{"id":15476,"date":"2009-08-01T18:01:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-02T00:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-01-august-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-08-01T18:01:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-02T00:01:15","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-saturday-01-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-01-august-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 01 August 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/07\/ridley_scott_to_direct_least_interesting_alien_fil.php\">Ridley Scott to Direct Least Interesting Alien Film Possible<\/a> &#8211; Aliens are a lot more interesting than their origin. Really.  We don&#8217;t need this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/DJOLeUH31LE\/high-school-student-1.html\">High school student suing Amazon over book-deletions which rendered his  study-notes useless<\/a> &#8211; Nice!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/oVxmMnZ8wRg\/music-downloads-offe.html\">Music downloads offered on Chinese military&#8217;s new website<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;s interesting.  And tempting.  On the other hand, downloads from a Chinese government site &#8230; hmmm &#8230; what else might slip in at the same time?  And I&#8217;m not talking about melamine here &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/dtk_jul09\/\">Distrusting the Kindle<\/a> &#8211; As DOF notes, Amazon has gotten tremendously popular via the user resale of used books &#8212; something that, ironically, Kindle doesn&#8217;t allow.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. Ridley Scott to Direct Least Interesting Alien Film Possible &#8211; Aliens are a lot more interesting than their origin. Really. We don&#8217;t need this. High school student suing Amazon over book-deletions which rendered his study-notes useless &#8211; Nice! Music &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-01-august-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 01 August 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-15476","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":915,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/02\/one_ringy_dingy.html","url_meta":{"origin":15476,"position":0},"title":"One ringy-dingy","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Nov-01 11:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"ZDNet News also notes that ASCAP and other music copyright holding organizations are beginning to crack down on cell phone ring tone downloads. 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