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After decades obsessed with excess, grandeur and maximum bang for our bucks, perhaps we’re entering the era of the miniature. In a world of boundless consumption, obscene things like the world’s largest non-stick frying pan were a telling – if monstrous – monument to excess.
Well, before we start working on the world’s smallest non-stick frying [...]

With companies cutting back on full-time employees and office space, freelancer numbers sky-rocketing and home offices becoming extra bedrooms to be sublet, work will only become more mobile in 2009. That’s why we’ve devoted the year’s first edition of our weekly finance listicle, Big Money Mondays, to finding the best and most personalized item every [...]

We here at Listicles are finally planning our New Year’s Eve party (a little late, we know, we know). Aside from obsessively fine-tuning the booze and guest lists, we’ve blown the majority of our budget on silly party gifts. With that in mind, we won’t be able to invite all of you, dear readers, because [...]