{"id":15706,"date":"2009-09-03T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T00:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/03\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-03-september-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T13:18:55","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:18:55","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thursday-03-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/03\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-03-september-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 03 September 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.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/case-study-right-wing-myth-making\">A Case Study in Right-Wing Myth Making: Kyle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/failblog\/~3\/UbCjcKOV4MQ\/\">Sign Fail<\/a> &#8211; It took me a good minute to figure out what the hell this was talking about.  Then I just rolled my eyes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thedisneyblog.com\/2009\/09\/02\/leave-murphy-alone-also-new-fantasmic-dragon-debuts-at-disneyland\/#\">Leave Murphy Alone (also new Fantasmic Dragon debuts at Disneyland) | The Disney Blog<\/a> &#8211; Nice dragon!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jimhillmedia.com\/blogs\/jim_hill\/archive\/2009\/09\/01\/phineas-ferb-serve-up-a-september-to-remember.aspx\">Jim Hill : Toon Tuesday: \u201cPhineas &amp; Ferb\u201d serve up a September to remember<\/a> &#8211; Our whole household love &quot;Phineas &amp; Ferb.&quot;  The soundtrack is already on order.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/7LgI-SOQpVM\/dont-have-5300-for-season-tickets-the-washington-redskins-will-sue-you-into-bankruptcy\">Don&#8217;t Have $5,300 For Season Tickets? The Washington Redskins Will Sue You  Into Bankruptcy [Contracts]<\/a> &#8211; Nice.  One way to make up some revenue.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/1sicJyVAg3w\/police-say-walmart-shopper-slapped-a-strangers-kid\">Police Say Walmart Shopper Slapped A Stranger&#8217;s Kid [Bad Consumer]<\/a> &#8211; Now I know why I learned karate &#8212; so I could punch this asshole in the neck.  &#8220;See, shut you up, too.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toplessrobot.com\/2009\/09\/breaking_literature_is_dead.php\">Breaking: Literature Is Dead<\/a> &#8211; Another faboo reason never to (re)read Wuthering Heights.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/ci_13257516\">Obama speech divides parents &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  I suspect just a few years ago that any parent who refused to let her child listen to a speech by the president would have had his or her loyalty and patriotism questioned.  Ah, but, then, that was a white, Republican president.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maniacworld.com\/civil-war-in-four-minutes.html\">The Civil War in Four Minutes &#8211; Video<\/a> &#8211; This is very cool.  The borders\/battle-lines are a bit too definitively drawn (this was still an era when the &#8220;front&#8221; was the interface between individual armies and corps, not a defended line), but still reasonable.  The given and take of territory is fascinating to watch, as the casualty count continues to mount.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techmeme.com\/090903\/p4#a090903p4\">RSS Is Dead, So Is The RSS Fund (Dan Primack\/PE Hub Blog)<\/a> &#8211; RSS is not &#8220;cool.&#8221;  That doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s dead.  And &#8230; what the hell do you need an RSS investment fund for?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DigitalPhotographySchool\/~3\/IgsWiBOjWAE\/how-to-be-inspired-and-not-intimidated-by-other-photographers\">How to Be Inspired and Not Intimidated by Other Photographers<\/a> &#8211; Don&#8217;t let the perfect become the enemy of the good. Ansel Adams almost certainly took a lot of crap before he got good &#8212; and probably took a lot of crap even after, but that&#8217;s not what got published.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/vz8q8RhcoDo\/television_news_is_killing_ame.php\">Television news is killing America [The Island of Doubt]<\/a> &#8211; Yup. Civil discourse isn&#8217;t exciting. Zany and violent discourse is.  So it gets covered.  So folks who want to be covered, partake of incivility &#8230; or else think that&#8217;s the norm because, well, that&#8217;s all they ever see.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/vrXE_WwVrrA\/campus_traffic_patterns.php\">Campus Traffic Patterns [Uncertain Principles]<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve always felt it made sense to put in the sidewalks, look at where people are cutting across them, then lay sidewalks in those areas, too &#8212; or instead.  It would look nicer than dirt ruts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2225504\/pagenum\/all\/\">Yale University Press capitulates to religious extremists. &#8211; By Christopher Hitchens &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  That&#8217;s pretty depressing.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fates.org\/moc\/?p=386\">Now the Birthers are demanding to know: Was Obama circumcised?<\/a> &#8211; Crikey.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phdcomics.com\/comics.php?f=1219\">08\/31\/09 PHD comic: &#8216;Peak Productivity&#8217;<\/a> &#8211; If not for a work schedule, this would be me.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair\/~3\/XmKz7t__vpQ\/200909030020\">Conservative media take note: Reagan preached tax cut gospel to America\u2019s  students<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Do Sean Hannity and the folks at NewsBusters think President Reagan was engaging in Maoist indoctrination? Do Glenn Beck and WorldNetDaily think Reagan was pulling a Mussolini or attempting to assemble his own Hitler Youth?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/tbogg.firedoglake.com\/2009\/09\/03\/isn%e2%80%99t-parental-important-also-of-great-importance\/\">\u201cIsn\u2019t parental important also of great importance.\u201d<\/a> &#8211; (Rolls eyes.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/index\/seb\/comments\/i_dont_have_bad_habits_im_just_practicing_good_health\/\">I don\u2019t have bad habits, I\u2019m just practicing good health.<\/a> &#8211; Woot! Bad habits for the win! (I come in at 9 of 12.)<\/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;. A Case Study in Right-Wing Myth Making: Kyle Sign Fail &#8211; It took me a good minute to figure out what the hell this was talking about. Then I just rolled my eyes. Leave Murphy Alone (also new Fantasmic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/03\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-03-september-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 03 September 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-15706","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":51037,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/12\/looking-forward-to-mikey-murphys-law.html","url_meta":{"origin":15706,"position":0},"title":"Looking forward to &quot;Mikey Murphy&#039;s Law&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 12-May-15 5:26pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Normally I'd be very ho-hum about the premise and all, but given that's coming from Dan Povenmire and Jeff \u201cSwampy\u201d Marsh, of Phineas & Ferb and Rocko's Secret Life fame ... yeah, even if it's a \"kid's\" show, I'll give it a whirl. 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