Chris Brown is really, really, really, really sorry for beating Rihanna to a pulp. [Youtube]

We learn this week in Vogue that Google executive Marissa Mayer and her husband fiancé are insanely addicted to work. Like Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner before them, their manic overachieving can and will put you to shame.

[Just offering this picture of a rapt audience in Central Park, July 20th 1969, watching the moon landing, as a mild rebuttal to Alex's dismissal of the space program. Image via AP]

July 20 @ 5:30pm Picking at fruit in back of SUV on East 56th between Park and Lex. [Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com]

OMG, Gossip Girl was filming right outside our offices today!! We sent intern geniuses Whitney Jefferson and Cassie Seale down to film the teen girl madness. Video whizkid Mike Byhoff edited it together. The girls... they've gone wild! And gossipy!

Harvard's star African-American studies professor Henry Louis Gates got hauled to jail by the cops for breaking into his own house because the lock was broken. That's racist. So is the lady who called them, who also works for Harvard.

So Conde Nast has hired McKinsey, the smartest people in the world, to "develop new perspectives" for them. What does it usually mean when McKinsey's asked to do that? Layoffs!

The Pentagon and the DOJ were supposed to file a report this week on how, exactly, we are going to close Guantanamo Bay by January. Well, they are going to miss their deadline. Whoops!

Facebook is quite powerful at lubricating relationships between acquaintances. Too powerful, sometimes: the social network turned an English garden party into a riot requiring a small police army to put down.

Bob Weinstein, silent-but-deadly snake-in-the-grass to brother Harvey's raging grizzly bear, is looking for a new assistant. The job is posted anonymously, but we know people who assure us it's him. It, uh... it sounds like a goddamned nightmare.

That was quick. Here is the grim memo that Condé Nast CEO Chuck Townsend just sent out announcing that it is bringing in McKinsey & Company to "develop new perspectives on optimizing our approach to business." This will be brutal.

"Coca-Cola is a delightful palatable and healthful BEVERAGE. It relieves fatigue and is indispensable for (Business and Professional) MEN: Students, Wheelmen, Athletes. It relieves mental and physical exhaustion." And for the ladies?

• A round up of eateries that recently opened, or will open this week. [Eater]
• Una Pizza Napoletana has closed its doors. It will become the first Manhattan outpost of the Williamsburg pizzeria Motorino in a few weeks. [NYT]
• Le Bernardin's Eric Ripert was tasked with cooking (beef, not fish) for French president Nicolas Sarkozy during his recent visit to New York. [P6]
• How to establish yourself as a regular at the restaurant of your choice. [GS]
• Summer "food crawls" through the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens. [NYDN]
• Not only is Padma Lakshmi is discussions to star in a NBC sitcom, but Mario Batali is joining the cast of Bitter Feast, a "darkly comic thriller." [Variety, GS]
• An extended interview with Aquavit's Marcus Samuelsson. [ObsesedTV]

Sarah Palin may have disappeared into obscurity since quitting her job as governor of Alaska and returning home to Wasilla to live as a quiet, humble private citizen, but her allies are still fighting back. Allies like her Twittering hairdresser.

Jill Abramson, New York Times managing editor for news, has a new column: "This is the first article in a weekly series about the challenges and satisfactions of raising a puppy through its first year of life."

Lehman Brothers has had an official Ebay store open since the beginning of July with proceeds from the auctions going to the failed bank's creditors. (Of course, items have been unofficially listed on the site since the bank's collapse last fall.) But now Lehman is taking it one step further: It plans to open a retail store next week at its 1271 Sixth Avenue office. "We are really excited to be able to offer this to the public because there is a demand," says a spokeswoman for the company. Better act quickly! Supplies are limited! [Bloomberg via Dealbreaker]

Noted social media evangelist MC Hammer "wrote" an op-ed for Adweek today called "It's Twitter Time." In this op-ed he "wrote," Hammer included this paragraph, which "he" "wrote":

Padma Lakshmi is trying to make the leap from reality TV judge to sitcom star. Discussions about a new series (possible, boring, title: Single Serving) center around Padma working in the culinary world. How unsatisfying! Here are some better ideas.

Oh good! Carrie Prejean, the brave stateswoman who stood up nobly at a Miss USA pageant and said that gay people shouldn't have equal rights, has landed a book deal with prestigious imprint Regnery. Andrew Breitbart is so excited!

This is the first meeting of the new Gawker Book Club. The author will be popping into the comments to answer questions. Up first: Say Everything by Scott Rosenberg.