Tucker Max repeatedly calls interviewer "sweetie." Is he 87 years old? Only possible explanation.

We're no closer to knowing just how naked Levi Johnston will be in Playgirl than we were yesterday, but both sides are getting closer to finalizing the details and signing a contract. The shoot should take place in early November.

Ohhh yeahhh, baby: Jimmy Wales did just hand you a picture of his dapper self, giving you The Look. You know, the sultry one he's used on a long line of women. The look that says, "this card means business."

Patrick Lanzo owns a restaurant in Paulding County, Georgia. His restaurant has a mannequin dressed as a Klansman. The sign out front says, "Obama's plan for health-care: nigger rig it." Lanzo says he is not a racist.

The Way We Live Now: Just stringing things together until we can get the hell out of here. Out of this terrible recession, we mean. Take it from us—don't drop out of school or be unemployed or in prison.

The Daily Beast's Lloyd Grove reports that Sarah Palin's editor secretly hates her and worked on a book mocking her. Well, doesn't everybody? How's she supposed to find an editor who doesn't think she's an idiot? It's publishing!

Barack Obama endorsed Democratic New York mayoral candidate Bill Thompson! Sort of! But not really!

If you happen to be moving to LA and you've got $4,350 a month to spend, be advised that Samantha Ronson's Hollywood Hills home is now up for rent. [Real Estalker]

The Associated Press, self-declared enemy of internet evildoers, says it has seen some awesome new Microsoft search technology — top secret stuff — that will return its content to a position of total world domination. Google is so history.

The Conde Nast layoffs are proceeding not like a Band-Aid ripped off quickly, but rather like a Band-Aid pulled off all too slowly. It hurts! Today, we hear, Glamour had its own layoffs. Including a reality TV star! UPDATE: Confirmed.

Condé Nast has been busy slashing staff all this week. (It's rumored the cuts continued today at Glamour, and some suspect that other publishing companies like Time Inc. are now gearing up to follow suit.) Clearly, though, it's all part of Condé's master plan to move out of unprofitable businesses like magazines and expand into markets that do make money. Like online dating. Yes, because meeting that special someone on the Internet is like "your winter Ugg boot obsession: totally understandable and great in the comfort of your own home, but not something you would brag about at a chic cocktail party," Condé Nast has introduced TrulyMadlyDating.com in order to "unite glamorous girls with fashion-conscious GQ-reading boys to create matches made in style heaven." Yes, we did quickly check a calendar. And, no, today is not April 1st. [Vogue UK via Fashionista]

On this season of The Girls Next Door, it's out with the old, in with the new. Watch to see how Hef's new lady friends—Crystal and twins Karissa and Kristina—settle into life in the Playboy Mansion!

With the cutbacks at the crumbling magazine empire, even fashion's number one defender doesn't have room in her expense account for new clothes. She wore the same very unique coat four times in four different cities. She's a couture hobo!

Maricopa County Sheriff and imprisoner of anyone Mexican-looking Joe Arpaio has had a political rival arrested on spurious charges and invited two publicity-starved DC Lewinsky-era GOP lawyers to Arizona to prosecute him.

In your finally Friday media column: a sunny theory about Conde Nast, Katie Couric's words of wisdom, George Will learns exactly where to go, and the AP's crazy scheme, for money.

If you're looking to kill a few minutes as the workweek finally comes to a close, Buzzfeed has an excellent round-up of the "10 best things that have ever happened behind a news reporter's back." Do enjoy. [Buzzfeed]

CBS's Chip Reid: Why didn't Nobama give his Nobel Prize that he award to himself to Ronald Reagan???

People really, really want to believe private jets are BACK. Just ask the Economist, or the Wall Street Journal. If we can ogle plutocratic excess again, things will finally feel normal. Never mind that it's a delusion.

The weekend's big question is whether a trio of decent looking British imports can make a dent in the latest installment of Vince Vaughn's crusade against comedy. Our guess is no.

The FTC is planning public hearings aimed at figuring out how to prop up dying newspapers. On the agenda: tax breaks for news organizations, changing copyright law, and "greater public funding of public affairs news." This is very, very bad.