{"id":14254,"date":"2009-03-18T18:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T00:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-18-march-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-03-18T19:31:30","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T01:31:30","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-18-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-18-march-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 18 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:\/\/weblogs.swarthmore.edu\/burke\/?p=772\">Set Course For Reboot, Mr. Sulu: Timothy Burke<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/03\/18\/bayhs-four-secret-sens\/\">Who Are The Anonymous \u2018Three Or Four\u2019 Senators In Bayh\u2019s Blue Dog-Style Coalition?: Ryan Powers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderdude.com\/2009\/03\/yet_another_reason_to_toss_out.html\">Yet another reason to toss out DOMA<\/a> &#8211; I agree fully.  I know exactly what DOMA&#8217;s defenders would say, though, and I won&#8217;t honor it by repeating it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2007\/05\/how_to_tie_the_10_most_us.html\">MAKE: Blog : HOW TO &#8211; Tie the 10 most useful knots<\/a> &#8211; Let&#8217;s just say that I was never, um, proficient with knots as a Boy Scout, and leave it at that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/criminalcrackdown.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/who-wants-to-live-forever.html\">Follow Your Bliss&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; Very cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/03\/18\/greta-husband-palin\/\">The Husband Of Fox News\u2019 Greta Van Susteren Is A \u2018Protector Of The Palin  Brand\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Fair and balanced, right?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/philosecurity.org\/2009\/03\/16\/beyond-hard-drive-forensics\">Beyond Hard Drive Forensics<\/a> &#8211; Maybe &#8230; I&#8217;ll log off now &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/DwHT2kSTvuw\/what-do-deal-site-acronyms-like-ymmv-and-ac-mean\">What Do Deal Site Acronyms Like &#8220;YMMV&#8221; And &#8220;AC&#8221; Mean? [Deals]<\/a> &#8211; Nice list of TLAs, etc.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/Z5g2Mkti2mM\/this-is-why-you-dont-order-from-fad-diet--wellness-sites\">This Is Why You Don&#8217;t Order From Fad Diet &amp; Wellness Sites [Scams]<\/a> &#8211; Not surprising, save for the explicit mockery.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/gadgets\/~3\/zUdNRfeH-I4\/spacebat-slips-the-s.html\">Spacebat slips the surly bonds of life<\/a> &#8211; Go, Spacebat, go!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/7sfcGLdyxjc\/people-who-use-barre.html\">People who use barrels to catch rain from their roofs breaking law, says  State of Colorado<\/a> &#8211; I understand what&#8217;s being said here, and what the legal and communal basis for this sort of thing is, but it easily devolves into a reductio ad absurdem farce.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterdavid.net\/index.php\/2009\/03\/16\/a-press-release-from-harlan-ellison\/\">A Press Release from Harlan Ellison<\/a> &#8211; Go, Harlan, go!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~3\/uYc5INIfuSw\/google-chrome-passes-into-20-beta-chromium-for-linux-gets-a-simple-install\">Google Chrome Passes into 2.0 Beta, Chromium For Linux Gets a Simple Install  [Browsers]<\/a> &#8211; Still waiting for Roboform support.  But, damn, I want to use this for the performance improvements.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/scienceblogs\/pharyngula\/~3\/5kLvxNo2Xzc\/hypocritical_gomers_of_oklahom.php\">Hypocritical gomers of Oklahoma, unite!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/EnTequilaEsVerdad\/~3\/79HN5kG_y_M\/military-industrial-complex-aint-gonna.html\">The Military-Industrial Complex Ain&#8217;t Gonna Like It<\/a> &#8211; Even if some potentially useful weapons get included in the housecleaning, the value of the lesson to contractors (and Congress) that we&#8217;ll just keep shoveling money into grotesquely late and inflated weapons systems will be more than worth it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/z5HulkjgyN8\/republicans-in-full-whine-mode-because.html\">Republicans in full whine mode because Obama is going to work around their obstructionist tactics<\/a> &#8211; And, having established (over strenuous objections from his supporters) his desire for bipartisanship and having made repeated (over same objections) attempts at it, only to be bitchslapped each time &#8230; now he has the ethical (and political) justification to give the GOP the finger and do what he wants to do.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/dolphins_blowing_bubble_rings_at_seaworld\/\">Dolphins blowing bubble rings at Seaworld.<\/a> &#8211; Well when you&#8217;re stuck in a tank all day long, except for when you&#8217;re entertaining the visitors, you gotta find something to do, and smoking ciggies out on the back step isn&#8217;t really an option here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/adage.com\/adages\/post?article_id=135297\">Should We Start a SyFy Death Watch? &#8211; Adages &#8211; Advertising Age<\/a> &#8211; Money graf: &#8220;The channel should have been spending the week celebrating the series finale of &#8220;Battlestar Galactica,&#8221; one of the best shows to hit TV in the last 20 years. Instead, it&#8217;s spending the week being mocked.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/03\/18\/what-happens-if-you-dont-respond-to-someones-sneeze\/\">What Happens If You Don\u2019t Respond to Someone\u2019s Sneeze?<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  That&#8217;s really &#8230; goofy.  I mean, 99.999% of people respond with some sort of vocalization to a sneeze, but it&#8217;s generally the lightest of social noises, with perhaps a bit of concern over the person&#8217;s health.  I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ve ever read of anyone (outside of a history book) worried that if someone didn&#8217;t bless them Bad Things Would Happen.  Weird.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/e7nIhCrRRIc\/best-buy-not-honoring-price-match-guarantee\">Best Buy Not Honoring Price Match Guarantee [Best Buy]<\/a> &#8211; Swell.  Given that we&#8217;re likely to be buying a TV from Best Buy in the next week or so &#8230;<\/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; Set Course For Reboot, Mr. Sulu: Timothy Burke Who Are The Anonymous \u2018Three Or Four\u2019 Senators In Bayh\u2019s Blue Dog-Style Coalition?: Ryan Powers Yet another reason to toss out DOMA &#8211; I agree fully. I know exactly what DOMA&#8217;s defenders would say, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-18-march-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 18 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":"","_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-14254","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":2862,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/09\/11\/and_another_odd.html","url_meta":{"origin":14254,"position":0},"title":"And another odd thing","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Sep-02 11:08am","format":false,"excerpt":"Nobody's talking about it at the office. 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