{"id":14692,"date":"2009-05-04T18:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/04\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-04-may-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-05-04T18:00:23","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T00:00:23","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-04-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/04\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-04-may-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 04 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.atheistrev.com\/2009\/05\/tennessee-considering-bills-to.html\">Tennessee Considering Bills to Authorize Church-Specific License Plates<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  This is several different colors of wrong.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/open-source\/news\/2009\/05\/mozilla-ponders-policy-change-after-firefox-extension-battle.ars\">Mozilla ponders policy change after Firefox extension battle &#8211; Ars Technica<\/a> &#8211; With great power comes great responsibility &#8212; or you won&#8217;t have the power for very long.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/Jese9pxLUSI\/attention-your-insurance-doesnt-cover-damage-from-corpse-fluid\">Attention: Your Insurance Doesn&#8217;t Cover Damage From Corpse Fluid [Oh My God]<\/a> &#8211; Well, I certainly need to talk to my agent about this!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/05\/03\/microwaving-a-cellph.html\">Microwaving a cellphone is surprisingly cool<\/a> &#8211; Well, that&#8217;s certainly interesting.  And it explains a lot.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/05\/04\/visit-to-a-smoulderi.html\">Visit to a smouldering coal-fire ghost-town<\/a> &#8211; Very cool, in an horrific sort of way.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/OsZxxpsoEOE\/new-gop-people-learn-more-from.html\">The &#8220;New&#8221; GOP:  \u201cpeople learn more from listening to Rush Limbaugh than they do in high school or college.\u201d<\/a> &#8211; I think the headline says it all about the problems that the GOP (new or old) has.  Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobreakingnews.com\/2009\/05\/motorcyclist-killed-by-driver-painting-fingernails.html\">Coroner: Driver painting nails kills biker &#8211; Chicago Breaking News<\/a> &#8211; Okay, generally horrible &#8212; but yet another reminder that cell phone users aren&#8217;t the only ones fatally distracting themselves from driving.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5236359\/eccleston-shows-us-how-supervillainy-is-done-in-new-gi-joe-trailer\">Eccleston Shows Us How Supervillainy Is Done, In New G.I. Joe Trailer [G.I.  Joe]<\/a> &#8211; Okay, yeah, this sounds fun.  Though I don&#8217;t recall the Joes using powered armor.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/05\/03\/michele-bachmann-lies-about-a-founding-father-obama-etc\/\">Michele Bachmann Lies About a Founding Father, Obama, etc.<\/a> &#8211; With all the goofballs who have been elected from districts that I reside in, I&#8217;m pleased to say that Bachmann, at least, isn&#8217;t my representative (shudders).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0VSvOyHDp7E&amp;feature=related\">YouTube &#8211; Coming Home on Friday, Going to Work on Monday<\/a> &#8211; Heh.  Yeah, that&#39;s about the size of it.  (via Jim &amp; Ginger)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=0VSvOyHDp7E&amp;feature=related\">YouTube &#8211; Coming Home on Friday, Going to Work on Monday<\/a> &#8211; Heh.  Yeah, that&#39;s about the size of it.  (via Jim &amp; Ginger)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iYSyvIbTAJA\">YouTube &#8211; Wolverine (in 30 Seconds)<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, I had a feeling.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liveThe20Life\/~3\/Ip2wf8D4YKo\/\">Make Twitter Conversational with Twitoaster<\/a> &#8211; This is one of the few useful-founding Twitter extensions I&#8217;ve read of.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/09\/04\/times-hacked-poll\">Time&#8217;s hacked poll<\/a> &#8211; Of vague interest, except in the telling (first link) of how the group tried to break reCAPTCHA, but in the end could only brute-force their way around it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/09\/04\/gene-kelly-tap-dancing-on-roller-skates\">Gene Kelly tap dancing on roller skates<\/a> &#8211; Very cool.  I fell down just watching.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/EnTequilaEsVerdad\/~3\/10SCVSI6Lgc\/pork-pushers-demand-name-change-for.html\">Pork Pushers Demand Name Change for Swine Flu<\/a> &#8211; Names mean things.  Changing what we call something because the old name is too uncomfortably accurate is a bad idea.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/entequilaesverdad.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/happy-hour-discurso_03.html\">En Tequila Es Verdad: Happy Hour Discurso<\/a> &#8211; No, no, no, no, I&#8217;m sure that blocking a new FEMA head just prior to hurricane season is solely a matter of principle!<\/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;. Tennessee Considering Bills to Authorize Church-Specific License Plates &#8211; Wow. This is several different colors of wrong. Mozilla ponders policy change after Firefox extension battle &#8211; Ars Technica &#8211; With great power comes great responsibility &#8212; or you won&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/04\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-04-may-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 04 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-14692","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":1021,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/24\/time_passages_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":14692,"position":0},"title":"Time passages","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 24-Oct-01 4:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So we lost power at our office today. Actually, I suspect a big chunk of Denver West was knocked out -- certainly the signals along Colfax Blvd. were down for...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Job Jollies&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Job Jollies","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/job-jollies"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":49709,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/02\/27\/the-power-of-destruction.html","url_meta":{"origin":14692,"position":1},"title":"The Power of Destruction","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 27-Feb-15 3:57am","format":false,"excerpt":"The torturous human deaths ISIL have inflicted are certainly worse, but this is horrible in its own way. Originally shared by +Gnotic Pasta: first they kill tons of people for idiotic reasons, then the burn books in the Mosul library. now this. just sickening. 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