[Model Kate Moss with her boyfriend at Heathrow today; image via Bauer-Griffin]

A flack at Zillow recently tried to interest me in the online real-estate startup's listings of celebrity homes. A fun topic, and one that might distract reporters from talk of the company's finances after a recent layoff. (Zillow is infamous in real-estate circles for its questionably accurate estimates of home prices.) I asked her: What about the celebrity home of Zillow CEO Rich Barton? The answer I got: Zillow only lists celebrity houses which are up for sale. But Barton has been happy to use his personal residence to generate publicity for the site before, blogging about the sale of his previous Seattle home. Why so shy now?A search of King County property records showed that since the June 2007 sale of his previous residence, Barton hasn't purchased property under his or his wife's name. Is he renting? Zillow's Amy Bohutinsky says Barton does own his own home, which a Seattle-based tech reporter says is in the city's Madison Park neighborhood. He may well have bought it under a trust. If so, it's the first time he's chosen to do so in years of owning Seattle-area real estate. It's telling that Barton, an ex-Microsoft executive who got rich through the software giant's spinoff of travel site Expedia, has suddenly become interested in keeping his home address private. Could it have anything to do with his new business of telling everybody what their neighbors' homes are worth?

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Good news if you're an employee of the Trump Organization! Your exceptionally kind-hearted boss, Donald J. Trump, is giving you an hour off from work next Tuesday so you can go and vote. (Just one hour, though, so don't go making excuses about how your polling station is Brooklyn.) He isn't the only one. If you happen to work for one of the 2,372 companies owned by Time Warner, consider this video by Jeff Bewkes as official notice that you're permitted to skip out of the Time Warner building to perform your civic duty. Not registered? Not a US citizen? See you across the street in Central Park!

The Jesusphone is no longer just for privileged white folks. "The strongest growth in users is coming from those earning less than the median household income, particularly since the launch of the iPhone 3G." So says a report from ComScore, which concludes that "lower-income mobile subscribers are increasingly turning to their mobile devices to access the Internet, email and their music collections." Awesome. Now I can buy an iPhone 3G without feeling I'm being extravagant. But I can't shake the feeling this study was secretly paid for by RIM. (Photo by r.f.m II)

The French are getting their handmade lingerie in a knot over a new film called Cliente, about a career lady who pays a male escort for sex. What does it all mean, asks the Times, especially since the French are "less conflicted" sexually than Americans? Is paying for sex What Women Want? Or do they want to Be Like Men? Do we want... a trend piece about what we want? The media has been trying to figure out for decades:

Many women, including Kristen Wiig and some chick from Sunset Tan, have tried to de-Speedo decorated Olympian Michael Phelps, yet it's clear to us that the swimmer has the most success with older ladies. It hasn't been long since one of network television's trophy wives rented Phelps as the decoration for a cougar pool party, but his Boniva-friendly appeal was at full power on today's edition of The View. Licking her lips, Barbara Walters sized Phelps's body up like it was a prize ham, barely able to contain herself at how big everything was. And then, when Phelps showed off his double-jointed arms? Let's just say it's a good thing producer Bill Gedde was on hand with smelling salts.

Pamela "Atlas" Geller Oshry is a conservative blogger previously notable only for having vlogged in a bikini, once, and for being totally obsessed with mustachioed former UN ambassador John Bolton. Today, she announced that Barack Hussein Obama is not, as previously reported, the son of Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., but rather the illegitimate son of Malcolm Little, a.k.a. El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, a.k.a. Malcolm X. Yes, she is serious. Honestly? It is too much work to comb through her insanely long and convoluted post in order to write some sort of summary, so we'll just post some random excerpt from her fascinating investigation:

Time Inc., my former employer, goes through spasmodic bouts of reorganizations, switching between centralization and decentralization as frequently as its magazines redesign themselves. CEO Ann Moore's latest reshuffle, which is costing 600 jobs, has created three new groups, each with its own head of digital operations. That seems to have put Ned Desmond, the head of Time Inc. Interactive, out of a job. (Desmond is better remembered in the Valley as the former president and editor of Time Inc.'s Business 2.0, where I used to work.)Not that it was ever very clear to Time Incers what his division did: Until last year, it didn't even run Time Inc.'s Web servers, and several of Time Inc.'s more successful websites, like CNNMoney.com and SI.com, have made a point of staying outside of Desmond's reach.

♦ A first look at Charlotte Ronson's line for JCPenney, I Heart Ronson, and her new $30 dresses. [Nylon]
♦ Details on the cuts at Men's Vogue: The mag will be published just two times next year and publisher Marc Berger is leaving. The fate of other staffers is unclear. [Mediaweek]
♦ Damien Hirst's latest collaboration with Levi's includes pairs of jeans for $230 and $83 t-shirts. [WWD]
♦ Plastic surgeons report interest in cosmetic procedures is dropping fast. [NYT]

Variety today dares to look beyond panic in the economy for a detailed sketch of one of the most critical policy decisions facing the next presidential administration: Where's the party? The word is synonymous with way more than just one's affiliation in 2008, says one Washington social guru, who can't wait for her calendar to blossom once more with boldface Hollywood names beating a path to an Obama White House:

♦ John Dory, the Brit-themed seafood shack by April Bloomfield, Ken Friedman, Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich, looks like it's finally opening, possibly as soon as Saturday night. [TONY, Metromix, Eater]
♦ A look inside Center Cut, Jeffrey Chodorow's new restaurant inside the Empire Hotel. [Eater]
♦ Craftsteak and Thom Bar have a few specials in store for election night. [GS]
♦ Momofuku Ssam Bar will cater your Thanksgiving dinner with pork butt and potato puree. [The Feedbag]
♦ If it's any consolation, Tim and Nina Zagat don't think the financial crisis will do much damage to the city's restaurant economy. [WSJ]

Kleiner Perkins venture capitalist John Doerr is the guy everyone vaguely remembers as being important a decade ago but can't recall anything he's funded recently besides Friendster. Even so, he's full of advice for entrepreneurs — so full of advice that his 10 tips for startups spilled over to 11. The 11th tip: "Overcommunicate with everyone -– employees, investors, partners and particularly customers. Don’t sugar coat things, communicate your resolve." Where have we heard that before?It just confirms the notion that Doerr hasn't been paying attention. Anyone who's been reading Robert Scoble's blog knows about the virtues of oversharing. It makes for great entertainment. But if there's any correlation between checking FriendFeed every 15 seconds and business success, it's lost to us. Next time, John, just mention your daughter and cry a lot. It worked wonders at TED last year.

What if you were filming a somewhat cheesy reality show and all of a sudden it turned into a gripping, important documentary? That's happened to Wall Street Warriors, that reality show about finance people that's currently running its second season. The producers have been filming a third season since April, and their cameras have caught all the drama of the bank closings and stock market crashes that have plagued us this autumn. Good stuff, I bet. And the realization of a dream for reality show producers who, you know, are all wannabe documentarians anyway. But, uh oh, they have nowhere to air it. Mojo HD, the obscure cable network for people with High Def televisions, announced it was shutting down a few weeks ago, so now Warriors producers are looking for a new home for the show. "We're filming history," said Sean Skelton, co-creator and producer the series. "It's been exciting, but also difficult to watch these people, who we've been following for sometime now, become unraveled." I hope they find a new network for it—or turn it into a documentary feature or something—because I haven't seen quite enough terror and panic these past few months.

Out has a piece online about the gay men on the campaign trail who are covering this year's presidential election. Strangely absent: any discussion of the gay anchors back in the studio. [Out via Portfolio]

Presidential elections aren't just about the candidates; they're about all the random crazy people only tangentially related to the candidates and their campaigns, the ones who are hyped into momentary superstardom by political reporters desperate for storylines. Or by the candidates themselves, desperate to deflect attention. The question for these random people is, how to capitalize on this brief and undeserved moment of fame? Joe the Plumber is determined to become a country music star! And he's just one of multitudes. We're here to help, fame whores! After the jump, we tell the incidental stars of this godforsaken election cycle what they should do with their lives after November 4, so that they may not be forgotten:

When Extra revealed on Tuesday that Joaquin Phoenix had announced his mumbled retirement from acting, little did we know that the video of said declaration (captured at Monday's Paul Newman charity benefit) would immediately enshrine itself in the annals of red carpet awkwardness forever. Thanks to a clip furnished by E!, we've got the entire, baffling experience, as an out-of-it Phoenix confesses all to Extra correspondent Jerry Penacoli, takes offense at Penacoli's disbelieving laughter, then storms off.Phoenix is certainly no stranger to red carpet shenanigans (as his best buddy, Follicle Frog, will affirm) but the incident seems less like a joke (despite a nearby, hilariously deadpan Casey Affleck) and more like a Ray-Bans-clad cry for help. "Nommmf deadserious," Phoenix insists in the video, and his rep's awkward "That is what he told me" confirmation leads us to believe that Phoenix really is going through with his plans to ditch acting for a career in music. We didn't like Reservation Road much either, Joaquin, but we can't say we're looking forward to the alternative.

Stewart Brand once prophesied a world in which a faked video of Ronald Reagan punching Boris Yeltsin in the nose would look real, obsoleting phrases like "photo proof" and "the camera doesn't lie." This compilation of product inserts by UK firm MirriAd shows just how seamless video hacking has become. In 2008, the camera lies and it adds ten pounds.

Everything you need to know so you can dress up like a socialite for Halloween. [NYO]

The cheery stock photos on YouSendIt's sleek website send a signal: We're all business. The four-year-old file-transfer service has been trying to reinvent itself as a corporate "content-delivery solution," without much success. The company has laid off 20 percent of its 70-person U.S. workforce, as well as slashing its ranks of overseas developers, a tipster tells us. The company's VP of marketing has also vanished from the website's executive bios page. We can't wait for the memo from CEO Ivan Koon telling employees how troubled times require stern decisions. What Koon will almost certainly not say: