{"id":12743,"date":"2008-10-06T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T02:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/10\/06\/potpourri-for-a-monday-night.html"},"modified":"2008-10-06T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-07T02:35:10","slug":"potpourri_for_a_monday_ni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/10\/06\/potpourri_for_a_monday_ni.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for a Monday night"},"content":{"rendered":"

THESE MAKE ME SAD<\/p>\n

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  1. Ill-advised movie sequels<\/a> – “Ill-advised” as in “crime against humanity.” Or at least “against culture.”<\/li>\n
  2. Schneier on Security: Hand Grenades as Weapons of Mass Destruction<\/a> – The devaluation of the term “weapons of mass destruction.” Read the comments for actual legal definitions — yeesh!<\/li>\n
  3. The problem with the one-eye veil for women, and a…<\/a> – The willingness of ideologues to tromp on any semblance of human liberty in order to make people comply with their beliefs never fails to amaze (and disgust) me.<\/li>\n
  4. Nick Reynolds, RIP – Boing Boing<\/a> – The short member of the Kingston Trio.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    THESE MAKE ME THOUGHTFUL<\/p>\n

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    1. Who is “essential” during a pandemic?<\/a> – Clearly the societal necessity of IT Directors has been greatly underestimated.<\/li>\n
    2. Save a Tree – Shrink Your Sunday Bulletin<\/a> – I can’t imagine doing a full-up service bulletin with all the text each week. That would be incredibly wasteful. We don’t force people to flip back and forth within the BCP, but we do create season service booklets that are used for 2-3 months.<\/li>\n
    3. Bush’s sad finale | Reaping the whirlwind | The Economist<\/a> – When The Economist <\/em>proclaims your conservative presidency a failure, that’s pretty darned sad … for you. (And, I suppose, for the rest of us as innocent bystanders.)<\/li>\n
    4. What’s missing from the oldest Bible<\/a> – Pish-tosh — we all <\/em>know the King James Bible is the final, ultimate, perfectly revealed Word of God, right?<\/li>\n
    5. The J-Walk Blog: Christ As Magician<\/a> – An interesting archaeological find, though not particularly decision-making in in particular directoin.<\/li>\n
    6. Pam’s House Blend:: Gay or queer?<\/a> – Um, you people settle it amongst yourselves and send me the memo. Meantime, I’ll try not to be linguistically offensive while writing in support of your rights.<\/li>\n
    7. 317 – Tea As A North\/South Litmus Test \u00ab Strange Maps<\/a> – If it weren’t for slavery, I’ve little doubt that Sweet Tea would have been the eventual cause of a civil war.<\/li>\n
    8. Obsidian Wings: Mark To Market<\/a> – What I don’t understand about the current financial crisis could fill a book (or twelve), but this is an interesting article about “mark to market” vs “mark to model” asset pricing. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      THESE MAKE ME HAPPY<\/p>\n

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      1. Barbarian Class Playtest<\/a> – Wait! I already have characters figured out! No fair introducing new D&D 4E classes!<\/li>\n
      2. Simon Says\u2026<\/a> – A clever way to deal with NPC generation in a game.<\/li>\n
      3. Bailout Provides More Mental Health Coverage – NYTimes.com<\/a> – Okay, earmarks = bad. But that they were able to slip this into the bailout bill is both remarkable and, I’ll say, a net gain.<\/li>\n
      4. a new twist on alternate energy<\/a> – Coolness. At least until Homeowner Associations get wind of it (so to speak) and ban them.<\/li>\n
      5. A Is For Alignment: The Geek Alphabet<\/a> – Probably a scosh sophisticated for folks who really need ABCs, but still cool.<\/li>\n
      6. 314 – Watch the Road: World\u2019s Earliest SatNav \u00ab Strange Maps<\/a> – Way too cool — I’m surprised that Lord Peter Wimsey didn’t have one of these.<\/li>\n
      7. 318 – The Semicolonial State of San Serriffe \u00ab Strange Maps<\/a> – A greatly amusing story.<\/li>\n
      8. Document sans nom<\/a> – Helvetica Monopoly<\/li>\n
      9. Texting drives viewing of subtitled movies?<\/a> – An interesting idea — texting is making subtitles more acceptible, as are CNN-style TV tickers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        THESE MAKE ME SAD Ill-advised movie sequels – “Ill-advised” as in “crime against humanity.” Or at least “against culture.” Schneier on Security: Hand Grenades as Weapons of Mass Destruction – The devaluation…<\/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":[38,22,7,20,17,41,42,57,23,9,16,27,26,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-drink","category-gaming","category-health","category-hi-tech","category-homeland-security","category-media-movies","category-media-music","category-religion-my-parish","category-parenting","category-politics-law","category-potpourri","category-religion","category-travel","category-writing-and-language","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8975,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/03\/13\/asking_for_trou.html","url_meta":{"origin":12743,"position":0},"title":"Asking for trouble","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 13-Mar-06 5:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Doyce provides today's nomination for most ill-advised vanity plate. 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