Nate Silver of 538 applied his mad quant skillz to ranking neighborhoods in NYC. I like that one of my old hoods, Sunnyside, Queens, made the list at number 3. It's all about the Irish bars.

Penelope Trunk writes that productivity is about finding space. I think productivity is about having my kids in school for five consecutive days without school vacations or medieval diseases.

It's no surprise to anyone that I have a weakness for political gossip. Ergo, I love the Sarkozy's. Between Carla's Euro-trash album and her bad plastic surgery, they're an awesome political couple. Now we have more. Rumors have them both messing around. Sweet!