The World's Best Ever: Design, Fashion, Art, Music, Photography, Lifestyle, Entertainment » Money http://www.theworldsbestever.com The World's Best in Art, Culture, and Entertainment Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:29:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Final Piece in the David Choe Media Puzzle http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2012/02/10/the-final-piece-in-the-david-choe-media-puzzle/ http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2012/02/10/the-final-piece-in-the-david-choe-media-puzzle/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:03:59 +0000 Dave http://www.theworldsbestever.com/?p=79005

NMA gets involved.

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David Choe madness continues. An ABC News report after the jump.

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After earning an estimated $63 million in 2010, Jay-Z gave just $6,431 to his own charity, the Shawn Carter Scholarship Fund.

]]> http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2012/02/06/a-nickel-and-dime-kind-of-guy/feed/ 0 “Always Double Down on 11. Always” http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2012/02/02/always-double-down-on-11-always/ http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2012/02/02/always-double-down-on-11-always/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:00:47 +0000 Dave http://www.theworldsbestever.com/?p=78601

As you’ve probably heard by now, David Choe stands to make something like $200 Million after Facebook’s IPO.

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Chinese shipping magnate Hu Zhen Yu bought a Dutch pigeon at auction for roughly $330,000, making it “The World’s Most Expensive Pigeon.” Wonder if he’s gonna get Iron Mike to train them?

illustration by Steve Powers

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An exhibit that looks at the development of the global banking system in Italy during the medieval and early Renaissance periods.

Take an internet walkthrough of it here

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Nothing in comparison to Mega-Producer/Mogul cash.

Here’s an estimate of what an A-List Actor makes and spends in a year,

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This Roman Brothel Token from 1st century AD was found in England and  ”depicts a man and a woman having sex on one face, and has the Roman numerals XIIII (14) on the other. The lady appears to be lying on a couch on her front and a male figure is positioned behind her.”

via, boingboing

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See how far from normal you are 

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The Sub Wallet from North Sea Clothing

]]> http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2012/01/25/navy-blue-leather-with-hand-stitching/feed/ 0 Pablo Escobar’s Portable Telephone http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2012/01/19/pablo-escobars-portable-telephone/ http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2012/01/19/pablo-escobars-portable-telephone/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:00:28 +0000 Dave http://www.theworldsbestever.com/?p=77841

“The portable telephone Pablo was using when police traced calls to his family in the hours before his death on 2 December 1993.”

Featured in James Mollison’s book The Memory of Pablo Escobar

]]> http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2012/01/19/pablo-escobars-portable-telephone/feed/ 0 At the 40/40 club, Warren Buffett on the Scene http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2012/01/19/at-the-4040-club-warren-buffett-on-the-scene/ http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2012/01/19/at-the-4040-club-warren-buffett-on-the-scene/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:11:48 +0000 Dave http://www.theworldsbestever.com/?p=77822

Money loves money

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$22,500 an ounce

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The Incan Economy. A nice read over at io9

related: a 2008 trip on the Inca Trail (sadly the only evidence I have of that trip)

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Crazy what these folks get.

Agent turned manager turned producer Gavin Polone on the perk packages that celebrities get and why Hollywood Studios need to slash them.

(picture unrelated)

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