{"id":623,"date":"2002-07-16T05:12:55","date_gmt":"2002-07-16T19:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/16\/this-doesnt-inspire-confidence\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:47:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:47:05","slug":"this-doesnt-inspire-confidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/07\/16\/this-doesnt-inspire-confidence\/","title":{"rendered":"This doesn&#8217;t inspire confidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16021,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.uspto.gov\\\/web\\\/offices\\\/ac\\\/ahrpa\\\/opa\\\/pulse\\\/epulse\\\/pulse0204_home.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20041101222557\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www1.uspto.gov\\\/web\\\/offices\\\/ac\\\/ahrpa\\\/opa\\\/pulse\\\/epulse\\\/pulse0204_home.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 03:11:27&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 12:36:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 17:54:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 06:22:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-06 10:37:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-06 10:37:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16022,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net\\\/2002_07_01_archive.html#85254223&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20110629075525\\\/http:\\\/\\\/boingboing.net:80\\\/2002_07_01_archive.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 03:11:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 15:51:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 17:54:33&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 06:22:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-05-02 06:22:22&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20021112215920\/www.uspto.gov\/web\/offices\/ac\/ahrpa\/opa\/pulse\/epulse\/images\/april\/homelandsecurity.gif\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" align=\"left\" \/>Is it just me, or does the fact that this image comes directly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/web\/offices\/ac\/ahrpa\/opa\/pulse\/epulse\/pulse0204_home.htm\" title=\"US Patent and Trademark Office\">a US government website<\/a> looking at patents and trademarks related to &#8216;Homeland Security&#8217; not make me feel comfortable?<\/p>\n<p>The more I read about this, the more paranoid I get &#8212; and now we&#8217;ve got a gov&#8217;t webpage coming up with logos featuring eyes peeking through keyholes against a Stars-and-Stripes background?!? Eeeek.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2002_07_01_archive.html#85254223\" title=\"Scary Gov't Logo\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it just me, or does the fact that this image comes directly from a US government website looking at patents and trademarks related to &#8216;Homeland Security&#8217; not make me feel comfortable?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}