{"id":14580,"date":"2009-04-18T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-18-april-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-04-18T18:00:38","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T00:00:38","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-saturday-18-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-18-april-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 18 April 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) 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\/oneutah\/Gkug\/~3\/vRL8g02ui5s\/\">Protecting kids from gay penguin unions<\/a> &#8211; But think of the penguin children!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2009\/apr\/16\/britains-got-talent-susan-boyle\">Tanya Gold: It wasn&#8217;t singer Susan Boyle who was ugly on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent so much as our reaction to her | Comment is free | The Guardian<\/a> &#8211; As much as I enjoyed her performance (before, during, and after), I was, honestly, shocked that folks were not only negative about her from the get-go, but assumed that negativity was the norm.  That&#8217;s just wrong.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/uk\/2009\/apr\/16\/police-delete-tourist-photos\">Police delete London tourists&#8217; photos &#8216;to prevent terrorism&#8217; | UK news | guardian.co.uk<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;d really like to visit London again some day.  But &#8230; it&#8217;s not looking promising at the moment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/astro_boy_trailer_hits_the_net\/\">Stupid Evil Bastard: \u201cAstro Boy\u201d trailer hits the net.<\/a> &#8211; Cool.  I might actually go see this with Kitten.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/newspaper\/ireland\/2009\/0417\/1224244902389.html\">Study links swimming pool chlorine to asthma &#8211; The Irish Times &#8211; Fri, Apr 17, 2009<\/a> &#8211; Interesting.  Of course, swimming is generally a positively healthy thing, and chlorine almost certainly has positive health benefits.  An example of how there is no such thing as a naturally &#8220;healthy&#8221; state of nature.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/john-amato\/fighting-pirates-done-union-men\">Fighting Pirates: Done by Union Workers: John Amato<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/DJeLg5jVdQg\/eloping_couple_executed_by_fir.php\">Eloping couple executed by firing squad [Greg Laden&#8217;s Blog]<\/a> &#8211; Sigh.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. Protecting kids from gay penguin unions &#8211; But think of the penguin children! Tanya Gold: It wasn&#8217;t singer Susan Boyle who was ugly on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent so much as our reaction to her | Comment is free | &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-18-april-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 18 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14580","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":43175,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/22\/the-penguin-books-penguin.html","url_meta":{"origin":14580,"position":0},"title":"The Penguin Books Penguin","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 22-Jun-14 3:15pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A snapshot history of the Penguin logo, now (partially) subsumed into the new Penguin Random House publishing conglomerate (see\u00a0http:\/\/goo.gl\/IfXmRb).\ufeff The Story Behind Penguin Books' Beloved Bird - Businessweek View this post on Google+","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":30920,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/29\/when-publishers-combine.html","url_meta":{"origin":14580,"position":1},"title":"When Publishers Combine!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 29-Oct-12 7:27am","format":false,"excerpt":"Actually, the big news from this story is the tragic squandering of an opportunity to create a company called \"Random Penguin\". 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One clearly no longer owns the book, one has a license to access it, which license\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":30545,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/cold-days-in-hell.html","url_meta":{"origin":14580,"position":5},"title":"Cold Days (in Hell)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 7-Oct-12 1:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Dear Penguin: You are not doing yourself, nor your bestselling author Jim Butcher, any favors by setting the hardcover and Kindle price for the newest Dresden novel at $27.95. \u00a0Even \"discounted\" the h\/c is at $16.77 and the Kindle at $14.99.So I'll wait. 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