deleted George Orwell novels after a copyright dispute<\/a>.\u00a0 That was far more disturbing.\u00a0 After all, if you buy and download an e-book, don’t you own it?\u00a0 Amazon said at the time it wouldn’t do that again.<\/p>\nBut at any rate, if Amazon can reach into users’ Kindles to replace e-books via wireless, I have to assume Barnes & Noble can do the same thing for its Nookbook customers.\u00a0 I certainly expect them to … you see, I gave B&N $16.99 for the same book a few days before this story broke.<\/p>\n
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I posted this question to Google+ yesterday:<\/p>\n
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Increasingly, I feel this way about all<\/em> political news.\u00a0 With the exception of political news that makes a difference … the nomination of candidates by political parties, actual election results, etc … what we see night after night on TV and hear day after day on the radio is little more than a series of press releases put out by vested interests and duly passed on by the corporate media.\u00a0 This shit isn’t news.\u00a0 It’s stenography.<\/p>\nI’m starting to see bumper stickers saying “Turn off Fox.”\u00a0 That’s a laudable start, but it’s not enough.\u00a0 We need to also turn off NPR, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN.\u00a0 They’ve all sold out.\u00a0 Well, except maybe for Rachel Maddow.\u00a0 You have my permission to keep watching her show.<\/p>\n
When it comes to real news, it’s a do-it-yourself world.\u00a0 The internet gives us the resources we need to find real news.\u00a0 It’s up to us to learn how to use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m insanely jealous of a friend in Marin County who got serious about bicycling this year and lost all kinds of weight.\u00a0 So insanely jealous that I actually got on my bicycle this morning and rode 8.5 miles.\u00a0 A few months ago, before the summer heat descended upon Tucson, I’d been riding two to three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,18,16,2,8,6],"tags":[293,285,118,291,294,297,119,296,295,73,41,292],"class_list":["post-7698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bicycling","category-consumerism","category-media","category-personal","category-politics","category-a-series-of-tubes","tag-abc","tag-amazon","tag-barnes-noble","tag-bicycling-2","tag-cbs","tag-cnn","tag-kindle","tag-msnbc","tag-nbc","tag-nook","tag-npr","tag-walking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7698"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7709,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions\/7709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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I’m insanely jealous of a friend in Marin County who got serious about bicycling this year and lost all kinds of weight.\u00a0 So insanely jealous that I actually got on my bicycle this morning and rode 8.5 miles.\u00a0 A few months ago, before the summer heat descended upon Tucson, I’d been riding two to three times a week.\u00a0 Over the summer, though, I let it drop to once a week.\u00a0 Where I had been riding 12 to 16 miles every time I got on a bike, and sometimes into the mid-20s, lately I’ve let it drop to a range of 8 to 12.<\/p>\n