{"id":14328,"date":"2009-03-24T18:00:46","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T00:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-24-march-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-03-24T20:40:44","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T02:40:44","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-24-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-24-march-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 24 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:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~3\/cVp0LRVYEBk\/teenagers-60+foot-roof-wang-backfires-rich-parents-dole-out-punishment\">Teenager&#8217;s 60-Foot Roof Wang Backfires, Rich Parents Dole Out &#8220;Punishment&#8221; [Pranks]: Sean Fallon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/fKt33yBlCMs\/us-immigration-law-used-t_n_178627.html\">US Immigration Law Used To Censor Foreign Scholars: ACLU: The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/oMhArMEQtRg\/david-vitter-successful-s_b_178631.html\">Senate Guru: David Vitter, Successful Scofflaw: Senate Guru<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/cQ0V66O56xc\/the-50-billion-price-tag_b_178634.html\">Ian Welsh: The $50 billion price tag for America&#8217;s irrational fears: Ian Welsh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/NtUVGOjomoQ\/\">If you recently bought organic brown eggs &#8230; [Eggs]<\/a> &#8211; Shoppers take note!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~3\/OL3Nl7jcCEQ\/people-skydiving-to-see-space-shuttle-launch\">People Skydiving to See Space Shuttle Launch [Space]<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  This sounds very cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/03\/24\/faked-infanticide\/\">Faked Infanticide?<\/a> &#8211; Let me get this straight &#8212; in order to support their ostensibly Christian missionary work, these yahoos filmed a fake documentary about how Brazilian native tribes bury babies alive?  What part of &#8220;going straight to Hell&#8221; do they not understand?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/03\/sci-fi-tested-beyond-and.php\">SCI FI tested Beyond and SFC along with Syfy<\/a> &#8211; Actually, it&#8217;s only partly that &#8220;Syfy&#8221; is just too goofy for words (&#8220;SFC&#8221; would have been just too generic, and &#8220;Beyond&#8221; would have been interesting, but &#8230;).  The real issue is that the channel felt the need to run away from their current name in the first place.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/scienceblogs\/pharyngula\/~3\/u9uWvxjtytI\/what_not_to_do_in_an_emergency.php\">What not to do in an emergency<\/a> &#8211; God lands those who land themselves.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wired.com\/~r\/wiredgeekdad\/~3\/NzRtJM_EFz8\/sci-fi-channel.html\">Sci Fi Channel Co-Founder Hates the Name Change, Too!<\/a> &#8211; And the hits just keep on hitting.  The story linked to is pretty darned interesting, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/03\/23\/fox-vp-opposition\/\">Fox News VP: Fox is \u2018the voice of opposition\u2019 to the Obama administration.<\/a> &#8211; I have no problem with Fox openly being &#8220;the voice of the opposition.&#8221;  But that&#8217;s very different from being, ostensibly, &#8220;fair and balanced.&#8221;  They need to make up their mind which they want to tout being.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderdude.com\/2009\/03\/qotd_5.html\">QOTD<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m very glad I made that decision the direction I did.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/WfmwLRLdElU\/the-monster-difference-is-easy-to-see-when-you-compare-hdmi-to-crappy-composite-cables\">The &#8220;Monster Difference&#8221; Is Easy To See When You Compare HDMI To Crappy  Composite Cables [Monster Cable]<\/a> &#8211; Crikey.  Very disappointing about Fry&#8217;s.  Monster Cable, on the other hand, has always been shameless.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/G-_E7tfy59o\/warner-tries-boosting-dvd-download-sales-with-archive-films.ars\">Warner opens vault, dusts off oldies for DVD, digital sale<\/a> &#8211; Oooh, some very cool old films here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/IhCsNx_sNcg\/science-first-and-leave-politics-at.html\">&#8220;Science first and leave politics at the door&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; What a novel concept!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shacknews.com\/onearticle.x\/57791\">DRM &#8216;A Waste of Time,&#8217; Says World of Goo Dev<\/a> &#8211; Lays it out very clearly. &#8220;You just end up giving the DRM provider money. Anything that is of interest gets cracked, and the cracked version ends up having a better user experience than the legit version because you don&#8217;t have to input in some 32-character serial number.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/alienonion.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/sns-short-novel-service.html\">SNS &#8211; short novel service<\/a> &#8211; This is very fun.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.dailykos.com\/~r\/dailykos\/index\/~3\/N1SxvhUunhY\/-Michele-Bachmann-Wants-A-RevolutionNeeds-Bigger-Army-\">Michele Bachmann Wants A Revolution &#8211; Needs Bigger Army<\/a> &#8211; I am trying, seriously, to figure out if folks like this are sincere (and thus merely seriously, near-hopelessly, but only misguided) or simply provocateurs (in which case, damn their eyes).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityweekly.net\/utah\/blog-324-barbie-tattoos-countdown-to-lds-outrage.html\">Barbie Tattoos: Countdown to LDS Outrage<\/a> &#8211; I will confess that I will discourage Katherine for any number of practical reasons not to get tatooed.  But if she does, it&#8217;s not a sin.  Just a grave lapse in long-term aesthetic judgment.  At least in the eyes of her fuddy-duddy daddy.<\/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; Teenager&#8217;s 60-Foot Roof Wang Backfires, Rich Parents Dole Out &#8220;Punishment&#8221; [Pranks]: Sean Fallon US Immigration Law Used To Censor Foreign Scholars: ACLU: The Huffington Post News Team Senate Guru: David Vitter, Successful Scofflaw: Senate Guru Ian Welsh: The $50 billion price tag &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-24-march-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 24 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-14328","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":19619,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/20\/unblogged-bits-mon-20-dec-10-1030.html","url_meta":{"origin":14328,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 20-Dec-10 1030)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 20-Dec-10 10:30am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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