{"id":15945,"date":"2009-10-07T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-08T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-07-october-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-10-07T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-08T00:00:41","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-07-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-07-october-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 07 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:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/consumerist\/full\/~3\/sJmFcxNTQ7c\/ralph-lauren-is-as-weirded-out-by-this-ad-as-we-are\">Ralph Lauren Is As Weirded Out By This Ad As We Are [Badvertising]: Chris Walters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/health\/chi-leafy-greens-safety-07-oct07,0,5313229.story\">Bagged salad safety: Rising threat of food-borne illness lurks in convenient packages of leafy greens &#8212; chicagotribune.com<\/a> &#8211; I suspect that bags of loose lettuce are not washed nearly as thoroughly as are heads of lettuce.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/mmeow\/~3\/9XYLKQ6P6Ng\/\">Dol Guldur Exterior Shots<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;On second thought, let&#8217;s not go to Dol Guldur.  It is a scary place.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2206973\/pagenum\/all\/#p2\">How to fix Microsoft Word&#8217;s spell-checker. &#8211; By Chris Wilson &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a> &#8211; If dictionaries are descriptive and not prescriptive, then the Web seems a great source for figuring out if a word is misspelled &#8230; with a bit of smarts put around it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/07\/fox-donaldson-bush\/\">Fox Pats Itself On The Back For Being \u2018Enemy Number One\u2019 Of The Obama White  House<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Fair and Balanced,&#8221; right?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/07\/kbr-rape-franken-amendment\/\">Franken Wins Bipartisan Support For Legislation Reining In KBR\u2019s Treatment  Of Rape<\/a> &#8211; Good work, Al!  That it was not passed by 98-0 is to the everlasting shame of the folks (all GOP) who voted against it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pfaw.org\/content\/roberts-and-alito-legislating-from-the-bench\">Roberts and Alito Legislating From the Bench<\/a> &#8211; An excellent point.  If it were simply a matter of reading the law, a lot of these matters would never get to (or need) SCOTUS.  Justices must interpret and use their (so to speak) judgment.  That&#8217;s what makes them so important.  Calling it &#8220;legislating from the bench&#8221; is facile.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.pfaw.org\/content\/church-state-land-swaps-and-the-supreme-court\">Church, State, Land Swaps, and the Supreme Court<\/a> &#8211; The unconstitutionality is underlined by the underhanded way Congress tried to bypass the court ruling.  It didn&#8217;t argue the matter through appeals and to SCOTUS &#8212; it simply tried to paper it over.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/meet-man-behind-conservative-bible\">Meet The Man Behind The Conservative Bible<\/a> &#8211; See!  Told you &#8220;intellectual&#8221; was a dirty word in their book (and in their Book)!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/bestofwikipedia\/~3\/vpaezSW0OSM\/206596259\">Muphry&#8217;s law<\/a> &#8211; Story of my life &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.boingboing.net\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/eP2u_Oljw9E\/shes-got-it.html\">She&#8217;s Got It<\/a> &#8211; Wow &#8212; I&#8217;d never heard about this.  Yeah, I want to know more now.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/secret-hideout.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/on-importance-of-importance.html\">On the importance of importance.<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;Thinking &#8230; about things that are important. What is, what isn&#8217;t, and why.&#8221; Something we all should be doing some of.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordinary-gentlemen.com\/2009\/10\/becks-moment\/\">Beck\u2019s Moment: Will<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalcafe.com\/daily\/faith\/imagine_no_religion.php\">Imagine no religion: Jim Naughton<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2227971\/pagenum\/all\/\">Why it&#8217;s so hard to put sex in the dictionary. &#8211; By Jesse Sheidlower &#8211; Slate Magazine<\/a> &#8211; Fascinating examination of the issue, itself a particularly controversial version of many other dictionary questions.  One of my favorite observations: &#8220;But while it can be stressful deciding how exactly to put sex in the dictionary, it&#8217;s not without rewards: It&#8217;s certainly much more fun than worrying about pesky sound changes in Middle English diphthongs.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/09\/10\/the-best-flag-in-the-world\">The best flag in the world<\/a> &#8211; Well, it certainly sends a clear message.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kottke.org\/09\/10\/calculate-the-cost-of-your-sandwich\">Calculate the cost of your sandwich<\/a> &#8211; Mmmm &#8230; lunch time &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/googlesystem.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/decode-googles-barcode-doodle.html\">Decode Google&#8217;s Barcode Doodle<\/a> &#8211; Kind of a &#8220;duh,&#8221; but still fun.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reallifecomics.com\/archive\/091007.html\">Real Life Comics strip for October \/ 07 \/ 2009<\/a> &#8211; A reason we don&#8217;t eat there any more.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reallifecomics.com\/archive\/090921.html\">Real Life Comic strip for September \/ 21 \/ 2009<\/a> &#8211; Substitute me and Margie into this and you have several conversations we&#8217;ve had about various (non-SG) shows.  Except that she&#8217;s a lot more polite about it.<\/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;. Ralph Lauren Is As Weirded Out By This Ad As We Are [Badvertising]: Chris Walters Bagged salad safety: Rising threat of food-borne illness lurks in convenient packages of leafy greens &#8212; chicagotribune.com &#8211; I suspect that bags of loose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-07-october-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 07 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-15945","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":32922,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/26\/lettuce-see.html","url_meta":{"origin":15945,"position":0},"title":"Lettuce See","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 26-Mar-13 2:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Iceberg Lettuce is the polystyrene packing pellets of the lettuce world -- useless for anything more than a vector for dressing and toppings on a salad.Granted, I'm not a big salad fan, but if I'm going to eat one, give me something with actual lettuce flavor any day.(h\/t +Shannon Turlington)\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":48429,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/19\/margies-kitchen-korean-style-beef-lettuce-wraps.html","url_meta":{"origin":15945,"position":1},"title":"Margie&#8217;s Kitchen: Korean Style Beef Lettuce Wraps","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 19-Nov-14 2:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Margie's Kitchen: Korean Style Beef Lettuce Wraps http:\/\/bit.ly\/14NkS4c #recipe View on Twitter","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":16375,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/09\/hold-the-pickles-hold-the-lettuce-right-about-there.html","url_meta":{"origin":15945,"position":2},"title":"Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce (right about &#8230; there)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 9-Dec-09 6:04am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ever wonder why it is those burgers in the ads look so much better than what you pull out of your take-out bag? 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