{"id":14310,"date":"2009-03-23T18:01:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-24T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-23-march-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-03-23T18:01:01","modified_gmt":"2009-03-24T00:01:01","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-23-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-23-march-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 23 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:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/cGU82uFCSfA\/flammable-water.html\">Flammable water<\/a> &#8211; Yikes!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crispygamer.com\/comics\/Backward\/Backward-2009-02-23.aspx#\">Backward Compatible &#8211; &#8220;Legends of Music That Gets Stuck in Your Head&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/Gfgtw-lLVoE\/jindal-vs-palin-on-volcan_n_178120.html\">Jindal Versus The Volcano<\/a> &#8211; It was an asinine comment at the time, and events have showed it to be even moreso.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/notre-dame-unleashes-fury\">Notre Dame Unleashes a Fury<\/a> &#8211; Crikey.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/one-judicial-nominee-battle-has-already-begun\">One Judicial Nominee In, The Battle Has Already Begun: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/NotAlwaysRight\/~3\/1j3mFnzqcjA\/1708\">Perhaps The Wolves Are Still Available To Babysit Tonight\u2026<\/a> &#8211; This site is pure comedy gold.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/skepchick.org\/blog\/?p=6507\">Support Bush!<\/a> &#8211; (As Dave expresses deep relief that this yet another thing he doesn&#8217;t have to (or, at least, doesn&#8217;t) worry about in his own personal grooming.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/03\/23\/private-jets-jpmorgan\/\">Bailed-out JPMorgan orders two new luxury jets and a deluxe aircraft hangar.: Satyam Khanna<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2009\/03\/23\/blizzard-to-add-on-developers-your-money-is-no-good-here\/\">Blizzard to add-on developers: Your money is no good here (literally)<\/a> &#8211; A shortsighted cutting off a valuable aspect of their community.  They will, eventually, regret this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/ALBajR2xvfI\/showDiary.do\">Insanity from the mailbag: a new take on the bible, evolution, and Bigfoot<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  Let&#8217;s just say that there aren&#8217;t many folks who are going to find much of what this person says as &#8220;orthodox.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/aguBSHrcfhg\/tarp-recipient-jpmorgan-chase-to-spend.html\">TARP recipient JPMorgan Chase To Spend Millions on New Jets and Luxury Airport Hangar<\/a> &#8211; Torches and pitchfor &#8212; oh, forget it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/scienceblogs\/dispatches\/~3\/nwUVjdNAEBE\/judge_lets_abu_ghraib_lawsuit.php\">Judge Lets Abu Ghraib Lawsuit Go Forward<\/a> &#8211; Good.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publetariat.com\/write\/interview-doyce-testerman-twitter-new-medium-authorship-pt-2\">Interview With Doyce Testerman &#8211; Twitter As A New Medium In Authorship, Pt.<\/a> &#8211; Much shorter &#8216;half&#8217; of the interview &#8212; I&#8217;m not sure what&#8217;s left of it for the final installment &#8212; might just be links to similar things going on with Twitter and Facebook. We&#8217;ll see.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/03\/21\/will-google-chrome-supplant-firefox-as-the-power-users-browser-of-choice\/\">Will Google Chrome supplant Firefox as the power user\u2019s browser of choice?<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ll confess I love extensions &#8212; and RoboForm is the one most important one keeping me from trying Chrome more seriously.  That said, I agree &#8212; when I got into Firefox, its big advantage over IE was that it was faster and easier.  I&#8217;m not convinced it&#8217;s faster any more, and unless FF addresses core performance and stability to match Chrome, I can believe they&#8217;ll be pushed aside.  Which would be kind of sad.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/kweXXPMZvPw\/ftc-to-require-advertisers-using-testimonials-to-show-typical-results\">FTC To Require Advertisers Using Testimonials To Show Typical Results  [Badvertising]<\/a> &#8211; Ah &#8212; &#8220;Results not typical&#8221; &#8230; but it&#8217;s so fun to point out those magic words after the commercial is done touting whatever it&#8217;s touting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/-aT2CwriuWg\/twittering-with-dish-scores-free-local-hd-channels\">Twittering With DISH Scores Free Local HD Channels [Twitter]<\/a> &#8211; An interesting idea  &#8212; subscribing to the Twitter channels of the companies you do business with.  Hmmmm &#8230; let me see &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/FOZLLs0s9uQ\/jpeg-compression-600.html\">JPEG compression 600 times over<\/a> &#8211; This is kind of cool.  JPEG is a &#8220;lossy&#8221; compression, so each generation loses a bit of info\/accuracy.  Here&#8217;s what happens over time, like a graphical verision of &#8220;Operator.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freerangekids.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/23\/the-natasha-effect-on-parents\/\">The Natasha Effect on Parents<\/a> &#8211; Humans are so awful at risk assessment.  We&#8217;re programmed to castrophize, which may be useful in dealing with common, socially alerted risks, but not so useful in dealing with one-off &#8220;newsworthy&#8221; events.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/in_brief_best_tire_branding_ev.php\">In Brief: Best Tire Branding. Ever.<\/a> &#8211; The original Apollo (still at the web site) has an awful font but a logo that is clever &#8212; too clever, turning a winding road into an &#8220;a&#8221;.  The new one is clean and modern and (for a tire company) fun.  It also arguably looks like different types of tires, making it useful as well.  Not bad for a corporate logo.<\/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; Flammable water &#8211; Yikes! Backward Compatible &#8211; &#8220;Legends of Music That Gets Stuck in Your Head&#8221; &#8211; NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! Jindal Versus The Volcano &#8211; It was an asinine comment at the time, and events have showed it to be even moreso. Notre Dame &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/23\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-23-march-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 23 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14310","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=14310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}