{"id":14437,"date":"2009-04-03T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-04T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/03\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-03-april-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T08:23:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:23:52","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-03-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/03\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-03-april-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 03 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.thoughtcounts.net\/2009\/03\/am-i-a-jerk\/\">Am I a jerk?<\/a> &#8211; A fascinating examination of words &#8212; one in particular &#8212; and how the descriptive becomes the insulting, and how people seem to think you can eliminate insults by getting rid of the currently insulting words.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iwastetoomuchtimeatwork.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/alternate-disney.html\">There Will Be No Animated Gifs In This Blog.: An Alternate Disney.<\/a> &#8211; An interesting post (I&#8217;m mixed on the renditions), but most of all for the final image (and the wry notation about it).  A new desktop image for me, looking toward our WDW vacation coming up in May.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/bG5GwbI2Spo\/hemp-bill-introduced-in-c_n_182880.html\">Hemp Bill Introduced In Congress<\/a> &#8211; This seems like such a no-brainer that only &#8220;Reefer Madness&#8221; absolutists and (more importantly) people with a politically and finanancially vested interest in preventing it could possibly be against it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/M03ZuMowNyw\/dont-call-yourself-progre_b_182909.html\">Rev. Debra Haffner: Don&#8217;t Call Yourself Progressive If You Don&#8217;t Support Sexual Justice: Rev. Debra Haffner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/early-right-wing-reaction-iowa-ruling\">Early Right Wing Reaction to Iowa Ruling<\/a> &#8211; Such a passel of wrongness here.  Blog post to follow, but wanted to share it sooner.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/QB_RaM3kpus\/nightmarish-cable-ta.html\">Nightmarish cable tangles<\/a> &#8211; Okay, this makes me feel better.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/GFYmfvxK_6s\/the-iowa-supreme-court-decision\">The Iowa Supreme Court Decision<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  Gotta read the &#8220;Free Republic&#8221; quotes at the bottom &#8212; where not laughable, they&#8217;re downright scary.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/iowa-marriage-ruling-good-bad-and-ugly\">Iowa Marriage Ruling: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/jalopnik\/full\/~3\/kg6Py_o74jw\/google-street-view-car-attacked-by-angry-village-mob\">Google Street View Car Attacked By Angry Village Mob [Google Street View]<\/a> &#8211; Yes, because &#8220;Security through Obscurity&#8221; always works.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/lifestyleMolt\/idUSTRE5310ZH20090402?rpc=60\">Facebook, YouTube at work make better employees: study | Lifestyle | Reuters<\/a> &#8211; So as long as they only spend 9% of their time on the Net, it&#8217;s a wash, right?  Cool!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/mBGH9akdOW4\/finally-true-leader.html\">Finally, a true leader<\/a> &#8211; Man is this refreshing to read. I&#8217;m not happy with everything Obama is doing, but overall I&#8217;m happy with him.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/Opfo1f5MbxA\/is-murdoch-regretting-his-5-billion.html\">Is Murdoch regretting his $5 billion purchase of the WSJ?: Chris in Paris<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.collegehumor.com\/~r\/collegehumor\/articles\/~3\/jt17pNxASps\/article:1772972\">Your Professor&#8217;s PowerPoint Presentation<\/a> &#8211; Ha!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/politics\/war_room\/2009\/04\/01\/birthers\/index.html\">Birthers form &#8220;citizen grand jury,&#8221; &#8220;indict&#8221; Obama &#8211; War Room &#8211; Salon.com<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  Didn&#8217;t it take several months for the anti-Bush lunatic fringe to get as zany as the anti-Obama lunatic fringe has gotten in so short a period of time?<\/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; Am I a jerk? &#8211; A fascinating examination of words &#8212; one in particular &#8212; and how the descriptive becomes the insulting, and how people seem to think you can eliminate insults by getting rid of the currently insulting words. There Will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/03\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-03-april-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 03 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-14437","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":131766,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/10\/please-tell-me-that-disney-is-not-this-insanely-stupid.html","url_meta":{"origin":14437,"position":0},"title":"Please tell me that Disney is not this insanely stupid","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 10-Oct-16 2:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The purchased spec script for the live-action Mulan, which Disney plans to release in 2018, is centered on ... a white merchant who falls in love with the doughty teen woman, fights to protect her, and then defeats China's greatest enemy?In other words, it's the anti-Mulan, a story that takes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":41000,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/02\/05\/they-call-him-dru-1-but-i-call-him-flp-r.html","url_meta":{"origin":14437,"position":1},"title":"They call him DRU-1, but I call him FLP-R","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 5-Feb-14 12:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Very cool robotic dolphin prototype.Reshared post from +Les JenkinsIt's a shame Disney wasn't able to incorporate this into a daily show as it's pretty damned impressive. If it weren't for the bundle of wires trailing the robot you'd have no idea it wasn't real.\ufeff Cool Stuff: Amazing Interactive Animatronic Dolphin\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":151321,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2020\/09\/21\/no-nobody-is-enjoying-the-covid-19-crisis.html","url_meta":{"origin":14437,"position":2},"title":"No, nobody is enjoying the COVID-19 crisis","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Sep-20 8:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't enjoy wearing masks. 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To be honest, though, it's difficult for me to decide if the similarities are accurate, or simply indicative more general story-telling tropes that WW\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437","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=14437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47480,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437\/revisions\/47480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}