{"id":18993,"date":"2010-10-23T05:31:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T11:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/23\/unblogged-bits-sat-23-oct-10-0531.html"},"modified":"2010-10-23T05:31:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T11:31:29","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-23-oct-10-0531","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/23\/unblogged-bits-sat-23-oct-10-0531.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 23-Oct-10 0531)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Laying the groundwork for future obstinacy<\/a> – “Eleven days before Election Day, high-profile Republicans want Americans to know that a vote for the GOP is a vote against compromise, against bipartisan agreements, and against powerful officials working together with a sense of common purpose.”<\/li>\n
  2. Amazon Will Let You Loan Kindle Books To A Friend \u2014 But Publishers Can Turn It Off<\/a> – Remember, with the Kindle, publishers and Amazon own your books. You just get to use them. Kind of.<\/li>\n
  3. Rove In 2004: Influence Of \u2018Billionaires Who Write The Checks Give Me Some Concern\u2019<\/a> – I’m shocked, shocked to discover that Karl Rove is a flaming hypocrite.<\/li>\n
  4. Halogen-CFL Hybrid Light Bulb Gets Instant Full Brightness [Lighting]<\/a> – Excellent. We’ve replaced most of our home bulbs with CFLs, but there are definitely spots where the lag in brightness is a distinct problem.<\/li>\n
  5. Telefuture: ’80s NBC news segment on future of TV technologies<\/a> – It’s futuristic!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Laying the groundwork for future obstinacy – “Eleven days before Election Day, high-profile Republicans want Americans to know that a vote for the GOP is a vote against compromise, against bipartisan agreements, and against powerful officials working together with … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 23-Oct-10 0531)”<\/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-18993","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":18993,"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. But ... what if Amazon instead also sold Kindle downloads of books as a surcharge to hardcopies.\u00a0\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Amazon-Kindle2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":15228,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/17\/why-i-wont-be-buying-a-kindle.html","url_meta":{"origin":18993,"position":1},"title":"Why I won’t be buying a Kindle","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 17-Jul-09 3:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I really want the Kindle to be as cool as it seems. 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Screen Savers First, I went ahead and hacked my Kindle to support my own set of screen savers.\u00a0 So far it hasn't burst into flames, and I'm happy with the new\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Books"","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":30574,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/13\/now-theres-a-class-action-refundy-kind-of-thing-ill-actually-benefit-f.html","url_meta":{"origin":18993,"position":3},"title":"Now there's a class action refundy kind of thing I'll actually benefit f…","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 13-Oct-12 10:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Now there's a class action refundy kind of thing I'll actually benefit fromMoney back into my Amazon account for overcharged price fixing. \u00a0Awesome. \u00a0And the ironically best part is, those same publishers will probably get it back in future purchases.Reshared post from +Donald MclaughlinThere goes that evil government again... forcing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15249,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/19\/more-on-amazons-orwellian-erasure-of-orwell.html","url_meta":{"origin":18993,"position":4},"title":"More on Amazon’s Orwellian erasure of … Orwell","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 19-Jul-09 5:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So much discussion and kerfuffle over Amazon deleting from Kindle accounts\u00a0(with refund) some books which they'd sold to people (copies of 1984 and Animal Farm). 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