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Robo-Dave suggests:<\/p>\n

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  1. I don’t have any particular interest in changing over to Safari as a browser … but it’s welcome as another innovation-driving competitor<\/a> in the Windows web browser realm.\n
  2. Companies and fonts<\/a>.<\/p>\n
  3. It’s maddening how many people seem to equate “faith” with “not using the brains God gave a turnip.” I’m not talking about atheistic zealots, but the “faithful” themselves<\/a>.<\/p>\n
  4. Cognitive biases<\/a>. Great list. Another list of things I think every kid should be taught (in a more digested form).<\/p>\n
  5. Sudan is an international pariah, economically, due to various bits of civil war and genocidal plots — shunned in international trade except <\/em>for one commodity that everyone still continues to buy (discreetly): gum arabic<\/a>.<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Robo-Dave suggests: I don’t have any particular interest in changing over to Safari as a browser … but it’s welcome as another innovation-driving competitor in the Windows web browser realm….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,20,47,16,27,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-hi-tech","category-my-computer","category-potpourri","category-religion","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10823,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/23\/potpourri_for_a_saturday.html","url_meta":{"origin":10799,"position":0},"title":"Potpourri for a Saturday on Vacation","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 23-Jun-07 7:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"Robo-Dave suggests: Isn't it odd that, after battling Microsoft for anti-trust violations, the Feds have turned around and given it a monopoly over browser access to things like US...","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/giantrobot.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10810,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/27\/potpourri_for_a_wednesday.html","url_meta":{"origin":10799,"position":1},"title":"Potpourri for a Wednesday on Vacation","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 27-Jun-07 7:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"Robo-Dave suggests: The Housewives Tarot. 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Azorryona,...","rel":"","context":"In "Cars"","block_context":{"text":"Cars","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/cars"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/giantrobot.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10824,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/22\/potpourri_for_a_friday_on.html","url_meta":{"origin":10799,"position":3},"title":"Potpourri for a Friday on Vacation","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 22-Jun-07 7:34am","format":false,"excerpt":"Robo-Dave suggests: FAA Flight Delays, with links to Security Check-In Delays.\u00a0 The site is nearly inoperable in Firefox, alas; use IE. (via Ginny) Unk,Tantor!\u00a0 A Tarzan dictionary. (via Randy)\u00a0...","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/giantrobot.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10796,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/30\/potpourri_for_another_sat.html","url_meta":{"origin":10799,"position":4},"title":"Potpourri for another Saturday on Vacation","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 30-Jun-07 7:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"Robo-Dave suggests: The Sins of PowerPoint. For the love of God, send this to all your business associates. How to maintain classroom discipline ... 1950s style. Folks who do pot...","rel":"","context":"In "Job Jollies"","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/giantrobot.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":10822,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/06\/24\/potpourri_for_a_sunday_on.html","url_meta":{"origin":10799,"position":5},"title":"Potpourri for a Sunday on Vacation","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 24-Jun-07 7:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"Robo-Dave suggests: Doesn't matter if you're a war time president or a peace time president, or if history likes you or not -- expect your approval ratings to tank...","rel":"","context":"In "Politics & Law"","block_context":{"text":"Politics & Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/giantrobot.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}