{"id":12240,"date":"2008-06-17T09:05:59","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T16:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/06\/17\/potpourri-for-a-tuesday-morning.html"},"modified":"2008-06-17T09:05:59","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T16:05:59","slug":"potpourri_for_a_tuesday_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/17\/potpourri_for_a_tuesday_m.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for a Tuesday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From my Google Reader shared items (formatted a bit better than the last installment):<\/p>\n<ul dir=\"ltr\">\n<li> <a title=\"There He Goes Again, Again ...\" href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/06\/there-he-goes-1.html\">There He Goes Again, Again &#8230;<\/a><small>&nbsp;from <a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/\">Obsidian Wings<\/a><\/small><br \/> John McCain talks a lot about &#8220;cap and trade&#8221; on carbon emission issues &#8212; but he doesn&#8217;t seem to really understand what it means.<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><a title=\"The Straight Dope: We know how many people die annually from gunfire. How many are saved by defensive firearms use?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/columns\/080613.html\">The Straight Dope: We know how many people die annually&#8230;<\/a>&nbsp;<small>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/\">www.straightdope.com<\/a><\/small><br \/> Do handguns save more lives than they take? Not even Uncle Cecil knows &#8230; <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><a title=\"Firefox 3 will be unleashed on June 17th.\" href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/firefox_3_will_be_unleashed_on_june_17th\/\">Firefox 3 will be unleashed on June 17th.<\/a><small>&nbsp;from <a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/index\/\">Stupid Evil Bastard<\/a><\/small><br \/> Hey! That&#8217;s today! Woot! All the beta folks have waxed lyrically over this. Glad to see it&#8217;s finally leaving beta. <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><a title=\"Surviving the unthinkable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/surviving_the_unthinkable\/\">Surviving the unthinkable<\/a>&nbsp;from <small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/index\/\">Decrepit Old Fool<\/a><\/small><br \/> When disaster strikes, getting information demonstrably improves survivability. So why do the experts and authorities simply urge people not to panic and just stand by for instructions?  <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From my Google Reader shared items (formatted a bit better than the last installment): There He Goes Again, Again &#8230;&nbsp;from Obsidian Wings John McCain talks a lot about &#8220;cap and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_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":[55,54,63,20,9,16,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging-technical","category-elections-2008","category-environment","category-hi-tech","category-politics-law","category-potpourri","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12233,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/06\/19\/potpourri_for_a_thursday.html","url_meta":{"origin":12240,"position":0},"title":"Potpourri for a Thursday morning","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 19-Jun-08 8:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Nibbles and bits from\u00a0my Google Reader Shared Items. 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