Donny Deutsch was filling in for David Shuster on MSNBC today when his coworkers decided to humiliate the ad man and failed CNBC host on-air with that 1983 picture of him in a speedo. Excellent!

Yes, everyone drinks more in a recession, but they drink the cheapest, vilest swill they can find. The New York Times reports while wine sales are up, the industry is hurting because high-end wines are in a tailspin.

Apple's two-month-old "Find My iPhone" has already jailed a criminal: A 15-year-old tracked down two iPhones and a wallet stolen from two cars. "As soon as I told [a police officer] the address, he started to laugh." Revenge is priceless.

This is it! My last Gawker dance. And, in the immortal words of Denise Huxtable, I.. I... I don't know what to say. So I'll leave the goodbyes up to an old friend, dearest socialite Tinsley Mortimer, my original muse.

A British bureaucrat has published a guide to Twitter etiquette and strategy, intended for use throughout the government. The stiff, formal document about a casual microblogging service is generating worldwide headlines, but it's hardly the first of its kind.

July 28: NBC’s chief legal analyst, Dan Abrams, MSNBC’s Willie Geist, and social commentator Nancy Giles discuss some of the most talked about news stories of the week.

Miss Heather has uncovered what has to be the strangest construction project in Greenpoint: At 211 Huron Street, we're looking at an auto body shop on the first floor, apartments on floors 2-5 and a swimming pool on the roof! The permits expired in April, but that hasn't stopped the workers from doing their thing. And in a nice touch aimed at the future squatters that will one day inhabit this site, a homey door has been installed on the construction plywood. Nice touch! [New York Shitty]

Given it's practically impossible to go five minutes without hearing someone talk about Twitter, Americans are probably getting sick and tired of hearing about the "revolutionary" micro-blogging service, right? Not so much. A new survey of 2,025 adults found that 69 percent didn't even know what Twitter was. [LAT]

High Glitz is Susan Anderson's portrait series depicting "the extravagant world of child beauty pageants".

Renderings by Cook + Fox

Oh, joy. Glee, even. Fox's rousing, wonderful new musical series is now officially slated for a September 9th return. Plus there's been a new musical number clip released, and it is fabulous. "Bust Ya Windows" fabulous. Here it is:

• Is the restaurant business rebounding? That's what some are saying, even though the summer isn't typically a busy time: "Restaurants are fuller than they have been since the recession touched down last October." [Crain's]
• Da Silvano's sister spot, Scuderia, has moved on to its third chef. [GS]
• Guss' Pickles is leaving the Lower East Side for Brooklyn. [Lo-Down]
• A report from Permanent Brunch's first day in business. [Zagat]
• Commerce in the West Village is only accepting credit cards from now on, either for environmental reasons or to prevent robberies. You decide. [GS]
• The second annual NY Craft Beer Week arrives this September. [NYCBW]
• Tracy Westmoreland, owner of the late dive bar Siberia and current owner of Manhattans in Prospect Heights, is on the hunt for investors. [VV]
• FreshDirect is cutting back on cardboard boxes, just so you're aware. [NYT]
• Were you looking to dine on yak meat? You're in luck. [NYT]

Somebody put on a yoga festival—a yoga festival—in Lake Tahoe, and indie staples Spoon, Broken Social Scene, and Jenny Lewis played. So did MC Yogi, who asked the crowd: "How many of you think Ganesh is fresh?" Why?

For entertainment value, we hope this happens: Sarah Palin considering her own radio show. [InsideRadio]

Doesn't the set at left, used for a retired person "Town Hall"-style meeting, look a bit like the set for the exhaustively sleazy Jerry Springer Show? Old people watch a lot of TV, so it was probably a comfort.

Oh goodness. I'd hoped for a good clip to end my Fox & Friends "coverage", and the video team has delivered. Today the pompadoured earwigs were discussing America-hating Bill Maher. Why doesn't he leave and go to France?

Need further evidence that America's banking system could use a little fixing? Four NYU college buddies figured out that if you claim your ATM card has been stolen, you're not responsible for the charges, and the bank has 10 days to reimburse you for the loss. So the four opened account after account and pretended their cards had been stolen, over and over again, racking up about half a million bucks in phony refunds over the course of, oh, five years or so, before the banks finally figured out that there might just be a pattern here. Not that lawyer (and chick magnet) Eric Manganelli wasn't already a bit suspicious, of course. It's never a good sign when you count Al D'Amato and Bernie Kerik as friends on Facebook. [NYDN]

The idea that Eliot Spitzer's downfall was engineered by the financial industry whose profits he threatened with regulation has made the rounds on the internet for a while. Now Vanity Fair is siccing two investigative reporters on the story.

Actually golfing? Lame. The cool kids are inside, the dulcet tones of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10 commentators just audible over the whir of the air conditioner. So take this survey, email the last question to surveys@gawker.com and enter to win a Nintendo Wii. Stay pale! [Standard contest rules apply.]