{"id":13918,"date":"2009-02-25T20:29:35","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T03:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=13918"},"modified":"2014-11-06T07:33:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T14:33:55","slug":"potpourri-for-25-alex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/02\/25\/potpourri-for-25-alex.html","title":{"rendered":"Potpourri for $25, Alex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sundry articles of diverse origin which I’ve insufficient time to chat about individually.<\/p>\n

SERIOUS STUFF<\/p>\n

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  1. The Velvet Reformation – The Atlantic (March 2009)<\/a> – The Archbishop of Canterbury, the gay rights debate, and the future of the Anglican Church. A fascinating read.<\/li>\n
  2. Pam’s House Blend:: Hawaii Civil Unions Bill Senate JGO Hearing – my personal aftermath<\/a> – A disgusting example of how far some ostensible followers of Jesus are from “And they will know we are Christians by our love.” Hideous.<\/li>\n
  3. Heath Ledger Fans Call for Joker’s Retirement From Film | The Underwire from Wired.com<\/a> – I don’t care how fine a job Heather Ledger did — this is just silly, but in a very sad way.<\/li>\n
  4. Personal Health – Babies Know – A Little Dirt Is Good for You – NYTimes.com<\/a> – From bumping up the immune system to getting worms, a bit of non-sterility is good for a body.<\/li>\n
  5. Think Progress \u00bb Bailed-out bank eliminated 450 jobs and then spent millions on lavish parties in LA.<\/a> – These guys really, really, really don’t realize how close-by the angry mobs with torches and pitchforks are lurking. They seem obliviously tied to an internal culture of entitlement.<\/li>\n
  6. Family planning stops more than 800,000 abortions :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation<\/a> – But, of course, it’s evil because it encourages promiscuity. Or some lame argument like that.<\/li>\n
  7. Evolution of Security: 3 oz or 3.4 oz? What gives???<\/a> – It’s all those crazy “metric-mania” Europeans who have weakened our country by a precious 0.4 oz.\/bottle! Evil! Eeeeevil!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    FUN STUFF<\/p>\n

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    1. 140 Characters \u00bb How Twitter Was Born<\/a> – Far less intentional, far more interesting than you’d think.<\/li>\n
    2. Petzal: The Rules of Gunfighting | Field & Stream<\/a> – Words to, um, live by.<\/li>\n
    3. Joss Whedon\u2019s Theory On Why DC Comic Book Movies Usually Suck | \/Film<\/a> – Maybe so … but DCU cartoons kick Marvel cartoons’ butts all around the playground.<\/li>\n
    4. Don\u2019t Fear Atheists; We\u2019re the New Lutherans | Friendly Atheist by Hemant Mehta<\/a> – In many ways, that’s true, in terms of provoking Christians\/theists into examining and revitalizing their own belief systems. Though I’m hoping they’ll be more like the Lake Wobegone Lutherans, and less like the anti-semitic Martin Luther kind of Lutherans.<\/li>\n
    5. Rands In Repose: A Disclosure<\/a> – A great introduction to changing from being a worker to a manager. I remember going thorough a lot of these stages, though my management promotion changed the IT area I was working in.<\/li>\n
    6. Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering<\/a> – How comic book word balloons work. Spiffy!<\/li>\n
    7. IESB.net – Sam Jackson Will Be Nick Fury…Nine Times!<\/a> – Woot!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      And, via Kate, the excellent How to Get Boys to Like You:<\/em> <\/p>\n

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      Sundry articles of diverse origin which I’ve insufficient time to chat about individually. SERIOUS STUFF The Velvet Reformation – The Atlantic (March 2009) – The Archbishop of Canterbury, the gay rights debate, and the future of the Anglican Church. A fascinating read. Pam’s House Blend:: Hawaii Civil Unions Bill Senate JGO Hearing – my personal aftermath – … Continue reading “Potpourri for $25, Alex”<\/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":[3,11,77,64,70,17,21,25,14,718,41,23,75,16,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-media-comics","category-economy","category-religion-episcopal-church","category-health-science","category-homeland-security","category-job-jollies","category-gay-stuff","category-love-and-marriage","category-marriage-equality","category-media-movies","category-parenting","category-media-performers","category-potpourri","category-religion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135572,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/12\/08\/potpourri-500-alex.html","url_meta":{"origin":13918,"position":0},"title":"Potpourri for $500, Alex!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 8-Dec-17 6:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"[Originally posted last Friday.] 1. 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