{"id":15932,"date":"2009-10-05T18:00:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-06T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-05-october-2009.html"},"modified":"2013-06-07T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T12:42:00","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-05-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-05-october-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 05 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\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~3\/KUkA5FkJ-DY\/\">A Swift view of Andromeda<\/a> &#8211; Whenever I see lovely pics of galaxies, the end titles music for the (original) Outer Limits always plays in my head.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/01\/happy-days-or-should-pets-be-t\">HAPPY Days or, Should Pets Be Tax Deductible?<\/a> &#8211; Everyone has sacred cows &#8212; and when you&#8217;re a Congresscritter, of whatever party, you get to vote in tax advantages to them. I have pets, but I&#8217;d just as soon not get a tax deduction for them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/XTMHamEUirk\/why-american-credit-cards-suck\">Why American Credit Cards Suck [Travel Tips]<\/a> &#8211; Yeah, we&#8217;re going to be the greatest country in the world right until we turn around one day and realize everyone else has left us behind.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/outside.away.com\/outside\/culture\/200909\/photographers-my-toughest-shot-intro.html\">Photographers \u2013 Toughest Shot | Outside Online<\/a> &#8211; Okay, I&#8217;m now cured of wanting to be a professional photographer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pheedcontent.com\/click.phdo?i=9a61663395bc0facb8983ccff2db808c\">The Abuse Of American Exceptionalism<\/a> &#8211; Amen, brother.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/cstmfeed\/~3\/Ft-21nWK2SA\/\">Tolkien\u2019s Monsters: Tonight, on the History Channel<\/a> &#8211; If I can just remember the DVR &#8230; since this will no doubt be the only thing on History Channel ever to never to be repeated.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.competitiveawesome.com\/2009\/09\/yumcamel-balls.html\">Competitive Awesome: Yum&#8230;Camel Balls!<\/a> &#8211; Extra sour!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.arstechnica.com\/~r\/arstechnica\/index\/~3\/jRFTPp2hT7Y\/if-you-are-reading-this-post-you-are-not-a-luddite.ars\">You know the name, but just who were the Luddites?<\/a> &#8211; A little bit of noteworthy history.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcuttlefish.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/happy-40th-monty-python-and-now-for.html\">Happy 40th, Monty Python! (And Now, For Something Completely Different)<\/a> &#8211; Certainly one of the great cultural influences of our time. At least in the subculture I inhabit.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bitsandpieces.us\/2009\/10\/05\/great-billboards\/\">Great billboards<\/a> &#8211; Nice hourglass.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/productideas.appspot.com\/#15\/e=22493&amp;t=22494&amp;v=27\">Product Ideas for Google Reader &#8211; Google Product Ideas<\/a> &#8211; A great way to solicit (and vote on) feature ideas. Of the 2,000 ideas received, they&#8217;ve come up with responses (&#8220;Answered Ideas&#8221;) on a dozen &#8230; none of mine, alas.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blameitonthevoices.com\/2009\/10\/busted-burglar.html\">Busted burglar<\/a> &#8211; I guess if you&#8217;re going to be burgled, it&#8217;s good to have a burglar with a sense of humor.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogchef.net\/baked-ziti-recipe\/\">Baked Ziti Recipe<\/a> &#8211; Mmmmm &#8230; baked ziti &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/gatekeeper.tumblr.com\/post\/162238173\">See my baby? O &#8211; M &#8211; G .<\/a> &#8211; TEH CUTE!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inhabitat.com\/2009\/10\/05\/france-announces-2-2-billion-electric-car-charging-network\/\">France Announces $2.2 Billion Electric Car Charging Network: Sarah Parsons<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/timpanogos.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/05\/sputnik-at-52\/\">Sputnik at 52: Ed Darrell<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.okcupid.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/14\/online-dating-advice-exactly-what-to-say-in-a-first-message\/\">Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message<\/a> &#8211; How to win friends and influence potential dates. Say &#8220;Howdy&#8221; and talk about zombies and atheism, not about how hot the other person&#8217;s picture looks. Ooookay.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thepulpit.freedomblogging.com\/2009\/10\/02\/parishioners-asked-to-pay-criminal-defense-of-rev-don-armstrong\/3031\/\">Parishioners asked to pay criminal defense of Rev. 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HAPPY Days or, Should Pets Be Tax Deductible? &#8211; Everyone has sacred &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/05\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-05-october-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 05 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_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":[3,5,80,379,131,64,38,20,108,382,14,380,75,34,83,16,82,67,376,26,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-cars","category-media-commercial","category-cute","category-energy","category-religion-episcopal-church","category-food-drink","category-hi-tech","category-history","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-love-and-marriage","category-nationalism-exceptionalism","category-media-performers","category-pets","category-media-photography","category-potpourri","category-space","category-media-sports","category-taxing-spending","category-travel","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1424,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/09\/a_dog_eat_dog_w.html","url_meta":{"origin":15932,"position":0},"title":"A Dog-eat-dog world","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-Jan-02 3:49pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, so that's the headline everyone's using. 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