There's a sucker (and a new blog) born every minute

Street editor and arbiter of cool Hillary Reinsberg writes in to tell us about the splashy new blog from "queen of buzz" Tina Brown. Because you need something to read between UTB posts.

Searching for that happy medium between The Huffington Post and Perez Hilton? COMM majors, check it out. Today marks the launch of The Daily Beast, a sort of Drudge Report for the hipper set. The Daily Beast, with its tagline, "Read this skip that," is the brainchild of editrix Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.

But it gets better! Our fellow friends in the blogosphere have pointed out that the site's design is totally ripped off from the Philadelphia Daily News!  Gawker may call Philly "New York's rather dowdy Southern neighbor," but we're taking it in stride.