There's a really interesting editorial on SUVs on Slate. It brings attention to something we all should've realized -- traffic laws on weight limits actually ban SUVs from many streets in many cities. It also has ideas on how best to deal with the SUV problem in America.. the problem being that people choose such monstrosities, na klar. In sum, require truck driver's licenses for them, enforce the bans on driving them on streets, etc. Good ideas.

To draw your attention to corporations behaving badly, some girl apparently was raped by someone she met online many years ago, and wrote a book to document her experience. Poor victim, so far. Unfortunately, she decides, with suggestion of her publisher, to call her book Katie.com. Her name is Katie. This is where she's being an asshat. There's already a katie.com, internet site run by another Katie. It's not bad enough, however, to confuse the hell out of people by naming their book the same as someone unrelated's website.. instead, they're now planning to go big with the name of their book, starting a TV programme and all sorts of other things, and are suing the person running katie.com to try to force her to give over the domain name. Apparently, this is where the book author missed one of life's lessons in being a good person -- being a victim of something bad doesn't give one a license to be an asshole. In conclusion, Katherine Tarbox, fuck you. I'm not going to say you deserved to be raped, because noone deserves that, but KatieT, you're scum. The internet will remember your doings if you win, and such things are not forgotten.

Speaking of other lawyer-laden hoarders, the people who patent human genes are creating problems for science, making it hard to do genetic tests for diseases. These kinds of "ownership" make me furious.

Final little bit -- someone I know pointed me at TheyRule, a slick site that lets you explore relationships between the corporate boards of several big companies, using a nice, flash-based visual interface. Neat.