• Someone posted to JuicyCampus links to a gay porn featuring a Yale sophomore.
• The sophomore was named.
• This sophomore was interviewed by the Times and did not deny being in the porno.
• But instead of being all, "OMG, I went from being a gay porno D-list star to attending YALE UNIVERSITY I RULE," he was all, "I'm trying to zone it out," which is still not that devastating a quote from someone who was supposedly "panicked and dispirited."
• But this other girl had it real bad: She was named in a discussion about the "biggest slut" on campus! Who wants to be called a slut in college? And who defeated her in the "biggest slut" competition? How did THAT girl feel? Why is the internet making this happen??
• The Times talked to another girl named Ashley, who was also named in a big discussion about sluts but who allowed herself to be named in the article.
• Ashley actually had some healthy perspective about the whole thing.
• Ashley: "It’s amusing, really... It’s all so exaggerated and extreme that you kind of know it’s a lie. It’s a site for cowards and melodramatic people."
• That's it, those are all the awful things named in the Times piece.
• But! We need to ban something, according to this guy from a company that goes around trying to get things deleted from the web, reputationdefender.com:
• "He added that the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which provides the site legal protections, was 'functionally Mesozoic' in the blogging age. Juicy Campus, he said, 'is not encouraging people to be themselves, it’s encouraging people to be the worst version of themselves.'"

Times: A Crash Course in Online Gossip

Glamour is losing a bunch of its best editors. In the past few months, a half-dozen editors have bolted: Both of the magazine's beauty editors, Stephanie Huszar and Tram Nguyen, left for greener fields at beauty companies. Articles editor Abigail Pesta, who recruited Mariane Pearl and launched her column, left for Marie Claire. Senior celeb writer Laurie Sandell left as well, opting to go freelance instead of staying on staff. Managine editor Molly Gulati quit recently with no new job. Now, features director Genevieve Field, who oversaw relationshp features, has left her staff job to go freelance as well. Who's next?

Paris lying to Larry King in June:

• "God does make everything happen for a reason. And it gave me, you know, a time-out in life just to really find out what is important and what I want to do, figuring out who I am."
• "I've been a little immature in the past and made some wrong choices. But I've learned from them and I think that makes me the person I am today."
• "I've gotten rid of a lot of people. I think -- especially being in Los Angeles, there is a lot of people out here that like people for certain reasons, and I don't want people who are not going to be beneficial to my life, who don't want positive things in my life. "
• King: "Have you ever... taken drugs?" Paris: "No." King: "Never taken drugs?" Paris: "No."
• "I want to help set up a place where these women can get themselves back on their feet. A place with food, shelter and clothing and programs, kind of a transitional home. I know I can make a difference and hopefully stop this vicious circle of these people going in and out of jail."
• "Because they told me the average amount for a woman going in there, into Lynwood is 7.3 times."

Paris lying to E! Online (for shame!) in September:

• "I'll be going [to Rwanda] in November, after I get back from filming my movie."
• "There's so much need in that area, and I feel like if I go, it will bring more attention to what people can do to help."
• "I want to visit more countries where poverty and children's issues are a big concern... I know there's a lot of good I can do just by getting involved and bringing attention to these issues."

The Times today:

• "And she definitely plans to build that transitional home for women leaving prison that she spoke so enthusiastically about last summer when she was released from jail."
• "But after also pledging at the time of her parole to rid herself of all those hangers-on “who are not going to be beneficial in my life,” Ms. Hilton, the socialite-actress, first has to take care of some other business."
• "Namely, finding a new BFF, or 'best friend forever' in the language of the texting, instant-messaging, nothing-lasts-forever generation. And what better way to do so than with a new reality television show?"
• "'I’m a really good judge of character,' Ms. Hilton said, 'so I can tell' who will measure up to her standards."
• "'We’re going to be doing all the fun things I do: going to Vegas, going out, teaching them how to be on the town, see if they can get into clubs,' she said. 'Just the usual things that we all do.'"

"This is a Doug fir," he said, using wood-man lingo for Douglas fir.

Oooh, inside jargon! After tasting the lumberjack's salty lingo, Alex begins working his old, hard trunk:

I ran my hands across its width, feeling the ridges of decades upon decades, stopping at the heart of the trunk, a pale circle the circumference of my pinky that represented its first year of life.

"So, could someone just come in and by this?" I asked.

Birch shook his head... "It would have to be the right client, with the right idea..."

"Even for, like, $100,000?"

He shook his head again.

Kuczynski goes on to talk to this poor man about his wood for many more paragraphs than is strictly necessary. We never find out if he sells her his wood, only that she titled her T magazine piece "Fir Fetish."

Times: The Hot Material In Home Building Is Old Wood

"I am a 42 year old Business Owner, having divorced over ten years ago. That woman failed in her attempt to take me for everything I had back then. I haven't seriously been with a woman since then. To stop the rumors about me, I ned to have a companion be seen with me. You and I will go to restaurants, the beach when the weather gets warmer, and be seen around the city. You will be paid a regular high salary and I am not expecting sex from you." [Craigslist]