{"id":16332,"date":"2009-12-01T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-12-02T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-01-december-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-12-01T17:00:46","modified_gmt":"2009-12-02T00:00:46","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-01-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-01-december-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 01 December 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:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/Tb2nivrL05Q\/microsoft-investigating-bsods-after-latest-patch-tuesday.ars\">Microsoft investigating B(lack)SODs after Windows patches<\/a> &#8211; Hmmm &#8230; not sure if this is part of what Margie was suffering over the weekend &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/11\/use-the-internet-to-subvert-bogus-best-buy-optimization-fees.html\">Use The Internet To Subvert Bogus Best Buy Optimization Fees<\/a> &#8211; As someone who got stung with an optimization fee from Best Buy last time around (grrr), this is a very interesting note.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/11\/new-study-suggests-drug-ads-ineffective-but-expensive-for-consumers.html\">New Study Suggests Drug Ads Ineffective, But Expensive For Consumers<\/a> &#8211; But, of course, since they can just pass along the cost, who cares?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/AtheistMedia\/~3\/PtX1mIeQDF8\/fox-news-dumbest-anti-atheist-question.html\">Fox News Dumbest Anti-Atheist Question of the Month?<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  Yeah, that was, in fact, pretty damned dumb.<\/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;. Microsoft investigating B(lack)SODs after Windows patches &#8211; Hmmm &#8230; not sure if this is part of what Margie was suffering over the weekend &#8230; Use The Internet To Subvert Bogus Best Buy Optimization Fees &#8211; As someone who got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-01-december-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 01 December 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-16332","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":16495,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/05\/sub-optimal-pc-optimization-at-best-buy.html","url_meta":{"origin":16332,"position":0},"title":"Sub-optimal PC optimization at Best Buy","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Jan-10 12:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Consumerist has an excellent analysis and (for the most part) take-down of Best Buy's \"optimization\" service for PCs.\u00a0 This is essentially where they go in and tweak your computer to make it faster, safer, and less irksome -- doing what an un-computer-savvy person might ask their geeky neighbor (or\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Big Business&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":40151,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/20\/on-the-optimization-of-charitable-giving.html","url_meta":{"origin":16332,"position":1},"title":"On the Optimization of Charitable Giving","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Dec-13 12:19pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, I admit, this thought did cross my mind during the whole Batkid foofoorah. \u00a0It's joyful to see a kid's dreams fulfilled, esp. a kid suffering from such an illness, and it was certainly heartwarming for all the participants and viewers -- but from a purely pragmatic basis (in terms\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15247,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/19\/best-buy-and-the-half-complete-computer.html","url_meta":{"origin":16332,"position":2},"title":"Best Buy and the Half-Complete Computer","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 19-Jul-09 4:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So I've been relatively pleased by Best Buy in years of late, enough so that I was willing to shop there for my new computer. 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