{"id":16084,"date":"2009-10-25T18:01:21","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T00:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-25-october-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-06-13T15:54:33","modified_gmt":"2014-06-13T21:54:33","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sunday-25-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-25-october-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 25 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\/DilbertDailyStrip\/~3\/t8y0M9cz9DI\/\">Dilbert &#8211; delegation &#8211; Comic for October 25, 2009<\/a> &#8211; Heh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/9GAG\/~3\/iurxdco9ZwY\/13406\">Boy vs. Cock<\/a> &#8211; Heh. (SFW)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/IntoMobile\/~3\/WEjGOfOgPGM\/tip-mini-dv-cases-are-fantastic-stands-for-your-iphone-or-ipod-touch.html\">Tip: Mini DV cases are fantastic stands for your iPhone or iPod Touch: Stefan Constantinescu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/la.curbed.com\/archives\/2009\/10\/take_the_underwater_train_out_to_the_floating_airport.php\">Underwater Train Will Take You to SoCal&#8217;s New Floating Airport<\/a> &#8211; The scheme that launched a thousand bad disaster movies!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/googlesystem.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/export-google-docs.html\">Google Docs Batch Export<\/a> &#8211; This is <b>excellent<\/b> and makes Google Docs a much more viable alternative for those who don&#8217;t want to put their eggs all in one basket.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/25\/podesta-will-afghanistan\/\">Podesta: Bush Administration Spent Only One Hour On Afghanistan Report It Handed Off To Obama: Amanda Terkel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2009\/10\/25\/rivera-vs-lou-dobbs\/\">Geraldo Rips Lou Dobbs For Latino-Bashing Rhetoric, Says He \u2018Is Not Coming  To Fox News\u2019<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t care much for Giraldo, but I certainly concur with his low opinion of Dobbs. CNN should dump him..<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/feedburner\/rjGb\/~3\/sI_ekznk1iY\/\">Eight Google Wave Annoyances<\/a> &#8211; All good reasons to be holding off from Wave.  But, then, it <b>is<\/b> still a Beta (a real beta, not a next-five-years beta).  I still don&#8217;t &#8220;get&#8221; Wave, but probably won&#8217;t until someone I know adopts it and finds a reason to include me in something.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.sciencedaily.com\/~r\/sciencedaily\/~3\/IaHtjo21bLg\/091023163513.htm\">Arctic Sediments Show That 20th Century Warming Is Unlike Natural Variation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2009\/10\/18\/corporate-supremacy-and-the-rape-of-a-human-girl\/\">Firedoglake \u00bb Corporate Supremacy and the Rape of a Human Girl<\/a> &#8211; Corporations can&#8217;t decide if they want to be treated as the same as humans (with the rights pertaining thereto), or as some sort of special, untouchable class.   I guess it depends on the circumstance and which benefits them.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lucylou.livejournal.com\/577791.html\">All we really need is a major network to back this project&#8230;<\/a> &#8211; In case you don&#8217;t care for Harry Potter &#8230; it could have been worse.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/24\/education\/24baby.html?em\">No Einstein in Your Crib? Get a Refund &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; I don&#8217;t think we ever went in for the Baby Einstein stuff per se.  We did have some classical music CDs for kids we played &#8212; not so much to boost K&#8217;s IQ, as much as to familiarize her with the genre (and because it was pleasant to listen to during the long nights).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/10\/22\/nyregion\/22chinese.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">Mandarin Eclipses Cantonese, Changing the Sound of Chinatown &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; An interesting change.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Pr20\/~3\/8DSMlhV4C50\/\">The Science of Retweets on Twitter<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  That&#8217;s all very interesting &#8212; but, to be honest, I&#8217;m not Tweeting to be ReTweeted.  Though it&#8217;s cool on those rare occasions it happens.<\/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;. Dilbert &#8211; delegation &#8211; Comic for October 25, 2009 &#8211; Heh. Boy vs. Cock &#8211; Heh. (SFW) Tip: Mini DV cases are fantastic stands for your iPhone or iPod Touch: Stefan Constantinescu Underwater Train Will Take You to SoCal&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/25\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-25-october-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 25 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":[527,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-harry-potter","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27542,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/24\/google-drive.html","url_meta":{"origin":16084,"position":0},"title":"Google Drive","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 24-Apr-12 1:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"So Google Drive has magically appeared. 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