{"id":518,"date":"2006-10-25T12:43:28","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T16:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=518"},"modified":"2006-10-25T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T16:45:56","slug":"lucas-vs-diesel-sweeties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=518","title":{"rendered":"Lucas vs. Diesel Sweeties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.noosfere.org\/mezieres\/pages\/cinema\/rencontres.htm\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> an interesting page some folks have been linking to, in the aftermath of the Lucasfilm &#8220;cease and desist&#8221; letter to Richard Stevens, creator of the webcomic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dieselsweeties.com\/\">Diesel Sweeties<\/a> as well as vendor of some admittedly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dieselsweeties.com\/shirts\/\">Star Wars-ey merch<\/a> (note: images of said merch will likely be gone in a few days).<\/p>\n<p>Re. the page: I&#8217;m never sure what to make of these sorts of things.&nbsp; Lucas (and pretty much everyone else doing work in the visual realm) either consciously or unconsciously borrows bits and pieces of things here and there, and I think it&#8217;s pretty easy to select a few striking similarities, selected from a vast pool of very very unsimilar things, and then count on people&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/cgi\/content\/abstract\/185\/4157\/1124\">norirously poor understainding of statistics and probablity<\/a> (any believers in the &#8220;hot hand&#8221; in basketball out there?) to make the case for swipiing.&nbsp; But, it&#8217;s interesting to see at any rate:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/upload_images\/expo_starwars.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting page some folks have been linking to, in the aftermath of the Lucasfilm &#8220;cease and desist&#8221; letter to Richard Stevens, creator of the webcomic Diesel Sweeties as well as vendor of some admittedly Star Wars-ey merch (note: images of said merch will likely be gone in a few days). Re. the page: &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=518\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45,5],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-8m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}