"Drunkorexia," that term co-opted by the NY Times that describes the condition of a combined eating disorder and binge drinking, is catching on overseas something fierce. Since the Times article ran earlier this month, three separate British papers have run stories on the "phenomenon." The best headline? The Times of London's "I'm drunk but I'm thin - at least, hic, I think I am," which ran three days after the initial NYT story. Oh dear. Please don't let this catch on any further. [Fishbowl NY]

"We now accept that the item was totally untrue," the aptly titled British blog/email list Popbitch said in a statement. The item was about British actor Max Beesley, left, who, according to the site, had tried to curate an orgy with three other women while in Cannes. Beesley sued the site over the story, and Popbitch agreed to pay him compensation and legal costs. Popbitch is always nasty, and UK celebs quite enjoy suing the media, but still—aren't all men, everywhere, trying to arrange a foursome at all times? At least the site didn't claim he was spreading a venereal disease to these women. [Guardian]

Hey, remember how Scarlett Johansson was auctioning herself off for charity? The bidding ended yesterday and someone paid FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS for the opportunity to go to the He's Just Not That Into You premiere, ride in a car that's longer than other cars and is therefore fancy, and meet the busty, hoarse-voiced actress. Though this person, whose cryptic, asexual eBay name is Bossnour, lives in England so they probably just threw, what, like three pence into PayPal and that was that. Bossnour, if you are out there somewhere, reading this: Please let us know how this goes when it goes. Did she touch you? Did you touch her? Was it awkward? Can I have $40,000? [Showbiz Spy]

As someone who spends about 30 hours a week in the Brooklyn Public Library, I can say this: post-puberty, libraries are a weird scene. At the BK PL, I'm surrounded by the semi-homeless, the pseudo-studious and the fully religious. But over in England, it's a different situation. The British culture minister Margaret Hodge wants to make libraries hip places by putting in coffee bars and renting space at malls. Stuffy Brits who don't want to defile the respectability of their precious book temples just can't understand why public libraries are less popular than they were at their peak 1980. Um, it's called the internet, and it's destroying publishing. [Times of London]

The British Department of Health has been banned from Wikipedia. DoH employees made 1500 edits in two years on the online encyclopedia that anyone, except apparently anyone with something to say, can edit. The minister of state said Wikipedia had banned them for making "too many edits," even though two edits a day sounds pretty reasonable for a major government organization. From now on, anyone from the DoH will have to sign in with a username, which should make it harder for anyone to notice if the department's trying to push any certain message. Thanks, Wikipedia, for making sure governments don't get too transparent, and ensuring that it will be easier for my cousin Mac to spread the truth that humans are solid all the way through, like potatoes. Below, a few other people who've been banned:

Dan Crowe, an art school grad turned author and editor, is providing some well-off parents with the greatest gift of all: vaguely tongue-in-cheek but suitable-for-framing critical essays analyzing their child's paintings of ponies written in a high-falutin MoMA exhibition catalog style. All for a little more than $250/pop ($380 w/ "good quality frame"). Among the celebrities who've had their tykes' work evaluated are Kate Moss, Tilda Swinton and one of the guys from Blur that's not Damon Albarn or Graham Coxon. The service is called "Kinbote's Bespoke Art Commentary Service," after Charles Kinbote—the increasingly insane academic who unreliably annotates Nabokov's Pale Fire—in a little joke drenched with so much precious fuckwittery that the whole enterprise could only have come from England.