{"id":15613,"date":"2009-08-19T18:01:06","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T00:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-19-august-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:22:11","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:22:11","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-19-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-19-august-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 19 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.newscientist.com\/article\/dn17640-why-geeks-get-the-girls.html\">Why geeks get the girls &#8211; life &#8211; 19 August 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; Well, my being one certainly netted me a fine catch.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20327222.500-where-does-white-skin-come-from.html\">Where does white skin come from? &#8211; life &#8211; 19 August 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; Some interesting theories here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifelounge.com\/Rare-Star-Wars-images.aspx\">Rare Star Wars images &#8211; Photography | Lifelounge &#8211; Daily Goodness<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;I&#8217;d rather be groped by a Wookiee!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/19\/us\/19olson.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;pagewanted=print\">Theodore Olson&#8217;s Road to Championing Same-Sex Marriage &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s refreshing to see someone for whom &#8220;conservative&#8221; doesn&#8217;t mean &#8220;what Pat Robertson says.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/18\/science\/18angier.html?sq=angier%20brain&amp;st=cse&amp;scp=1&amp;pagewanted=print\">Basics &#8211; Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Sounds like &#8220;take a vacation&#8221; is more useful than we know.  I certainly know I find myself in this sort of rut sometimes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prasannag.com\/2009\/04\/how-to-add-note-to-reader-bookmarklet.html#\">Mentations: How to add a &#8216;Note in Reader&#8217; bookmarklet to your iPhone<\/a> &#8211; Wish there was a straightforward way to do this on other platforms (e.g., OperaMini on my Blackberry).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/08\/18\/young-atheists-are-coming-out-of-the-closet\/\">Young Atheists Are Coming Out of the Closet<\/a> &#8211; This is a good thing.  Regardless of what you feel about a (dis)belief system, it&#8217;s better that folks can be open about it and engage freely in the marketplace of ideas, not live in fear and isolation.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gadgets.boingboing.net\/2009\/08\/18\/screw-key.html\">Screw Key<\/a> &#8211; Ooh, these look nice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/7r-SLPV20Es\/house-dems-rally-behind-p_n_262555.html\">House Dems Rally Behind Public Option In Weekly Caucus Gathering: The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/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;. Why geeks get the girls &#8211; life &#8211; 19 August 2009 &#8211; New Scientist &#8211; Well, my being one certainly netted me a fine catch. Where does white skin come from? &#8211; life &#8211; 19 August 2009 &#8211; New &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/19\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-19-august-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 19 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_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":[16,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15613","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":15659,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/28\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-28-august-2009.html","url_meta":{"origin":15613,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 28 August 2009","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Aug-09 6:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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