{"id":14239,"date":"2009-03-17T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-17-march-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-03-17T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T00:00:21","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-17-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-17-march-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 17 March 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/when-immigration-law-and-christian-victimization-collide\">When Immigration Law and Christian Victimization Collide: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/tpmelectioncentral\/~3\/FakL_e0Q4zs\/house-republicans-to-force-geithners-hand-on-aig-negotiations.php\">House Republicans To Force Geithner&#8217;s Hand on AIG Negotiations: Elana Schor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/lWgx155FwRU\/audioclips-of-bill-o.html\">Audioclips of Bill O&#8217;Reilly reading his bad porno novel: Cory Doctorow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/?p=761\">Two Cents on AIG: Timothy Burke<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/fortysomething\/etc\/~3\/6ABQOULm-eQ\/007559.php\">A Few Font Posts Worth Browsing<\/a> &#8211; Fonty goodness!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reallifecomics.com\/archive\/090317.html\">strip for March \/ 17 \/ 2009<\/a> &#8211; More on the Syfy saga.  Clearly they are doing an excellent job so far.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reallifecomics.com\/archive\/090312.html\">strip for March \/ 12 \/ 2009<\/a> &#8211; Wow &#8212; and Margie found LotRO&#8217;s looting the bodies to annoying &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/fpY1rK9Opi8\/tactile-illusions.html\">Tactile illusions: David Pescovitz<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.partiallyclips.com\/index.php?id=1598\">Stone Giant &#8211; 2009-03-10<\/a> &#8211; Win-win?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/03\/16\/what-the-hell-is-a-syfy\/\">What the hell is a SyFy?<\/a> &#8211; Interesting observation:  I guess this mean that Syfy will never have a &#8220;Battlestar Galactica&#8221; for us again &#8212; apparently by choice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.boingboing.net\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/wFRKzNcfnus\/own-an-english-villa.html\">Own an English village<\/a> &#8211; Wow &#8212; I&#8217;d kind of like to be a Lord of the Manor.  I promise to be a benevolent despot, and Margie would be sure there would be no reason to be worried about droit de seigneur.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/nDDzW2hVFOQ\/country-of-origin-labeling-officially-begins-today\">Country Of Origin Labeling Officially Begins Today [Cool]<\/a> &#8211; A good *first* step.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~3\/VyLgSEU1CTE\/\">Snapshot of galactic doom: Phil Plait<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/lead\/evangelism\/sorting_through_the_big_sort.html\">Sorting through The Big Sort<\/a> &#8211; This seems to me to be the opposite of building community.  The goal should be to see how an individual can see their place within the group to make it better, not how they can be shunted into the appropriate square hole.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.boingboing.net\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/DnEubJyP7bA\/foxs-glenn-beck-says.html\">Fox&#8217;s Glenn Beck says Obama is building concentration camps for Republicans<\/a> &#8211; Maybe they&#8217;ll break out the mothballed one under Denver International Airport from the Clinton era.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/daily\/ethics\/is_celibacy_the_preferred_chri.php\">Is celibacy the preferred Christian option?<\/a> &#8211; Not particularly.  It may be an option for some, but it&#8217;s not requirement (to my eye, at least).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/16\/health\/16peanuts.html?em\">Treatment for Peanut Allergies Shows Promise &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; This would be very cool.  And, not surprisingly, it ties exposure to immunity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cbs4denver.com\/local\/dia.faa.delays.2.960876.html\">FAA: Memo About Denver Air Safety &#8216;Alarming&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; We&#8217;re the fourth busiest airport in the nation &#8230; but, somehow, the documented issues don&#8217;t show there&#8217;s a &#8220;problem&#8221;?  Riiiight.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/secret-hideout.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/so-what-comes-before-pulp.html\">So what comes before pulp?<\/a> &#8211; Very cool exploration of an important literary era.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/16\/health\/policy\/16mass.html\">Massachusetts Faces Costs of Big Health Care Plan<\/a> &#8211; One of the strengths of the federal system is that it allows states to experiment in this way.  Stuff Massachusetts is learning will come in very handy down the line.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230; When Immigration Law and Christian Victimization Collide: Kyle House Republicans To Force Geithner&#8217;s Hand on AIG Negotiations: Elana Schor Audioclips of Bill O&#8217;Reilly reading his bad porno novel: Cory Doctorow Two Cents on AIG: Timothy Burke A Few Font Posts Worth Browsing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-17-march-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 17 March 2009&#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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-14239","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":31704,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/12\/10\/taxpayer-bailout-profit.html","url_meta":{"origin":14239,"position":0},"title":"Taxpayer Bailout Profit","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Dec-12 10:35pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that I think that bailing out failing companies should be SOP ... but it can be done appropriately, and (mirabile dictu) at a profit to the taxpayer. 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Jim Henson Co. selling 10th anniversary Farscape t-shirts today only: Wire Staff Protectionism at Work in China's WoW Lich King Refusal?: gamepolitics Sentencing commission ponders extra jail time for proxy users: julian.sanchez@arstechnica.com (Julian Sanchez) New Shakespeare plays?:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Crime &amp; Punishment&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Crime &amp; Punishment","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/crime-punishment"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}