{"id":15237,"date":"2009-07-18T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-18-july-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-07-18T18:00:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T00:00:21","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-saturday-18-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-18-july-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 18 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:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/dan-dubno\/walter-cronkite-when-he-w_b_239036.html\">Dan Dubno: Walter Cronkite: When He Wasn&#8217;t &#8216;The Most Trusted Man in America&#8217;: Dan Dubno<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/david-neiwert\/pat-buchanan-white-nationalism-and-a\">Pat Buchanan, white nationalism, and the American future: David Neiwert<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wonkette.com\/409947\/sarah-palin-has-developed-flying-twitters-enriched-with-uranium\">Sarah Palin Has Developed Flying Twitters Enriched With Uranium<\/a> &#8211; This is just as messed up and incoherent as it was when I first saw it in my Twitterfeed. I think monkeys are just as likely to fly out of her butt. These self-serving &#8220;Alaska is better off without my political baggage dragging her down&#8221; messages are just desperate little pleas for attention.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/rss\/-\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8157368.stm\">New images of Moon landing sites<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/site.pfaw.org\/site\/PageServer?pagename=rww_in_focus_hate_crimes_claims\">People For the American Way: As Senate Prepares to Take Up Hate Crimes Bill, Far Right&#8217;s Inflammatory Claims Should Not Be Taken Seriously<\/a> &#8211; A pretty definitive summary and takedown of the unsupportable accusations by the Far (and not-so-far) Right on this bill.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/iowaindependent.com\/17574\/iowa-wedding-announcement-begats-controversy-for-indiana-newspaper\">Iowa wedding announcement creates controversy for Indiana newspaper \u00ab Iowa Independent<\/a> &#8211; They not only don&#8217;t want it to exist, they don&#8217;t want anyone to know about it &#8212; certainly not in any normal, mainstream fashion.  It&#8217;s hard to paint gays as creepy-weird deviants if they have engagement announcements in the local newspaper.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/07\/17\/world\/asia\/17daylight.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">Cities Like Seoul Rediscover Waterways They Paved Over &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Which calls to mind the many buried rivers of London &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.dailykos.com\/~r\/dailykos\/index\/~3\/PUpp2JNBBPc\/-Virginia-GOP-candidate-raises-specter-of-civil-war\">Virginia GOP candidate raises specter of civil war<\/a> &#8211; I remain amazed by the rhetoric (and its purveyors) that this Administration has brought crawling out of the walls.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stevehanov.ca\/blog\/index.php?id=63\">Keeping Abreast of Pornographic Research in Computer Science &#8211; Steve Hanov&#8217;s Programming Blog<\/a> &#8211; If these detection algorithms work well enough, they might be used on a per-person filter (or search), letting people see the Web (and its content) as they individually would like to.  Of course, some folks will insist that some other folks shouldn&#8217;t see stuff that they don&#8217;t want to see themselves.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wiredscience\/2009\/07\/blackholescience\/\">5 Atrocious Science Clich\u00e9s to Throw Down a Black Hole | Wired Science | Wired.com<\/a> &#8211; Science writing has been as bad, in its own way, as sports writing when it comes to these sorts of things.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/PamsHouseBlend\/~3\/jqNPzejPN2g\/legendary-newsreporter-walter-cronkite-passes-away-at-92\">Walter Cronkite Passes Away at 92<\/a> &#8211; I grew up with Cronkite exemplifying the news and what a newsman should be.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogathon.org\/index.php\/?p=1077\">Blogathon Needs You!<\/a> &#8211; Don&#8217;t feel like you can manage the blogging for the Blogathon?  Here&#8217;s something you <b>can<\/b> do.  And what they say about the value of someone dropping in with a chat or a comment at 3 a.m.?  Absolutely true.<\/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;. Dan Dubno: Walter Cronkite: When He Wasn&#8217;t &#8216;The Most Trusted Man in America&#8217;: Dan Dubno Pat Buchanan, white nationalism, and the American future: David Neiwert Sarah Palin Has Developed Flying Twitters Enriched With Uranium &#8211; This is just as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/07\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-18-july-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 18 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_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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}