Link Lust: Is this link?

Love can be insane Love can be a life of sadness and pain - Carly Simon has an interesting way to get rid of stragefright, it might work on your presentation jitters. She spanks it away. Once she invited the entire horn section to let her have it: John Lahr writes in The New Yorker. "They all took turns spanking me," Simon says. "During the spanking, the curtain went up." Oh dear.

USA Today and The Wall Street Journal have like the caffeinegoddess did back in June, noticed all those brand mascots on myspace. USAtoday:

Barrett says he doesn't know how many unpaid ad pages are among MySpace's 100 million profiles. He says the total, paid and back-door, is "a very small piece" of the network, but also says the ad sales team is "deluged" with requests for more.

Some fans are drawing the line. Renzo Serrada, a 21-year-old college student from Freemont, Calif., has Ricky Bobby listed as his "friend," but turned down the Burger King king.
"That's a little bit too far when they start adding fast-food mascots," says Mr. Serrada.