{"id":13124,"date":"2008-07-16T06:04:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T13:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/07\/16\/potpourri-early-on-wednesday-morning.html"},"modified":"2008-07-16T06:04:13","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T13:04:13","slug":"potpourri_early_on_wednes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/16\/potpourri_early_on_wednes.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri early on Wednesday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m playing with some different ideas of how to break up these potpourri posts &#8212; which seem to have become a large percentage of what I&#8217;m putting out here, unfortunately.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/small>The serious stuff: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a title=\"The Fiscal Fairy\" href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/07\/the-fiscal-fair.html\">The Fiscal Fairy<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; How McCain&#8217;s numbers don&#8217;t add up. (Yeah, most&nbsp;like Obama&#8217;s numbers don&#8217;t add up, either, but McCain portrays himself as a fiscal conservative, which makes him a bigger target for calculations that go beyond fuzzy into tattered.)<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"More Inhumanity\" href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/07\/more-inhumanity.html\">More Inhumanity<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Yes, I feel much, much safer, knowing that institutionalized American torture of prisoners is the true legacy of Bush&#8217;s War on Terror.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Viacom Letter to EFF re Google\/YouTube Data Privacy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2008\/07\/viacom-letter-eff-re-google-youtube-data-privacy\">Viacom Letter to EFF re Google\/YouTube Data Privacy<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Viacom and Google have reached an agreement on anonymizing and securing the YouTube viewing data that a court ordered the latter to hand over to the former.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"You Bought It, But You Don't Own It\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2008\/07\/you-bought-it-you-dont-own-it\">You Bought It, But You Don&#8217;t Own It<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Ruling in the WOW case. See, you have no rights if it&#8217;s a software <em>license<\/em>, not something you actually <em>bought and own<\/em>. What makes it a license? Why, the publisher saying so, natch.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The not-so-serious stuff:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a title=\"Smaug: the Diary of a 30th Level Minion\" href=\"http:\/\/thegametable.wordpress.com\/2008\/07\/14\/smaug-the-diary-of-a-30th-level-minion\/\">Smaug: the Diary of a 30th Level Minion<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Actually, while counter-intuitive, it makes tremendous cinematic sense in a game.<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"Woman struck by lightning while shooting video\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/%7Er\/boingboing\/iBag\/%7E3\/336364565\/woman-struck-by-ligh.html\">Woman struck by lightning while shooting video<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Yikes!<\/li>\n<li> <a title=\"N&amp;Ns\" href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2008\/07\/nns.html\">N&amp;Ns<\/a>&nbsp;&#8211; Oh, my, this does create some possibilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m playing with some different ideas of how to break up these potpourri posts &#8212; which seem to have become a large percentage of what I&#8217;m putting out here, unfortunately.&nbsp;&#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":[35,54,38,22,10,17,28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-business","category-elections-2008","category-food-drink","category-gaming","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-homeland-security","category-media-moguls","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135572,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/08\/potpourri-500-alex.html","url_meta":{"origin":13124,"position":0},"title":"Potpourri for $500, Alex!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Dec-17 6:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"[Originally posted last Friday.] 1. 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