{"id":15508,"date":"2009-08-04T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-04-august-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T16:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:00:27","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-04-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-04-august-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 04 August 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.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2009\/08\/president_obama_brings_cupcake.html?ft=1&amp;f=103943429\">President Obama Brings Helen Thomas Birthday Cupcakes<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/08\/two_dozen_awesomely_nerdy_cupcakes.php\">Two Dozen Awesomely Nerdy Cupcakes<\/a> &#8211; This one&#8217;s for Kate!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/08\/04\/kingston-recovery-hypocrisy\/\">All In A Day\u2019s Work: Rep. Kingston Smears The Stimulus On TV, Takes Credit For Stimulus Jobs In His District: Lee Fang<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/owned-pwned\">OWNED (PWNED)<\/a> &#8211; Some great word origin stuff here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/doodleplex.com\/glassmaze\/right-conclusion-wrong-reason\/\">Right Conclusion, Wrong Reason<\/a> &#8211; I say it again: locked-down technology will find it harder and harder to prosper over time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/timescolumns.typepad.com\/gledhill\/2009\/07\/quakers-back-gay-marriage.html\">Ruth Gledhill &#8211; Times Online &#8211; WBLG: Quakers back gay marriage<\/a> &#8211; For having such a quaint image in this country, the Quakers are often quietly in the forefront of many progressive social movements.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/timescolumns.typepad.com\/gledhill\/2009\/08\/new-push-for-samesex-marriage-gay-ordination-in-church-of-england.html\">Ruth Gledhill &#8211; Times Online &#8211; WBLG: New push for same-sex marriage, gay ordination in Church of England<\/a> &#8211; Well, this could be interesting &#8230; or get ugly.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/sf.carnalnation.com\/content\/15119\/3\/study-sex-without-condoms-make-people-happier\">Study: Sex Without Condoms Makes People Happier, Less Depressed | Carnal San Francisco<\/a> &#8211; A couple of thoughts.  First, evolution is a blunt instrument; how we evolved is not optimal but satisfactory, and for mass populations not for individuals.  Second, there seems to be some confusion between correlation on causality (as well as causal direction).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=49187\">Re-reading Sandman: An introduction<\/a> &#8211; Oh, cool &#8212; I look forward to this &#8220;reread.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/08\/04\/the-history-of-the-pledge-of-allegiance\/\">The History of the Pledge of Allegiance<\/a> &#8211; A few typos, and a clear ideological slant, but a lot of good info here, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2009\/08\/03\/defcon-participants-fooled-by-fake-atm\/\">DefCon participants fooled by fake ATM<\/a> &#8211; HA!  Okay, that was pretty ballsy.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/rKd39RdKU5k\/senators-campaign-we.html\">Senator&#8217;s campaign website suffers search-engine death penalty for embedding  invisible homophobic slur against opponent<\/a> &#8211; Actually, on the face of it, the campaign&#8217;s explanation makes sense (I can easily imagine an automated process that looks for highly sought-after terms in certain categories then embeds them on the page).  That&#8217;s not necessarily evil, though the excessive use of it by the SEO firm led to Google and Yahoo&#8217;s action.  Nor is it necessarily evil that the particular phrase was used &#8212; of the 2000+ terms that were hidden, I&#8217;m sure the vast majority were much more innocuous, and I&#8217;m willing to believe that it was done in an &#8220;untouched by human hands&#8221; fashion.  That said &#8212; yeah, that&#8217;s the danger of trying to game the system in an automated fashion.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/WhiskeyFire\/~3\/UbyGWPTsuU4\/liberal-disruption-fascism-conservative-disruption-democracy.html\">Imaginary Liberal &#8220;Disruption&#8221;: Fascism! Actual Conservative Disruption: Democracy!<\/a> &#8211; The other difference in this particular wingnuttery is that I don&#8217;t actually recall any &#8220;OMGEVILACORN!&#8221; counter-protesters at the Teabag Parties, let alone any disruptive or provocative ones.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/neutron.php\">Neutron: Brand New<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.howtogeek.com\/~r\/HowToGeek\/~3\/rT6KjOSF7hI\/\">Exterminate Malware Efficiently with Spybot Search &amp; Destroy<\/a> &#8211; I&#39;ve used Spybot S&amp;D for years &#8212; and, yes, I don&#39;t run TeaTimer (from annoying past behavior).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rss.slashdot.org\/~r\/slashdot\/eqWf\/~3\/CUOlDbrHDJw\/Adjustable-Focus-Glasses-Can-Replace-Bifocals\">Adjustable-Focus Glasses Can Replace Bifocals<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  Let me know when they come with a mental control, because this sounds more inconvenient (and expensive) than my blended bifocals.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/videocafe.crooksandliars.com\/heather\/rachel-maddow-gop-thugishness-town-halls-called\">Rachel Maddow on GOP Thugishness at Town Halls: This is Called Hooliganism<\/a> &#8211; Wait until they start issuing them stylish brown shirts &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/MFyxd2roLtI\/latest_republican_strategy_of.php\">Latest Republican Strategy of Violence [Greg Laden&#8217;s Blog]<\/a> &#8211; I wouldn&#8217;t use the word &#8220;violence&#8221; &#8230; yet.  But organized, incited shouting-down protests are a dangerous step in that direction.  And the GOP seems clueless as to the danger that represents to them, as well.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/wondermark\/~3\/qVHSD32hlMA\/\">The Postmark Experiment: David Malki !<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/08\/the-costs-of-inaction.html\">The &#8220;Costs&#8221; of Inaction<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s not necessarily an even 1:1 trade-off &#8212; some spending is more efficient than other spending &#8212; but I suspect a lot of what drives Texas&#8217; budget-helping parsimony on taxes is not fiscal and policy analysis but ideology (economic, political, and, yes, racial) and greed.<\/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;. President Obama Brings Helen Thomas Birthday Cupcakes Two Dozen Awesomely Nerdy Cupcakes &#8211; This one&#8217;s for Kate! All In A Day\u2019s Work: Rep. Kingston Smears The Stimulus On TV, Takes Credit For Stimulus Jobs In His District: Lee Fang &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/04\/unblogged-bits-for-tuesday-04-august-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Tuesday, 04 August 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":[715,718,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-punishment","category-marriage-equality","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14138,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/12\/yummy-stawberry-cupcakes-that.html","url_meta":{"origin":15508,"position":0},"title":"Yummy strawberry cupcakes &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Mar-09 12:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yummy strawberry cupcakes that Jackie brought over to Margie Gras? 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