{"id":14971,"date":"2009-06-06T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-07T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/06\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-06-june-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T18:07:38","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T00:07:38","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-saturday-06-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/06\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-06-june-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 06 June 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.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=31702\">LotR re-read: Fellowship movie re-watch<\/a> &#8211; This series of articles has been stepping through the books chapter-by-chapter.  Having finished the first book, she&#8217;s looking at the movie, and there&#8217;s a lot of goodness here.  I do still want to have an all-day LotR movie party &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=31896\">David Eddings (1931-2009), In Memoriam<\/a> &#8211; I read and moderately enjoyed The Belgariad, though not enough to get into the rest of his work.  Certainly a man of much imagination and productivity who took the Tolkienesque epic and made it his own thing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/earthnews\/5389278\/Obamas-green-guru-calls-for-white-roofs.html\">Obama&#8217;s green guru calls for white roofs &#8211; Telegraph<\/a> &#8211; An interesting suggestion, but while I&#8217;d suspect the greatest resistance would be from homeowner associations (&#8220;it just wouldn&#8217;t fit with the aesthetics of the neighborhood&#8221;), the collection of wingnuts, Randians, and scientific illiterates in the article&#8217;s comments is truly breathtaking.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2009-06-04-n57.html\">Google&#8217;s Page Speed Optimization Add-on<\/a> &#8211; Making a note of this one.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2009-06-05-n63.html\">Retro Google<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;s pretty fun, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2009-06-05-n51.html\">Google&#8217;s Tetris Logo<\/a> &#8211; Very cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/09\/06\/tom-swifties\">Tom Swifties<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;I love these,&#8221; said Dave, too lazy to think of a punny adverb to use.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mightygirl.com\/2009\/06\/05\/ask-maggie-nine-toddler-things-i-cant-live-without\/\">Ask Maggie: Nine Toddler Things I Can\u2019t Live Without<\/a> &#8211; Best advice here (though it&#8217;s all fun) is to decide up front on a brand of sippy cup and just super-saturate your cupboard with them.  No fumbling for disparate pieces or similarly-threaded caps.<\/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;. LotR re-read: Fellowship movie re-watch &#8211; This series of articles has been stepping through the books chapter-by-chapter. Having finished the first book, she&#8217;s looking at the movie, and there&#8217;s a lot of goodness here. I do still want to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/06\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-06-june-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 06 June 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":[382,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":155739,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2021\/12\/21\/movie-review-fellowship-of-the-ring-again-2001.html","url_meta":{"origin":14971,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &#8220;Fellowship of the Ring&#8221; again (2001)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Dec-21 1:16am","format":false,"excerpt":"Twenty years later, I still love these movies, especially the first one.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lord of the Rings \/ Hobbit&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lord of the Rings \/ Hobbit","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/lord-of-the-rings"},"img":{"alt_text":"Fellowship of the Ring poster","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fellowship-of-the-Ring-poster.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fellowship-of-the-Ring-poster.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fellowship-of-the-Ring-poster.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Fellowship-of-the-Ring-poster.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":136222,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/05\/we-almost-got-a-2-hour-tarantino-lord-of-the-rings-movie.html","url_meta":{"origin":14971,"position":1},"title":"We almost got a 2-hour Tarantino &#8220;Lord of the Rings&#8221; movie","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-May-18 3:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Actually, I'd be fascinated to see a Tarantino LotR movie, but this was the loathsome Harvey Weinstein trying to convince Peter Jackson to reduce his LotR ambitions to a gutted 2-hour fantasy adventure flick, threatening to bring in Tarantino or someone else instead to make the film. 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