{"id":15031,"date":"2009-06-15T18:00:38","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-15-june-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T06:41:18","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T13:41:18","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-15-june-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-15-june-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 15 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:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/dc\/2009\/06\/elections_board_blocks_marriag.html?hpid=topnews\">Elections Board Blocks Marriage Referendum &#8211; D.C. Wire &#8211;<\/a> &#8211; Good on them!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/09\/06\/19th-century-bike-tricks\">19th century bike tricks<\/a> &#8211; I love the comment that the initial thought was that it was a modern fake &#8230; because, of course, only contemporary humans would conceive of doing bicycle tricks &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/politics\/~3\/LTcVlhB7U40\/sotomayor-and-the-new-hav_b_215709.html\">Lanny Davis: Sotomayor and the New Haven Firefighters Case: More Myths Than Facts<\/a> &#8211; Excellent dismemberment the arguments against her (part of) the ruling in her most controversial case &#8230; in which she basically upheld law and precedent.  Sounds like just what the conservatives would actually <b>want<\/b> to see.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/politics\/~3\/V6w6O0TtONI\/facing-the-bushes-iranian_b_215487.html\">Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman: Facing the Bushes&#8217; Iranian Whirlwind: Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/simplefeed.consumerreports.org\/rsrc\/link\/_\/so_long_norman__886449525?f=79043330-01de-11de-3025-003048605010\">So long, Norman: info.rss@cro.consumer.org (Consumer Reports)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/06\/15\/obama-nominees-delayed\/\">Senate GOP Blocking Obama Nominees In Attempt To Delay Health Care And Climate Legislation: Ian M.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/entertainment\/arts\/2009\/06\/15\/2009-06-15_some_comic_relief_captain_america_is_coming_back_to_life_in_a_new_fivepart_serie.html\">Captain America, a.k.a. Steve Rogers is coming back to life in a comic near you<\/a> &#8211; Color me shocked, shocked!  And all just in time to finish up the umpteenth remilking of the Death of Captain America.  Feh.  On the other hand, while enjoying the Bucky-Cap, I have never gotten used to the new uniform.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/development\/2009\/06\/wordpress-28\/\">WordPress \u203a Blog \u00bb 2.8 Release Jazzes Themes and Widgets<\/a> &#8211; Adding to my List of Things to Do:  evaluate this, determine what (if anything) it will break, implement.  I&#8217;m still waiting a bit for various plug-in authors to update.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/parvez-sharma\/tehelka-in-tehran_b_215581.html\">Parvez Sharma: Tehelka in Tehran: Parvez Sharma<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ocresort.freedomblogging.com\/2009\/06\/10\/matterhorn-about-to-celebrate-golden-anniversary\/9907\/\">Matterhorn to celebrate golden anniversary on Sunday &#8211; Around Disney &#8211; OCRegister.com<\/a> &#8211; Looking forward to riding this soon &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/note-jackson-obtaining-public-records-not-hacking\">Note to Jackson: Obtaining Public Records is Not &#8220;Hacking&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Because it&#8217;s easier to play the victim than explain your own shenanigans.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/597\/\">Addiction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cbs4denver.com\/local\/tornado.warning.rockies.2.1044385.html\">Rockies Players, Fans React To Tornado Warning<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  That&#8217;s pretty unusual around here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/politics\/~3\/I3SECe4d_Z8\/rusty-depass-south-caroli_n_215439.html\">Rusty DePass, South Carolina GOP Activist, Says Escaped Gorilla Was Ancestor Of Michelle Obama (VIDEO): The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/ibag\/~3\/54Py8_fQTUs\/digital-tvs-history.html\">Digital TV&#8217;s history in America: the DTV transition nearly cost the USA its technological freedom: Cory Doctorow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/06\/iran-sunday.html\">Iran: Sunday: hilzoy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/06\/the-tragedy-in-iran.html\">The Tragedy in Iran: publius<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nodwick.humor.gamespy.com\/ffn\/index.php\">Why they don&#8217;t talk<\/a> &#8211; Ah, the revolving door of the super-hero Afterlife.<\/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;. Elections Board Blocks Marriage Referendum &#8211; D.C. Wire &#8211; &#8211; Good on them! 19th century bike tricks &#8211; I love the comment that the initial thought was that it was a modern fake &#8230; because, of course, only contemporary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/06\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-15-june-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 15 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":[263,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":50375,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/06\/ill-take-stupid-cool-tricks-for-600-alex.html","url_meta":{"origin":15031,"position":0},"title":"I&#039;ll take &quot;Stupid-Cool&quot; tricks for 600, Alex","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 6-May-15 11:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"So, yes, the tricks are impressive. 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