Every day, the Internet enables more people to be narcissists in truly wonderful ways. Now there's a new site called failin.gs where you can learn how your "friends" really feel about you—anonymously! It's like formspring in reverse.

This billboard went up near Times Square recently. It shows Charles Phillips and YaVaughnie Wilkins—a couple of ordinary people—and directs you to visit their website, which is full of photos of them. Why?

Finally, we have an all-encompassing, shrink-wrapped theory of Gladwellian cogency to account for everything malignant in our society, including the financial meltdown, Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop.com, Olivia Palermo's nasty attitude toward Whitney Port, the disaster wrought by Bernie Madoff, the unrepentance of aging philanderers, and Alex Rodriguez's photo spread in this month's Details (left). It's all because of narcissism!

Those who find Twitter a vehicle for narcissistic distraction can take smug satisfaction in the New York Times' account of the chaos at last night's Twitter awards.