{"id":15620,"date":"2009-08-20T18:00:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T00:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-20-august-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-08-20T18:00:28","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T00:00:28","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thursday-20-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-20-august-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 20 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:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/08\/20\/another-religion-reporter-loses-his-faith\/\">Another Religion Reporter Loses His Faith<\/a> &#8211; An excellent article &#8212; and sadly (scandalously) true about how intradenominational bickering is some of the worst.  Jesus wept.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/08\/20\/tom-ridge-i-was-pressured_n_264127.html\">Tom Ridge: I Was Pressured To Raise Terror Alert To Help Bush Win<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, well, there&#8217;s a shocker.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/08\/20\/new-poll-77-percent-suppo_n_264375.html?view=screen\">New Poll: 77 Percent Support &#8220;Choice&#8221; Of Public Option<\/a> &#8211; Amazing.  Americans want choice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/gadgets\/~3\/gVkJkrhvZCI\/carrier-cant-stop-ha.html\">Carrier can&#8217;t stop hackers stealing customer info<\/a> &#8211; Well, that makes <b>me<\/b> feel good about having an AT&amp;T account &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/Relve83l1Xw\/brutal-military-dict.html\">Brutal military dictatorship that backs Fiji Water<\/a> &#8211; Do. Not. Drink.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~3\/YkbQ9-gMawY\/\">Two moons, circling<\/a> &#8211; Extremely cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/6xrwlMx4ohY\/eve-online-unleashes-unholy-rage-on-in-game-currency-traders.ars\">EVE Online unleashes Unholy Rage on in-game currency traders<\/a> &#8211; An encouraging story.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Americablog\/~3\/4hm4tznNixE\/gop-attacks-obama-for-not-being.html\">GOP attacks Obama for not being bipartisan enough<\/a> &#8211; I keep desperately hoping that the GOP simply isn&#8217;t outsmarting the Obama White House on all of this, in the Democrats&#8217; desire to get <b>some<\/b> sort of health care reform passed.  I keep desperately hoping &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinyrevolution.com\/mt\/archives\/003060.html\">Jury Duty Democracy<\/a> &#8211; I actually recall an old SF short story (Asimov?) where the president for each year was chosen through some random lottery.  I&#8217;ve always wondered &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.dailykos.com\/~r\/dailykos\/index\/~3\/2ORkNMttJNc\/-The-Bush-CIA-was-freakin-crazy\">The Bush CIA was freakin&#8217; crazy<\/a> &#8211; Money graf: &#8220;Meanwhile the Teabaggers, crying at every opportunity about how &#8220;our government&#8221; has been &#8220;stolen from us&#8221; will have absolutely nothing to say about a secret sidebar deal between&#8230; some person in the government and&#8230; some rich guy&#8230; to run around assassinating people for money. Oh, and did I leave out the fact that all the money&#8217;s gone and nobody got assassinated?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2009\/08\/print-the-legend.html\">Printing the legend<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ll note that my own employer is incorporated in Delaware, though headquartered a continent away.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/freerangekids.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/20\/kid-hurts-knee-in-little-league-parents-sue-who-won\/\">Kid Hurts Knee in Little League \u2014 Parents Sue. Who Won? \u00ab FreeRangeKids<\/a> &#8211; Holy Moley.  I think we better just get rid of Little League &#8212; those swinging bats and flying balls could HURT SOMEONE.  Yeesh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/man_arrested_for_breath_mints_spends_3_months_in_jail\/\">Stupid Evil Bastard: Man arrested for breath mints spends 3 months in jail.<\/a> &#8211; But don&#8217;t you feel so much <b>safer<\/b>?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/08\/19\/fox-news-viewers-misinformed\/\">Fox News viewers overwhelmingly misinformed about health care reform  proposals.<\/a> &#8211; I guess you <b>can<\/b> fool some of the people all of the time.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/friendlyatheist.com\/2009\/08\/19\/pro-life-church-says-theyll-take-care-of-any-babies-you-give-them\/\">Pro-Life Church Says They\u2019ll Take Care of Any Babies You Give Them<\/a> &#8211; Putting their money and their principles where their mouth is.  Good for them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/1jFloNYVzXY\/certified-pre+owned-cats-inspected-detailed-better-than-new\">Certified Pre-Owned Cats: Inspected, Detailed, Better Than New! [Marketing]<\/a> &#8211; Definitely worth getting a &#8220;pre-owned&#8221; cat.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boulderdude.com\/2009\/08\/best-sentence-ive-read-all-day\/\">Best sentence I\u2019ve read all day<\/a> &#8211; Ha!  You mean people might not be aware of what they actually listen to?  Or might be trumping up the diary numbers of shows they think they <b>should<\/b> be tuning to?  Inconceivable!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2009\/08\/james_dysons_uphill_water_flow_illu.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890\">James Dyson&#8217;s uphill water flow illusion<\/a> &#8211; Brilliant!  A worthy successor to the &#8220;floating spigot&#8221; illusion.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/-nY9qih8op8\/barney-frank-pwns-cr.html\">Barney Frank pwns crazy lady at &#8220;town hall&#8221; meeting, effectively invoking  Godwin&#8217;s law.<\/a> &#8211; There are times Frank drives me utterly crazy.  And then there are times like this when I could just kiss him.  His Daily Show appearances are pretty funny, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/urbanprankster.com\/2009\/08\/crosswalk-sign-hacks\/\">Crosswalk Sign Hacks<\/a> &#8211; Ha!<\/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;. Another Religion Reporter Loses His Faith &#8211; An excellent article &#8212; and sadly (scandalously) true about how intradenominational bickering is some of the worst. Jesus wept. Tom Ridge: I Was Pressured To Raise Terror Alert To Help Bush Win &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/20\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-20-august-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 20 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32759,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/17\/the-choice-triangle.html","url_meta":{"origin":15620,"position":0},"title":"The Choice Triangle","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 17-Mar-13 9:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Nice article on three different aspects of choices (or conflicts) in RPGs, how they combine, and how the extremes play out.Reshared post from +Rob DonoghueOn what makes a good hard choice in an RPG (hint: It's not always blood and thunder).http:\/\/rdonoghue.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/the-choice-triangle.html The Choice Triangle There is a business idea called,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":138307,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/14\/a-rank-choice-demonstrates-the-need-for-ranked-choice.html","url_meta":{"origin":15620,"position":1},"title":"A rank choice demonstrates the need for ranked choice","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 14-Mar-19 7:22pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's a voting process that makes a lot of sense","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics &amp; Law&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics &amp; Law","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ranked-choice-voting.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ranked-choice-voting.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ranked-choice-voting.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ranked-choice-voting.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ranked-choice-voting.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":30908,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/28\/joss-whedon-on-romney-and-the-right-choice-for-this-election.html","url_meta":{"origin":15620,"position":2},"title":"Joss Whedon on Romney and the Right Choice for This Election","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 28-Oct-12 8:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Heh. 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