{"id":14669,"date":"2009-05-01T18:00:31","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-01-may-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-05-01T18:00:31","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T00:00:31","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-01-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-01-may-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 01 May 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:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/04\/28\/michele-bachmann-links-sw_n_192493.html\">Michele Bachmann Links Swine Flu To Democrats, Gets History Wrong (VIDEO)<\/a> &#8211; Say you were Michelle Bachmann.  And say you were stark, raving bonkers.  But I repeat myself.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorktower.com\/2009\/04\/21\/dork-tower-april-21-2009-app-ter-the-goldrush\/\">Dork Tower April 21, 2009 &#8211; App-ter the Goldrush<\/a> &#8211; Heh.  Facebook = AOL does Blogs + Twitter with Extra Helpings of MEMES!  (That said, it&#8217;s got a lot of folks on it that aren&#8217;t anywhere else, so it&#8217;s not like I&#8217;m dumping it.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap090429.html\">GRB 090423: The Farthest Explosion Yet Measured<\/a> &#8211; Amazing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/right-wing-reaction-souters-retirement\">Right Wing Reaction to Souter&#8217;s Retirement<\/a> &#8211; EEK!  OBAMA WILL APPOINT TEH EVIL ACTIVIST EXTREMISTS!  TEH LIBERALZ! TEH NANNY STATEZ! TEH GAYZ!  EXTREEEEEME!  TEH ABORTIONISTS! TEH TRANSNATIONALISTS!  EXTREEEEEEME!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/04\/30\/jindal-saints\/\">Jindal spares money for New Orleans Saints while slashing health care and  education funding.<\/a> &#8211; Remember &#8212; the GOP is the party of Fiscal Conservatism!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/f67SgKikyIw\/mental_exhaustion.php\">Mental Exhaustion [The Frontal Cortex]<\/a> &#8211; Hey, gimme some of that Placebo drink!  You got it in diet?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/magazine\/8013859.stm\">The words in the mental cupboard &#8211; BBC NEWS | UK | Magazine<\/a> &#8211; A million words in the English language?  Cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.nytimes.com\/click.phdo?i=fd0dd0aee163897b228de5c6ba5a7c42\">Souter Said to Be Leaving Court in June<\/a> &#8211; Just when you thought the political frenzy in Washington couldn&#8217;t get any more frenzied &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iwastetoomuchtimeatwork.blogspot.com\/2009\/04\/at-least-he-is-realistic.html\">At least he is realistic<\/a> &#8211; You have been warned.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hijinksensue.com\/2009\/04\/15\/when-memes-attack\/\">When Memes Attack<\/a> &#8211; Bwah-ha-ha!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/the_writers_type.php\">The Writer&#8217;s Type<\/a> &#8211; I agree the new logo looks very nice, but as obscure as the old one was it simply reeked of &#8220;tradition&#8221; (in a good way), rather than &#8220;design.&#8221;  It&#8217;s a shame to lose it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hijinksensue.com\/2009\/04\/10\/monsters-llc-a-subsidiary-of-newscorp\/\">Monsters LLC, A Subsidiary Of Newscorp<\/a> &#8211; This explains so much &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/simplefeed.consumerreports.org\/rsrc\/link\/_\/salad_or_fries_how_the_healthy_option_can_outwit_154932013?f=79043330-01de-11de-3025-003048605010\">Salad or fries? How the \u2018healthy option\u2019 can outwit us<\/a> &#8211; Interesting.  Just <b>considering<\/b> eating healthy makes us <b>think<\/b> we&#8217;re doing so, giving us permission to choose less healthy food.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/site.pfaw.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=media_2009_04_nom_board_member_advocates_overthrow_of_government\">NOM Board Member Advocates Criminalization of Homosexuality, Overthrow of Government &#8211; People For the American Way<\/a> &#8211; Orson Scott Card has long had a rep for being a bit looney.  This &#8230; confirms it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gather.com\/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977664243&amp;grpId=3659174697241980&amp;nav=Groupspace\">The Likely Effect of Proposition 8 (and&#8230; | Gather<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t think this is particularly likely &#8212; but it&#8217;s quite plausible.<\/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;. Michele Bachmann Links Swine Flu To Democrats, Gets History Wrong (VIDEO) &#8211; Say you were Michelle Bachmann. And say you were stark, raving bonkers. But I repeat myself. Dork Tower April 21, 2009 &#8211; App-ter the Goldrush &#8211; Heh. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-01-may-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 01 May 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-14669","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":19166,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/09\/teh-cute-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":14669,"position":0},"title":"TEH CUTE!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Nov-10 9:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Baby Otter! 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