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Creative Commons is one of the more interesting attempts to merge author's/artist's rights into the internet (and digital media in general). I think they are on to something, and need to be supported. I contributed, and I encourage anyone that does *anything* creative that *might* be published on the web to also support CC. Read the link.

The UK 3-pin plug has always impressed me as the clunkiest thing in common usage. The adapter I use to make my MacBook charger UK-compliant is bigger than anything else in the "power adapter" pocket of my backpack ... it's even bigger than the Australia/NZ one. Anyway, Min-Kyu Choi of the Royal College of Art (!) has come up with a remarkably improved version that is both backward compatible (with some clever twisting and folding) and perhaps defining a completely new format that could be adopted. (The distance between one of the live pins and the ground is a bit close, but no worse than we use in the US ... although our line voltage is 110V, not 220V).

This might be the solution for those riders whose significant other is not really into riding, but appreciates a nice set of wheels.