{"id":15668,"date":"2009-08-31T18:01:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T00:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-31-august-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T06:40:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T13:40:58","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-31-august-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-31-august-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 31 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:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/08\/31\/evolution-missouri-tshirt\/\">Missouri school district bans t-shirts for acknowledging evolution.<\/a> &#8211; Evolution is not a religious issue. Any more than gravity is.  You may hold beliefs that oppose it, but discussing it (or wearing a t-shirt about it) is NOT a religious statement.  If it is, then EVERYTHING is a religious statement.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/08\/31\/barton-repeal-health-care\/\">Rep. Joe Barton: If GOP takes back the House, \u2018we\u2019ll repeal\u2019 health care  reform.<\/a> &#8211; Well, at least we know what the stakes are.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/08\/31\/the-pleasure-of-read.html\">The pleasure of reading stories that don&#8217;t bore<\/a> &#8211; Entertainment can also edify and challenge &#8212; but my life&#8217;s too busy to be challenged and edified without at least a bit of entertainment to keep me going.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/TPMmuckraker\/~3\/lb8wL2nlrKs\/gun_toter_i_like_my_pastor_want_obama_to_die.php\">Gun-Toter From Obama Event: I, Like My Pastor, Want The President To Die<\/a> &#8211; Whatever happened to &#8220;He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword&#8221;?  I think that was Jesus telling Peter to lay off of the sword-waving.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.dailykos.com\/~r\/dailykos\/index\/~3\/XEMl9SmQaUw\/-Teabaggers-to-Perry:-Follow-through-on-secession\">Teabaggers to Perry: Follow through on secession<\/a> &#8211; Crikey.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/marvel.com\/company\/index.htm?sub=viewstory_current.php&amp;id=1343\">DISNEY TO ACQUIRE MARVEL ENTERTAINMENT &#8211; Marvel.com<\/a> &#8211; The official press release.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/verdanagate.php\">Verdanagate<\/a> &#8211; I understand the &#8220;why&#8221; here &#8212; but I think it&#8217;s still a mistake. Yes, most people will not consciously notice.  But the unconscious associations will have an effect.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wikileaks.org\/wiki\/Gmail_may_hand_over_IP_addresses_of_journalists\">Gmail may hand over IP addresses of journalists<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s not clear what Google can actually do in this case, but it is one of the dangers of working in the cloud.  I would assume, though, that any web mail provider, or even ISP, would be faced with similar issues.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/-IRJ56Xbavs\/test_if_youre_an_eco-douchebag.php\">Are You an Eco-Douchebag? [Guilty Planet]<\/a> &#8211; Reaction: rolling of eyes and a loud snort.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/StayNAlive\/~3\/myOA-OpCoBI\/\">When Did Facebook Remove RSS for Friends\u2019 Status Updates?<\/a> &#8211; There&#8217;s a solution nested down in the comments, but only until Facebook shuts that off, too.  Bottom line: FB doesn&#8217;t want you reading FB content outside of FB &#8212; it wants you to read everything else from within FB.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smashingapps.com\/2009\/08\/29\/15-more-free-web-tools-to-simplify-your-work-life.html\">15 (More) Free Web Tools To Simplify Your Work Life<\/a> &#8211; There are some great tools here.  Not sure any of them will baround in a year, but in the meantime &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/click.phdo?i=c7a5f42e21b4977299823b9529df997d\">How Does Porn Work?<\/a> &#8211; The brain is an amazing place.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/click.phdo?i=fec976500a3ba17e97a041be6ebae038\">Best Of Wikipedia<\/a> &#8211; Fun!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2009-08-31-n49.html\">Pingdom Goes Free (For 1 Site)<\/a> &#8211; Sounds interesting &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.boingboing.net\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/7K5VIHcazM8\/jenna-bush-nbc-whit.html\">Jenna Bush, NBC White House correspondent &#8212; the American Meritocracy: Cory Doctorow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Techcrunch\/~3\/M2TnSI2hBfQ\/\">Why Don\u2019t Teens Tweet? We Asked Over 10,000 of Them.<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;The question of \u201cWhy Don\u2019t Teens Use Twitter?\u201d is the question of \u201cWhy Doesn\u2019t Everyone Use Twitter?\u201d The answer, it would seem, is both obvious and heretical \u2026 maybe Twitter isn\u2019t for everyone.&#8221; &#8212; beause, bottom-line, use of Twitter by teens is no worse than use of Twitter by other age cohorts.  Amazingly enough, people use online tools and systems that they find useful.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/7wtTzvXdjK4\/hurricanes_and_high_containmen.php\">Hurricanes and high containment labs don&#8217;t mix [Effect Measure]<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, this still remains a really dumb-sounding idea.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/08\/30\/find-that-song-name\/\">HOW TO: Find the Name of That Song: Barb Dybwad<\/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;. Missouri school district bans t-shirts for acknowledging evolution. &#8211; Evolution is not a religious issue. Any more than gravity is. You may hold beliefs that oppose it, but discussing it (or wearing a t-shirt about it) is NOT a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/31\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-31-august-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 31 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":[263,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12708,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/florida_evolves.html","url_meta":{"origin":15668,"position":0},"title":"Florida evolves","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 20-Feb-08 9:46pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Florida's state board of education has (gasp!) adopted new guidelines that (shock! horror! dismay!) require that evolution be taught in schools. 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