• PingMe - What *Should* You Be Doing? - "Not a good time? Pings are interactive! Just reply to the message to reschedule for a later date or time." [via: digg/kevinrose]
• [Quicksilver going Open Source?] - A1c0r said: "Future core development - whatever form it takes - will take place largely in open source." Now there's an intriguing development.
• Random iPhone User Tips - O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog - Great tips and picks -- love the business card idea.
• In the Loop - The OmniDorken and I spoke at Apple yesterday, and I was as happy as a little girl. Ken used the occasion to announce that Ethan has officially joined the OG team and will be moving Team Schoonover across the pond. Yays, all around!
• First Encounter with an OLPC XO / A 12-Year-Old’s Review - Joey gets his adult-sized hands on a "One Laptop Per Child" machine.
• iPhone Wallpapers - Chris Glass has made some lovely photos to use for iPhone wallpaper. Man's got a great eye.
• xkcd ["The Internet has always had loud dumb people..."] - "WHY NOT TELL LOUIS ARMSTRONG TO HIS FACE"

Pardon a meta post, but I wanted to offer an apology for the paucity of new feature-length posts here recently, as well as to provide some context for where that time's been going. A little "behind the scenes" insight, if you're curious.

Here's one of my favorite life-hacky tips from Peter Walsh (guy from Clean Sweep, author of It's All Too Much, and inspiration for my recent War on Clutter).

After you've done a major purge of your closet, remove all the remaining clothes that live on hangers, and put them back in backwards, such that the open end of each hanger now faces you. Got it?

Then, mark your calendar for six months (or whatever) from today, and go back to your business as usual. Except that after every time you wear a shirt or a jacket or a skirt or what have you, when you replace the item, make sure the hanger faces the opposite/usual way (with the opening in the back).

When your n months have passed, and your calendar reminds you that it's time, open your closet and remove every piece of clothing on a backward hanger; the chances are good you can give it away without the slightest pain, because you just clearly demonstrated that you don't wear it.

Here's why I love this.

MacBreak Weekly 52: Ten Cents A Dance

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Hosts: Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Scott Bourne, Andy Ihnatko, and Alex Lindsay

We take a look at Apple's new iMacs, and iLife and iWork 08...

Here's a direct MP3 download of MBW 52.

Of course, when I chose iCal as my anti-pick, I said it with love. Much love.

• The Limits of Efficiency - "It turned out that my problem wasn't that I was insufficiently efficient. The problem was that I was way too overextended."
• Macworld: First Look: Numbers - "The way Numbers works goes against nearly 20 years of training, so I really have to try not to 'think Excel' when using the program." [via: Lifehacker]
• Start Here - Neato-looking notebooks that you can "link together." [via del.icio.us/jstarkweather]
• Twitter / Andre Torrez: [on to-do lists] - "How about less to-do apps, and more apps that help me do things?"
• 404 Pros - "Inspired by other sites' 404s and ready to create your own work of error art? Here is some information to get you started."