–Han van Meegeren forged 7 Vermeers in the mid-1900s, raking in millions for false new paintings. “He devised a plan to paint a perfect Vermeer – neither a copy, nor a pastiche, but an original work – and, when it had been authenticated by leading art experts, acquired by a major museum, exhibited and acclaimed, he would announce his hoax to the world.”
-This whole intellectual property thing is getting a bit absurd. The Mises econblog comments on the latest efforts of the Music Publishers’ Association (evil twin of the RIAA?) to stop the unauthorized sharing of their products. Suing the consumer is a bad idea, generally speaking.

-The Free Range Librarian has a collection of photos of big cars in compact parking spaces. I’d like to see some more context here. I wonder about the decision-making in effect. Are big car folks parking out of defiance (i.e. taking offense at the differential treatment) or just lazy convenience? In what kind of situations is compact parking actually respected? I wonder who is supposed to be enforcing this in the end, aside from citizen-liblogger-expos?©-photojournalists.

-A thread on Lifehacker asking the readers’ favorite software ever.