{"id":14711,"date":"2009-05-05T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-05-may-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T08:23:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T15:23:47","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-05-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-05-may-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 05 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:\/\/econ4u.org\/blog\/?p=587\">Poll: How many millions are in a trillion? &#8211; Econ4U.org<\/a> &#8211; Pretty soon, you&#8217;re talking about real money &#8230; I think.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/tpmelectioncentral\/~3\/juxD26bb0SQ\/specter-wants-coleman-to-win-in-minnesota.php\">Specter Wants Coleman To Win In Minnesota: Eric Kleefeld<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/05\/vestas-makes-colorado-a-clean-energy-hub\/index.html\">Green Inc.: Colorado as Clean-Energy Hub: By JEREMY MILLER<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/04\/soldiers-hunt-for-jesus\/\">Al Jazeera report: U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan have Pashto Bibles, told to  \u2018hunt people for Jesus.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; (Insert sound of perfectly good teeth being ground away, just like we&#8217;re throwing away our chances to be seen as the good guys in Afghanistan.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TheDisneyBlog\/~3\/WAm_g7tlrHQ\/\">Star Tours 2.0 filming at last?<\/a> &#8211; Spiffy, though obviously it won&#8217;t be in place any time soon.  This remains one of my favorite Disney rides, but the lack of any long queues any more through the pre-show area (a shame, that) demonstrates that it needs refreshing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/05\/04\/why-is-this-man-shooting-grandma\/\">Why Is This Man Shooting Grandma?<\/a> &#8211; I can understand the question of why we would classify certain crimes as more heinous than others based on hatred to toward the victim&#8217;s group.  But we already do this for race, origin, religion, and gender, without criminals going out an blowing away Grandma.  This sort of propaganda against adding sexuality (etc.) to the hate crime bill is either bewilderingly ignorant or intentionally deceptive.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/mjEYgzrxU8c\/online-iq-test-is-really-a-stupid-mobile-phone-download-scam\">Online IQ Test Is Really A Stupid Mobile Phone Download Scam [Facebook]<\/a> &#8211; Yuppers.  I went through this test just last night, in fact, and closed it when I got to this (post-test) screen.  FB apps ask for a dangerous amount of access, but this one is just pure scam.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/05\/04\/911-police-officer-r.html\">911 police officer refuses to help girl who calls about her dying father because she said the F word before the call was answered &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Not our finest hour&#8221; indeed.  Idjits.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/IiW760YSaKE\/russia_to_build_floating_arcti.php\">Russia to build floating Arctic nuclear stations [Greg Laden&#8217;s Blog]<\/a> &#8211; I mean, what could possibly go wrong?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/eDiagrRQo3w\/clay-shirky-debunks.html\">Clay Shirky Debunks the WSJ&#8217;s &#8220;Bloggers For Hire&#8221; Feature<\/a> &#8211; Fun with statistics!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/WT-by2kR9d4\/scalia-scoffs-at-cal.html\">Scalia Scoffs at Calls for More Data Privacy Protection, Students Surprise  Him With Dossier of His Own Data.<\/a> &#8211; Heh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spindirect.com\/product_order.php?productid=16618&amp;s=rfrgen2&amp;sessid=582387ce5c3672f15253c099008f4ce6\">Buy Rocket Fishing Rod Gen 2 Online | The Official Rocket Fishing Rod Gen 2 Website!<\/a> &#8211; Okay, two things.  (1) The site info (Rocket Fishing Rod) is the goofiest product on the market (&#8220;as seen on TV!&#8221;).  (2) I&#8217;m tickled beyond describing that the page metadata, picked up here by Google Reader, is for a completely different product: &#8220;Create fantastic designs with Pixos!  Create Pixos Patterns on the tray, pop into water, and voila. No ironing needed!  Choose a range of Pixos Colours. Buy Pixos online today!&#8221;  Too fun.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marn.diaryland.com\/shortbus.html\">Marn&#8217;s Big Adventure<\/a> &#8211; Mimi remains leery of even the back door, though she seems to have caught the habit of Indy&#8217;s of scratching at it, regardless of her willingness to go through it when opened.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/200905010042\">Flashback: Media conservatives denounced judicial filibusters | Media Matters for America<\/a> &#8211; Opportunistic hypocrites.  Why would anyone pay them any attention, except that they pander to people&#8217;s fears.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rssfeeds.usatoday.com\/~r\/UsatodaycomTravel-TopStories\/~3\/A-hjU3isTtQ\/2009-05-04-hawaii-hotel-occupancy_N.htm\">Hawaii hotel occupancy hits lowest level in 20 years<\/a> &#8211; Sounds like a good year to travel to Hawaii!<\/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;. Poll: How many millions are in a trillion? &#8211; Econ4U.org &#8211; Pretty soon, you&#8217;re talking about real money &#8230; I think. Specter Wants Coleman To Win In Minnesota: Eric Kleefeld Green Inc.: Colorado as Clean-Energy Hub: By JEREMY MILLER &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-05-may-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 05 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":[263,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137580,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/02\/donald-trump-the-pro-soviet-invasion-of-afghanistan-president.html","url_meta":{"origin":14711,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump, the Pro-Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan President","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 2-Jan-19 11:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some days you just can't make this stuff up.'In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded neighboring Afghanistan. The American interpretation of this invasion, shared by both parties, is that the Soviets were propping up a faltering communist client state, following the \u201cBrezhnev Doctrine,\u201d which held that any country that had gone\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":32808,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/07\/it-costs-money-to-move-out-too.html","url_meta":{"origin":14711,"position":1},"title":"It costs money to move out, too","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 7-Mar-13 9:52am","format":false,"excerpt":"Withdrawing from Afghanistan won't be as logistically simple as loading the troops onto planes and flying away. \u00a0We've been shipping equipment there for a decade; it's not going to magically stop being something we need to worry about.Reshared post from +George Wiman$36bn in military equipment in Afghanistan. Torch it? Or\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":536,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/09\/24\/afghanistan_is.html","url_meta":{"origin":14711,"position":2},"title":"Afghanistan Is Like Nothing You&#8217;ve Ever Seen, Soviet Vets Say","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 24-Sep-01 9:15am","format":false,"excerpt":"Afghanistan Is Like Nothing You've Ever Seen, Soviet Vets Say A rather sobering tale. The Soviets had their own problems, of course. But, still .......","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitical Brouhaha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3813,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/26\/afghanistan.html","url_meta":{"origin":14711,"position":3},"title":"Afghanistan","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Mar-03 8:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yeah, we're not doing anything there. Right....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitical Brouhaha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6966,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/11\/22\/some_good_news.html","url_meta":{"origin":14711,"position":4},"title":"Some good news from Afghanistan","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 22-Nov-04 3:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Taliban weren't as thorough at \"sanitizing\" Afghanistan's heritage as folks feared. More than 22,000 ancient cultural treasures from Afghanistan, feared lost or destroyed after decades of war and Taliban...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitical Brouhaha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":970,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/30\/death_of_innoce.html","url_meta":{"origin":14711,"position":5},"title":"Death of innocents","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 30-Oct-01 6:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"One of InstaPundit's readers has an interesting metaphor for civilian casualties in Afghanistan. It's worth reading....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitical Brouhaha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14711","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=14711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47479,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14711\/revisions\/47479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}