John McCain is expected to announce today that he has selected Condoleezza Rice as his running mate, sources say. If that got you awake, then it’s not too early …

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Good insight from several perspectives. [another WaPost powered blog] The metal detectors were cumbersome but we understood; the nerds who decided to make opening day a political scene were worse. If I had a nickel for each person who made the “Bush messes everything up” joke while waiting on line, …

Listen to Mortman: A Banks Shot For Hillary [free advice, that might work]

Gold star for rebuilding after Katrina [Wally World] Digging up Bones  [Friedrich Schiller] Best of the state political blogs  [the fix!] Julia Allison = real life Carrie Bradshaw  [Harold Ford’s Ex] Caron Butler’s 28th birthday bash [Ray Lewis & Jason Campbell kicking it] One in six West Virginians receive … …

It’s no doubt the McCain camp has a firm grasp on the importance of bloggers and the role blogging will have this cycle – proof is in the fact that the left is paying close attention.  But also worth noting is the fact that the MSM has taken notice too. Below …

The second graph of the Beltway’s best round-up should get you back up to speed: Good Monday morning. The president is off to Eastern Europe, the HUD secretary is out, the Treasury secretary wants to rewire the nation’s financial regulators, Al Gore is launching an ad campaign featuring Pat Robertson …

Hillary facing gun fire [yikes] Pin the VP on the nominee [the fix] Blog Freedom [Freddoso]

From Anne Schroeder’s blog: Does anyone else think Xavier’s basketball coach Sean Miller is a ringer for the Republican Study Committee’s spokesman Brad Dayspring? We’ll let you decide …. *PS: Thank you to the tipster who ripped the Dayspring photo off Facebook. Ah, the ever so public Facebook phenomena …

This week we are highlighting the 5 Most Ridiculous Twitter Updates. In case you have a life and don’t know what Twitter is – it’s a microblog for nerds who can’t get enough blogging in on a daily basis.  It’s utterly useless, but entertaining for us. [*note, names have been left …

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Someone has uploaded a virtual Vietnam Wall [amazing]  You can view every name on the wall. You can search by name, hometown, service, or enlistment type. Facts about the Interactive Wall At full size, The Wall image on Footnote is about 460 feet wide (400,000 pixels wide by 12,500 pixels …

Dr. Pepper will give everyone in America free soda if Chinese democracy is released in 2008 [Marketing GENIUS] G-town offers a class on Harry Potter [Still no Final Four?]  

Danny Glover’s latest project, Eyeblast TV, tours DC’s latest attraction, the “Newseum.”

If the McCain campaign is dumb enough to fire a blogger for posting an Obama video, shouldn’t they consider letting Meghan McCain go for posting this terrible YouTube clip?  [for the love of hypocrisy]