• SocialTimes: An ex-Wendy’s employee posted a YouTude video that documented various health code violations at one of the chain’s locations in upstate New York. Noted: Never eat at any Wendy’s in upstate New York.
• TVNewser: Watch Ellen Degeneres prank Meredith Vieira.
• MediaJobsDaily: Millennials complain that they get a bad rep, which only adds to their bad rep.

CNN’s Peter Hamby just tweeted that Sarah Palin and Donald Trump are going to be dining together in Manhattan tonight. Possible dinner conversation topics include:

1. Getting the media to hang on your every word even when all of your words never add up to anything worthwhile
2. Where Trump lies on The Maverick Scale (Tom Cruise being the best, Mel Gibson the worst)
3. Why Barack Obama refuses to comment on the upcoming Third Eye Blind album

More Hearst news! Kevin O’Malley has been tapped by Hearst to be Elle’s Senior Vice President, Publisher, Chief Revenue Officer. O’Malley comes to Elle from Esquire, where he held almost the exact same title.

Michael Clinton, President, Marketing and Publishing Director for Hearst Magazines, says that O’Malley’s ability to expand the Esquire brand will benefit Elle greatly.

“Kevin has shown a tremendous amount of innovation and creativity during his time at Esquire and developed thoughtful, multi-platform programs with major advertisers ranging from Lincoln to Hugo Boss,” explained Clinton. “His expertise in the luxury and fashion space, coupled with his ability to understand how to take a magazine brand well beyond the page, makes him a perfect fit for Elle.”

O’Malley’s replacement at Esquire is expected to be named shortly.

Today WWD asks “Is a fashion editor’s head on the table in the Hearst Tower?” While we don’t know why that would be true, rumors can be fun (as long as they’re not about us losing our job), so let’s take a look at which editor the writer’s at WWD think is going to get fired.

Immediately ruled out is Joanna Coles, who apparently just signed a new deal to stay Editor-in-Chief at Marie Claire for awhile. There’s some guessing that it might be Cosmo’s Kate White, but the final target appears to be Harper’s Bazaar’s Glenda Bailey. Apparently things haven’t been going so well at the magazine:

Harper’s Bazaar finished the first half of 2011 down 5.4 percent in ad pages and circulation numbers so far this year are behind those of 2010. The book missed its rate base for January, February and March, according to data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations.

There’s no evidence that Bailey is going to be fired, and a few sources even tell WWD that there isn’t anything to the rumor, but good gossip isn’t always correct gossip. It just gets people talking.

Mental Floss, the bi-monthly magazine chock full of odd facts (Memorial Day was first known as Decoration Day), has hired James Kaminsky as Editor-in-Chief. According to The Cutline, Kaminsky has previously worked at Playboy, Rolling Stone and Men’s Journal.

Will Pearson, C0-Founder of the magazine, is hopeful that Kaminsky’s background will help the title expand beyond its typical reach. “We’re looking to introduce this magazine to more people, and I think he’ll be an editor who can fine-tune it to reach a larger audience,” said Pearson.

Hearst Corp. has announced that the acquisition of the magazines owned by Hachette Filipacchi Media is now complete. Lagardère brands published in Italy, Spain, Japan, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Mexico, Taiwan, Canada and Germany, are part of Hearst’s portfolio as well. Brands published in Russia, Ukaraine and China are expected to be ushered under Hearst’s wing later this year. The price tag? About $919 million.

The much discussed deal puts Hearst in charge of over 300 titles, including 13 editions of the powerhouse Elle. Frank Bennack Jr. issued the following statement:

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The Awl has a great post today that chronicles when several vulgar words first found their way into The New Yorker. For example, the first time “anal” appeared in the magazine was in 1994, but the first “shit” can be found in a 1976 piece titled “The Autumn of The Patriarch.”

Here’s a couple more:

slut
First used: 1974, Edna O’Brien, “The House of My Dreams”

blowjob
First used: 2003, Tad Friend, “Remake Man”

If your inner teenager is laughing, then go ahead and click through to find out more.

Business can be just as much fun as sports, we hear. Fortune magazine has a new editorial feature where the editors each select their dream team, fantasy football-style, of business executives, including the top CEO, CFO, CIO, CMO from corporations. Readers can also vote in a poll using a code from the magazine between these five major players:

• J.P. Morgan’s Jamie Dimon
• Apple’s Steve Jobs
• McDonald’s Jim Skinner
• IBM’s Sam Palmisano
• PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi

How to choose?! Our instinct is to go with Steve Jobs, just because his company is the coolest. But there’s a lot more to it than that.  Fortune editor-at-large Geoff Colvin introduces the feature in a column this week, called “What Makes a CEO an MVP?” He gives a little more background on their pros and cons. IBM’s Palmisano can “change strategies and business models” in a shifting market. J.P. Morgan’s Dimon can handle the government. And McDonald’s Skinner kept up profits in a recession. Decisions, decisions… Okay fine: Steve Jobs, but we’ll sub in Skinner if things get rough.

You ever have one of those days when you briefly consider murdering another human being? Not that you would. But in a moment of weakness on a packed train or something, the thought, “If this guy doesn’t stop digging his elbow into my back and that woman doesn’t figure out that a three letter word for ‘good times’ is fun – fun dammit, you already have the ‘f’ – I will kill them both and the only thing I will regret is that I didn’t leave enough food for my dog this morning” can flash through your mind.

For a Bronx resident, that moment of rage, of briefly losing sanity, was inspired by WPIX-11 airing too many reruns of Two and a Half Men. According to The New York Post, yesterday a man called the station and said that he’d blow the building up if it kept showing the program.

Cops quickly arrived at his home and charged him with “falsely reporting an incident and aggravated harassment,” but FishbowlNY sympathizes with him.

(hat tip to Vulture)

Christopher Farley has been named Editorial Director for The Wall Street Journal’s blog network. Talking Biz News reports that Robert Thomson announced the move this morning. Farley was most recently editor of Speakeasy, and prior to that worked on the Marketplace and Weekend sections for the paper.

Thomson said that under Farley’s leadership, Speakeasy – where Farley will continue to contribute – became one of the most popular sections of the Journal’s website.