An instructional graphic: How To Nap. "Find a safe, quiet, comfortable place, preferably one where you can lie down." [Globe]

A tipster phones in some bad news: "A friend of mine works at the Boston Globe and says the place is crawling with McKinsey consultants. Everyone is fearing for their jobs."

An update on the Boston Globe's "19-0" book (written prior to the Super Bowl) about the New England Patriots' fictional unbeaten season: the paper's spokesman tells us officially today that there will be no reworking, rewriting, or revising of the project, as it "was put aside after the Superbowl victory by the Giants." That's 128 pages of wasted writing by Globe staffers, and one less book on the shelves for Triumph (ha) Publishing. But hey, if you want something along the same lines, you can always search for the Amazon tags that customers put on the book's page before it was taken down:

Because we really needed a massive study to figure that one out.

There's a new sense of optimism at the Boston Globe. [Boston Phoenix]

Why is the Boston Globe such a drag on New York Times Company earnings? Well: The rapid decline of print readers, shifts in regional demographics, the proliferation of alternate outlets from which information can be obtained. Also, probably stories like this one, about the kids today and their crazy low-hanging pants.

• Tradey mag-man Keith Fox will be the president of your Business Week. Headshots with suspicious head cropping always make us wonder how bald a fella is. That's okay. [Ad Age]
  

• In his memoir, former Time Inc. EIC Norman Pearlstine paints NYT honcho Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., as a lightweight for that whole "not caving to federal prosecutors like Time did" thing. [NYP]
  

We're hearing that John Swansburg, video enthusiast and deputy editor of the Boston Globe's Ideas section, will be taking the editorial position at Slate that Bryan Curtis vacated for a writing contract in the greener pastures of Play, the Times's quarterly sports magazine. So Slate, long known as the Times' Triple-A affiliate, gets a guy from a Times-owned property to replace a guy who went (mostly) to the Times. We need some kind of flow chart to keep this all straight. Also, we hope Swansburg was smart enough to take the buyout before he left. Who quits the Globe for free?

• Read all about Hassan Elmasry, the Morgan Stanley portfolio manager who's trying to take the Times out of Sulzberger family hands, and the man responsible for tearing Pinch Sulzberger a new one at the late February board meeting. (In PowerPoint, no less!) [WSJ]
  

The Boston Phoenix's Adam Reilly notes some cherry-popping in the Globe: On Wednesday, "for the first time, the Globe published a story from the New York Times News Service," which was followed by two more yesterday. Globe editor Marty Baron told Reilly that "[W]e're likely to use the stories that represent especially strong enterprise and scoops—particularly anything that we're unlikely to find from the other wire services we have." See, Globesters, it's not so bad after all: They're not outsourcing your jobs to Banglaore, they're insourcing them from New York!

Dear Boston Newspaper Guild,

Does Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bundchen have a baby in her tummy? That's what Brazilian gossip site Glamurama claims, albeit in some crazy language we don't know. However, the Boston Globe translates: "would be no more than two months pregnant, but may already have told select friends and family." If this womb news is true —we so hope it is, for reasons we're not even clear on ourselves!—Bunchen joins actress Bridget Moynahan in the knocked up by Tom Brady club, where she's been discontentedly hanging out since shortly before Brady dumped her ass. We would think of a sports metaphor, but since someone far more qualified already decided not to do that, we're going to go with: this guy is like the Kevin Federline of football!



Bundchen Pregnant By Brady? [Boston Globe]

Earlier: Tom Brady's Moynahan Knockup A Bad Play

• Wal-Mart is really, really sorry that they taped a Times reporter's calls. They don't want you to think they're Hewlett-Packard or anything. [NYT]
  

• The real deal behind the noise levels at East Village bar Heathers. [NYO/The Real Estate]
  

• Hey, ladies, Sheryl Crow reads the Wall Street Journal. Shouldn't you? [NYT]
  

• Scooter Libby would call Judy Miller at all hours just to tell her that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA. [WaPo]
  

• Rosie! The Musical. Brought to you by inveterate musical writer Ben Greenman. [The Feed]
  

When there's blanket coverage of a celebrity death, it's always fun to compare the way it's handled by different news outlets. So: who do you think described James Brown's signature style and moves most whitely and dorkily?

• Is Rupert Murdoch losing it? Surprisingly, a rival paper thinks yes. [Telegraph U.K.]