This week’s tasty tidbits from the business and technology front, as well as other recommended links:

• Over half of 2009 vehicles in America will offer iPod support — We’re talking all cars, not just luxury brands. Furthermore, Bluetooth is expected to be in 82% 2009 US vehicles…
• In Defense of Piracy — Professor Lawrence Lessig makes a strong case for looser copyright controls, demonstrating how the MPAA and RIAA are self-interestedly strangling innovation at the expense of consumers and artists alike.
• The Grammar of Fun — The New Yorker has a typically in-depth, insightful, and light-hearted profile of the lead designer behind Epic’s monster hit “Gears of War” video game series.
• Lala’s Spectacular New Music Service — A new, inexpensive, DRM-free music service called Lala is getting rave reviews.
• What Facebook and Steroid Use Have in Common — Social networking is a phenomenon both online and offline. “Steroid use (in baseball) spread because of the wicked combination of a closed network, or cluster, and positive reinforcement…”
• Cloud Culture — Central to the concept Web 2.0 is the Internet “cloud” and its growing importance to our daily computing lives. Kevin Kelly looks at the implications for our culture in this essay in his ongoing series, “The Technium.”
• Windows 7 details galore — Engadget takes a peak at Microsoft’s successor to Windows Vista, finding interface tweaks, netbook builds, Media Center enhancements, and more.
• The Things He Carried — Have you traveled recently? Then you’ll enjoy this hilarious (and sometimes enraging) story. A  journalist sets out to demonstrate how worthless the TSA and its travel security measures are—by flagrantly violating many of them to see what happens.