{"id":12541,"date":"2008-03-28T14:31:11","date_gmt":"2008-03-28T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/03\/28\/potpourri-on-a-friday-afternoon.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:24:40","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:24:40","slug":"potpourri_on_a_friday_aft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/28\/potpourri_on_a_friday_aft.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri on a Friday afternoon"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. The Mysterious Case of Ohio’s Voting Machines | Threat Level from Wired.com<\/a> – e-voting “irregularities” may be a lot easier than normal voting, but they tend to be (so far) more obvious than “old school” voter fraud. Speaking of which (and I’m sure you’ll find this shocking): Whistleblower: Voting Machine Company Lied to Election Officials About Reliability of Machines | Threat Level from Wired.com<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Five Things We’ve Learned From D&D from 1UP.com<\/a> – The influence of D&D on Video Games.<\/li>\n
  3. Obama on \u2018Renewing the American Economy\u2019 – New York Times<\/a> – Inspirational and erudite? Yeesh. I can’t imagine either Clinton or McCain talking about economic renewal and regulatory reform by putting it into an historical context.<\/li>\n
  4. YouTube – Under the Tusken Sun<\/a> – Star Wars<\/em> fun in the sun!<\/li>\n
  5. Anti-Emo Riots Break Out Across Mexico | The Underwire from Wired.com<\/a> – Anti … emo <\/em>… riots?<\/li>\n
  6. Earth Hour US – Earth Hour 2008<\/a> – Turn off your lights for an hour on Saturday night at 8 p.m. Doesn’t say anything about turning off the computer or TV …<\/li>\n
  7. Restaurant Names<\/a> – Amusing restaurant names, that is. Or, rather, an academic paper about amusing restaurant names.<\/li>\n
  8. Speed Racer trailers and video clips on Yahoo! Movies<\/a> – Go, Speed Racer, Go!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Mysterious Case of Ohio’s Voting Machines | Threat Level from Wired.com – e-voting “irregularities” may be a lot easier than normal voting, but they tend to be (so far)…<\/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":[54,22,20,42,9,16,72,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2008","category-gaming","category-hi-tech","category-media-music","category-politics-law","category-potpourri","category-food-drink-restaurants","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30673,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/18\/theres-more-than-one-way-to-suppress-a-voter.html","url_meta":{"origin":12541,"position":0},"title":"There's more than one way to suppress a voter","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Oct-12 9:07am","format":false,"excerpt":"Dragged kicking and screaming by two federal court decisions (and a rejection from SCOTUS) to reinstate rull early voting for all voters, Ohio GOP Secretary of State John Husted is playing around with the hours of early voting centers to make it more difficult to find out when voting is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29871,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/16\/a-level-if-low-playing-field-in-ohio.html","url_meta":{"origin":12541,"position":1},"title":"A level, if low, playing field in Ohio","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 16-Aug-12 9:56pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ohio's popular early voting law -- a response to major crowds and difficulty getting into vote in 2004 -- was done away with earlier this year. 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Anticipate starting to see \"licensing\" agreements in books, on DVD\/Blu-Rays\/CDs, video games, and anything else where\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Potpourri"","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541","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=12541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46910,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12541\/revisions\/46910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}