{"id":16156,"date":"2009-11-06T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-11-07T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/06\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-06-november-2009.html"},"modified":"2014-11-10T15:11:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T22:11:47","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-06-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/06\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-06-november-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 06 November 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:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/ezra-klein\/2009\/11\/budget_context.html\">Ezra Klein &#8211; Budget context<\/a> &#8211; It&#8217;s all a matter of perspective, innit?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/11\/06\/face-painting-art.html\">Face painting art<\/a> &#8211; These are pretty remarkable.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2009_11\/020813.php\">CONSERVATIVES STILL THINK YOU&#8217;RE ALREADY OVER-INSUREDThe Washington Monthly<\/a> &#8211; Hence their continuous efforts to increase insurance company profits and decrease damage claims.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogtoolscollection.com\/archives\/2009\/11\/06\/watch-out-for-the-gumblar-botnet\/\">Watch Out For The Gumblar Botnet<\/a> &#8211; A note to my WordPress kinfolk &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.sciencedaily.com\/~r\/sciencedaily\/~3\/dgW4zrwdRws\/091106120807.htm\">United States Using Less Water Than 35 Years Ago<\/a> &#8211; Good Lord &#8212; that&#8217;s actually <b>good<\/b> environmental news.  Yay, us!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/rep-jan-schakowsky\/my-conversation-with-gold_b_348178.html\">Rep. Jan Schakowsky: My Conversation with Goldman<\/a> &#8211; These guys are going to be shocked, positively shocked, when the torches and pitchforks show up at their doorsteps.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.9to5mac.com\/facebook_jabber_apple_ichat_50030\">Facebook Chat may soon connect to iChat, GTalk, other Jabber clients<\/a> &#8211; Very clever of Facebook &#8212; the question is, will you be able to receive chat from Facebook people in GTalk?  Or only chat from GTalk people in Facebook.  Given how FB generally has operated &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/CRIME\/11\/06\/orlando.shootings\/index.html\">7 seriously wounded in shooting at Orlando high-rise &#8211; CNN.com<\/a> &#8211; One wonders will the mass shooting in Orlando today lead to increased security scrutiny of ENGINEERS \/ ARCHITECTS?  (Probably not.)  Or of PEOPLE WITH HISPANIC SURNAMES?  (Well, maybe if Lew Dobbs gets on the story.)  Or of MEN? (Look! A pattern! Can&#8217;t trust any of &#8217;em!)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wesh.com\/news\/21541263\/detail.html\">1 Dead; At Least 8 Injured In Downtown Shooting &#8211; Orlando News Story &#8211; WESH Orlando<\/a> &#8211; My company has an office in the building; all evacuated safely.  But some former employees worked for the company in question, and may have been among the victims.  Yikes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fates.org\/moc\/?p=847\">CBO memo on GOP health care plan: minimal actual effect by 2019.<\/a> &#8211; How about the GOP just pay me a few billion dollars instead.  Even more cheaper, and just as effective to reform health care.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/apple\/news\/2009\/11\/developers-stealing-from-developers-an-app-store-tale.ars?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss\">Developers stealing from developers: an App Store tale &#8211; Ars Technica<\/a> &#8211; Caveat emptor. Don&#8217;t assume a company profile (or resume) is being truthful.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gaming\/news\/2009\/11\/pc-modern-warfare-2-its-much-worse-than-you-thought.ars?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss\">PC Modern Warfare 2: it&#8217;s much worse than you thought &#8211; Ars Technica<\/a> &#8211; Wow &#8211; that&#8217;s pretty sucktastic. Nice way to alienate a good chunk of your player base, Infinity Ward. (And I don&#8217;t even play the game.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20427335.300-pilots-artificial-horizon-lined-up-for-a-revamp.html?full=true&amp;print=true\">Pilots&#8217; artificial horizon lined up for a revamp &#8211; tech &#8211; 06 November 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; Very cool &#8212; and much more in keeping with, say, video game interfaces.  It will be intersting to see if the aviation industry actually adopts this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/scienceblogs\/pharyngula\/~3\/R6wm2iIir6c\/charlene_werner_wants_to_go_hi.php\">Charlene Werner wants to go hide<\/a> &#8211; This is a long clip, but it is worth it to hear about the science behind homeopathy &#8212; which is about as rich and concentrated (and sensical) as homeopathic &#8220;medicine&#8221; itself.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/659\/\">Lego<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/slashfilm\/~3\/JbG9bgse6kE\/\">The Hollywood Studios Want To Control Your Television Set-Up<\/a> &#8211; Want to be paid for product owned by you that I want to watch?  No problem.  Want to be able to control my home video hardware?  Nuh-uh.  I don&#8217;t trust Big Media as far as I can throw &#8217;em.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/handy_marriage_chart_nov09\/\">Handy marriage chart<\/a> &#8211; Well, as long as it&#8217;s in a chart, then it must be right.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2009\/11\/06\/the-massacre-at-fort-hood-and-muslim-soldiers-with-attitude\/\">Michelle Malkin \u00bb The massacre at Fort Hood and Muslim soldiers with attitude<\/a> &#8211; Leave it to Michelle to turn this into part of the Great Muslim Conspiracy Against All That Is Right And Good And American And Christian.  Complete with a commenter calling for internment camps.  So when do we get to use the killing of George Tiller to throw the Pro-Life folks into internment camps, too? I mean, it&#8217;s only fair.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smbc-comics.com\/index.php?db=comics&amp;id=1690\">SMBC &#8211; November 05, 2009 &#8211; MEAT!<\/a><\/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;. Ezra Klein &#8211; Budget context &#8211; It&#8217;s all a matter of perspective, innit? Face painting art &#8211; These are pretty remarkable. CONSERVATIVES STILL THINK YOU&#8217;RE ALREADY OVER-INSUREDThe Washington Monthly &#8211; Hence their continuous efforts to increase insurance company profits &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/06\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-06-november-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 06 November 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":[263,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16156","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=16156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47765,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16156\/revisions\/47765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}