This email arrived in our inbox moments ago from Perri Dorset, the longtime New Yorker publicity powerhouse who now works for the TK-eventually Conde Nast business mag:

This showed up in the inbox last night, and, while we can't quite believe it's true, we're also a touch intrigued:

Conde Nast, having finally realized that, no, the web is not going to disappear, is beefing up its web presence. Blake Eskin, a former New Yorker fact-checker and the founder of Nextbook, has returned to the mag to work with web manager Matt Dellinger, who you may also know as the Vince Lombardi of media softball. Meanwhile, our beloved Andrew Hearst of Panopticist will be devoting his talents to Vanity Fair, where we assume he'll spend considerably less time creating cover mock-ups, instead working on making James Wolcott's blog look pretty.

Yes, there was bad news for New York's anti-terrorism efforts today, with news that the federal Department of Homeland Security has cut the city's anti-terror funding by 40 percent, redirecting that money to other notoriously high-risk locales like Louisville and Omaha. But, at the same time, there's also some good news. The Durst Organization yesterday unveiled the city's first dual-repeater system, which will enable firefighters to remain in radio contact with one another even when spread through high-rise buildings, in its tower at 4 Times Square — better known as the Conde Nast Building.

It's been nine months since Joanna Lipman left The Wall Street Journal to found that new business-focused magazine for Conde Nast and, according to WWD's Sara James, the damned thing finally has a title. It'll be called Quote. Unless, that is, it's called Portfolio. Or perhaps File, or Currency.

• Anna Wintour and Patrick McCarthy don't like each other. Also, Rick Stengel doesn't plan big changes at Time and "greenies" die at post-Siegal Times. [NYO]
• Star gets sex wrong on Brangelina and Gwen Stefani babies, plans no corrections, because, as we read it, at least they got other stuff right. [WWD (second item)]
• Storm Field has only the nation's second-best weatherman name, and Sam Champion merely comes in fifth. [TMN]
• Katie Couric will have to spend $30K on new clothes for her CBS gig, experts say. Proportionally, that's like someone making $100K spending $200 on work clothes. [NYSun]
• Not at all uncharacteristically, a top exec is axed from NYDN. [NYP]
• Chicks dig TV news. [NYO]
• Former Rolling Stone publisher goes to Maxim, replacing dude who took his job at RS. [Ad Age]

Though Cargo is long dead, it refuses to be forgotten, and this time it's the issue of subscribers and their replacement publication. A reader writes:

• Networks sue FCC to make it stand up to Parents Television Council right-wing nutjobs. One can dream. [WSJ]
• Joanne Lipman wants to steal James Stewart from The New Yorker for her new Conde biz mag — which nearly has a name. [NYP]
• More books were sold in 2005 than 2004. A sales uptick for a print medium? How unusual. [NYT]
• Former Conde editorial director James Truman has a prototype for his new Culture & Travel, which is not — not at all, he says — the art mag Si wouldn't let him do. [NYP]
• Mike Wallace once tried to kill himself. [NYDN]
• Hachette to launch Shock mag next week. It's "Life magazine for the new millennium," says founder Mike Hammer, formerly of Maxim and Stuff. We suppose this means its gross pictures — such as one of a rotting human head in the first issue — are shot by Margaret Bourke-White and Alfred Eisenstaedt. [WSJ]
• In his forthcoming bio, Ed Kosner is not very nice to Mort Zuckerman. We're just shocked. [WWD]
• Jack Shafer, de facto Times ombudsman, doesn't care for Howell Raines' new memoir. [Slate]
• NYTer Sharon LaFraniere wins $25K Michael Kelly Award. [Kelly Award]

Alert! Alert! Security breach! Someone who is not a Conde editor potentially getting perks of the sort reserved only for Conde editors!

Two email follow-ups this afternoon on the question of a potential nexus of eating disorders and "skinny mirrors" within 4 Times Square.

Scandale, peut-etre? A Nasty writes in with a potential conspiracy at 4 Times Square:

Page Six reported today that Lindsay Lohan's lackluster Today show appearance on Monday morning was due to an all nighter with a group of friends that included an unnamed Conde Nast staffer. Clearly said staffer deserves a promotion and a gold medal for his dedication to the Conde cause, so we put it to our dear readers to name some names.

There's an interesting report today on a Columbia undergraduate publication's punnily and speech-impedimently named blog, the Bwog, regarding an old trove of slush-pile submissions to The New Yorker's poetry department:

Why'd Lindsay Lohan sniffle and snooze her way through Monday morning's Today show interview? Because she was up all night with some friends, blowing rails off her Ouija board and playing round after round of Girl Talk. Duh. Page Six reports that Lohan's Sunday night posse included a couple of friends, her assistant, and a Conde Nast staffer.

• Howell Raines' new book — The One That Got a Way — has an unoriginal title. [WWD]
• Bidding for Plame memoir reaches seven figures. And it sounds like the Howell Raines book party was boring. [NYP]
• People named Time Inc.'s mag of the year, for its excellent coverage of, among other things, the ill-fated Zellweger-Chesney nuptials. [WWD]
• More investors are shorting Times Co. stock. Oh, poor Pinch. [NYP]
• ABC anchor Bob Woodruff's recovery continues, but it's still unclear when he'll be able to return. [LAT]
• More evidence 750 Third Avenue will rival 4 Times Square in coolness: New cafeteria will offer sushi bar, custom salad station, international specials. [Media Mob/NYO]
• Well-hung Clinton to speak at News Corp. retreat. [Media Mob/NYO]
• Forbes editor Bill Baldwin doesn't read Jon Friedman's column. [MW]

• Valerie Plame is shopping a book proposal. As if we needed more proof that getting outed was the best thing to ever happen to her. [NYT]
• As RS turns 1,000, Jann Wenner is rich, neat, and happy. And has a sty in his eye. [WP]
• Shocker: Next audit report will show newspaper circ falling more. [E&P]
• Conde Nast is not trying to buy Rodale, nor vice-versa. [WWD]
• The Postal Service wants to increase rates on mags again, after a previous rate hike in January. Clearly, the Postal Service also wants no one in this business to ever have gainful employment again. [Folio:]

Yesterday afternoon, a three-foot-long metal rod fell from the new New York Times Building, currently under construction across from Port Authority, and crashed through the sunroof of a passing Honda. There were three passengers inside — a husband, who was hit on the shoulder by the pip; his wife, whose head was cut by it; and their 2-year-old son, whose face was scratched. All three were taken to St. Vincent's in Midtown for treatment and soon released.

Conde Nast keeps moving folks into that other office building, at 750 Third Avenue. The former Fairchildren are there. The Golf Digest Cos. People, we think, have been moved there. Even House & Garden is set to move soon from the temple that is 4 Times Square over to Third Avenue, much to the presumed chagrin of EIC Dominique Browning. But a Nastie source today raises to us an intriguing question: Could it be that 750 Third is actually a better place to work than 4TS? It's counterintuitive, sure, but bear with us. Says the source:

• Today in articles we feel like we keep reading: Air America set to lose NYC affiliate. [Mediaweek]
• While storm clouds perpetually hang over the rest of Time Inc., Real Simple lives it up in Laguna Beach. Where, apparently, the weather was lovely. [WWD]
• Shape EIC to take over Fitness. But first — damned noncompetes! — she'll be special-projects editor at More for three months. [NYP]
• Conde to launch site for teen girls featuring user-generated content. Users will then get town cars home. [BizWeek]
• Dartmouth Review turns 25, and conservatives run the country. Coincidence? Hardly. [NYSun]

An email we received last night: