Children of the 80’s weep…
… as car designer John Z. DeLorean dies, aged 80.
In other news, this site allegedly contains the full set of Feynman’s ‘Lectures on Physics’ in PDF and MP3 format. Unfortunately it’s been linked by kottke.org among others, and so is running dog slow, meaning that I can’t make any comment on the actual contents yet.
Finally, Yahoo has officially acquired Flickr. Which, if nothing else, should be a good data point for the study of how long small companies with an excellent product can actually survive with their original product values intact after being swallowed by a lumbering behemoth. The huge success of Flickr made it inevitable that they were eventually going to have to get some big investment from somewhere, so we’ll get to see how long the service remains ‘cool’ in the face of greater pressure to be as profitable as possible.