A tipster forwarded us this adios note that a Newsweek employee sent out today. Apparently the recent layoffs aren't proceeding so smoothly.

• George Stephanopoulos will probably replace Diane Sawyer on GMA. [TDB]
• Now that Bloomberg LP is talking over BusinessWeek, columnists Maria Bartiromo and Jack Welch are both parting ways with the mag. [NYP]
• CNN is laying off four of its web anchors since it no longer plans to produce live video on CNN.com. The good news? With Lou Dobbs no longer on the payroll, it should save $9 million over the next few years. [NYT, [NYP]
• Euna Lee, one of the two CurrentTV reporters who was imprisoned in North Korea earlier this year, has scored herself a six-figure book deal. [NYT]
• Shares of Playboy jumped yesterday after it was reported the apparel conglomerate Iconix was in talks to acquire the (struggling) company. [NYP]
• Another senior Observer editor is bidding goodbye to the paper. [Politico]
• Fashion mags are expecting their fortunes to improve in 2010. [WWD]
• Is the Fox Business Channel a lost cause at this point? [VF]
• Television is more getting more and more obscene, supposedly. [NYT]

Congrats once again to Cecil's Wielder for being the first to answer today's Freeze Frame. Click through for the answer.

Sarah Palin may have invited her daughter's babydaddy to Thanksgiving dinner, but the future Playgirl centerfold will not be passing the yams with the Palins. He turned down her offer, saying she's "full of it."

Rohde's remark suggests that other press blackouts, like the one enforced for seven month by the New York Times as it tried to negotiate Rohde's release, are currently in place regarding abducted reporters.

There are things you don't tell your husband. There are things you don't tell your therapist. But virtually everything can go into Google's search box — for Google to re-broadcast to the world, via its "suggestion" feature.

New York Observer executive editor Josh Benson is leaving the paper at the end of the year along with departing top editor Tom McGeveran. Benson tells Michael Calderone he's joining McGeveran in his non-Jared Kushner-affiliated future project. [Politico]

[Paul McCartney coaxes a stuffed animal into his limo and kidnaps it in London today. He will not return the bear to its parents until control of the Beatles catalog is given back to him. Image via INF]

Fleetwood Mac's "Gypsy" immediately calms down this crying baby. I'm pretty sure parenting is the easiest thing in the world.

Artist Sam Bassett wanted to attract some attention. So he headed over to Sotheby's on Tuesday to show off his work, the day when the auction house was holding one of its biggest sales of the year and many of the world's most important collectors would be on hand. The only glitch: Bassett's medium is "tape sculpture," and it involves him stringing up colored masking tape across buildings, lamp posts and streets. It wasn't long before he was carted off to jail. But he did leave with a few new fans. "The cops liked the concept, one cop called me the new Cristo," he says. [NYP]

Here, an new animated short video celebrating the day that Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis threw a no-hitter while blind-tripping on acid. Truly one of the greatest American drug accomplishments of the 20th century. Learn your history, kids. [James Blagden]

Your mom called and said you need a new set of sheets, blankies and pillows. Make her happy for once. Take this survey, email the last question to surveys@gawker.com, and you could win a $150 Macy's gift card. [Rules]

The worst part about this clip is watching these dudes writhing in pain while the sports announcers are laughing their asses off.

Cancer: All your fault.

Last night Vicki and three generation of Gunvalson women journeyed to Italy to experience the beauty of Rome. There is only one way we can express the aesthetic impact of their journey: poetry.

Ordinary People: Socialite and heiress Daphne Guinness and transsexual superstar Amanda Lepore at last night's launch for NARS 15X15, a new book by makeup mogul François Nars.

The Way We Live Now: Bootleg. Quality is dead. Authenticity has been taken out to the trash, then stolen by scavengers and sold for one hit of whale penis leather—bootleg whale penis leather. What would Ed Hardy think?

After the recent tepid results of the sixth installment in the Saw series we held was some mad hope that this particular wave of yuckiness might be at an end and the era of self-dismemberment filmmaking might be behind us.

Have you heard that some whiny men are now asking/demanding that their wives-to-be give them a "man-gagement" ring before getting married? According to a poll conducted by Brides.com (which may or may not have been funded by the jewelry industry), 45 percent of women said they'd consider buying their fiancé an engagement band. Really? Well, at least they'll both have something to take to the pawn shop when they split up! [NYDN, ABC News]

David Pogue does not call himself a journalist; that much he made clear during the controversy over his positive New York Times pieces on Apple's buggy operating system and obfuscating CEO. So what is he, then? A "Visionary." (Updated)