• A sneak peak at the upcoming Spy book reminds us that all the clever FOB pieces of Radar and New York have been done before. [Very Short List]

• Rubenstein PR resorts to the dirty tricks of newspaper journos. [Daily Intelligence]

• DeBeers and the diamond industry are doing all the promotion for Leo DiCaprio's upcoming flick Blood Diamond. A scandal is forever. [The Envelope]

• Esquire doubles its fiction offerings. Though that's literary fiction, not "The best sex comes after 50!" fiction. [NYP]

• Jon Friedman almost feels guilty for loving New Yorker editor David Remnick so much — interesting because of all the people Friedman fawns over, Remnick is perhaps the only one we're willing to give him a pass on. [Marketwatch]

• Leave it to Time Warner to take the "Court" out of CourtTV. Whatever it takes to attract those young viewers defecting to MySpace. And XTube. [WSJ]

• CBS shall not utter Devil speak. And by Devil speak we mean the word "gay." [Good As You]