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With the recent Yves Saint Laurent-Pierre Bergé art auction proving that the lifetime collections of famous rich people can still fetch huge sums in an art market many predicted was crashing, it’s time to start planning ahead for April’s Michael Jackson auction.
Yes, the gloved one is only the most eccentric victim of the foreclosure epidemic, [...]

A few days back Listicles offered what we believed to be wise advice on re-distributing some especially unjust-seeming corporate perks being offered CEOs and executives, some of which pertained to the use of corporate jets. Today, Gawker’s Ryan Tate muses that perhaps all corporate vehicles of flight should go the eBay way, especially considering the [...]

This season’s Top Chef crash pad, a spacious apartment in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood, just hit the rental market for $12,000 per month. Sous vide fetishists might jump at the chance to eat, sleep and walk around naked in the flat (aside: somebody [not me] should name their private part “Colicchio”), but what’s with the Craigslist ad? [...]

Post your own shoe photos at Thank You For Throwing Your Shoe (via BuzzFeed)
2008 Mug Shots of the Year (via Urlesque)
It snowed in Malibu!
And Vegas!
The cast of How I Met Your Mother re-enact 2008’s best moments for Entertainment Weekly
Scarlett Johansson’s used tissue up for auction (via The Daily What)
A Belgian agency lets you do the [...]