Is a link — to LiftMagic.com, where a photo upload and a couple of clicks will tell you how several different cosmetic procedures might have you looking sometime soon.
Are you on the receiving end of the many, many emails being sent out to promote WOWOWOW.com, the over-40s lady website founded by folks like Liz Smith, Peggy Noonan, and Lesley Stahl?
The barrage of emails are now delivered straight to our trash can, but they at least make a stab at getting through the clutter by using email addresses with "real person" sounding names ("Penny Hemple," "Samantha Hutton"), all in an effort to get well-read sites to link to Smith's latest retelling of her coked up past. Or maybe the girls sending these emails are real, and in that case, may they be struck down by menopause.
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You forgot the lady-powered WOWoWOW.com launched over the weekend? Shame! Now you're going to have to spend your morning catching up on the items you missed.
Like Leslie Stahl's cat burglary (they found the alleged culprit!), Lilly Tomlin reprinting a 1943 magazine article aimed at men hiring women, and a call-and-response session about which four women you'd like to see adorn Mt. Rushmore.
Ahem. Sorry for needlessly sounding the alarm.

wowowow.com, which is an upside down version of momomom.com, is the website of a bunch of famous white ladies, plus Whoopi Goldberg. It received the Times treatment today, which spends an inordinate amount of copy retelling their search for a domain name: "Hot Voodoo" bad, "Women on the Web" good). It's founded by five lady friends (former Simon & Schuster president Joni Evans, gossipista Liz Smith, ad exec Mary Wells, columnist Peggy Noonan, and reporter Lesley Stahl) and the support of celebs like Whoopi, Candice Bergen, and Lily Tomlin. So what can the 40-plus female set look forward to when the site launches Saturday?
The fare on the new PG-13 Wowowow is in some ways no different than that of other women-focused community Web sites like iVillage: horoscopes and posts about love and marriage, health and fashion. Wowowow also has political commentary, but what is particularly distinctive are the conversations, like the Halston dialogue, which read like deeper and more intimate versions of the “hot topics” segment of the television gabfest “The View.”
Ah! Okay, so it's like the Huffington Post, but with horoscopes and famous people. Which means it's like the Huffington Post, but with horoscopes.
