• Air Force sergeant Michelle Manhart evidently missed the clause that forbade her from posing in Playboy, clad only in her official military dog tags.

• Michael Wolf follows in Tom Freston’s footsteps and gets unceremoniously booted from MTV.

• NYT Co. eliminates 125 jobs in Boston because, well, the Times is a New York paper.

• A&E “completely shocked” to learn that people are far more interested in Sopranos reruns than new episodes of A&E Biography.

• Roger Ebert to sit on his thumbs during this year’s Academy Awards; Richard Roeper described as “nervous” about holding down the fort.

• Fox news continues its love affair with Condi by blasting CBS for airing photos of the TomKitten via objective third-party, Father Jonathan.