{"id":14584,"date":"2009-04-19T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-19-april-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-04-19T18:00:32","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T00:00:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sunday-19-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-19-april-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 19 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:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/islandofdoubt\/2009\/04\/the_problem_with_twitter.php\">The problem with Twitter : The Island of Doubt<\/a> &#8211; As someone who&#8217;s come reluctantly to the Twitterverse, I&#8217;d fully agree that Tweeting can&#8217;t replace Blogging &#8212; but that&#8217;s like saying the Short Story can&#8217;t replace the Novel, or that the Telephone can&#8217;t replace the Memorandum.  They are different media with different strengths, weaknesses, and uses.  Having just a single tool in your belt is a great way to make a lot of mediocre projects &#8212; but that doesn&#8217;t make hammers useless, nor mean there&#8217;s only one thing you can do with them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/l3Io5AeymlM\/if_teabaggers_were_serious_abo.php\">If &#8216;Teabaggers&#8217; Were Serious About &#8216;No Taxation Without Representation&#8221;,  Then&#8230; [Mike the Mad Biologist]<\/a> &#8211; HA!  Game Over.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/scott-atran\/the-moral-measure-of-a-ci_b_188579.html\">Scott Atran: The Moral Measure of a Civilization Is in Its Treatment of Enemies<\/a> &#8211; Money quote: &#8220;We have turned around 180 degrees to show respect for any of the detainees in our care: respect for the culture, for the religion and for the history of the place where our compounds are. But what those few did [at Abu Ghraib] will probably be the images best remembered of this war for a hundred years from now.&#8221;  Yes.  A fine, fine legacy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/pq4KRMvQKEM\/anniversary_of_the_great_san_f.php\">Anniversary of the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906 [All of My Faults  Are Stress Related]<\/a> &#8211; Margie&#8217;s G&#8217;g&#8217;father Austin was in San Francisco taking his medical boards when the quake hit. They basically said, &#8220;Okay, you&#8217;re all doctors now &#8212; go get healing.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_04\/017795.php\">Taxes in Context &#8211; The Washington Monthly<\/a> &#8211; 6% &#8212; a crushing, crushing blow!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/17\/dhs-sexual-orientation\/\">Robertson: DHS Official Behind Extremism Report Must Be Someone Whose \u2018Sexual Orientation\u2026Is In Question\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Because it is a long and honored tradition that, when criticizing someone for being weak on security issues, to call them a &#8220;pansy&#8221; or a &#8220;faggot.&#8221;  I think it&#8217;s in the constitution somewhere.<\/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;. The problem with Twitter : The Island of Doubt &#8211; As someone who&#8217;s come reluctantly to the Twitterverse, I&#8217;d fully agree that Tweeting can&#8217;t replace Blogging &#8212; but that&#8217;s like saying the Short Story can&#8217;t replace the Novel, or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-19-april-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 19 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-14584","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":40473,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/01\/07\/im-very-ready-to-replace-my-m.html","url_meta":{"origin":14584,"position":0},"title":"I&#8217;m very ready to replace my m&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Jan-14 4:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm very ready to replace my mobile now. 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