Over at UnBeige, mediabistro.com's design blog, Stephanie Murg provides savvy readers with a head start on Taschen's annual price-slashing weekend, taking place at its three retail outlets in New York and Los Angeles (and three others in Europe). If you like coffee table books that skew towards the edgy, they promise "thousands of slightly damaged and display copies.. at bargain basement prices," with discounts of 50 to 75 percent. No word on just how wide a range of the inventory is included in the mix, so you'll just have to show up and take your chances...