{"id":15636,"date":"2009-08-24T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T00:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-24-august-2009.html"},"modified":"2013-06-04T11:14:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T17:14:22","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-24-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-24-august-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 24 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:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/world_of_warcraft_cataclysm_is_literally_a_game_changer\/\">\u201cWorld of Warcraft: Cataclysm\u201d is literally a game changer.<\/a> &#8211; Blizzard has the resources to do something like this &#8212; and, wisely, they are.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/penn_teller_cut_a_woman_in_half_on_americas_got_talent\/\">Penn &amp; Teller cut a woman in half on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d<\/a> &#8211; Nicely done.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/q8vUB24Tp04\/christmas-has-arrived-in-august-at-costco\">Christmas Has Arrived In August At Costco [Christmas Creep]<\/a> &#8211; Ugh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/4NIRToFxa2U\/stop-motion-lego-tri.html\">Stop-motion Lego tribute to 8-bit video games<\/a> &#8211; Sweet!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/utahs-buttars-gays-dont-really-experience-discrimination\">Utah&#8217;s Buttars: Gays Don&#8217;t Really Experience Discrimination<\/a> &#8211; Sen. Buttars clearly lies through his teeth. It&#8217;s not that he doesn&#8217;t think gays are discriminated against, it&#8217;s that he thinks it&#8217;s a fine thing that they are.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/freedom-federation-lying-right-out-gate\">Freedom Federation: Lying Right Out of the Gate<\/a> &#8211; Is anyone actually surprised here?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.boingboing.net\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/R8Tp6eJItm0\/doctor-who-exit-inte.html\">Doctor Who Exit Interview: David Tennant + Russell T. Davies, with Richard Metzger (BB Video): Xeni Jardin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xplanes.tumblr.com\/post\/170492670\">100 years ago: The Rheims Aviation Week Eug\u00e8ne Lefebvre in his&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; A hundred years ago. What will we see in another hundred?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/susie-madrak\/betsy-mccaughey-principled-conservati\">Betsy McCaughey, &#8216;Principled&#8217; Conservative? Sounds Like More of a Windsock<\/a> &#8211; Wow. What a &#8230; well, &#8220;opportunist&#8221; is the polite term.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/randall-terry-takes-his-show-road\">Randall Terry Takes His Show On The Road<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;These are adults acting like children&#8221; &#8212; from the mouths of babes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/obsidianwings.blogs.com\/obsidian_wings\/2009\/08\/a-heartbreaking-work-of-staggering-dishonesty.html\">A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Dishonesty<\/a> &#8211; Steele, by nature of his position, a political hack. But I agree with the writer that we should be trying to &#8220;make the GOP defend their position for once.&#8221; Because, of course, they have no objective, rational, defensible position except to scream &#8220;No!&#8221; ever more loudly, like a four-year-old that, for some reason, we keep catering to.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn14581-atmospheric-homes-of-elves-and-sprites-revealed.html\">Atmospheric homes of elves and sprites revealed &#8211; environment &#8211; 21 August 2008 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;d love to have &#8220;Elf and Sprite Expert&#8221; on my business cards.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=48618\">Star Trek Re-watch: Season 1 Wrap-Up<\/a> &#8211; An interesting summary &#8212; most interesting for assessment of the writers (one of whom had never seen the show) of how fundamentally good TOS S.1 really was.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/08\/22\/image-generators\/\">13 Fantastic and Fun Image Generators<\/a> &#8211; Flagging for future reference.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.quefofo.com.br\/2009\/08\/27-fotos\/\">27 Fotos!!<\/a> &#8211; For your &#8220;I need to smile&#8221; moment today.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/08\/battle_of_the_insanely_awful_twilight_merchandise.php\">Battle of the Insanely Awful Twilight Merchandise<\/a> &#8211; Um &#8230; let&#8217;s flag this one NSFW &#8230; and probably not Not Safe for SAN Checks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/08\/clarks_new_matrix_rip-off_superman_suit_revealed.php\">Clark&#8217;s New Matrix Rip-Off Superman Suit Revealed<\/a> &#8211; I keep being more and more glad that I never got into this series.<\/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;. \u201cWorld of Warcraft: Cataclysm\u201d is literally a game changer. &#8211; Blizzard has the resources to do something like this &#8212; and, wisely, they are. Penn &amp; Teller cut a woman in half on \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent\u201d &#8211; Nicely done. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-24-august-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 24 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":[3,43,22,108,68,25,41,358,16,360,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-media-tv-doctor-who","category-gaming","category-history","category-holidays","category-gay-stuff","category-media-movies","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-media-tv-star-trek","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2135,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/03\/05\/next_stop_conju.html","url_meta":{"origin":15636,"position":0},"title":"Next stop, Conjunction Junction!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 5-Mar-02 9:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"Yowzers! All the Schoolhouse Rock bits, plus extras, coming out on a limited edition DVD this coming August. Cosmically cool. Guess what Katherine is getting for Christmas -- for purely...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Media &amp; Culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Media &amp; Culture","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":12963,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/08\/29\/christmas_in_august.html","url_meta":{"origin":15636,"position":1},"title":"Christmas in August","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-Aug-08 6:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Maybe the should call it the UNseasonal aisle....","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3095\/2810112280_a67b205175.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":129310,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/state-of-the-family.html","url_meta":{"origin":15636,"position":2},"title":"State of the Family","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 31-Dec-15 11:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"I don't know that I'll have a chance to do various Resolution and Best Of posts today -- I had expected to do so during this fallow weeklet between returning from California and New Years, but I fell sick and lost a couple of days in there. And today is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/white%2Bbirches.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/white%2Bbirches.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/white%2Bbirches.jpgimgmax%3D660.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":9227,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/08\/08\/the_doctor_retu.html","url_meta":{"origin":15636,"position":3},"title":"The Doctor returns","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 8-Aug-06 6:31am","format":false,"excerpt":"Word has it that Doctor Who Series 2 will return in late September. Series Two of the new Doctor Who series starring David Tennant and Billie Piper will, by all...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Doctor Who&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Doctor Who","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/media-tv-doctor-who"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2264,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/07\/18\/remember_rememb-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":15636,"position":4},"title":"Remember, Remember the 12th of November","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Jul-02 3:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Which is when the good edition of the Fellowship of the Rings (which is sort of like saying \"The Extra-Special Version of Haagen-Dasz Rum Raisin Ice Cream\" or \"The Particularly...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Lord of the Rings \/ Hobbit&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Lord of the Rings \/ Hobbit","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/franchises\/lord-of-the-rings"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/07\/10\/material_breach.html","url_meta":{"origin":15636,"position":5},"title":"Material breach","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Jul-03 8:59am","format":false,"excerpt":"Finally got the upholsterers out to pick up (and, of course, reupholster) the sofa and chair in the family room. The former is a sofa bed we bought a year...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Home Improvement&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Home Improvement","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/home-improvement"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636","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=15636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37067,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15636\/revisions\/37067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}