{"id":15650,"date":"2009-08-26T18:01:01","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T00:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-26-august-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-08-26T18:01:01","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T00:01:01","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-26-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-26-august-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 26 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.cracked.com\/article\/79_the-5-most-embarrassing-failures-in-history-terrorism\/\">The 5 Most Embarrassing Failures in the History of Terrorism | Cracked.com<\/a> &#8211; As I contemplate all the dumb things that our homeland security folks think up, it&#8217;s good to know that they are faced with a lot of even dumber terrorists.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/105\/story\/1400887.html\">Missouri bans wrong plastic from rivers &#8211; Kansas City Star<\/a> &#8211; \/em facepalm<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dvice.com\/archives\/2009\/08\/travel-to-8-of.php\">Travel to 8 of the geekiest places on Earth using Google Street View | DVICE<\/a> &#8211; Cool &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/08\/26\/boortz-katrina-cleansing\/\">Neal Boortz: If New Orleans is rebuilt, the \u2018debris that Katrina chased out\u2019  will return.<\/a> &#8211; Wow. Just &#8230; wow.  And people LISTEN to creeps like this, and nod their heads, and still think that they are fine, moral people (and, in most cases, &#8220;good Christians&#8221;).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5345125\/from-enchantress-to-vamp-slayer-+-how-bewitched-created-buffy\">From Enchantress to Vamp Slayer &#8211; How &#8220;Bewitched&#8221; Created &#8220;Buffy&#8221;  [Bewitched]<\/a> &#8211; Darren was a jerk &#8212; but the same can be true for a lot of the men in Buffy&#8217;s life, too.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/5346052\/the-science-fiction-sitcoms-that-never-were\">The Science Fiction Sitcoms That Never Were [Unseen Tv]<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  There&#8217;s a whole lotta Fail there.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/justiceday.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/we-will-not-pay-for-murder-healthcare.html\">Unapologetically Neurotic: &#8220;We Will Not Pay for Murder;&#8221; Healthcare Reform, Death Panels, and Abortion<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Our current system is killing more grandmas and babies than we could realistically tally.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rightwingwatch.com\/content\/inane-state-health-care-debate\">The Inane State of the Health Care Debate: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/KFGump7d9Ow\/the-kennedys-a-human-lega_b_269890.html\">Steven Weber: The Kennedys: A Human Legacy: Steven Weber<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/survey23aug09\/\">Survey Idiocy<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;s &#8230; pretty dumb.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/yankodesign\/~3\/olN4gkC18hI\/\">Getting Lost Is Not So Trendy<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;s pretty cool &#8212; though I wonder about battery life.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/samah007.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/01\/doha-qatar\/\">Doha, Qatar<\/a> &#8211; An interesting set of contrasts here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/liberaland\/~3\/Rzz6OYaUH1w\/\">Limbaugh Says He\u2019s Now \u201cVindicated\u201d For Calling Health Care Bill The \u201cTed  Kennedy Memorial\u201d Bill<\/a> &#8211; Limbaugh is, as I noted, an ass.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/hSegwjgLpms\/gmail-finally-adds-a-contact-chooser\">Gmail (Finally) Adds a Contact Chooser [Contacts]<\/a> &#8211; About time &#8212; sometimes when coming up with a lengthy list of recipients, it&#8217;s a lot easier to look at a list than to remember parts of the names.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/health.yahoo.com\/experts\/weightloss\/6361\/bad-eating-habits-can-alter-your-dna\/\">Bad Eating Habits Can Alter Your DNA on Yahoo! Health<\/a> &#8211; Interesting, though I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d call this &#8220;altering DNA&#8221; or even &#8220;genetic damage&#8221; &#8230; more like triggering or suppressing genetic controls on body processes.  Unless, as a non-biologist, I&#8217;m missing something here.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.lungfish.com\/~r\/badgods\/~3\/geqDzbUo77w\/grasshopperchart.html\">The Names of the Grasshopper<\/a> &#8211; And now you know.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/danroam\/healthcare-napkins-all\">Healthcare Napkins All<\/a> &#8211; This is a very clear series (IMO) on the basics of the health care (insurance) reform debate.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/anglicanfuture.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/and-also-with-you.html\">PRELUDIUM: And also with you!<\/a> &#8211; Some interesting discussion of the new changes in the English version of the Catholic Mass (for those who find that sort of thing interesting).  The comments are also of (similar) interest.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/08\/breaking_govenor_schwarzenegger_keeps_conans_sword.php\">Breaking: Govenor Schwarzenegger Keeps Conan&#8217;s Sword in his Office<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/08\/26\/mitch-stimulus-hypocrisy\/\">In KY, McConnell Brags About Stimulus Projects, Requests More Money; In DC,  McConnell Says Stimulus Should End<\/a> &#8211; Hypocrisy over the stimulus from GOP foes?  Inconceivable!<\/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;. The 5 Most Embarrassing Failures in the History of Terrorism | Cracked.com &#8211; As I contemplate all the dumb things that our homeland security folks think up, it&#8217;s good to know that they are faced with a lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-26-august-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 26 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-15650","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":50193,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/04\/26\/wow-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":15650,"position":0},"title":"Wow","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 26-Apr-15 12:20pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow I'd forgotten how much I dislike mattress shopping. 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