Extra, Extra - Beer's the Secret to Blogging

- Are you a racist? Are you sure? Take this quiz and find out - Harvard.edu

- Two Chatsworth High baseball players drafted in the first round of the MLB draft - Daily News

- Lede of the day: "Two false eyelashes. A maroon-colored toilet. Brandy snifters, burning candles, a Viagra three-pack and a box of Mylanta tablets. These formed part of the tableau de l’amour that cops and coroners found at Phil Spector’s Pyrenees Castle before the dawn of February 3, 2003." - LA Weekly

- Richie Sambora, come on down, you're the next celeb to enter rehab - Defamer

- MTA to add eight new Rapid lines through town - LA Times

- Have we told you that the new executive director of the LA World Airports (LAX, Ontario, and others) will get a salary of $350,000? - AP

- Tyra Banks is moving her show to New York. SO WHAT - TV Week

- Best Myspace layouts to make your Myspace not look like Myspace - Mashable

- Something we can get behind: How Beer is the secret to good Blogging - Copyblogger

- Even at 80, Hef has the hottest chicks in his mansion worried that he will think they're ugly - Elle

- NBC says it will do "anything" to get Rosie to come to the network. Did someone say Krispy Kreme franchise in Burbank? - Fox News

photo of "Not Open Yet" by Eric Richardson of a sign on the Post Office in the Security Lofts building at 5th & Spring