• ABC says Amanda Congdon is not subject to the rules traditional journalists have to follow. Because she’s a freelancer. With a really nice rack. And a totally creepy disembodied hand!

• Hassan Elmasry: he’s angling to spend a fortune acquiring the New York Times, so why won’t he shell out for a trial-size bottle of Rogaine?

• Conde Nast staffers are sworn to secrecy about that upcoming Portfolio venture nobody’s heard anything about.

• The Guardian does not like Lord Conrad Black of Crossharbour. It does not like him at all.

• Arnold Scaasi is making a pink satin dress for all three readers of Q magazine.

• “If the 2008 presidential election were held on YouTube, Barack Obama would win in a landslide,” says the AP via USAT. “It’s not 1984 or 2004, it’s 2008,” observes the Washington Post.

Original post by Perez and software by Elliott Back