{"id":14408,"date":"2009-04-01T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T00:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-01-april-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T14:28:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T21:28:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-01-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-01-april-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 01 April 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:\/\/www.kottke.org\/09\/04\/-swiss-mountain-cleaners\">Swiss mountain cleaners<\/a> &#8211; Ah, the Swiss.  Especially in April.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/videocafe.crooksandliars.com\/heather\/joe-plumber-admits-he-knows-little-about-efca\">Joe The Plumber Admits He Knows \u201cLittle\u201d About EFCA, Gets Jeered By Workers: Heather<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/michiganmessenger.com\/15752\/bill-ford-more-resolved-than-ever-to-not-take-federal-aid\">Bill Ford more resolved than ever to not take federal aid<\/a> &#8211; Actually, it sounds like the cunning plan is working &#8212; making federal bailouts unattractive enough that they&#8217;re only taken if there&#8217;s <b>really<\/b> no other choice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/archives\/emailPrint.jsp?R=printThis&amp;A=\/article\/09\/04\/01\/13NF-Twitter-April-Fools_1.html\">Twitter added to federal emergency response network | InfoWorld | News | April 01, 2009 | By Dan Tynan<\/a> &#8211; Not a bad idea &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/verizon_turns_to_the_clouds.php\">Verizon Turns to the Clouds<\/a> &#8211; New Verizon logo?  Actually, very nice, esp. compared to the old one.  Comment section includes some valuable info, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/04\/creationists_declare_victory_i.php\">Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Creationists Declare Victory in Texas<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  That&#8217;s scary and sad.  Not surprising, but &#8230;  The big question now is whether other big states (e.g., California) can fight effectively against resulting craptastic textbooks that will come out of this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dealnews.com\/288395.html\">Firefly: The Complete Series on DVD for $20 + $3 s&amp;h<\/a> &#8211; Wow, excellent.  Buy this, if you haven&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/04\/01\/squeez-bacon-actually-not-a-bad-idea\/\">Squeez Bacon actually not a bad idea<\/a> &#8211; These are excellent.  I&#8217;d actually buy some of them &#8212; except maybe the SqueezBacon, because I like the Real Thing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news\/obama_depressed_distant_since\">Obama Depressed, Distant Since &#8216;Battlestar Galactica&#8217; Series Finale | The Onion &#8211; America&#8217;s Finest News Source<\/a> &#8211; Ha! Every day is April Fools Day at the Onion.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5192782\/number-2-has-got-number-6-all-bottled-up-in-new-prisoner-poster\">Number 2 Has Got Number 6 All Bottled Up, In New Prisoner Poster [Day Of The  Triffids]<\/a> &#8211; Not as excited about &#8220;Triffids&#8221; &#8212; but &#8220;Prisoner&#8221; looks keen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/03\/31\/a-new-way-to-capitalize-god\/\">A New Way to Capitalize gOd<\/a> &#8211; To the extent that &#8220;God&#8221; references a particular named deity, capitalizing it (properly) seems both appropriate and non-committal as to belief in the reality of said deity (cf. Zeus, Aslan, Cthulhu).  I do sometimes capitalize the pronouns around God, just because I like the old-fashionedness of it &#8212; but I usually try to avoid pronouns related to God for different reasons.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/slashfilm\/~3\/jbynSujijsI\/\">Beauty and the Beast 3D Sequence Wows at ShoWest<\/a> &#8211; I <b>so<\/b> need to watch this movie again.  It&#8217;s one of my faves, for a variety of reasons.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atheistrev.com\/2009\/04\/fool-says-in-his-heart.html\">The Fool Says In His Heart&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; I think this is an excellent idea.  Using Scripture to tell folks who don&#8217;t believe in Scripture that they are fools if they don&#8217;t believe in Scripture &#8230; is kinda goofy at best, and being gratuitously insulting at worst.  And that latter ties right into the Matthew citation &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/atheistethicist.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/steve-harveys-anti-atheist-bigotry.html\">Steve Harvey&#8217;s Anti-Atheist Bigotry: Alonzo Fyfe<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/em_march09\/\">Educational micromanagement: George<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.the20life.com\/2009\/03\/30\/beat-infosaturation-wade-in-the-stream\/#more-1709\">Beat Infosaturation: Wade in the Stream &#8211; The 2.0 Life<\/a> &#8211; As with most pieces of wise advice, a lot easier to say than do.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/03\/31\/3100-lie\/\">Conservatives Falsely Assert That Green Economy Legislation Would Impose  $3,100 Tax On Families<\/a> &#8211; What?  A deliberate lie to distort the political process and win &#8220;points&#8221;?  I&#8217;m shocked, shocked I tell you.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/451security\/~3\/095v5VpOk5w\/\">Waiting for Conficker\u2026in my opinion we were here.<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Do you think I&#8217;m some comic book villain? That I would tell you my master stroke if there was a remote chance you could stop me? I triggered it 35 minutes ago.&#8221;<\/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; Swiss mountain cleaners &#8211; Ah, the Swiss. Especially in April. Joe The Plumber Admits He Knows \u201cLittle\u201d About EFCA, Gets Jeered By Workers: Heather Bill Ford more resolved than ever to not take federal aid &#8211; Actually, it sounds like the cunning &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-01-april-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 01 April 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":[263,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14408","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":1962,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/04\/02\/hoaxes.html","url_meta":{"origin":14408,"position":0},"title":"Hoaxes","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 2-Apr-02 10:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a day late, but here's an entertaining review of the Top Ten April Fool's Hoaxes of all time. 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