{"id":15865,"date":"2009-09-25T18:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T00:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-25-september-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-06-17T09:39:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:39:36","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-25-september-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-25-september-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 25 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:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair\/~3\/rYbYuQRpzmk\/200909250002\">Brian Frederick: Glenn Beck can&#8217;t &#8212; or probably shouldn&#8217;t &#8212; go home again: Brian Frederick<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/09\/24\/franken-patriot-act\/\">DoJ official finds it \u2018surreal\u2019 to have to respond to Franken\u2019s concerns  about Patriot Act.<\/a> &#8211; Nicely asked.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/freeexchange\/2009\/09\/the_idiot_box.cfm\">The idiot box<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;d say we&#8217;re in the 2-4h range\/day, average, at the most.  And much of that is pre-recorded.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/granades.com\/2009\/09\/24\/hobbit-419\/\">Hobbit 419 | Live Granades<\/a> &#8211; Heh.  Yeah, that fits pretty nicely.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/macphotographytips.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/24\/5-ways-to-improve-any-photo\/\">5 Ways to Improve Any Photo<\/a> &#8211; Yup.  Pretty straightforward, but reliable, pieces of advice.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/56K_EqbOfsg\/flickr-people-really-dont-like-the-new-from-yahoo-logo\">Flickr People Really Don&#8217;t Like The New &#8220;From Yahoo!&#8221; Logo [Backlash]<\/a> &#8211; I suppose it&#8217;s inevitable &#8230; but I&#8217;m not particularly thrilled myself.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/HrH0zn6t0tc\/love-to-love-you-bra.html\">Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour<\/a> &#8211; That&#8217;s &#8230; um &#8230; a remarkable video.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/creativeapplicationsnet\/~3\/2McCom_kgNo\/\">The HyperCard Legacy [Theory, Mac]<\/a> &#8211; I always thought HyperCard was very cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/jtHZXDUUQyU\/nintendo-makes-200-wii-official-no-change-to-pack-ins.ars\">Nintendo makes $200 Wii official, no change to pack-ins<\/a> &#8211; A certain 9-year-old will be very happy to hear this &#8230; esp. once we update her checking register.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelterrific.com\/2009\/09\/24\/post-off-how-do-you-arrange-your-bookshelves\/\">post off: how do you arrange your bookshelves?<\/a> &#8211; By fiction genre, alphabetical by author.  Non-fiction is grouped thematically.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/nIHS1fKAn2A\/microsoft-google-chrome-frame-makes-ie-less-secure.ars\">Microsoft: Google Chrome Frame makes IE less secure<\/a> &#8211; If MS forced IE6 users to upgrade to IE8, I&#8217;d agree that the Chrone add-in was a potential security issue.  Until then, though, IE6 remains the biggest security gap on the Internet.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/S6OWRAc0X1o\/three-probes-send-back-unambiguous-evidence-of-lunar-water.ars\">Three probes send back &#8220;unambiguous&#8221; evidence of lunar water<\/a> &#8211; Woot!  Next up, a Lunar Colony with an ice mining economy &#8230; hmmmm, maybe we can make it a prison planet, too &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/cynical-c\/nxDH\/~3\/klZtCGq5pDc\/\">US Version of Fawlty Towers<\/a> &#8211; This is, mercifully, from 1999.  It&#8217;s &#8230; not eye-gougingly painful, but it does make one long for the original to a far greater degree than any Americanized remake should.<\/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;. Brian Frederick: Glenn Beck can&#8217;t &#8212; or probably shouldn&#8217;t &#8212; go home again: Brian Frederick DoJ official finds it \u2018surreal\u2019 to have to respond to Franken\u2019s concerns about Patriot Act. &#8211; Nicely asked. The idiot box &#8211; I&#8217;d say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/09\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-25-september-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 25 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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[12,17,382,16,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fourth-estate","category-homeland-security","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-potpourri","category-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4097,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/02\/06\/lord_of_the_rin-3.html","url_meta":{"origin":15865,"position":0},"title":"Lord of the Rings drinking game","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 6-Feb-03 8:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"And the nicely unusual thing about it is that the rules are simple. Which is good, because it would be a high-throughput game....","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":137488,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/23\/in-a-hole-in-the-ground-there-lived-a-hobbit-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":15865,"position":1},"title":"&quot;In a hole in the ground, there lived &#8230; a Hobbit.&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 23-Dec-18 10:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I love the Rankin\/Bass production of The Hobbit, and can still sing most of the songs from it. I was unaware, though, of the Studio Ghibli connection. My only argument with this article is that it fails to mention some of the remarkable voice talent that went into this cartoon:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3313,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/12\/23\/loading_on_the.html","url_meta":{"origin":15865,"position":2},"title":"Loading on the Rings","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Dec-02 12:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Why, look: more nitwitted LotR deconstructionist reviews. (via Andrea, who adds her own nicely-done commentary here) UPDATE: Andrea cites, and deconstructs, another. 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In other words, it was like NaNoWriMo, with a multi-million dollar\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127486,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/09\/tolkien-reading-the-hobbit.html","url_meta":{"origin":15865,"position":4},"title":"Tolkien reading &quot;The Hobbit&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 9-Aug-15 8:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a 1952 reading by J R R Tolkien of Bilbo and Gollumn riddling each other in The Hobbit, recorded by a friend with a portable tape recorder. It's sort of fascinating hearing the voices and rhythms Tolkien chose for his own creation. 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