JUST OUR TYPE Gary Hustwit’s latest
Good design is something most only think about when our optical nerves are burned by a visual travesty, like, say, the dueling NYC Taxi… READ ON

From this week’s Full Court Press: A draft policy now circulating at the New York Times proposes to end one of newspapers’ oldest traditions: telling the reader when the… READ ON

STILL SWEATIN’ THE TECHNIQUE McCain (Photos: Getty Images)Has John McCain powered through a snag in his campaign and emerged with upticking poll numbers and a defiant return to “gay sweaters”?… READ ON

MONKEY BUSINESS Koons towel
After partnering with Michael Graves on a line of hip retro toasters, Isaac Mizrahi on queeny discount fashion for flyover-state dwellers, and David Bowie on down-market… READ ON

BEWARE STRANGERS WITH CANDY Bangladesh (Photo: Getty Images)Bangladesh suffers 4,000 deaths after a cyclone tears across its coast. China kicks in a million bucks in aid. The U.S. drops a… READ ON

GLAMOROUS? Amy, KateAngelina Jolie may be secure in her role as the UN’s poster-child for celebrity largesse, but that doesn’t mean the organization isn’t discriminating in its fame-whoredom. Antonio Costa,… READ ON

ON THE LIST Amanda Hearst(Photo: Getty Images)
“Wealth experts” last week at Forbes unveiled the mag’s list of the “20 Most Intriguing Billionaire Heiresses”—girls who “defy the stereotype of the… READ ON

TRUSTWORTHY BROW Novak(Photo: Getty Images)
• Prince of Darkness II: Right-leaning former Dick Armitage tool Robert Novak crawls out of his Capitol Hill manhole to plant gossip about Hillary… READ ON

SLUT IT UP Sophie Anderton
• Girl on film: English lingerie model Sophie Anderton is dropped from her lucrative contract with the Fake Bake tanning firm after she’s filmed… READ ON

Radar has discovered a YouTube video of the latest suspect to be named in the murder investigation of American Amanda Knox, a Seattle woman suspected in a brutal bloodletting… READ ON

DROPPIN’ SCIENCE Nye (Photo: Getty Images)
Bill Nye the Science Guy has filed a temporary restraining order against his ex-non-wife, author Blair Tindall, in Los Angeles Superior Court. Nye’s filing—and… READ ON

SAVINGS, BABY! British-ish guy
Though New Yorkers are busy preparing the annual Thanksgiving feast celebrating their ancestors’ massacre of the Indians and escape from British tyranny, Britons will soon be… READ ON

HIS TIME? McCain (Photo: Getty Images)Though his years as a hot-shot fighter pilot may be well behind him, straight talk expressionist John McCain can’t keep off the highway to the… READ ON

ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH Beer guy (Photo: Getty Images)Denver, Colorado, has been named as the most “Dangerously Drunk City” in America by the fitness experts at Men’s Health (who probably don’t… READ ON