{"id":14614,"date":"2009-04-22T18:01:16","date_gmt":"2009-04-23T00:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/22\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-22-april-2009.html"},"modified":"2015-05-08T14:39:02","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T20:39:02","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-22-april-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/22\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-22-april-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 22 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:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~r\/UsatodaycomTravel-TopStories\/~3\/jvnhjE4ZLW0\/2009-04-22-colorado-ski-train_N.htm\">Colorado Ski Train halts operation after 69 years<\/a> &#8211; Huh &#8212; well, that&#8217;s certainly a shame.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/04\/23\/us\/politics\/23health.html\">News Analysis: Democrats Consider Bypassing G.O.P. on Health Care Plan<\/a> &#8211; I think this will have some negative repercussions down the road &#8212; but I also think the GOP has made it clear that they are more the Party of &#8220;No&#8221; than the Parth of &#8220;Let&#8217;s Try to Govern Together.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~r\/UsatodaycomTravel-TopStories\/~3\/CCgFhQUWgTk\/2009-04-22-dinosaur-monument_N.htm\">Dinosaur National Monument gets funds for visitor center<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=20917\">Review: Jim Butcher\u2019s Turn Coat Goes to Eleven<\/a> &#8211; Okay, the one thing I&#8217;ll grant the Kindle &#8212; it&#8217;s cheaper than hardcover and faster than waiting for the paperback version &#8230;  Me want.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvshowsondvd.com\/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=11756\">Site News: Warner Offers TV-HD-DVD Upgrades to TV-BDs for Smallville,  Sopranos, Planet Earth and More!<\/a> &#8211; I think this is a very clever move on their part.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.dailykos.com\/~r\/dailykos\/index\/~3\/2XVrLcTxSTY\/-Bush-Administration-Pushed-Torture-In-Attempt-To-Find-Iraq-al-Qaida-Links\">Bush Administration Pushed Torture In Attempt To Find Iraq-al Qaida Links<\/a> &#8211; So not only did they cook and cherry-pick intelligence to support what they &#8220;knew&#8221; (wanted to assert) was true, they were willing to keep torturing people to prove it.  Spiffy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/04\/which-sci-fi-tv-pilots-wi.php\">Which sci-fi TV pilots will live and which will die? We take a look<\/a> &#8211; I sadly confess that none of these sound very hopeful.  And almost all of them are painfully derivative.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ICanHasCheezburger\/~3\/OaOv0ti9yAk\/\">It had taken months of sneaking: Cheezburger Network<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/T0zWRguCpvU\/antigay-virginia-wingnut-descends-on-uncs-campus-today\">Anti-gay Virginia wingnut descends on UNC&#8217;s campus today<\/a> &#8211; As an apparently lily-white person who thinks Western Civ is pretty keen, I&#8217;m also sharply aware of the ethnic and religious elements in my background that would have had me toward the top of these guys&#8217; lists at various times.  What a bunch of idjits.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whatwouldjackdo.net\/2009\/04\/im-a-blithering-idiotand-i-vot.html\">I&#8217;m a blithering idiot&#8230;and I vote!!!<\/a> &#8211; Good Lord.  There&#8217;s Reality-Challenged and then there&#8217;s Unbelievable.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/Hs6flb_LyA0\/opening-skinners-box.html\">Opening Skinner&#8217;s Box: ten psych experiments that remade the world<\/a> &#8211; Need to add this to the Wish List.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~3\/yNhTPfQZN28\/\">Pareidolia poser<\/a> &#8211; Our brains are great at spotting patterns.  That&#8217;s pro-survival.  Except when it&#8217;s not.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/04\/22\/the-eagletec-usb-nano-flash-drive-it-doesnt-get-much-smaller\/\">The EagleTec USB Nano flash drive: it doesn\u2019t get much smaller<\/a> &#8211; I think this gets into the category of &#8220;way too scary given how much you can so easily misplace.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1162\">04\/20\/09 PHD comic: &#8216;Tales from the Road &#8211; MD Anderson Cancer Center&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; Good stuff.  Even cancer (research) can be &#8230; well, I wouldn&#8217;t say funny, but approachable and entertaining.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/punditkitchen\/~3\/VBbTAfKIPjs\/\">ROCKET SCIENCE: Cheezburger Network<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/04\/21\/genesis-i-and-ii-the-facebook-versions\/\">Genesis I and II: The Facebook Versions<\/a> &#8211; Oh, my, this is amusing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/dispatches\/2009\/04\/lies_about_torture.php\">Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Lies About Torture<\/a> &#8211; What?  A former Senior CIA Official self-servingly exaggerated the truth in an anonymous interview?  I&#8217;m shocked, shocked I tell you!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/swordmastersapprentice.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/how-much.html\">How much?<\/a> &#8211; An interesting article both on teaching something that requires long study for proficiency, and, indirectly, on fencing itself.  I took a couple years of fencing at Pomona, under Francis Zold, and enjoyed it quite a bit, even though I knew I wasn&#8217;t going to progress beyond the limited amount I&#8217;d learned.<\/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;. Colorado Ski Train halts operation after 69 years &#8211; Huh &#8212; well, that&#8217;s certainly a shame. News Analysis: Democrats Consider Bypassing G.O.P. on Health Care Plan &#8211; I think this will have some negative repercussions down the road &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/22\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-22-april-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 22 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":[852,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-cinematic-univese","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14614","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=14614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50772,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14614\/revisions\/50772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}