• Hilariously neurotic article in USA Today, in which details of Britney's wedding are cited from In Touch Weekly, the New York Post and Britain's Daily Star. Despite rumors, the wedding is still on. And there's even a tentative date — November 14 in Santa Barbara, just two days before Spears' greatest-hits album is due.

• The U.S. military offers free breast implants to female soldiers so that "military doctors can practice their skills." (Um, what?) Mary Carey speaks out against the policy: "'I think girls should have natural boobs and natural beauty,' Carey said after unveiling her own breasts in the protest."

• Shirley Manson blogs about Trashlee Simpson and the demise of girl rockers: "I heard [Ashlee's] single and it doesn't sound even remotely like a rock record to me at all. True rock girls are close to extinction. They should put Karen O., Peaches and Brody in an enclosure and start charging people a fortune to even look at them let alone hear them." (No permanent link available. Just go to the Garbage Web site, click Diary, and scroll to entry No. 20.)