Time turns 90 this week. To celebrate, the magazine has a slew of offerings, including a slideshow/history lesson as taught by Time, an interactive cover feature (tweet your favorite and it’ll show up here) and some birthday advice from Joel Stein.

“For me, 90 is not so much a milestone but evidence that for nine decades Time is always new, always of the moment,” Rick Stengel, managing editor of Time, writes in this week’s issue. “We have to be because we cover the way the world is changing and that never stops.”

Happy birthday Time. Thanks for sticking around and not doing more covers like the one shown here.

More awards! The American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) has unveiled the 2012 National Magazine Award finalists, and leading the way are two fantastic titles — New York and The New Yorker — each nominated for six Ellies. All those accusing the ASME of having a New York bias please start your bitching now.

As for the rest of you, the winners will be announced on May 3, so stay tuned. Also, finalists for the Magazine of The Year will be revealed Thursday. Below is a list of the finalists. Congrats to all.

• TVSpy: George Zimmerman wasn’t arrested for killing Trayvon Martin, but Sanford city police are saying that they won’t hesitate to arrest reporters who are covering the case. Well done, America.
• GalleyCat: Attention all adults, please consult with Joel Stein before reading a book to make sure it’s Joel Stein Approved.
• FishbowlLA: Shannon Tweed has groupies?

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FishbowlDC: How to tell if your assignment editor hates you: he asked you to fact check a story about the first dog pooping on Air Force One.

Forbes New York Times Magazine columnist and food52 founder Amanda Hesser questions Gourmet‘s relevancy.

Daily News: Tonight, classical music radio station WQXR (96.3 FM) will swap spots with Spanish music station La Kalle at 105.9 FM.

Time: Joel Stein tries to show up Sarah Palin by writing a quickie memoir with the help of ghostwriter Neil Strauss. “We both figured it was going to take a lot of searching to find anything interesting about my life, but within half an hour I was unabashedly thrilled by my own adventures,” Stein writes. “Far stranger, Strauss was too. In addition to superfast writing and the ability to mimic other people’s voices, his artistic gift is that he finds everything interesting.”

Frequent visitors to Time.com may already have noticed that the page looks a bit different this morning. That’s because the magazine has officially relaunched their website today. FBNY stopped by the Time offices last week to get a quick preview of the site — did you know that Time‘s archives, dating all the way back to 1923, are available online?! Us either.

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So, we just remembered it’s Fashion Week here in New York. What a relief after all this “Palinating.” No need to go to the tents even, since it appears everyone seems to have everything covered from every angle possible. As per usual, NYMag’s got the Fug Girls on the case, along with videos by Jeremy Kost, Fashionista is blogging the tents, refinery29 is, as usual, giving Style.com a run for its money. And on the new, new media front not only is FBNY twittering from the tents, UnBeige is also stylin‘, so to speak, as is Racked.com is twittering.

Also, let us draw your attention to the trio Time.com has managed to dispatch to the shows: Joel Stein, fashion scribe Kate Betts, and renaissance man Isaac Mizrahi (anyone with even a shred of interest in fashion who hasn’t already done so should immediately netflix Unzipped). Per Stein:

Here’s what I learned: I should have become a fashion reporter. Other than Kevin Bacon (dude, it’s 2008, drop the fauxhawk) and David Schwimmer, there were no straight dudes there. And no women under 5’10″. And it looks easy to make conversation. Like, “Hey did you see the guy with tinkertoys on his head?

If you’re into this sort of thing, some fascinating meta-media notes on Joe Hagan‘s piece on Time magazine in this week’s New York mag:

Editor Richard Stengel tells Hagan he wants Time to be a bit more like the Economist. Time Inc. editor-in-chief John Huey does not: “Well, that’s not the magazine we’re making. To say that we’re going down that road is not where we’re going.” Stengel later amends his description.

Stengel calls new Time columnist Joel Stein “a god to people in their twenties and thirties.”

Huey on his Time legacy: “Ex-CEOs don’t mean spit. And neither do ex-editors-in-chief.”

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We’ll just let columnist Joel Stein — he of Time magazine, SecondLife and VH1′s I Love The Whatever fame — explain himself:

DON’T E-MAIL me.

That address on the bottom of this column? That is the pathetic, confused death knell of the once-proud newspaper industry, and I want nothing to do with it. Sending an e-mail to that address is about as useful as sending your study group report about Iraq to the president.

Here’s what my Internet-fearing editors have failed to understand: I don’t want to talk to you; I want to talk at you. A column is not my attempt to engage in a conversation with you. I have more than enough people to converse with. And I don’t listen to them either. That sound on the phone, Mom, is me typing.

Some newspapers even list the phone numbers of their reporters at the end of their articles. That’s a smart use of their employees’ time. Why not just save a step and have them set up a folding table at a senior citizen center with a sign asking for complaints?

Where does this end? Does Philip Roth have to put his e-mail at the end of his book? Does Tom Hanks have to hold up a sign with his e-mail at the end of his movie?

Only one problem with Mr. Stein’s anti-Web 2.0 monologue: he lists his e-mail address — thejoelstein@yahoo.com — on his personal Web site.

So, go ahead. Send him your thoughts. Or send ‘em to us — we love e-mail.