We love a good Indian Summer, which is the first and only piece of good news we got this morning.  Now for a list of the "news stories" we picked up on:

-Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will be speaking at Columbia today which has no doubt already encouraged massive groups of protestors congregating on the UWS.  The cover of Daily News flashed the headline "The Evil Arrives", New York state Assemblyman Dov Hikind said Ahmadinejad "should be arrested when he comes to Columbia University, not invited to speak for God's sake", while, in defense of free and open debate, the Dean of the school said that they would invite Hitler to speak.

-Our own trusty leader George W. is in town today, and will be attending the UN assembly tomorrow, which means nothing more than we will all be expected to disrupt our daily commuting for awhile.  1st avenue is completely closed along with 44-46th streets on the east side.

-3 were killed in a fire in brooklyn

-An NYU college freshman committed suicide this weekend by jumping 15 stories to his death behind University Hall.  The first one at the university in 3 years, after 5 students took their lives between 2002-2003.

Wow.  A lot for us to take in before 10am.  At least the weather is keeping us smiling...

Saturday is the Harriman Cup in Darien, CT. This event celebrates 22 years of polo tradition between the University of Virginia and Yale University. We attended the event last year however, and know that what it really celebrates is just how well embroidered khakis, CASHmere, and cocktails mix. If you are going to go, take the train…it’s where you will meet the people that will be having the most fun throughout the day (aka the drinkers). Find a good crew to mooch cheese and wine off of and get your prepster on! (we know you want to). If you want to fit in, make sure you hit up your local Lily Pulitzer and Ralph Lauren departments, and Brooks Brothers, and J.Crew stores. Also, feel free to bring the little tykes around, even young adults trust fund babies love playing ball with kids after a few drinks. So polish off your riding boots and make sure to bring sufficient reinforcements…because this WASPy crowd gets better by the bottle.

Last night, members of the elite social network asmallworld recieved an email debuting the new president and CEO of the company Joe Robinson.  Though he officially accepted the position in January, he apparently didn't feel comfortable enough yet in the role to make a formal announcement until yesterday (maybe the fact that he's made only 241 friends on the site has something to do with it?)-we kid, we kid.  In any event, his email outlined the changes that he will be starting to implement based on various feedback he's been receiving and will include things like:

-Automatic email reminders for messages, changes, etc.

-Improved design and layout of the site including new navigation and improved forum and message search function.

-A regular member newsletter and official introduction of the ASW Magazine

-Picture galleries, sharing and picture management for profiles, new tools such as friend notifications and powerful events/personalized calendar

-Travel Contests, hotel give-aways and member parties around the world.

There is a link to a video of Joe further describing his new role here. This is all too much for us to take in at once.  We really liked the fact that ASW kept things clean and simple and are a little bit disappointed that they will be falling to all the bells and whistles like the other social networking sites.  Then again, it would be pretty sweet to see some of Harvey Weinstein's personal pictures online.

Is this the new A Small World for NYC, or a an attempt to fill the gossip void left by the departure of socialiterank.com? Well either way, we know if there is rankings involved people are going to compete. Just for fun we searched for Tinsley Mortimer and Olivia Palermo to see where these dueling socialites rank up. Looks like Tinz has a healthy lead over her junior rival, with 167 more connections and a good deal more attention...

In any event the social method behind site seems pretty interesting. It aggregates the amount of times a person's name shows up on the web to determine their "attention %", and apparently they add people's names manually (not sure what the purpose of this is, but sounds like a ton of work!). So its basically like a pre-populated social-network, if that makes sense?

We couldn't help but find headline maestro Matt Drudge's recent headline a bit curious.  His truncation of the title above left our wandering minds to wonder what "box" is Jodie Foster on exactly?  And was the title's double meaning a simple result of layout constraints, thereby rendering it a coincidence?  Or was Matt being a naughty little boy?  We think the latter. 

So we say to you Matt Drudge: Leave Britney Jodie alone!  Matt Drudge recently talked about professionalism.  Well speaking of professionalism, since when does a professional try to publicly out a lesbian?  Leave Britney Jodie alone!

...And he's starting with his very own facebook profile.

Please find him and become his friend (he's lonely)

Stanley Stuyvesant is the name.  Ruff!

It recently hit us over the heard a) how slow and behind the curve CNN.com is, and b) how desperately hard they are trying to draw more traffic with sensational celebrity "news" and catchy titles. Take for example Andy Dick's recent misadventure in Ohio. It took them 4 days to report on it, and when they did, we asked ourselves WHY? We'd rather read news, not "news" when we go to CNN.

But what really annoyed us was their recent video portrayal of Whoopi Goldberg as trying to defend Michael Vick on The View. Even before watching the video, we took bets on just how ridiculously misconstrued their reporting would be. Well Whoopi of course didn't actually defend Vick, but rather tried to explain the magnitude of dog-fighting culture in the South and how Vick could have gotten wrapped up in something like this.

No one else seemed to think this was a "story" worthy of attention (news outlets and celeb bloggers alike). And yet it has been up on their website for over a day now (along with a slew of equally moronic videos). We expect this tortured reporting from other sources, but CNN should really get their act together and go and find their gravitas fast.

It's the party that started hundreds of copy-cats around the world. Though many were wondering if Diddy was going to do an end-of-the-summer-white-party this year, he didn't disappoint. This Sunday, in his East Hampton home, the star hosted hundreds of white people people dressed in white. Mariah Carey made an apperance as did Lil’ Kim, Da Brat, Brooke Shields, Tommy Lee, Donna Karan and Russell Simmons. Sienna Miller was notably missing. Diddy spent most of his time with his angels hommies perched high above, overlooking the commoners from his bedroom balcony.