Link: Gallery hanging systems can solve artwork clutter | Unclutterer

Track, cables, clips, grippers: all you need. Pretty cheap, actually. Even cheaper in Chicago where every old apartment has picture-rail crown molding.

Link: E-Fail

Choose project failure mode, then caption, then image, then send for help!

via GraphJam almost a year ago, and suddenly relevant all over again (RentBoy, anyone?)

Link: Nine Myths About Socialism in the US

On a collision course with socialism? Hardly, and that’s too bad.

Link: A Collection of Printable Sketch Templates and Sketch Books for Wireframing

As the title says. Good stuff.

Link: The System 364: What to Say…

Nope, it’s parents everywhere… (Hi, Dad!)

MS began using [MP3] in 1998. The FSF says “they would have been safe" [using Vorbis in 2000]. That overlooks the inconvenient fact that [Vorbis 1.0] was not released until July 2002. It’s hard to imagine how MS could have chosen the “safe"open-source option when it didn’t exist yet.

Ed Bott on the FSF’s campaign for Ogg (my edits for brevity)

Link: Paste in Place

I am in love! Brought to the world’s attention by The System. (Of course, he was referring to a function in Flash/Photoshop/etc., but I googled it anyway, just in case, and this site came up first, and is fantastic!)

Link: Macworld reviews five iPad bags

There will be more, but already there are some very nice bags on the market.

All that beautification time was well-spent. This is important; I think that, at the moment, the iPhone community works harder at fit-and-finish, look-and-feel, and user experience than we do on the Android side. Which is unacceptable.

ongoing by Tim Bray · LifeSaver Lessons

He’s got a good point, here, and I hope that Android devs continue to improve the fit and finish. Android might be on my next phone, after all. :)