{"id":12466,"date":"2008-04-24T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T17:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/04\/24\/potpourri-on-arbor-day-eve.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T12:25:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T18:25:27","slug":"potpourri_on_arbor_day_ev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/24\/potpourri_on_arbor_day_ev.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri on Arbor Day Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com\/8301-13578_3-9924361-38.html?tag=ne.fd.mnbc\">Shamos: Why e-voting paper trails are a bad idea | The Iconoclast &#8211; politics, law, and technology &#8211; CNET News.com<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Are e-voting paper trails actually useful, or desirable? I think what the whole e-voting thang has raised is how secure (or insecure) our voting process is, and what risks we need to take (and which we need to work on reducing).<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/04\/18\/style\/18divorce.html?ex=1366257600&amp;en=48b74d9f06a61cbd&amp;ei=5124&amp;partner=permalink&amp;exprod=permalink\">When the Ex Blogs, the Dirtiest Laundry Is Aired &#8211; New York Times<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s a good thing, or a bad thing, that my divorce from Cheryl was in pre-blogging days.<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvshowsondvd.com\/news\/Superman-Aquaman-Hour-Adventure-DC-Super-Heroes-Filmation-Advs\/9445\">The Superman\/Aquaman Hour of Adventure DVD news: Announcement for DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures | TVShowsOnDVD.com<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; This makes me sooooooo happy! The SAHoA was dearly beloved by me as a child &#8212; esp. for all the non-Superman\/Aquaman bits, which is what this DVD set will collect. Glee!<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/bmwsporttouring.com\/ubbthreads\/showflat.php?Cat=0&amp;Board=UBB11&amp;Number=1016238&amp;page=0&amp;fpart=all\">BMWSportTouring Forums: Space Shuttle Processing: Rarely seen by the general public<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; How to assemble a space shuttle for lauch. Cool. <small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geekpress.com\/2008\/04\/terrific-photos-of-space-shuttle.html\" target=\"_blank\">GeekPress<\/a>)<\/small> <\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artofthetitle.com\/\">The Art of the Title Sequence<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; This looks like an extraordinarily cool site, looking at TV\/movie title sequence. Pretty. <small>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/04\/15394.html\" target=\"_blank\">kottke<\/a>)<\/small> <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shamos: Why e-voting paper trails are a bad idea | The Iconoclast &#8211; politics, law, and technology &#8211; CNET News.com&nbsp;&#8211; Are e-voting paper trails actually useful, or desirable? I&#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":[45,3,852,14,15,9,16,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-cartoons","category-blogging","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-love-and-marriage","category-media","category-politics-law","category-potpourri","category-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12541,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/potpourri_on_a_friday_aft.html","url_meta":{"origin":12466,"position":0},"title":"Potpourri on a Friday afternoon","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Mar-08 2:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Mysterious Case of Ohio's Voting Machines | Threat Level from Wired.com\u00a0- e-voting \"irregularities\" may be a lot easier than normal voting, but they tend to be (so far)...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2008&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2008","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2008"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12788,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/26\/potpourri_on_a_tgif.html","url_meta":{"origin":12466,"position":1},"title":"Potpourri on a TGIF","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 26-Sep-08 3:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"STUFF TO MAKE YOU GRUMBLE Britain will make foreigners carry RFID identity cards...\u00a0- Cory Doctorow on the slow but steady transmutation of Britain into a controlled society. Countdown to Suspension...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Cars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Cars","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/cars"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11335,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/19\/voting_rights_redux.html","url_meta":{"origin":12466,"position":2},"title":"Voting Rights Redux","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Sep-07 2:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Senate GOP minority blocked (through filibuster threat) a move to give District of Columbia residents congressional representation through some crazy-ass arrangement splitting the representation with Utah (the idea being...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":39574,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/11\/05\/a-voting-holiday.html","url_meta":{"origin":12466,"position":3},"title":"A Voting Holiday","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Nov-13 9:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"It strikes me as odd that Election Day* is not a paid national holiday.I mean, really -- it's at least as important, as a civil society, as the other \"national \u00a0holiday\" dates. \u00a0And providing it as a holiday would remove a lot of the brouhaha over early voting and polling\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11179,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/03\/22\/voting_rights.html","url_meta":{"origin":12466,"position":4},"title":"Voting rights","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-Mar-07 3:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"In principle, I agree with with the move to allow some sort of national representation to the residents of the District of Columbia. \u00a0Historically I understand why that's not the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":11236,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/16\/potpourri_for_the_feast_o.html","url_meta":{"origin":12466,"position":5},"title":"Potpourri for the Feast of St. Gerard Majella","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 16-Oct-07 10:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Tabs are getting full again ... Who was St Gerard Majella? Though this article focuses on Mormons vs non-Mormons, I think it has a lot to say about discussion of...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466","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=12466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50641,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12466\/revisions\/50641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}