{"id":14272,"date":"2009-03-19T18:01:37","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-19-march-2009-2.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T16:17:34","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:17:34","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thursday-19-march-2009-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-19-march-2009-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 19 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:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/03\/jim-henson-co-selling-10t.php\">Jim Henson Co. selling 10th anniversary Farscape t-shirts today only: Wire Staff<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamepolitics.com\/2009\/03\/19\/protectionism-work-china039s-wow-lich-king-refusal\">Protectionism at Work in China&#8217;s WoW Lich King Refusal?: gamepolitics<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/r0DocB0K-O0\/extra-jail-time-for-proxy-users.ars\">Sentencing commission ponders extra jail time for proxy users: julian.sanchez@arstechnica.com (Julian Sanchez)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/09\/03\/new-shakespeare-plays\">New Shakespeare plays?: jason@kottke.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/IV-NpKRdy90\/halls-of-shame-how-china_b_177000.html\">Christal Smith: Halls of Shame: How China Invaded California and Took Over Our Legislature: Christal Smith<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grimmy.com\/images\/MP_Archive\/MP_2009\/MP0319.gif\">AIDS in Africa solution: Mike Peters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.neilgaiman.com\/2009\/03\/religion-of-dolphins.html\">Neil Gaiman&#8217;s Journal: The Religion of Dolphins&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; Neil makes an excellent point.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbspot.com\/News\/2009\/03\/twitter-unveils-premium-accounts.html\">BBspot &#8211; Twitter Unveils New Premium Accounts<\/a> &#8211; This is a joke.  Um &#8230; it is a joke, right?  Ah, BBspot, must be a joke.  Please tell me it&#8217;s a joke.  (Yes, I realize it is &#8230; probably, almost certainly &#8230; a joke.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/mlet-mar09\/\">Multi-level educational trick<\/a> &#8211; Brilliant!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/03\/19\/rice-911-iraq\/\">Rice: \u2018No One Was Arguing That Saddam Hussein Somehow Had Something To Do  With 9\/11\u2032<\/a> &#8211; They can&#8217;t decide which way they want to revise history.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/kotaku\/full\/~3\/h3PlCjdxIP8\/growing-up-games-when-will-mature-mature\">Growing Up Games: When Will Mature, Mature? [Feature]<\/a> &#8211; Excellent article on video games and when &#8220;mature&#8221; will be allowed to mean &#8220;sophisticated&#8221; vs. &#8220;blood and boobs.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~3\/Wv-L7psSUmU\/\">Blog from space: Phil Plait<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/EnTequilaEsVerdad\/~3\/G9Mptw0qqeY\/barney-frank-tells-it-like-it-is.html\">Barney Frank Tells It Like It Is<\/a> &#8211; Frank is more than occasionally annoying, but he&#8217;s in excellent form here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ICanHasCheezburger\/~3\/TWMSVfwPWBY\/\">Yes, you did buy this couch<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, that looks familiar.  Also, chair, bed, keyboard &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/gadgets\/~3\/zRmKDz-EpsY\/sony-adds-half-a-mil.html\">Sony adds half a million public domain books to Reader library<\/a> &#8211; Bravo, Sony &#8230; but, yes, Kindle&#8217;s convenience (in downloading) unfortunately trumps your open content.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thechapel.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/18\/how-religion-ruins-relationships\/\">How Religion Ruins Relationships<\/a> &#8211; If your religious faith causes you to objectify people, or ignore their present needs in favor of &#8220;fixing&#8221; their metaphysical ones, then I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ve got Christ&#8217;s message quite right.  He spoke not just of the Good News, but also of feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, comforting the afflicted, dealing with the here-and-now, not just the then.  This is a huge reason why I don&#8217;t evangelize in this fashion.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/ZL82pSOrXZw\/she-couldnt-march-in-her-citys-parade.html\">She couldn&#8217;t march in her city&#8217;s parade on St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, but Chris Quinn did talk to the President and Ireland&#8217;s leaders at the White House: Joe Sudbay (DC)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/nO7tK73QRnI\/wash-post-pope-benedict-xvi-is-wrong.html\">Wash. Post:  &#8220;Pope Benedict XVI is wrong.&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Yuppers.  And it&#8217;s not &#8220;just&#8221; a theological point.  Lives are at risk.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TPMmuckraker\/~3\/cx0-5Ihj9eM\/cuomo_ill_release_names_of_aig_bonus_recipients.php\">Cuomo: I&#8217;ll Release Names Of AIG Bonus Recipients<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s a dicey situation, given some of the threats that Liddy read aloud in Congress toward those employees and AIG execs in general.  And given the sorts of things I&#8217;ve heard, it&#8217;s a real concern.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/5uIFuPBLcvQ\/google-the-majority.html\">Google: the majority of takedown notices are bogus<\/a> &#8211; Nicely noted, Google.<\/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; Jim Henson Co. selling 10th anniversary Farscape t-shirts today only: Wire Staff Protectionism at Work in China&#8217;s WoW Lich King Refusal?: gamepolitics Sentencing commission ponders extra jail time for proxy users: julian.sanchez@arstechnica.com (Julian Sanchez) New Shakespeare plays?: jason@kottke.org Christal Smith: Halls of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-19-march-2009-2.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 19 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_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":[715,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-punishment","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":48638,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/04\/and-will-smith-as-deadshot.html","url_meta":{"origin":14272,"position":0},"title":"And Will Smith as Deadshot","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Dec-14 4:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Oooookay, so we'll be going for snarky Deadshot, rather then grim Deadshot. 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