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One of the design heroes of the eighties, John DeLorean, has died. He was 80. It's unfortunate that his baby didn't go much further than it did, although the DMC-12 was featured in the Back to the Future movies... It's nice to see his car is still being used and loved. Who wouldn't like a car you can polish with steel wool?

Wired has a good story on developments in the field of Diesel Hybrid vehicles - the next good thing in automechanics. My diesel-electric Ford Explorer may not be so far off!

Boingboing pointed me to this observation at Freedom to Tinker about Godwin's Law and how it relates to the 'copyfight':

"Godwin's Law, Updated

One of the most famous observations about online discussions is Godwin's Law:

As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

When it comes to copyright policy, a related law seems to hold:

As a copyright policy discussion grows longer, the probability of pornography being invoked approaches one.

What's really interesting is the corollary:

When the topic of a copyright policy discussion switches to pornography, each side suddenly adopts the other side's arguments.

For example, Hollywood argues that filesharing will lead to a shortage of movies, because nobody will make movies they can't sell. But when the topic switches to pornographic movies, suddenly they start arguing that filesharing increases the creation and availability of content.

Similarly, some P2P vendors who say they can't possibly filter or block copyrighted content, suddenly decide, when the topic switches to porn, that they can provide effective blocking."