It may be from July, but we just saw this clever MySpace song and dance (beats the pants off MySpace Freak) for the first time. Revel in the MySpace metaphors in Gym Class Heroes' "New Friend Request."

• Big kahuna venture capitalists John Doerr and Vinod Khosla, Google co-founder Larry Page, Google CEO wife ("first lady"?) Wendy Schmidt, and eBay founder Jeff Skoll all donated money to promote Proposition 87 (which would add a tax to oil in California), embroiling them in an election-funding battle against oil companies and adding to a total $98 million combined war chest. [Mercury News]

We're still getting reports about this week's Google Zeitgeist party, where MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe felt up flag girls from the Extra Action Marching Band.

"There is this song I keep hearing on the radio in Atlanta called 'MySpace Freak' by some lowly rap group," says reader Paul Stamatiou. Any song that begins with "Chillin' at the crib" is guaranteed awesome, and C-Side's "MySpace Freak" delivers.

Time to spread some fear, uncertainty and doubt in the Valley! Here's why the Bubble Threat Level currently stands at Yelp Trademark Red:

• "Google Determined To Reintroduce Goatee To NYC." Incontrovertible photo evidence inside. [PSFK]

Good thing MySpace can't possibly be worth $20 billion as a crazed analyst projected last week — because if it is, ousted founder Brad Greenspan has a bone to pick.

A reader drops some gossip about The MySpace Cofounder Not Known as Tom, but don't believe it til someone sends pics:

Can we play Snopes for a second and defuse a hoax that illustrates the thinking capacity of the average MySpace user? A skeptical reader sent in a message that's being passed around MySpace:

Journo student Trent Lapinski just made his reporting debut with "MySpace: The Business of Spam 2.0," so it was cute to hear him say in conversation:

• The Army will launch a MySpace page in November, again proving that even the lousiest user demographic will appeal to some advertisers. An anti-war site compares online military efforts to predators like Congressman Mark Foley. [Detroit Free Press; AntiWar.com]

• Rev2, which feels like a more authoritative version of the exhaustive tech blog TechCrunch, today published a thorough profile of YouTube. Read it to learn the history of the company (for example, how a contest jump-started its user and content base) and how the site works for users. The only things missing are more links to specific user accounts that exemplify concepts like "YouTube comedians" and "YouTube musicians." [Rev2]

• Felix Dennis will never see a broad as costly as a tree. Also, it takes a lot of dosh to get people drunk enough to listen to your doggerel. [Radar]
• On the other hand, anyone who calls Greg Gutfeld "Darth Vader," must have his finger on some kind of pulse. And, look forward to The Week on the web. [Independent UK]
• Judy McGrath is going to be just fine, thank you very much. Buying MySpace is not the be all and end all of running a media empire. Unless, uh, you're Tom Freston. [NYT]
• ABC News reports news that ABC Newsman considers Matt Drudge the Walter Cronkite of our era, excepting for that fact that Walter Cronkite never falsely accused a presidential aide of wife-beating. [ABC News]
• Bob Woodward saves the good stuff for himself and other newspapers who are willing to buy his book in advance of their sell-dates. [NYT]
• Yahoo! not sexy enough for investors, apparently. [NYP]
• Something is happening to press freedom in Canada. We'd be all up in arms if it weren't, you know, Canada. [NYT]

Oh great. A Wall Street analyst wrote to his clients that MySpace could be worth $15 billion in the next three years, after meeting with suits with its corporate owner, Fox Interactive. Now he's quoted in Reuters and all over the press.

"Now serving 1,000,000," says del.icio.us. That user count sounds solid — and Yahoo's social bookmarking service has usage data to back it up — but sketchier companies have wildly inflated their numbers before. User counts, just like page counts, get inflated as companies fight for the PR limelight. Let's take a look at some of the worst offenders.

• DirecTV announces Project MyWorld, a TV show in which three young girls search for their MySpace friends in the real world. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, start your engines. [Mashable]

The mythos of Tom (the poster-boy and co-founder of MySpace) confuses some users, who have no idea why this guy is their one automatic friend. So the site developers put this message on the "report inappropriate content" page (which I found when I was reporting people for not being hot enough). It's a cute reminder that MySpace users need more explanatory labels than an Alzheimer's patient learning Japanese.

Lessons in keeping the missus busy, from the LA Times, Monday, September 18:

Even though it rarely has much in the way of bothersome words, we regularly return to the Confessions of a Casting Director blog just for the endless procession of candid model photos, all with the same neutral, medicated expression. Many of these snapshots would not look out of place accompanying a ransom note and a small, severed body part. One wrapup gallery of favorites from Fashion Week is particularly striking; COCAD dubs them the MySpace model generation, since they are "a bit wiser, a bit cooler and a bit real. They are a bit shorter, a bit smaller and a bit skinnier. They know the fashion, they know the magazines and they know the internet." Thank God someone is coming to the defense of even skinnier models here in the USA, unlike the porkers taking over in Spain and Australia. Ah, but they also know the Internet. Just look into the eyes of "Darla." She's wise. She's seen things, man. She's only "a bit" real, though. And unfortunately, as a MySpace model, she's the property of Rupert Murdoch.