{"id":16039,"date":"2009-10-18T18:01:59","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T00:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-18-october-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-10-18T18:01:59","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T00:01:59","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sunday-18-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-18-october-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 18 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:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/ci_13588260?source=rss\">Fast-train campaign is picking up speed<\/a> &#8211; Right. If it becomes highly efficient <b>and<\/b> a possible security risk \/ target, I guarantee the TSA will do the same thing to high-speed rail that it&#8217;s done to air travel.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2009\/10\/18\/obama-team-continues-effort-isolate-fox-news\/\">Obama Team Continues Effort to Isolate Fox News &#8211; Political News &#8211; FOXNews.com<\/a> &#8211; Given that most of the air time is, in fact, given to opinion shows rather than straight news, and the news coverage still manages to show an ideological bent both in what &#8220;facts&#8221; they choose to cover and how they choose to interpret them &#8230; yeah, calling it an opinion network rather than a news network seems pretty accurate to me.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/news\/view\/95517-Epic-Mickey-Mouse-Goes-Retro-in-More-Ways-Than-One#\">The Escapist : News : &#8220;Epic&#8221; Mickey Mouse Goes Retro in More Ways Than One<\/a> &#8211; Sound like we got our Wii just in time. This looks very spiffy. (There&#8217;s a nice video on the underlying page that didn&#8217;t get picked up for GReader.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolest-gadgets.com\/20091016\/pilar-faucet-turns-touch\/\">Pilar Faucet turns on from just a touch<\/a> &#8211; Clever.  Pricy, but clever.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8he8afjQyd8\">YouTube &#8211; Sir James Dyson explains his bladeless fan<\/a> &#8211; Cool.  Hope the costs for this drop significantly.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truecrimereport.com\/2009\/10\/wade_edwards_catches_daughter.php\">Wade Edwards Catches Daughter Having Sex, Shoots Boyfriend in the Balls &#8211; True Crime Report<\/a> &#8211; I can&#8217;t actually condone shooting someone in such circumstances &#8230; esp. as I believe the lesson was learned once the gun was brandished.  Still, one can understand the sentiment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/ci_13586527\">Denver&#8217;s aquaponics project aims to turn &#8220;food desert&#8221; into an oasis of  health<\/a> &#8211; Cool idea, for a neighborhood that really needs it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/an_existential_crisis_oct09\/\">An existential crisis<\/a> &#8211; On the Internet, nobody knows you&#8217;re in the Twilight Zone.<\/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;. Fast-train campaign is picking up speed &#8211; Right. If it becomes highly efficient and a possible security risk \/ target, I guarantee the TSA will do the same thing to high-speed rail that it&#8217;s done to air travel. Obama &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/18\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-18-october-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 18 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16039","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":1691,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/11\/24\/so_maybe_we_are.html","url_meta":{"origin":16039,"position":0},"title":"So maybe we are the good guys after all","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 24-Nov-01 3:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The joy in Kabul indicates that even the Muslim world may like US values of freedom and choice -- or at least show that the apparent popularity of bin Laden...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitical Brouhaha&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitical Brouhaha","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/geopolitical-brouhaha"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3889,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/03\/18\/tuesday_7.html","url_meta":{"origin":16039,"position":1},"title":"Tuesday","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Mar-03 10:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's This-or-That Tuesday....","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Books&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Books","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/media-books"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6017,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/06\/party_time.html","url_meta":{"origin":16039,"position":2},"title":"Party time","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 6-Jun-04 11:02pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A rather depressing NYT Op-Ed from David Brooks about how partisanship blinds everyone, regardless of party. 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