Ho ho, what do people who buy a copy of "Dillerland," a biography of married media mogul Barry Diller, also buy, according to the Amazon.com robots?

Does trying to convince people unsure about the shaky economy and plunging home values to sign mortgages seem like a good idea, right now? Pollster Grifter Mark Penn thinks so!

Because everyone gets a piece! George Obama, president Barack's half-brother, has signed a deal with Simon & Schuster to publish Homeland, about his struggles with drugs and his eventual salvation through, gulp, community organizing. Our favorite tidbit about the tome:

You probably assumed the job of Treasury Secretary came with half a dozen manservants. It doesn't, apparently. Tim Geithner was in New York City today to appear on a panel moderated by Time managing editor, Richard Stengel. Before the event kicked off, though, Geithner was spotted at the Starbucks downstairs. Buying his own coffee. Shocking, isn't it? Here's what went down, according to CNN's Donna Rosato:

In your intermittently gloomy Monday media column: a new font at the New York Times, a fantastical price for the Boston Globe, black people would like to be invited on television sometimes, and the recession proves Steve Forbes right:

The Post has a follow-up to its story last week about the Hasidic man who hosted a bar mitzvah party for his son at the downtown prison known as the Tombs. It turns out the prison chaplain, an Orthodox rabbi, also allowed the same inmate to host an engagement party for his daughter a few months later. And he wasn't the only inmate who received special treatment. Another inmate was permitted to have a satellite truck set up outside the prison complex so he could watch a relative's wedding via a live feed from Israel; other inmates were allowed access to the rabbi's private office, so they could use his "unmonitored phone to call sports bookies and criminal cohorts." The rabbi hasn't been dismissed yet; he's only been suspended for two weeks. So if you're planning to commit a crime, it really couldn't hurt to keep this costume with you at all times. Even if you don't get caught, at the very least you won't have to go shopping when Halloween rolls around next year. [NYP]

Bruce Willis, 54, and his new wife, model Emma, 32, recently did a sexy-pex S&M nudie pictorial for W magazine. Go there for more pictures. (Two might not be SFW).

Chicago's Second City comedy troupe has a show called "Rod Blagojevich Superstar." And because he is insane, the real Rod Blagojevich went to a performance of the show about how he was impeached as governor after being indicted for corruption.

The homes of Nobel-winning writer Hermann Hesse (Siddhartha) and iconic Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal) are both up for sale, meaning you could own a piece of creative history! For relatively bargain-basement prices.

"A nursing mother offered me a taste of her pre-pumped breast milk, and I took her up on it," announces David Sedaris, to a reporter. [NYT]

Former Intel chief Andy Grove famously believed that "only the paranoid survive" in Silicon Valley business. Co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page seem intent to inject this spirit back into fat, dominant Google. They're even worrying about Bing.

The Way We Live Now: Eking out a hard living in cubicle hell while beauty dies, duh. We work without music. We work without pay. We work without jobs, just to say "Hey, one day."

Andrew Sullivan, who has been engaged in tireless online coverage of the events in Iran, says he is under a "digital attack," presumably from pro-Ahmedinejad forces in Iran or elsewhere.

• The curse of Gisele: Both Vanity Fair and Harper's Bazaar put supermodel Gisele Bundchen on the covers of their mags this year, and both have turned out to be their worst-selling issues thus far in 2009. [NYO]
• Can Forbes survive the downturn? The Forbes family thinks so. [NYT]
• Jared Kushner's New York Observer has acquired Very Short List, the struggling email newsletter owned by Barry Diller's IAC. [Gawker, NYP]
• The Huffington Post has a new CEO, ex-Ziff-Davis CEO Eric Hippeau. [PC]
• BusinessWeek is the latest mag to test a paid online subscriptions. [MW]
• Barack Obama's half-brother landed a book deal with Simon & Schuster. [AP]
• The Hangover and Up were the top-grossing films this past weekend. [LAT]
• The Boston Globe is up for sale—and a handful of people appear to be interested—although just how much they'll pay is anybody's guess. [NYT]
• ABC's Lost is the most watched TV show on the Internet. [Variety]

[Submit your own Gawker Stalker sightings to stalker@gawker.com] June 15 @ 11 am I was leaving the Flatiron Building and I spotted Clay Aiken. He was probably heading up to the Macmillan Publishing offices

Heidi and Spencer Pratt, the soulless blobs from The Hills and I'm a Celebrity... were on the Today Show this morning discussing their behavior on the latter show, and Al Roker, finally sensing an opportunity, went in for the kill.

What do you know, Amsterdam is the new hot spot for ad agencies. Do you guess they're attracted by the tax breaks and diversity and public transportation and government investment and creative talent? Or...

New York Times executive editor Bill Keller has parachuted into Iran to lend his considerable expertise to his paper's coverage of the disputed election. He should have stayed home.

If you submit your wedding announcement to the New York Times and they decide not to run it, do you have legal grounds to sue the paper? No, sadly, you don't. But sketch comedy group, Kasper Hauser, has come up with an ad for a fake law firm that promises to do just that. It's a promotional video for the group's new book, Weddings of the Times, which was published last week. But it's amusing all the same. The video is after the jump.

Funny little news today about the internet, about foreign box office, about annoying reality shows on CBS and bizarro ones on Canadian TV. Plus news on your home movie about furries.