{"id":15805,"date":"2009-09-14T18:00:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T00:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-14-september-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-09-14T18:00:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T00:00:47","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-14-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-14-september-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 14 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.cartoonbank.com\/product_details.asp?mscssid=4SST5GAKBX3M8PQNLHH3ALCF20S5ATUF&amp;sitetype=1&amp;did=4&amp;sid=124050&amp;pid=&amp;keyword=hitchens&amp;section=all&amp;title=undefined&amp;whichpage=1&amp;sortBy=popular\">David Sipress : \u201cI begged you not to buy that book by Christopher Hitchens.\u201d &#8211; Cartoonbank.com<\/a> &#8211; Ran across this on my New Yorker Page-a-Day and immediately thought of several of my correspondents &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peterdavid.net\/index.php\/2009\/09\/12\/spider-and-jeanne-robinson\/\">Spider and Jeanne Robinson<\/a> &#8211; Wow &#8212; very sad.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2009-09-14-n23.html\">How to Restrict Google Results to the Past Minutes or Seconds<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  I like Google&#8217;s minimalistic design, but I wouldn&#8217;t mind seeing these as regular options.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.makezine.com\/archive\/2009\/09\/unbreakable_umbrella_protects_again.html?CMP=OTC-0D6B48984890\">Unbreakable umbrella protects against assailants, watermelons<\/a> &#8211; Hmmmmm &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/rifqa-bary-and-right-wing-holy-war\">Rifqa Bary and the Right Wing Holy War<\/a> &#8211; Encroach! Agenda! Islam! Eek!  It would be laughable, if there weren&#8217;t a young woman and her parents caught in the middle.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/crackberry.com\/opera-mini-5-coming-soon-blackberry-near-you\">Opera Mini 5 Coming Soon To A BlackBerry Near You?: Bla1ze<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/14\/bush-trip-cancel\/\">School cancels controversial field trip to Bush speech.: Amanda Terkel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/suddenly-cpac-rejects-wnd-craziness\">Suddenly, CPAC Rejects WND Craziness<\/a> &#8211; Money quote:&#8217; &#8220;It would fill a room,&#8221; said event director Lisa De Pasquale. &#8220;But so would a two-headed monkey.&#8221;&#8216;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/Zx6ypCzWOWc\/the_curse_of_eve.php\">The curse of Eve [Pharyngula]: PZ Myers none@example.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/Mg7X8bq_XKk\/a_word_about_civility_joe_wils.php\">Joe Wilson&#8217;s outburst is not about civility. It&#8217;s about racism. [Greg  Laden&#8217;s Blog]<\/a> &#8211; An excellent essay on the subject &#8212; and on civility.  &#8220;Joe Wilson is a highly privileged individual who does not need to scream or taunt the speaker to get his voice heard. In the hands of the powerful, incivility is not a tool to alleviate repression. Rather, it is a bludgeon to keep down the repressed.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair\/~3\/iQvQUDhyfK8\/200909130006\">Eric Boehlert: For WashPost, right-wing protesters are Page One news; in  2002 liberal war protesters were not<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, that old &#8220;liberal&#8221; media.  Got it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/oreilly\/radar\/atom\/~3\/QPc-hsVUGf4\/rss-never-blocks-you-or-goes-d.html\">RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized<\/a> &#8211; I concur &#8212; if these are to become the reliable, ubiquitous services that people want &#8212; then decentralization seems to be the best way to that goal.  Twitter hiccuping, or Facebook changing their ToS, is tolerable only so long as my online world doesn&#8217;t depend on them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/14\/pew-fox-democrats\/\">Positive view of Fox News among Democrats drops significantly.<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m surprised the number is as high as it is.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/14\/boortz-child-molester\/\">Boortz compares President Obama to a child molester.<\/a> &#8211; Nothing surprises me any more.  And that, in itself, is pretty sad.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/14\/santorum-president-2012\/\">Santorum \u2018thinking about\u2019 a run for president in 2012.<\/a> &#8211; Oh, pleeeeeease run, Rick.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.underconsideration.com\/brandnew\/archives\/my_little_logo.php\">My Little Logo<\/a> &#8211; Actually, that&#8217;s a nice revision.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cheeseorfont.mogrify.org\/\">Cheese or Font?<\/a> &#8211; Something to while away several minute of boredom.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/WdIgyxv7vdQ\/celebrated-darwin-bi.html\">Celebrated Darwin biopic can&#8217;t find a distributor in the US, producer blames  creationists<\/a> &#8211; That faint, monotonous hammering sound in the distance is my head and my desk.<\/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;. David Sipress : \u201cI begged you not to buy that book by Christopher Hitchens.\u201d &#8211; Cartoonbank.com &#8211; Ran across this on my New Yorker Page-a-Day and immediately thought of several of my correspondents &#8230; Spider and Jeanne Robinson &#8211; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/14\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-14-september-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 14 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15805","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":15805,"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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