{"id":15219,"date":"2009-07-15T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-15-july-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T21:56:17","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-15-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-15-july-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 15 July 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\/GP855gZ1QuY\/specter-defends-empathy-a_n_233853.html\">Specter Defends Empathy, Activism And Wise Latina-ism: The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/07\/15\/sessions-roberts-alito\/\">Sessions claims Roberts and Alito answered questions more \u2018crisply\u2019 and with more \u2018clarity\u2019 than Sotomayor.: Faiz Shakir<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/Xfmx7G-8KhY\/the-sotomayor-hearings--b_b_234102.html\">Paul Loeb: The Sotomayor Hearings &#8211; Branding the Neo-Confederates: Paul Loeb<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/remembrance-cfj-ads-past\">A Remembrance of CFJ Ads Past: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/alan-colmes-talks-wingers-so-you-dont-have\">Alan Colmes Talks To Wingers So You Don&#8217;t Have To<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  It&#8217;s &#8230; fringetastic.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/07\/15\/tsa-officer-caught-s.html\">TSA officer caught stealing laptops at JFK<\/a> &#8211; Disappointing but no real surprise.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2009\/jul\/13\/twitter-teenage-media-habits\">Twitter is not for teens, Morgan Stanley told by 15-year-old expert | Business | guardian.co.uk<\/a> &#8211; Interestingly, a lot of this seems driven head-on by economics &#8212; going for free content vs pay content, avoiding Twitter if texting charges apply, etc.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/2009\/jul\/13\/cats-purr-food-research\">Sound effect: how cats exploit the human need to nurture | Science | The Guardian<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m shocked, shocked I tell you, to discover that our cats manipulate us!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2008\/nov\/04\/television-simon-pegg-dead-set\">Simon Pegg on why the undead should never be allowed to run | Film | The Guardian<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, call me a zombie traditionalist, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/creativenerds.co.uk\/freebies\/45-sets-of-seamless-vector-patterns\/\">45 Sets of Seamless Vector Patterns | Creative Nerds<\/a> &#8211; Oooh &#8230; seriously bookmarking this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pamshouseblend.com\/diary\/12046\/connecting-the-dots-on-the-defense-authorization-bill\">Pam&#8217;s House Blend:: Connecting the dots on the Defense Authorization Bill?<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m with George. I hate it when folks graft bills I dislike into utter dissimilar must-pass legislation.  I don&#8217;t like it any better when it&#8217;s bills I <b>do<\/b> support.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hijinksensue.com\/2009\/07\/15\/ok-but-i-could-set-the-internet-on-fire\/\">OK\u2026 But I Could Set The Internet On Fire<\/a> &#8211; There&#8217;s serious rumblings in the company about <b>finally<\/b> getting off of IE6 officially (though unofficially most folks have gone to IE7\/8 &#8230; or Firefox &#8230; already).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/columnists\/guest_contributors\/article6710640.ece\">The Americans know this will end in schism | Tom Wright &#8211; Times Online<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  For an Anglican Bishop, he sure has some nassssty things to say about gays and their advocates.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/16\/us\/16asylum.html?pagewanted=print\">U.S. Opens Path to Asylum for Victims of Sexual Abuse &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; I can understand concerns about this being (if you will) abused.  But I also would hate to see people turned away because of that concern.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/scienceblogs\/pharyngula\/~3\/MXNpk-qX1ac\/burned_out_on_the_bickering_am.php\">Burned out on the bickering among the pro-science forces?<\/a> &#8211; I suppose it&#8217;s not much different from the classification problems of any sort of magazine as to what&#8217;s on topic and what&#8217;s not &#8212; only with a topic here that&#8217;s way loosey-goosey to begin with.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article6710852.ece\">Not so immoral after all: Vatican gives the latest Harry Potter absolution. But as for The Da Vinci Code . . . -Times Online<\/a> &#8211; Well, I feel much better now.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/kotaku\/full\/~3\/OJYUCOsEpKM\/resident-evil-shirt-feasts-on-the-flesh-of-the-living\">Resident Evil Shirt Feasts On The Flesh Of The Living [Comic-con]<\/a> &#8211; That &#8230; is &#8230; awesome.  (Hey, Mary, if you see these this year, I take a Large &#8230;)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/07\/cancel-the-f22.html\">Cancel The F-22<\/a> &#8211; The F22 looks very spiffy.  But not only is it a plane without a mission (which could be worked around), but it&#8217;s a plane that doesn&#8217;t seem to actually work very well.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/HtfYpyiftk4\/colorcoded-terror-alert-s_n_232651.html\">Color-Coded Terror Alert System May Be Replaced By Obama Administration<\/a> &#8211; It seems to me that there must be a way to communicate to the public and local governmental agencies that&#8217;s both more informative and less &#8220;Yup, still in danger now.&#8221;  I&#8217;m really tired of hearing &#8220;The alert level has been elevated to orange&#8221; at the airport &#8212; it&#8217;s basically become meaningless background noise (literally and informationally).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/flashnotcooljul09\/\">Hey, why don\u2019t we build the site in Flash!\u00a0 It\u2019ll be realy cool!<\/a> &#8211; Flash is an excellent example of people preferring the whiz-bang rather than the useful.  There are times when it is useful, but not as a general web page presentation tool.<\/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;. Specter Defends Empathy, Activism And Wise Latina-ism: The Huffington Post News Team Sessions claims Roberts and Alito answered questions more \u2018crisply\u2019 and with more \u2018clarity\u2019 than Sotomayor.: Faiz Shakir Paul Loeb: The Sotomayor Hearings &#8211; Branding the Neo-Confederates: Paul &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-15-july-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 15 July 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":[527,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harry-potter","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2607,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/05\/29\/theres_a_reason.html","url_meta":{"origin":15219,"position":0},"title":"There&#8217;s a reason they were classics","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-May-02 10:19am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Loeb Classical Library has been restoring the naughty bits in a wide variety of classic Greek and Roman texts. As things loosened in the 1960's, the Loeb began updating...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":15337,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/25\/bt09-f-is-for-finality-blogathon.html","url_meta":{"origin":15219,"position":1},"title":"BT09 &#8211; F is for Finality (#Blogathon)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 25-Jul-09 12:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"One quick review, then I'm going to go grab some lunch. \u00a0 Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America\u00a0(Marvel) [collects Fallen Son series] w. Jeph Loeb; a.\u00a0various\u00a0 Writing New reader? Art Non-comics reader? 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A Children\u2019s Treasury Of Wacky Media Inquiries About Mark Sanford\u2019s Sexy Disappearance - Ha! TEA Partiers To Descend on DC And Dwarf Inauguration Numbers - Penn & Teller? Huh. Things to say during sex.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Marriage Equality&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Marriage Equality","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/marriage-equality"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14871,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/05\/28\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-28-may-2009.html","url_meta":{"origin":15219,"position":5},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 28 May 2009","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-May-09 6:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... New GOP Ad Says Pelosi Opposes Probe Of CIA Torture Claims: Greg Sargent What Part Will Summer Glau Play On Dollhouse? 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