Trivia time! Which description of exotic segregation-era African American life was written in 2005 (in Black History Month, no less) and which was written in 1951:

In today's Times, Gary Hart (yes, that Gary Hart) points out yet another contradiction in the twisty, multi-tiered, trap-door laden tower of babel that is David Brooks' logic. In a letter headlined 'McGovern's Idea,' Hart writes:

A reader just called our attention to the best correction ever in Sunday s New York Times, for an article by Selim Algar that ran January 30th in the paper s Long Island section. The correction comes in at 933 words, making it almost half the length of the original article and longer than just about anything we ve ever written.

In today's Times' 'Circuits' section, Katie Hafner looks at pseudo-A.D.D., a disorder that afflicts computer users who are barraged with Websites, iTunes, instant messages, email, and—

Men!

In Sunday's Times Style story "Courting Park Avenue, One Socialite at a Time" about Southampton-summering biddies dressed by designer Douglas Hannant, the word Southhampton is misspelled throughout the article.

Frank Rich looks at the post-Superbowl XXXVIII career of Janet Jackson's breast in his Times 'Arts & Leisure' column this weekend. According to Rich, it's been one busy mammary gland:

"Do male nipples prove evolution?"

In today's 'The Reliable Source,' The Washington Post's Richard Leiby sifts through the lawsuit filed against New York Times' reporter Jennifer 8. Lee by her former landlady in Washington, D.C., telling us:

· By pointing out that "black history month" is not mentioned once in today's Times, we've automatically one-upped the Gray Lady, as this is our first mention. [NYT Search]
· "Could there be a more perfect encapsulation of the decline of American magazines than this gallery of all 857 Esquire covers since 1933?" [panopticist]
· A Goldman Sachs exec, offended by a men.style.com billboard boasting, "There s more online than news, sports and porn," demanded that the ad outside the firm's Broad Street offices be removed. And so it was, because we know that GS men can't have their pure minds sullied by anything other than dirty money. [WWD]
· Somehow, Voice columnist Michael Musto finds reason to like 90's-themed club Nerveana. Then again, if there's anyone to crown this back-alley nightlife project as worthwhile, it'd be Musto. [VV]

From today's Times' team coverage of the Michael Jackson trial:

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Yesterday was Iraq's first free election in 50 years, a momentous occasion for that nation and its neighbors, as well as for the U.S., whose efforts at nation-building have been—how shall we put this?—very bad thus far.

Did you read about New York's hottest rivalry in this weekend's New York Times 'City Section'? It's some nasty, winner-takes-all stuff, with two powerful, cunning young women locked in a "new millennium battle." (Is it hackneyed to invoke the new millennium in 2005? Oh, well. Nevermind.) Let's get ready to rumble, fight fans!

· Times restaurant "critic" Frank Bruni dissects the pros and cons of the Time Warner Center's fine dining establishments. Pro: the meals are fabulous. Con: you have to schlep through a mall to get to said meal. Genius, Frank, pure genius. [NYT]
· We've often wondered where one obtains those little bags used for various drugs. If you know, help a brother out. [Craigslist]
· Is hip-hop mogul P. Diddy making a move to acquire part of Andrew Lloyd Webber's company, the Really Useful Group? And, if so, how will The Gays react? [AP]
· Aside from the reader who informed us that "Paris Hilton is a tired old queen," some of you might be interested in a play-by-play account of Paris's appearance on the Ellen DeGeneres Show. Just try not to self-mutilate yourselves while you read. [Jossip]

From The New York Times' Johnny Carson's Long Symbiosis With New York, by Sam Roberts:

America is still reeling over William Safire's retirement, um, yesterday.

This week in the The Times, Manohla Dargis takes a look at how plastic surgery is hurting the movie business. Technically, it's a second look: Entertainment Weekly wrote the same thing in December.

From Frank Bruni's 'Diner's Journal':

When pimptastic Bishop Don Magic Juan was confronted by eager Times reporter-cum-rapper David Jay Lansky, he responded, "It's going on, but it's dropping like it's hot. You know what I mean? Step your game down." Because we've suddenly become old and out of touch around here, we had no idea what the Bishop was talking about. We put it to you, the readers, to translate, and one response was particularly lucid: