{"id":14816,"date":"2009-05-18T18:00:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T00:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-18-may-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-05-18T18:00:34","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T00:00:34","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-18-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-18-may-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 18 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:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Pvponline\/~3\/E52d7R8WVGA\/\">Sacrifices Were Made<\/a> &#8211; Yes.  Yes, this explains a lot.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/19\/health\/19well.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=print\">Well &#8211; Kept From a Dying Partner\u2019s Bedside &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; I hope the hospital Loses. It&#8217;s. Ass. in court.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scifiwire.com\/2009\/05\/fox-execs-explain-why-the.php\">Fox execs explain why they kept Dollhouse and killed Sarah Connor | SCI FI Wire<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;d stopped watching SCC earlier this season, not because the show was poor but because I was running out of (limited) watching time.  It&#8217;s a shame to see it go &#8212; though I&#8217;m tickled by Dollhouse being picked up.  It&#8217;s almost like Fox figured if they canceled another Joss show, they might have to go into a Witness Protection program or something &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/18\/limbaugh-responds-to-price-how-the-hell-can-price-say-powell-is-better-for-gop-than-cheney\/\">Limbaugh responds to Price: \u2018How the hell\u2019 can Price say Powell is better for GOP than Cheney?: Ryan Powers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/05\/the-uighurs-4.html\">The Uighurs: 4: hilzoy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/05\/know-your-onion.html\">Know Your Onion: Eric Martin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/when_should_the_state_override_parents_on_the_issue_of_a_childs_health_care\/\">When should the state override parents on the issue of a child\u2019s health care?<\/a> &#8211; This is one of those cases where personal liberty &#8212; even the liberty to be stupid &#8212; collides with societal priorities.  Rarely are there simple rules that make it an easy problem to solve.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/IWillTeachYouToBeRich\/~3\/7nTZRWm5lwA\/\">Travel full-time for less than $14,000 per year<\/a> &#8211; Some great advice here, and not just for folks traveling on a tight budget.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/whedonesque.com\/comments\/20365\">&#8220;Epitaph One&#8221; will be aired on Fox says Dollverse.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/slashfilm\/~3\/_8xcWbACohE\/\">Tomorrowland Movie Details Revealed<\/a> &#8211; Sounds like it could be entertaining in spite of itself.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/ssKFoce2NlU\/your-credit-card-company-is-building-a-psychological-profile-of-you\">Your Credit Card Company Is Building A Psychological Profile Of You [Credit  Cards]<\/a> &#8211; This isn&#8217;t necessarily a bad thing, and it&#8217;s certainly not new (Fred the Grocer used similar discretion and evaluation, and probably a lot less scientifically, to decide whether to extend you credit).  But it&#8217;s still kind of creepy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/p-7z-y4Tma8\/food-companies-our-food-probably-isnt-safe-enough-for-your-microwave-good-luck\">Food Companies: Our Food Probably Isn&#8217;t Safe Enough For Your Microwave. Good  Luck! [Food Safety]<\/a> &#8211; Riiiiight. I&#8217;m going to use a food thermometer on my bloody pot pie?  Multiple places?  Give  me a break.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/v_4fDayPF-E\/sony-pictures-ceo-no.html\">Sony Pictures CEO: &#8220;Nothing good from the Internet, period.&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Well, there&#8217;s one reason why Sony is in a steady state of decline against its competitors.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/YKiIhEFe1uY\/rumsfeld-sent-bush-creepy-top-secret.html\">Rumsfeld sent Bush creepy Top Secret religious updates about the Iraq war<\/a> &#8211; In case you haven&#8217;t clicked through to the GQ story, some images of the briefing covers.  Disgusting.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/18\/business\/energy-environment\/18oilsands.html?partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Report Weighs Environmental Fallout of Canada\u2019s Oil Sands &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; My company does a lot of work in Canada around this business, so I have a vested interest.  But I do think that the production and use of this resource both needs to be on the table (as a supply) and directly recognized (as a greenhouse gas source).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/lig28vbmMQg\/echoes-of-the-bible-obama_b_204484.html\">Aaron Zelinsky: Echoes of the Bible: Obama&#8217;s Notre Dame Address<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  And here all the protesters made me think he was going to leap on stage, eating a live baby and calling for all Christians to be thrown to the lions or something.  Imagine that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap090510.html\">M31: The Andromeda Galaxy<\/a> &#8211; A classic image (I can hear the old &#8220;Outer Limits&#8221; end titles music playing in my head).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/time-has-come-panic\">The Time Has Come to Panic<\/a> &#8211; Okay, there&#8217;s rhetorical hyperbole and there&#8217;s utter, frenzied, losing of one&#8217;s mind.  It certainly seems like the latter is what&#8217;s happening here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/4XAsOM-YsQ8\/notebooks-made-from.html\">Notebooks made from punchcards<\/a> &#8211; These are cool.  I &#8220;rescued&#8221; several boxes of unpunched Hollerith cards from my workplace when they retired the equipment.  Made for good note cards.<\/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;. Sacrifices Were Made &#8211; Yes. Yes, this explains a lot. Well &#8211; Kept From a Dying Partner\u2019s Bedside &#8211; NYTimes.com &#8211; I hope the hospital Loses. It&#8217;s. Ass. in court. Fox execs explain why they kept Dollhouse and killed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-18-may-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 18 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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-14816","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":12356,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/22\/dollhouse.html","url_meta":{"origin":14816,"position":0},"title":"Dollhouse","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 22-May-08 5:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"Plenty of news on the new Joss Whedon Dollhouse series, including (via Kate) a spiffy trailer: \u00a0 There's also an article here discussing the general plot\u00a0and cast and all\u00a0(but ......","rel":"","context":"In &quot;TV&quot;","block_context":{"text":"TV","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-tv"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12164,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/01\/joss_on_fox.html","url_meta":{"origin":14816,"position":1},"title":"Joss on Fox?","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-Nov-07 9:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"Interview with Joss Whedon on his new series, Dollhouse, which will star Eliza Dushku.\u00a0 It sounds interesting (if vaguely River-like in overtone) -- but ... 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