1. Is Jerry Seinfeld’s new reality game show The Marriage Ref so bad that it cancels out the good of Seinfeld? [via Gawker]
2. Billboard magazine’s fourth-annual Top 40 Money Makers loves the ’80s: U2, Madonna, and Bruce Springsteen top the list. [via MTV News]
3. Get a first look at William Baldwin’s upcoming Gossip Girl guest appearance as Serena and Eric’s long lost father. [via EW]
4. How much does it actually cost to produce a printed book versus a digital one? If you want the truth, ask Anne Rice. [via NYT]
5. Roger Ebert will debut his new computer-enhanced voice tomorrow on Oprah. [via USA Today]

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Our roundup called the Grammys “the nerdy older sister of awards shows,” and this year impressed yet again with a strong showing of irrelevance and poorly performed, manic mashup choices. We were given “Speechless” with “Your Song,” Beyonce honoring Alanis Morrissette, Jamie Foxx and opera, and other baffling choices that make you feel like the Grammy organizers have been listening to too much Girl Talk.

Unfortunately, not every hit song from 2009 earned airtime (can you imagine the hammered brothers in Kings of Leon motoring through “Use Somebody” with AC/DC?). Instead, we go to mashup artist DJ Earworm, who has created the United State of Pop 2009 by combining the top 25 songs on the Billboard chart from last year. We’ve mourned the irrelevance of the Billboard chart in the past, so the fact these songs earned a combined 25 Grammy nominations is a sobering thought.  We’ve included this year’s mashup along with the United State of Pop 2008 and 2007 after the jump. Try and count how many songs you remember or wish you could forget.

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It is no secret that trade publication Billboard is painfully irrelevant. However, its latest “Artists of the Decade” list cannot be debated — it has been objectively compiled. Never mind the fact that Billboard equated “Artists of the Decade” with “the 20 music stars with the best performance on the Billboard 200 albums chart and the Hot 100 over the last ten years.” We let this happen, at least when we still bought CDs. After the jump, explanations on how Creed, Nelly, Nickelback, and others snuck into the Top 20 most-sold albums of the decade list.

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Today at Flavorpill, we watched the newly-posted promos for Season 3 of Mad Men. We discovered this hilarious blog about scientific studies that’s the brainchild of two Molecular and Cell Biology graduate students at UC Berkeley. We found out that Picasso was a dirty hippie. We compared Michael Jackson’s Billboard rankings with other bigtime artists. We watched some Mexican jumping beans. We applauded the fact that Abigail Breslin has strict parents — lest she turn into this one day. We found it odd that Jerry Lewis is bringing The Nutty Professor to Broadway. We’re assuming that means no Klumps. We were grossed out by Lil Wayne’s BET Awards performance considering his company, and wondered if the rumors about Jay-Z getting banned from the VMAs were true. And finally, we judged Target for hopping in bed with the Black Eye Peas; we prefer collabs with fashion designers who we can’t normally afford.

1. The Michael Jackson tour is almost definitely happening, but with tickets averaging $115 and a show length of two-plus hours, are you prepared to make that kind of investment? [via Billboard]

2. Nicole Kidman has mysteriously jumped ship from Woody Allen’s upcoming movie, which also stars her pal Naomi Watts. It might have something to do with than American Apparel endorsement she’s been hoping for… [via EW]

3. Al Pacino will star in the film adaptation of Malcolm Gladwell’s non-fiction hit Blink. How are they making it into a story? “Pacino’s character notices that the son has the talent to size up people and situations on a dime, and tries to use this to both help the boy find himself, and to make some money off of him.” Oy. [via TDB]

4. There’s a weird actor/producer battle over a woman raging behind-the-scenes of Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds. In true Tarantino-style, it’s very non-linear and all scores will be settled in a carefully-choreographed fight scene.  [via NYDN]

5. Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s sci-fi-inspired installation at the Park Avenue Armory — which opens tomorrow — looks like something out of Star Trek. And it’s probably the closest to outerspace we’ll ever get outside of astronaut ice cream. [via NYT]