{"id":14513,"date":"2009-04-10T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/10\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-10-april-2009.html"},"modified":"2013-06-05T10:38:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T16:38:21","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-10-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/10\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-10-april-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 10 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.massively.com\/2009\/04\/10\/massively-webcomic-grinders-limitless-creativity\/\">Massively webcomic: Grinders &#8211; Limitless Creativity<\/a> &#8211; Hmmmm &#8230; definitely need to look into doing this in the new City of Heroes Mission Architect.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paultevis.com\/2009\/03\/31\/internet-micro-fame-is-a-drug\/\">Internet Micro-Fame Is A Drug<\/a> &#8211; Okay, this needs to be sent to every artist, athlete, writer, actor, politician, and anyone else who achieves fame for their accomplishments. Bloggers could use it, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/EnTequilaEsVerdad\/~3\/apeKZ9-QWdc\/get-that-man-straitjacket-stat.html\">Get That Man A Straitjacket, Stat<\/a> &#8211; Yikes. Glenn Beck keeps getting nuttier. Unless that&#8217;s his way to differentiate himself from Limbaugh and Hannity (who are nutty in their own way, but without the weepiness).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/ad8-8FeM9Hg\/postal-service-holding-election-vote.html\">To hell with the Simpsons<\/a> &#8211; Ah, frivolous use of copyright law and DMCA take-downs. Is there no geeky joy you cannot turn to hatred?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/gawker\/full\/~3\/Pdt99TFF1Fw\/weed-cures-cancer\">Weed Cures Cancer! [Dude]<\/a> &#8211; Is marijuana a miracle cure? No, but it&#8217;s no more ridiculous to say that it has <b>no<\/b> medical value, as Congress declared by fiat. Alas, the &#8220;War on Drugs&#8221; continues to claim its victims via zero tolerance, even among those who never take a toke.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/04\/review-krod-mandoon.php\">Review: A fantasy hero embraces his inner Mel Brooks in Krod Mandoon<\/a> &#8211; I will have to watch at least one ep of this, just to be sure, but the ads for it have left me with absolutely no desire to do so &#8212; indeed, with an aversion toward same.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rabbi-michael-lerner\/pharoahs-cant-celebrate-p_b_185411.html\">Rabbi Michael Lerner: Pharaohs Can&#8217;t Celebrate Passover: Rabbi Michael Lerner<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityweekly.net\/utah\/blog-449-bye-bye-dubai.html\">Bye-bye, Dubai<\/a> &#8211; There&#8217;s something very epic and extreme about Dubai &#8212; sort of the ultimate expression of wealth and capitalism. That makes its current collapse all the more intriguing, tragic, gratifying, and fascinating.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2009\/04\/summed-up\/\">Summed up<\/a> &#8211; If you promise to blog about the secret once discovered, Doyce, I&#8217;ll be ever-so-grateful.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/h4xi9GsGEFg\/194_years_since_the_great_tamb.php\">194 years since the great Tambora eruption [Eruptions]<\/a> &#8211; But let&#8217;s be sure that we don&#8217;t frivolously waste money on that so-called &#8220;volcano monitoring.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/09\/rove-obama-turkey\/\">Rove Attacks Obama For Praising Turkey\u2019s \u2018Secular Movement,\u2019 Even Though Bush Made Similar Statements<\/a> &#8211; So is he a Crypto-Islamicist or a Crypto-Secularist? I keep getting confused by the competing narratives. Oh, wait, I get it &#8212; the specifics don&#8217;t matter. He&#8217;s just EVIL!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/09\/opinion\/09thrasher.html?_r=1&amp;em=&amp;pagewanted=print\">Op-Ed Contributor &#8211; Iowa\u2019s Family Values &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Family values can, indeed, be important. But they&#8217;re not what has always been touted by pundits as same.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/04\/10\/peta.pet.shop.boys\/index.html\">PETA to Pet Shop Boys: Rescue Shelter Boys, perhaps? &#8211; CNN.com<\/a> &#8211; Wow. That&#8217;s pretty darned goofy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eonline.com\/uberblog\/watch_with_kristin\/b117929_dollhouse_heres_deal_on_season_finale.html\">Will Fox Air Dollhouse&#8217;s Final Episode or Not? &#8211; E! Online<\/a> &#8211; Wow. More Fox zaniness. Okay, I guess this makes sense. Bottom line: Ep 13 will be on the DVD but not on TV, but the show isn&#8217;t cancelled. Yet. Clear as mud.<\/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; Massively webcomic: Grinders &#8211; Limitless Creativity &#8211; Hmmmm &#8230; definitely need to look into doing this in the new City of Heroes Mission Architect. Internet Micro-Fame Is A Drug &#8211; Okay, this needs to be sent to every artist, athlete, writer, actor, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/10\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-10-april-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 10 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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[3,100,22,10,70,108,79,42,16,376,40,371,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-dolts","category-gaming","category-geopolitical-brouhaha","category-health-science","category-history","category-media-intellectual-property","category-media-music","category-potpourri","category-taxing-spending","category-media-tv","category-war-on-drugs","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":823,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/11\/fame_and_fortun.html","url_meta":{"origin":14513,"position":0},"title":"Fame and Fortune (a\/k\/a Timing is Everything)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 11-Nov-01 4:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Fame and Fortune (a\/k\/a Timing is Everything) Matt Welch listed this site under \"New Warblogs and Other Delights.\" I don't think this qualifies as a \"Warblog\" but I'll qualify as...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blogging &amp; Internet&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Blogging &amp; Internet","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5221,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/25\/fortune_and_glo.html","url_meta":{"origin":14513,"position":1},"title":"Fortune and glory, kid","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 25-Apr-04 3:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm in the advertising biz. 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