{"id":14144,"date":"2009-03-12T22:36:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T04:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-13-march-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-03-12T22:36:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T04:36:17","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-13-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-13-march-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 13 March 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/5mMzPW6idL8\/amazon-misusing-dmca.html\">Amazon Misusing DMCA to Block Non-Amazon Book Buying for Kindle?<\/a><br \/>While conceptually I still have doubts about the Kindle, my gravest concern is with Amazon&#8217;s DRM surrounding it, and the &#8220;trust us, you can store your books on our servers&#8221; nature of not really owning what you&#8217;ve bought.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/161047\/people_search_engines_safety_tips.html?tk=rss_howto\">People Search Engines: Slam the Door on What Info They Can Collect &#8211; PC World<\/a><br \/>If this is something you&#8217;re concerned about &#8212; here are some things you can do about it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.undispatch.com\/node\/7837\">Congress Reverses Bush-era Policy on the International Criminal Court | UN Dispatch<\/a><br \/>I do agree that there are risks involved in signing up for this sort of thing &#8212; but these sorts of side-deals are tawdry and unworthy of us.  Glad to see it&#8217;s finally outta there.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/03\/12\/ingraham-meghan-mccain\/\">Laura Ingraham mocks Meghan McCain as being \u2018plus-sized.\u2019<\/a><br \/>Wow!  What a class act!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230; Amazon Misusing DMCA to Block Non-Amazon Book Buying for Kindle?While conceptually I still have doubts about the Kindle, my gravest concern is with Amazon&#8217;s DRM surrounding it, and the &#8220;trust us, you can store your books on our servers&#8221; nature of not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-13-march-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 13 March 2009&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17693,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/30\/a-kindle-thought.html","url_meta":{"origin":14144,"position":0},"title":"A Kindle thought","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 30-Jun-10 7:13am","format":false,"excerpt":"There are definitely times (my recent business trip\/vacation) when a Kindle would be handy.\u00a0 But all the practical and pragmatic problems I have with the device and its utilization and DRM still remain. 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