{"id":1385,"date":"2010-07-27T12:08:08","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T16:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1385"},"modified":"2010-07-27T12:21:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T16:21:18","slug":"odd-lots-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1385","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul>\n<li>Everyone&#8217;s talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/1201\/\">a recent Copyright Office ruling<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/07\/26\/library-of-congress-adds-dmca-exception-for-jailbreaking-or-root\/\">jailbreaking of smartphones is no longer illegal<\/a>, but few have mentioned that several other significant exceptions to the DMCA&#8217;s anticircumvention provisions have been issued in the same ruling. Most interesting to me are limitations on ebook DRM where they prevent audio interpretation of texts from working.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/popularelectronics.wordpress.com\/\">Could <em>Popular Electronics<\/em> be returning?<\/a> Let us pray. (And thanks to Don Lancaster for the link.)<\/li>\n<li>Carol and I have begun avoiding movies in 3D. They give her headaches and they make me seasick. I thought it was just us being weird, but <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5592956\/is-3d-already-dying\">there&#8217;s some evidence that 3D isn&#8217;t the crowdpleaser that everybody (especially in Hollywood) thinks it is<\/a>. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/6952352\/Do-3D-films-make-you-sick.html\">some explanation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And even the 2D movies we&#8217;ve seen recently seem excessively loud. <a href=\"http:\/\/abclocal.go.com\/wtvd\/story?section=news&amp;id=5787902\">We may not be imagining things<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2010\/07\/27\/interpads-10-inch-tegra-2-toting-android-tablet-may-make-german\/\">A new dual-core Android-based tablet<\/a> by an otherwise unknown German firm is really calling to me. We may not see this one here for awhile (if ever) but if it&#8217;s evidence of an evolutionary explosion in Android tablets, I&#8217;m good with that. Ours will arrive eventually.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve always been taken aback by the near-psychotic venom with which certain people treat an informal, likeable little font called <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comic_Sans\">Comic Sans<\/a>. Scan the Internet and you&#8217;ll get a sense for what I mean. From ten steps back it looks like a tribal identity thing: You <em>must<\/em> slander Comic Sans to prove that you&#8217;re a member of the tribe, especially if you&#8217;re insecure about your membership. Secure people just keep their mouths shut and use something else.<\/li>\n<li>The little red guy running with a hatchet (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=1339\">my entry for June 27, 2010<\/a>) appears to be the logo of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psychopathicrecords.com\/index1.html\">Psychopathic Records<\/a>, not the Insane Clown Posse band itself, granting that the label was founded by the Insane Clowns and is probably owned by them. (Thanks to Ricky C on LiveJournal for the tipoff.)<\/li>\n<li>I solved another band logo question with the help of Google&#8217;s new output format for their Images search. Carol and I saw a band logo that resembled a bright red ballet dancer, apparently headless. I typed &#8220;red dancer band logo&#8221; into Images and there it was, an emblem of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davematthewsband.com\/\">Dave Matthews Band<\/a>. I&#8217;m starting to like the new Google Images search output because it allows me to scan more images at once, rather than page repeatedly through a more limited matrix. This isn&#8217;t always useful, but I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s useful more often than not.<\/li>\n<li>Bicyclists in NYC <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2010\/07\/sweater_bike.html\">seem to be preparing early for the coming Ice Age<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone&#8217;s talking about a recent Copyright Office ruling that jailbreaking of smartphones is no longer illegal, but few have mentioned that several other significant exceptions to the DMCA&#8217;s anticircumvention provisions have been issued in the same ruling. 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