fivecentnickel discusses What Happens to Your Mortgage if Your Bank Fails? which is a question I'm sure a lot of people are asking lately. The very short version answer is that your mortgage would just get sold to another bank with the same terms.
GetRichSlowly points out that tomorrow you can get into participating museums free: Museum Day 2008: Free Museum Admission This Saturday
Another from fivecentnickel is the article Current Online Savings Account Interest Rates which points out that WaMu has a 4% rate now for its online checking.