{"id":15630,"date":"2009-08-22T18:01:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T00:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/22\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-22-august-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-08-22T18:01:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T00:01:18","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-saturday-22-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/22\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-22-august-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 22 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.engadget.com\/2009\/08\/18\/heathrow-taxi-pods-become-a-glorious-driverless-reality\/\">Heathrow taxi pods become a glorious, driverless reality<\/a> &#8211; Ooooh &#8230; futuristic!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/ISY-As4gu-E\/supercharge-google-reader-with-send-to-links\">Supercharge Google Reader with Send To Links [Feeds]<\/a> &#8211; This has turned out to be a really popular feature &#8212; though I&#8217;ve not really made use of it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dominicwa\/statuses\/3400360204\">@googlereader Feature request: social NSFW article flagging + &#8220;safe mode&#8221; reading. Tnx, you rock!<\/a> &#8211; That would be a nice flag to add (and a nice mode to have), since, well, I GRead from the office sometimes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/e6S8JRgHDjU\/\">The Truth: What\u2019s Really Going On With Apple, Google, AT&amp;T And The FCC<\/a> &#8211; The gist of Apple&#8217;s issue with Google Voice is not that it messes around with the iPhone software, but that it lets people bypass it altogether if they wish.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/21\/opinion\/21krugman.html?_r=1\">Op-Ed Columnist &#8211; Obama\u2019s Trust Problem &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Paul Krugman nails my growing discontent with Obama.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/t7xeWg7YkPc\/kfc-has-a-bacon-sandwich-that-uses-fried-chicken-as-bread\">KFC Has A Bacon Sandwich That Uses Fried Chicken As &#8220;Bread&#8221; [Epic]<\/a> &#8211; Okay, I confess that the very thought of this makes me gain weight &#8230; but it sounds SO GOOD &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fstdt.net\/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=64964\">Anna Palatini, Facebook Atheist discussion board<\/a> &#8211; Wow. That&#8217;s all sorts of crazy there, starting with the idea that good Christian women can&#8217;t have babies because there are only so many babies around and Satan is stealing them for the atheists &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fstdt.net\/QuoteComment.aspx?QID=64995\">Jeff Gal, Petitiononline.com<\/a> &#8211; Some folks are never happy unless they can draw a bright shiny line between themselves and the EVIL BAD GUYS IN BLACK HATS.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5342301\/japans-abandoned-mines-hint-at-the-ruins-well-leave-behind\/gallery\/\">Japan&#8217;s Abandoned Mines Hint at the Ruins We&#8217;ll Leave Behind [Modern Ruins]<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve always found these sorts of images both fascinating and really sad.  Ruins intrigue me.<\/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;. Heathrow taxi pods become a glorious, driverless reality &#8211; Ooooh &#8230; futuristic! Supercharge Google Reader with Send To Links [Feeds] &#8211; This has turned out to be a really popular feature &#8212; though I&#8217;ve not really made use of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/22\/unblogged-bits-for-saturday-22-august-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Saturday, 22 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-15630","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":131227,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/09\/a-couple-of-nice-sensible-updates-to-google-maps.html","url_meta":{"origin":15630,"position":0},"title":"A couple of nice, sensible updates to Google Maps","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 9-Aug-16 7:36am","format":false,"excerpt":"Setting for WiFi only will help when traveling, and being able to store offline maps to an SD chip (if you have that on your phone) will be very useful as well. 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