{"id":14288,"date":"2009-03-20T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-20-march-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T08:23:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:23:55","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-20-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-20-march-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 20 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:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2009\/03\/19\/death-and-taxes\/\">Firedoglake \u00bb Death and Taxes<\/a> &#8211; Proof that there is, perhaps, a God.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/scienceblogs\/pharyngula\/~3\/8Lm-mYQuLKM\/trolling_for_jesus.php\">Trolling for Jesus<\/a> &#8211; What a scumbag.  And, no, it&#8217;s <b>not<\/b> acceptable behavior to <b>this<\/b> Christian.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/8GotDYYwNjc\/ex-bush-admin-official-many-at-gitmo.html\">Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent<\/a> &#8211; The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/551373449\/barry_the_coral_ripper.php\">Barry the Coral Ripper [Zooillogix]<\/a> &#8211; WHAT LURKS BELOW &#8230;?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/cYr0IPMYf-s\/zencore-plus-recalled-because-you-might-die\">Zencore Plus Recalled Because You Might Die [Zencore Plus]: Ben Popken<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeology.eu.com\/weblog\/2009_03_01_archaeologyeu_archive.html#5353799978318697228\">70th anniversary of Sutton Hoo&#8217;s discovery: David Beard<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/OfficialGmailBlog\/~3\/c3-oCeaVe0E\/new-in-labs-undo-send.html\">New in Labs: Undo Send<\/a> &#8211; This is &#8230; pretty cool.  I will have to play with it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TheDisneyBlog\/~3\/TOhGb94Rdmc\/\">Disney Locks in Magical Express with great deal<\/a> &#8211; DME is the greatest thing going if you&#8217;re visiting Walt Disney World.  From check-in at <b>your<\/b> airport to your room, your bags just magically get there.  Plus there&#8217;s a comfy bus ride to\/from the resort.  A serious Quality of Life feature.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/live_like_you_hate_the_logo.php\">Live like you Hate the Logo<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t think the price was outrageous (compared to most logo projects).  I just think it&#8217;s a stupid tourism motto and a dubious graphic and a really ugly selection of fonts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/floridabackyard.org\/2009\/03\/19\/a-macro-post-on-micro-irrigation\/\">A Macro Post on Micro-Irrigation<\/a> &#8211; Drip systems like this rock.  And, remarkably, if you hook it to your sprinklers (replacing a head), it stands up to winterizing\/blowing-out just fine.  We have a drip system under our back deck, and the new front yard has drip hose running through all the beds.  Keen!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.neilgaiman.com\/2009\/03\/hugo-thoughts.html\">Neil Gaiman&#8217;s Journal: Hugo Thoughts<\/a> &#8211; I guess I&#8217;m enough of an SF purist to not be thrilled &#8220;Graveyard Book&#8221; is up for a Hugo (Gaiman himself had the same issue re &#8220;Anansi Boys&#8221;).  But it&#8217;s an excellent book, and the only one on the list I&#8217;ve read.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/so-heres-something-i-didnt-know-or-forgot\/\">So here\u2019s something I didn\u2019t know (or forgot)<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, this one has been an annoyance.  I always fill in the TITLE text on images and leave ALT blank.  I rarely put a TITLE on links, though it&#8217;s kind of cool to do so on links that are neither clear (&#8220;click here&#8221;) nor intuitive from the URL (&#8220;What&#8217;s this tinyurl thing&#8221;).  And, btw, yet another case of Microsoft &#8220;extending&#8221; a standard &#8212; though, in this case, it&#8217;s one that it probably wouldn&#8217;t hurt FF to extend as well, whether it&#8217;s proper or not.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/london-underground.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/walk-piccadilly-line.html\">Walk the Piccadilly Line<\/a> &#8211; Cool idea.  Nice logo.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeology.eu.com\/weblog\/2009_03_01_archaeologyeu_archive.html#7914707069945331509\">Walkers urged not to pick up stones to build bigger carins<\/a> &#8211; Idjits.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/toolbar.aspx?action=print&amp;id=2214233\">Irony Board: How many ways can Senate Republicans show intellectual hypocrisy?<\/a> &#8211; A very detailed, and irksome, take-down.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/03\/producer-jetsons-live-act.php\">Producer: Jetsons live-action movie still a go<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s hard to think of how this will be a Good Thing, as much as (or especially as) I love the Jetsons.<\/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; Firedoglake \u00bb Death and Taxes &#8211; Proof that there is, perhaps, a God. Trolling for Jesus &#8211; What a scumbag. And, no, it&#8217;s not acceptable behavior to this Christian. Ex-Bush admin official: Many at Gitmo are innocent &#8211; The opposite of love &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-20-march-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 20 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":[263,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4189,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/22\/strrrress.html","url_meta":{"origin":14288,"position":0},"title":"Strrrress!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 22-Jan-03 6:46am","format":false,"excerpt":"So, sometime this year, things were supposed to calm down. 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