{"id":13077,"date":"2008-07-28T23:20:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T06:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/07\/28\/potpourri-on-a-warm-monday-night.html"},"modified":"2008-07-28T23:20:54","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T06:20:54","slug":"potpourri_on_a_warm_monda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/28\/potpourri_on_a_warm_monda.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri on a warm Monday night"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Good<\/p>\n

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  1. Font conference<\/a> – This is just kinda good geeky font-loving fun.<\/li>\n
  2. Popular boat names<\/a> – Many boat names are imaginative. These are not.<\/li>\n
  3. Art to last 10,000 years<\/a> – How do you make art that will last for a hundred centuries? it’s not easy.<\/li>\n
  4. 1960s ad for rice<\/a> – Mmmmm … rice.<\/li>\n
  5. Seven Facts About Our Internal Body Clock | Newsweek…<\/a> – Good to know.<\/li>\n
  6. Free Realms: Free Realms – The Best MMO At E3?<\/a> – Keeping my eyes on this one for Kitten.<\/li>\n
  7. Radley Balko: A Few Questions for Barack Obama<\/a> – As much as I am an Obama supporter, I think these questions are perfectly legit.<\/li>\n
  8. Obama on Firewalling Time to Think<\/a> – On the other hand … fatigue means mistakes, great and small. We can’t afford that with a president.<\/li>\n
  9. Freakazoid on DVD — yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes!<\/a> – Yes!<\/li>\n
  10. A Safer Gmail With Https<\/a> – Seriously considering this.<\/li>\n
  11. \u2026because the apocalypse doesn\u2019t have to be lonely.<\/a> – Hearts! Brains!<\/li>\n
  12. PRELUDIUM: All I want for Christmas is two tablets…<\/a> – I would so accept these as a gift.<\/li>\n
  13. The Sarah Jane Adventures DVD news: Announcement for…<\/a> – I enjoyed the ones of these I watched, and I think Katherine would enjoy them, too. DVD set sounds like a fine idea.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The Bad<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. Respectful Insolence: Oh no! My cell phone’s going…<\/a> … to kill you? No, really … it’s not.<\/li>\n
    2. The Hoax Photo Database<\/a> – Always useful to know.<\/li>\n
    3. A Tale of Two Press Biases<\/a> – This actually makes sense. Yes, the McCain camp is correct that Obama gets a lot more press coverage. Yes, the Obama camp is correct that McCain gets pass after pass on his gaffes and inconsistencies.<\/li>\n
    4. Fox TV news anchors enjoy plastic coffee<\/a> – To go with their content-free news.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      The Ugly<\/p>\n

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      1. Elderly woman prohibited from photographing empty…<\/a> – I feel safer knowing that elderly women photographing empty playgrounds are being forbidden from doing so because they may actually be pedophiles. Yup!<\/li>\n
      2. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell<\/a> – Of all the stupid policies whose time has come and gone …<\/li>\n
      3. Brides demand breast-surgery for their bridesmaids<\/a> – Mercifully, most bridesmaids are rejecting this particular insanity.<\/li>\n
      4. MPAA wants to randomly break your home theater depending…<\/a> – Because I want Paramount and Sony deciding which pieces of my home theater should be able to interact with their content. Right.<\/li>\n
      5. Why is the TSA taking out nipple rings and pantsing…<\/a> – Why? Because they can<\/em>.<\/li>\n
      6. Report: Former Justice Department officials broke…<\/a> and Report confirms politicization of the Justice Department.<\/a> – It’s not so much that there was at least some political bias in the selection of federal prosecutors and immigration judges. I mean, that sort of thing just tends to happen. My objection is that it was so shameless and blatant and stupid,<\/em> with no pretense as to trying to do the right thing. <\/li>\n
      7. John McCain tries very hard not to answer question…<\/a> and McCain Caves To Right Wing On Gay Adoption, Says Orphans…<\/a> – It’s unclear in this coverage whether McCain is trying to maneuver away from an impolitic answer, is trying to pander to too many constituencies, or is just too confused about his own stand on the subject to be coherent. None of these is a good thing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        The Good Font conference – This is just kinda good geeky font-loving fun. Popular boat names – Many boat names are imaginative. These are not. Art to last 10,000 years…<\/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":[35,43,54,66,38,12,22,70,17,25,14,28,41,47,65,9,16,40,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-media-tv-doctor-who","category-elections-2008","category-media-art","category-food-drink","category-fourth-estate","category-gaming","category-health-science","category-homeland-security","category-gay-stuff","category-love-and-marriage","category-media-moguls","category-media-movies","category-my-computer","category-my-mobile-pda","category-politics-law","category-potpourri","category-media-tv","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3075,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/08\/13\/bandheads.html","url_meta":{"origin":13077,"position":0},"title":"Bandheads","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Aug-02 10:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking to start a band, but stuck on a name? 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