{"id":14832,"date":"2009-05-20T18:00:39","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-20-may-2009.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T15:05:42","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T21:05:42","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-20-may-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-20-may-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 20 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:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/gxHebGaEAfE\/pawlenty-id-like-a-second_n_205999.html\">Pawlenty: I&#8217;d Like A Second Senator But It&#8217;s Out Of My Hands: The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/j-walkblog.com\/index.php?\/weblog\/posts\/kindle_blog_dreaming\/\">Kindle Blog Dreaming<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/05\/me_on_full-body.html\">Me on Full-Body Scanners in Airports: schneier<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2009\/05\/20\/romulan-ships-in-the-latest-star-trek-online-screens\/\">Romulan ships in the latest Star Trek Online screens<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m interested in playing, but there&#8217;s plenty of joy in looking at this stuff.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baekdal.com\/articles\/Usability\/password-security-usability\/\">\u2018this is fun\u2019 Is A More Secure Password Than \u2018J4fS&lt;2\u2019<\/a> &#8211; This is fascinating &#8212; as well as fun. Too-difficult passwords are highly secure, but promote security leaks by literally forcing someone to write them down on a piece of paper (especially when you are on a system that expires passwords every 90 days or something). Some good advice here. Maybe I&#8217;ll pass it on to my company security folks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/20\/inhofe-gitmo\/\">Inhofe: Terrorists Already Incarcerated In The U.S. Were Just \u2018Criminals\u2019: Ali Frick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/20\/durbin-respect-prison-guards\/\">Durbin to Republicans: \u2018You ought to have a little more respect\u2019 for American corrections officers.<\/a> &#8211; Riiiight &#8230; the gazillions of horrible, awful criminals the GOP loves to support being locked away haven&#8217;t at all trained corrections officers to handle, well, high security prisoners. Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/05\/20\/gingrich-hoekstra\/\">Gingrich: Only Republicans \u2014 Like Me \u2014 Are Allowed To Accuse The CIA Of Misleading Congress: Think Progress<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivethirtyeight.com\/2009\/05\/having-daughters-rather-than-sons-makes.html\">Having Daughters Rather Than Sons Makes You More Liberal<\/a> &#8211; Margie says this explains me. Though not, perhaps, Dick Cheney.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=104310443&amp;ft=1&amp;f=1001\">Prayer May Reshape Your Brain \u2026 And Your Reality<\/a> &#8211; Interesting. I need to read the full series.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ForYourEntertainment\/~3\/to-5vallB-w\/thanks-sarah.html\">Dueling church marquees<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s like the Internet, only all centered.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/cI8hwEg1oeA\/infamous-review.ars\">A man afraid to run away: Ars reviews inFamous<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m hearing a lot of good buzz on this game (so to speak). If only I didn&#8217;t have other gaming addictions.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/kIYS4YyKtiE\/cable-let-us-experiment-with-metered-internet.ars\">Cable: let us experiment with metered Internet<\/a> &#8211; As Les says, &#8220;I&#8217;m perfectly willing to let them experiment with metered Internet so long as they&#8217;re willing to allow me to experiment with their competitors.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/david-neiwert\/ann-coulter-attacks-faith-notre-dame#\">Ann Coulter attacks faith of Notre Dame officials, but gets rattled when called on the carpet | Crooks and Liars<\/a> &#8211; Ann Coulter is &#8230; reality-challenged. Or a doofus, take your pick.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/frcs-lou-engle-less-call\">FRC&#8217;s Lou Engle-Less &#8220;Call&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; The Christian Right is now comparing itself to the Black population in the US in the 50s and 60s, in terms of being discrminated against? Yeesh. Get back to me when you&#8217;re required to sit in the back of the bus, or drink from separate water fountains, guys.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/ending-discrimination-against-gays-itself-discrimination\">Ending Discrimination Against Gays Is Itself Discrimination<\/a> &#8211; Actually, the Right is perfectly correct &#8212; this idea conflicts with DoMA (though, as a another law, it can supercede DoMA however it wishes). The answer, though, is really much simpler than that &#8212; we should repeal DoMA.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderdude.com\/2009\/05\/so_let_me_get_this_straight.html\">So, let me get this straight&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; 1. It&#8217;s reasonable to want a plan. 2. Not all Gitmo inmates are proven terrorists (that&#8217;s part of the problem, people). 3. It&#8217;s goofy to equate &#8220;putting terrorists into US prisons&#8221; with &#8220;releasing terrorists in the United states.&#8221; 4. Reid really seriously needs to think through what he&#8217;s saying before he start frantically rambling about incoherently.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/man-vs-jury-duty\/\">Man vs. Jury Duty<\/a> &#8211; Well, now I want to know what the result was.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.positiveliberty.com\/2009\/05\/go-team-go.html\">Go, Team, Go!: Jason Kuznicki<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/scienceblogs\/pharyngula\/~3\/mtw2ckaszEQ\/darwinius_masillae.php\">Darwinius masillae<\/a> &#8211; Very cool fossil news &#8212; but keep the hyperbole down to a low simmer, folks. If nothing else, we know that what we can learn from such things sometimes changes over time, and the last thing we need is giving the creationists a field day if there&#8217;s some sort of reassessment of this find. &#8220;See? Evolution is wrong and a hoax! Even the scientists keep changing their minds!&#8221;<\/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;. Pawlenty: I&#8217;d Like A Second Senator But It&#8217;s Out Of My Hands: The Huffington Post News Team Kindle Blog Dreaming Me on Full-Body Scanners in Airports: schneier Romulan ships in the latest Star Trek Online screens &#8211; I don&#8217;t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-20-may-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 20 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":[100,22,17,25,23,9,358,16,27,110,6,360,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dolts","category-gaming","category-homeland-security","category-gay-stuff","category-parenting","category-politics-law","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-religion","category-religious-zanies","category-science","category-media-tv-star-trek","category-virii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135129,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/20\/honest-trailers-star-trek-next-generation.html","url_meta":{"origin":14832,"position":0},"title":"Honest Trailers does &#8220;Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Oct-17 10:14pm","format":false,"excerpt":"To be fair, TNG ran for 178 episodes over 7 seasons, so there was plenty of time for bad episodes, repeated tropes, and odd character business that looks a lot more odd when repeated back to back. 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