{"id":12548,"date":"2008-03-26T15:53:58","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T22:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/03\/26\/po-po-po-po-potpourri.html"},"modified":"2008-03-26T15:53:58","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T22:53:58","slug":"po_po_po_po_potpourri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/03\/26\/po_po_po_po_potpourri.html","title":{"rendered":"Po-po-po &#8230; po-potpourri &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/23\/weekinreview\/23sciolino.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">A guide to the French<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.godecookery.com\/how2cook\/howto04.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Inauthentic Medieval Food<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomicsbook.com\/gallery\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Freakonomics <\/em>book covers from around the world<\/a>. I&#8217;m amused by the subtle differences, and by the huge ones.<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/thetechdon.com\/40-of-all-spam-comes-from-just-one-source\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forty percent of spam comes from one source<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20080323-evidence-mounting-windows-7-going-modular-subscription.html\" target=\"_blank\">Modular Windows<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2008\/03\/colbert-and-kam.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dean Kamen&#8217;s amazing water machine<\/a>. I saw this on Colbert. Hopefully this won&#8217;t be another Segway (as cool as the Segway remains).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guide to the French. Inauthentic Medieval Food. Freakonomics book covers from around the world. I&#8217;m amused by the subtle differences, and by the huge ones. Forty percent of&#8230;<\/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":"","_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":[36,38,10,20,16,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-books","category-food-drink","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-hi-tech","category-potpourri","category-spam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11473,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/20\/potpourri_for_the_feast_o-8.html","url_meta":{"origin":12548,"position":0},"title":"Potpourri for the Feast of St Bernard of Clairvaux","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Aug-07 11:50am","format":false,"excerpt":"\u00a0 Who was St Bernard of Clairvaux?\u00a0 See also. 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