I’m unmotivated by real work and instead contemplating making a pixelvision movie in my basement starring the Planet of the Apes action figures. I’m doing this to avoid another task, recovering and remastering some aged audio tracks.

For this and other reasons, the wired.com piece, The Dead Formats Society is a quite timely.

Now, before I return to a world where apes evolved from men, let me take a moment to tell you about my new treasure. Husband is a nest-builder. He doesn’t understand what a joyful object this is.

Well damn. The Reisenthel site doesn’t allow deep-linking? Click “produckte” and look for “wandboard.” Er, if you don’t read German you’ll just have to look at the pretty pictures and nod and smile.

The wandboard is the greatest correspondance and bill holder ever. And it’s heavy nylon and very well-constructed so it doesn’t sag. Plus, groovy velcro closures. And the best part: 22 bucks.

I’ve spent way, way too much time lately engaged in the pursuit of a better bill organizer (as the poor Loungebunny, who I hauled around many stores a few weeks ago can attest).

Even The Container Store let me down. None of their wall-hanging organizers or racks were quite right. Visiting the Container Store did allow Husband and I to hear one woman say to another, “The problem is, I need more containers to store my containers.”

I have to tell you, this wallhanging doodad is the greatest thing since sliced bread. Actually, it’s better than sliced bread because you can stick little labels to it. You can stick labels to bread, I suppose, but that would be weird. Even to me.

Einfach clever, indeed.