{"id":15920,"date":"2009-10-04T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/04\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-04-october-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-10-04T18:00:53","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T00:00:53","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sunday-04-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/04\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-04-october-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 04 October 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\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/M81THm8KHXU\/carry_a_gun_you_get_shot_more.php\">Carry a gun = you get shot more often [Greg Laden&#8217;s Blog]<\/a> &#8211; The answer is not a knee-jerk that nobody should have guns (any more than the opposite view that everybody should).  It means that you should consider the costs, risks, benefits, and likely outcomes of being armed.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/v5KbiQE_ITE\/five-best-weight+management-tools\">Five Best Weight-Management Tools [Hive Five]<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ve used a couple of these sites before.  They can be helpful &#8212; and annoying.  (And annoying in an unhelpful way, too.)  That said, if it could assist your weight loss\/management, it&#8217;s worth giving it a try.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/TdBC1NrsYDA\/dumbass_quote_of_the_day_61.php\">Dumbass Quote of the Day [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]<\/a> &#8211; But don&#8217;t let &#8220;facts&#8221; (let alone &#8220;temporal orientation&#8221;) get in your way there, Glenn.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/10\/091001164102.htm\">Loss Of Top Predators Causing Surge In Smaller Predators, Ecosystem Collapse<\/a> &#8211; What?  We can&#8217;t just blot out bits and pieces of ecosystems without causing major changes?  Who&#8217;da thunk?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/click.phdo?i=8316c7f92b8fecbe3504c9c1b9aa323e\">To Be A Man Is To Be Heterosexual<\/a> &#8211; Rrrg.  This kind of &#8220;heterosexist&#8221; crap makes me want to break something.  And I say that as a confirmed heterosexual.<\/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;. Carry a gun = you get shot more often [Greg Laden&#8217;s Blog] &#8211; The answer is not a knee-jerk that nobody should have guns (any more than the opposite view that everybody should). It means that you should consider &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/04\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-04-october-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 04 October 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15920","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":44912,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/09\/04\/and-another-annoying-twitter-move.html","url_meta":{"origin":15920,"position":0},"title":"And another annoying Twitter move","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 4-Sep-14 7:00am","format":false,"excerpt":"So, five years after Twitpic applied for that name as a trademark, and as they've cleared the last hurdle for doing do... Twitter approaches them and says give it up or get cut off from our API? That's what's known as a \"dick move,\" Twitter. And that influences people wanting\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":8706,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/01\/two_steps_forwa.html","url_meta":{"origin":15920,"position":1},"title":"Two steps forward, one step in place","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-Sep-05 9:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"The good news: I've cracked the 1,000 mile mark in my \"Walk to Nowhere.\" I will probably not make my 1,500 mile goal, but it's going well all overall. The...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Health&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Health","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/health"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27324,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/04\/outlawing-lewd-and-annoying-behavior-on-the-internet.html","url_meta":{"origin":15920,"position":2},"title":"Outlawing &quot;lewd&quot; and &quot;annoying&quot; behavior on the Internet","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 4-Apr-12 12:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"Outlawing \"lewd\" and \"annoying\" behavior on the InternetWhich means, I think, outlawing the Internet. Or most comment sections and forums. Yes, very bold, conservative, and in keeping with our oldest Constitutional traditions, Arizona. You win the Zany Award for the day. #ddtb Embedded Link Proposed Arizona Law Defies Constitution, Outlaws\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":127815,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/26\/barely-a-sip-of-vixen.html","url_meta":{"origin":15920,"position":3},"title":"Barely a sip of &quot;Vixen&quot;","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 26-Aug-15 8:03am","format":false,"excerpt":"Six five-minute episodes? Um, sorry, I'll wait for them all to be complete, and then \"binge-watch\" it for half an hour. That was just annoying. (Quoth +Kay Hill : \"The trailer was longer than the episode.\")What I saw was good, but ... ugh. My attention span isn't that short. Review:\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":13965,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/01\/its-annoying-when-you-cant-r.html","url_meta":{"origin":15920,"position":4},"title":"It&#8217;s annoying when you can&#8217;t remember &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-Mar-09 8:41am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's annoying when you can't remember\/figure out how to set the coffee maker to brew later (rather than right now). Bad User Interface.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":29975,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/26\/note-this-does-not-mean-you-should-move-here.html","url_meta":{"origin":15920,"position":5},"title":"Note: This Does Not Mean You Should Move Here","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 26-Aug-12 2:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Really. Don't. Please. \u00a0Yeah, we live in one of those Best Places, but you shouldn't. \u00a0For, uh, all sorts of reasons. Because ... um ... for example ... We get, um, really, uh, annoying ...... political ads. That's it! We suffer from serious Swingstateitus, which isn't nearly as much fun\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":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}