• Only because we have to: Colin Farrell's sex tape. Enjoy, if that's your thing. And it probably is, considering it's someone worth seeing naked. The site has only been working intermittently, so you can use your imagination with this artfully cropped screen shot. [DirtyColin]
• While New York begs us all to remember that they were on the scent of JT Leroy's scam long before Warren St. John and the Times, let's all remember that the Village Voice was on this one, oh, four years ago. [VV]
• Let the mockery begin: "What I Plan to Embellish for Obvious Dramatic Reasons in My Own Forthcoming Memoir." [Minor Tweaks]
• You never forget your first Goatse. [Flickr via EdRants]
• Anderson Cooper undergoes an emotional investigation into the emotional work of Anderson Cooper. [Slate]
• Thanks to the expanding laws of the universe, mass quantities of douchenuggets are now able to enjoy simultaneously looking like a Gotti. [Sherdog]
• Breaking: Avril Lavigne is a LADY! [PITNB]

Number of "Readings" (short articles at the front of the magazine): 11
Number of Readings that are verbatim excerpts from publicly available documents, speeches, or instruction manuals: 7
Number of Readings that are verbatim excerpts from publicly available documents, speeches, or instruction manuals generated by the government: 6
Number of readings that are taken verbatim from Internet chats, email forwards, or websites: 1
Number of dead European white men mentioned in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 4
Number of references to European cities in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 7
Number of references to American cities in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 4
Number of references to non-American non-European cities in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 0
Number of times Voltaire is mentioned in editor Lewis Lapham's "Notebook" editorial: 2
Number of times editor Lewis Lapham uses "Christina Aguilera" and "orgasm" in the same sentence: 1

Kate Betts, the former Editor-in-Chief of Harper's Bazaar, reviews The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger's roman-a-clef about working at Vogue under editor Anna Wintour. Betts tears into Weisberger, criticizing her for the character's (read: Weisberger's) superiority complex: "Andrea makes no bones about the fashion business being beneath her, or that her true calling is not to be fetching tall lattes for Anna/Miranda but to be supplying high-minded prose for The New Yorker."

Harper's Bazaar Editor Glenda Bailey's head may not be on the chopping block just yet. Newsstand sales for the second half of 2002 were up. Subscriptions, however were down 2%. A Hearst spokeswoman dubiously insists that the drop occurred because they're managing circulation and "the dip was by design." (Elsewhere in Manhattan, AOL execs are slapping their palms against their foreheads and saying, "Why didn't we think of that?")
Union blues at Bloomberg [Keith Kelly - Post]

Chic Happens, where "updated weekly" means every 20 to 30 days (but it's always worth the wait), suggests that Harper's Bazaar's PR department cooked up the whole Kate Winslet fiasco so that people would actually be forced to talk about Harper's Bazaar. Gooooood point.
Chic Happens [Hint Mag]

If you missed the Kate Winslet brouhaha at GQ or the current one at Harper's Bazaar, here's the back story: Winslet's GQ cover was airbrushed without her approval. (She's been very vocal about her belief that beauty should not and does not equal "thinness.") Now Women's Wear Daily is saying that Winslet's Harper's Bazaar cover is actually a shot of her head digitally grafted onto the fashion director's body. In light of all the controversy, we're having a Kate Winslet photoshop contest. Send us your work and we'll publish the best ones.

If you can get your hands on a copy of the January issue of Toronto Life, there's an extensive feature-length profile of Us Weekly editor and "evil genius" Bonnie Fuller. Some things you may not know: She refused to tell people her daughter had leukemia for fear that they would think she was using it for professional advancement. The working title of her memoir was From Geek to Oh My Goddess: How to Have the Big Career and the Big Love Life and the Big FamilyEven If You Have a Big Loser Complex Inside. She didn't tell her husband about her nose job.