{"id":14795,"date":"2009-05-14T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-14-may-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T13:56:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T20:56:09","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thursday-14-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-14-may-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 14 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.kottke.org\/09\/05\/triptrop\">Triptrop: jason@kottke.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/x3IQ2GlptWA\/nh-governor-lynch-to-sign-on-to-marriage-equality-with-additional-religious-protections\">Breaking &#8211; NH Governor Lynch to sign marriage equality bill &#8211; with additional religious protections: Pam Spaulding<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.nytimes.com\/click.phdo?i=8fb5f2903cd3b73caa0e11ada5e062d9\">New Hampshire Set to Approve Same-Sex Marriage: By ABBY GOODNOUGH<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/14\/fox-news-teaparty-2\/\">Fox News pumps Tea Party 2.0.: Ryan Powers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/blogspot\/MKuf\/~3\/TvXKCkOa5hI\/this-is-your-pilot-speaking-now-about.html\">This is your pilot speaking.  Now, about that holding pattern&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; From this morning&#8217;s Google service problem.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/xV36akjXXZk\/device-remover-is-an-absurdly-powerful-device-manager\">Device Remover is an Absurdly Powerful Device Manager [Downloads]<\/a> &#8211; This sounds both very cool and a <b>great<\/b> way to frell up your system!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/scienceblogs\/cognitivedaily\/~3\/GBZ1Sqop1uA\/casual_fridays_we_cant_tell_wh.php\">Casual Fridays: We don&#8217;t get what a song is &#8216;about&#8217; without being told  (updated w\/answers to quiz)<\/a> &#8211; I feel this way about poetry sometimes.  Regardless, I don&#8217;t listen to classical music to get those sorts of images poked into my head &#8212; I listen to it because I enjoy it.  I see these sorts of themes more as &#8220;inspired by&#8221; than &#8220;depictions of.&#8221;  With the exception, perhaps, of that barking dog in Vivaldi&#8217;s &#8220;Four Seasons&#8221; (Summer?).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~3\/HTrTP7B0_U0\/no-more-excuses-grandpa-gmail-now-imports-mail-and-contacts-from-hotmail-yahoo-and-aol\">No More Excuses, Grandpa: Gmail Now Imports Mail *and* Contacts from  Hotmail, Yahoo, and AOL [Gmail]<\/a> &#8211; This is pretty cool &#8212; but doesn&#8217;t address the issue of loading up large disk-based client message stores (e.g., Thunderbird).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2009\/05\/thinking-again-about-those-photos.html\">Thinking Again About Those Photos &#8211; And Obama&#8217;s Rope-A-Dope Ways | By Andrew Sullivan<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m hoping it&#8217;s as clever as this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/05\/news-briefs-dollhouse-not.php\">News briefs: Dollhouse not dead, Up at Cannes<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;m not dead yet!&#8221; &#8220;You&#8217;re not foolin&#8217; anyone!&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.dailykos.com\/~r\/dailykos\/index\/~3\/utxppf_Q6pw\/-AR-Sen:-GOP-candidate-calls-Schumer-that-Jew\">AR-Sen: GOP candidate calls Schumer &#8220;that Jew&#8221;: Jed Lewison <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5253423\/incredibly-strange-landscapes-created-by-humans\">Incredibly Strange Landscapes Created By Humans [Aerial Photography]<\/a> &#8211; Ooooh &#8230; very cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sinfest.net\/comikaze\/comics\/2009-05-14.gif\">&#8220;God Dammit To Hell&#8221; &#8211; Thu, 14 May 2009<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, there are days I wish &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/IMECqLyEXds\/kindle-owners-start.html\">Kindle owners start to lose text-to-speech on purchased books &#8212; how do  DRM-free Kindle books work?: Cory Doctorow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/SpMfV67VaPI\/riaampaa-enforcers-p.html\">RIAA\/MPAA hit men private enforcement site indexed by Google<\/a> &#8211; Heh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/05\/release-the-photos.html\">Release The Photos: hilzoy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/criminalcrackdown.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/everything-old.html\">Everything Old&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; I have a full set of mint Empire glasses, accrued from winning lunchtime register sales contests when I was working at BK.  I plan to finance Katherine&#8217;s college education with them, someday.<\/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;. Triptrop: jason@kottke.org Breaking &#8211; NH Governor Lynch to sign marriage equality bill &#8211; with additional religious protections: Pam Spaulding New Hampshire Set to Approve Same-Sex Marriage: By ABBY GOODNOUGH Fox News pumps Tea Party 2.0.: Ryan Powers This is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-14-may-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 14 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":[718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24019,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/24\/the-marriage-equality-conspiracy-revealed.html","url_meta":{"origin":14795,"position":0},"title":"The Marriage Equality Conspiracy Revealed!","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 24-Nov-11 10:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, marriage equality is all a great conspiracy ... but not by all those gay men you see marching around out there in their leather and rainbow flags, but by the National Organization of Women who will establish \"feminist marriages\" where women will marry each other for tax breaks while\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":51633,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/28\/another-positive-christian-response-to-the-marriage-equality-ruling.html","url_meta":{"origin":14795,"position":1},"title":"Another positive Christian response to the marriage equality ruling","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 28-Jun-15 10:18am","format":false,"excerpt":"Drawing the distinction between civil rights and personal religious beliefs. 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