{"id":22787,"date":"2011-09-25T11:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T17:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/unblogged-bits-sun-25-sep-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-09-25T11:30:33","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T17:30:33","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-25-sep-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/unblogged-bits-sun-25-sep-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 25-Sep-11 1130)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/A61XEfYhnUU\/305deduction.1.html\">Tax Break &#8211; Who Needs the Mortgage-Interest Deduction? &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Probably one of the more coherent analyses of this suggested change I&#8217;ve read.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/0ysxajYr-Ys\/study-patent-trolls-have-cost-innovators-half-a-trillion-bucks.ars\">Study: patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars<\/a> &#8211; As civilization feeds upon itself &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/HT-Yo1llYnQ\/la-he-teen-driver-laws-20110914,0,7056006.story\">Teen driver laws are mixed on curbing fatal crashes &#8211; latimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Not terribly surprising. The answer, to the extent that there is an answer, will be to recommend \/ encourage \/ support teens taking the driving training when they&#8217;re still in the younger range, rather than having them be driving noobs at 18.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/TwGnwbPG3t0\/\">Facebook Ticker: Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s terrible plan to get us to share everything we do on the Web. &#8211; By Farhad Manjoo &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; there&#8217;s a lot of stuff I run across on the Web that I don&#8217;t want to share &#8212; not because I&#8217;m embarrassed about it (usually), but because it&#8217;s just not worth sharing. Not every YouTube video I watch on someone&#8217;s recommendation is worth <b>my<\/b> recommendation.  I think I get something of the idea here, but I think it just cranks up the noise at the expense of the signal.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/iSEpOFuP99Q\/\">Ain\u2019t No Science Fiction, Suspended Animation Is FDA Approved and Heading To Clinical Trials<\/a> &#8211; Cool!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/6F1YdzFMJWw\/the-food-lab-drinks-edition-is-mexican-coke-better-than-regular-coke-coke-taste-test-coke-vs-mexican-coke.html\">The Food Lab, Drinks Edition: Is Mexican Coke Better? | Serious Eats: Drinks<\/a> &#8211; Some interesting results here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/CyTYs5D5I-c\/Article.aspx\">&#8216;US budget cuts won&#8217;t affect mili&#8230; JPost &#8211; Diplomacy &amp; Politics<\/a> &#8211; Whew. Thank goodness we have those budget priorities in order.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\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;. Tax Break &#8211; Who Needs the Mortgage-Interest Deduction? &#8211; NYTimes.com &#8211; Probably one of the more coherent analyses of this suggested change I&#8217;ve read. Study: patent trolls have cost innovators half a trillion dollars &#8211; As civilization feeds upon &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/09\/25\/unblogged-bits-sun-25-sep-11-1130.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Sun. 25-Sep-11 1130)&#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-22787","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":43149,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/20\/answer-carefully.html","url_meta":{"origin":22787,"position":0},"title":"Answer carefully","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Jun-14 9:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"Heh.Reshared post from +Carlo Landzaat View this post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/top-50-funny-science-pictures07.jpg.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":128445,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/27\/siri-will-answer-any-question-for-the-right-price.html","url_meta":{"origin":22787,"position":1},"title":"Siri will answer any question &#8230; for the right price","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 27-Oct-15 5:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Really, Apple?(By the way, \"Okay, Google\" answers the question just fine, routing over to Wikipedia and pulling up the appropriate page. 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