{"id":15011,"date":"2009-06-12T18:00:32","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T00:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-12-june-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T10:14:46","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T17:14:46","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-12-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-12-june-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 12 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:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Pvponline\/~3\/oBHgpn4luuY\/\">Binwin Bronzebottom shirt NOW SHIPPING!<\/a> &#8211; This is a thing of beauty.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/8096742.stm\">BBC NEWS | Middle East | Palestinian boy &#8216;hanged for collaboration&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; Sometimes I despair of understanding humanity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogula-rasa.com\/2009\/06\/10\/responsible-racists-backpedaling-cautiously\/\">Responsible Racists Backpedaling Cautiously<\/a> &#8211; See, this is what I love about the &#8220;responsible white separatist community&#8221; &#8212; they don&#8217;t condemn the attack as hateful, or evil, or murderous &#8230; they condemn it as &#8220;not helpful&#8221; or as &#8220;inefficient&#8221; or as making them &#8220;look bad.&#8221;  If it had been a more efficient, better-targeted, heroic attack and murder, apparently that would have been jim-dandy fine by them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/tonight_brings_the_end_of_analog_television_broadcasts\/\">Tonight brings the end of Analog Television broadcasts.<\/a> &#8211; Actually, I&#8217;d say that the easy addition of a digital converter box means that the old TVs <b>are<\/b> backwards-compatible &#8230; something that we may never see again, with hardwired DRM becoming more and more prevalent in video electronics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/uw-yZM5V9cM\/good_news_and_bad_news.php\">Good news and bad news [Pharyngula]<\/a> &#8211; Attorney General Bruning, you, sir, are a jerk.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/cynical-c\/nxDH\/~3\/Aj2Tl4IqMuY\/\">Obama Pardons Girl for Missing School<\/a> &#8211; Another video of this.  Nice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/greg-mitchell\/my-daughters-chilling-acc_b_214749.html\">Greg Mitchell: My Daughter&#8217;s Chilling Account of Years at Holocaust Museum<\/a> &#8211; A must-read.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2009\/06\/11\/obama_writes_fourth_grader_a_m.html?hpid=artslot\">Obama Writes Fourth Grader a Memorable Absence Note | 44 | washingtonpost.com<\/a> &#8211; Excellent.  Click through to watch the video.  (The fact that he was listening to the question and ready to answer while writing the note is pretty cool, too.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/HlbaaBRU4KQ\/another_museum_in_danger.php\">Another museum in danger [Pharyngula]<\/a> &#8211; Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.story-games.com\/forums\/comments.php?DiscussionID=9549\">[Cheap Gaming Accessories] A dish fit for your dice<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;s really quite clever.  Not as romantic as a die bag, but probably more efficient.  You could also use it to store color sets of dice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/0wxNktxxyEo\/poll-gop-lead-by-rush-newt-and-darth\">Poll: GOP lead by Rush, Newt and Darth<\/a> &#8211; I think it&#8217;s most significant that &#8220;Nobody&#8221; is the winner in the survey, though, followed closely by Limbaugh.  It&#8217;s off-cycle at the moment, but the GOP is at huge risk if they don&#8217;t come together pretty quickly.  Hell, they&#8217;d be better off with a couple of factions than this sort of Balkinization.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/story\/0,27574,25624854-401,00.html\">Five people miraculously survive after plane slams into ute near Johannesburg | World News | News.com.au<\/a> &#8211; Some remarkable pictures.  Money quote: &#8220;&#8221;The scary part was seeing the faces of the pilots looking straight at us.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/environment\/nature\/revealed-the-bid-to-corner-worlds-bluefin-tuna-market-1695479.html\">Revealed: the bid to corner world&#8217;s bluefin tuna market &#8211; Nature, Environment &#8211; The Independent<\/a> &#8211; Calling this despicable behavior seems too tame a phrase.  We&#8217;re talking about both ecological and consumer exploitation, all for the almighty buck &#8230; er, yen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/doycetesterman.com\/index.php\/2009\/06\/steampunk-has-two-syllables\/\">Steampunk has TWO syllables<\/a> &#8211; I concur that &#8220;Girl Genius&#8221; isn&#8217;t steampunk (and, in fact, Foglio describes it as &#8220;Gaslamp Fantasy&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tinycatpants.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/11\/passed-along-with-little-comment-2\/\">Passed Along with Little Comment<\/a> &#8211; If a trend, there are some very bad times ahead of us, folks.  And, of course, this sort of thing is never confined to a single issue.  Once society (or vocal portions of it) seem to condone violence and threats thereof as a way to get a point across, it will happen all over.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.sciencedaily.com\/~r\/sciencedaily\/~3\/LM5ENZulm9c\/090609072713.htm\">Playing A High Resistance Wind Instrument May Reduce Risk For Sleep Apnea In  Musicians<\/a> &#8211; This points to some interesting therapies for folks who have these sorts of problems.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/hotel_clerk_lacking_critical_thinking_skills_does_50000_in_damages\/\">Hotel clerk lacking critical thinking skills does $50,000 in damages.<\/a> &#8211; Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me multiple times into doing $50K of damage to our hotel &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/irony_defined_skin_sanitizer_recalled_due_to_bacterial_contamination\/\">Irony Defined: Skin sanitizer recalled due to bacterial contamination.<\/a> &#8211; Just too many kinds of wonderful here.<\/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;. Binwin Bronzebottom shirt NOW SHIPPING! &#8211; This is a thing of beauty. BBC NEWS | Middle East | Palestinian boy &#8216;hanged for collaboration&#8217; &#8211; Sometimes I despair of understanding humanity. Responsible Racists Backpedaling Cautiously &#8211; See, this is what &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/12\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-12-june-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 12 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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[16,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4481,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/25\/where_theres_sm.html","url_meta":{"origin":15011,"position":0},"title":"Where there&#8217;s smoke &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 25-Aug-03 6:53am","format":false,"excerpt":"While I roundly condemn the torchnig of an auto dealership by the Earth Liberation Front (motto: \"Because the pollution from burning down an auto dealership is insignificant next to the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;ZT &amp; PC&quot;","block_context":{"text":"ZT &amp; PC","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/zt-pc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133673,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/14\/shooting-politicians-is-wrong-shooting-anybody-is-wrong.html","url_meta":{"origin":15011,"position":1},"title":"Shooting politicians is wrong. 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