· The OC drinking game. (You know, to go with the Simple Life drinking game. Ah, TV and liquor: they go together as well as any other two depressants.)
· The Black List: Grow Up Already.
· Alexander Star named Number Three at NYT Mag.
· Add to the official List of Very Wrong words: PoMosexuality.
· He gives 'til it hurts: Sting to Present Britain's Bad Sex Award.

(Yeah, none of these had anything to do with Britney Spears. Just didn't want Britney's inexorable slide into the sweet embrace of death to go unremarked. Happy birthday, kitten! Oh, doh. It's after midnight, her birthday's over.)