{"id":16177,"date":"2009-11-11T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T00:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/11\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-11-november-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-11-11T17:00:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T00:00:42","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-11-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/11\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-11-november-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 11 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:\/\/feeds.chicagotribune.com\/~r\/chicagotribune\/thewatcher\/~3\/aObKTx2IQ14\/wiped-dollhouse-goes-inactive-as-fox-cancels-the-show.html\">Wiped: &#8216;Dollhouse&#8217; goes inactive as Fox cancels the show: Tempo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.mediamatters.org\/~r\/MediaMattersForAmerica-CountyFair\/~3\/_6G5fNoXDr8\/200911110038\">Jamison Foser: Lies, Damed Lies, and Gateway Pundit&#8217;s use of statistics: Jamison Foser<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.huffingtonpost.com\/~r\/HP\/Politics\/~3\/0Np2cehvIeA\/abortion-rights-supporter_n_354498.html\">Abortion Rights Supporters In Congress Request Talks With Obama: The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/11\/11\/dadt-likely-to-be-part-of_0_n_354528.html\">DADT Likely To Be Part Of Defense Bill: Barney Frank: The Huffington Post News Team<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/5402052\/netflix-will-screw-you-for-the-right-price\">Netflix Will Screw You For The Right Price [NetFlix]<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  This seems like a bad deal for everyone &#8212; studios, NetFlix, and consumers.  So, of course, the studios will make it happen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20427341.100-fair-play-monkeys-share-our-sense-of-injustice.html?full=true\">Fair play: Monkeys share our sense of injustice &#8211; opinion &#8211; 11 November 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; Some interesting primate behavior study and how it may relate to human politics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/5402346\/bank-of-america-cancels-solo-india-travelers-debit-card-shrugs\">Bank of America Cancels Solo India Traveler&#8217;s Debit Card, Shrugs [Travel]<\/a> &#8211; Wow.  I guess the banks really want us to go to a cash-only society.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/thetwo-way\/2009\/11\/jon_stewart_catches_sean_hanni.html?ft=1&amp;f=103943429\">Jon Stewart Catches Sean Hannity Using Beck Protest Video<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m shocked, shocked to find lying going on here!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118011170.html?categoryid=14&amp;cs=1\">&#8216;V&#8217; loses ratings battle to &#8216;NCIS&#8217; &#8211; Entertainment News, TV News, Media &#8211; Variety<\/a> &#8211; Expect the Wingers to claim this is all being orchestrated by the Obama White House (which, if you haven&#8217;t heard the unfounded rumor, sees the show as a personal attack, for reasons too goofy to go into).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118011179.html?categoryid=14&amp;cs=1&amp;nid=2562&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed\">Fox cancels &#8216;Dollhouse&#8217; &#8211; Entertainment News, TV News, Media &#8211; Variety<\/a> &#8211; The handwriting was on the wall about this for a while.  I was never quite able to jones for this series as much as I wanted to. Oh well &#8212; gives Joss a chance to do something wonderfuller.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/videocafe.crooksandliars.com\/heather\/dylan-ratigan-calls-out-family-research-co\">Dylan Ratigan Calls Out Family Research Council&#8217;s Ruse for Lying About Stupak Amendment: Heather<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ICanHasCheezburger\/~3\/Ghh1vRYxeG4\/\">LOVE: Cheezburger Network<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18140-suite-of-chatterbox-genes-discovered.html\">Suite of chatterbox genes discovered &#8211; life &#8211; 11 November 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; Which raises some interesting ethical questions &#8212; like, could we splice chimps who could learn to talk?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/boulderdude.com\/2009\/11\/11\/111118-1100am\/\">11\/11\/18 11:00am: admin<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18137-water-purifiers-for-the-poor-fail-to-prove-their-worth.html\">Water purifiers for the poor fail to prove their worth &#8211; tech &#8211; 11 November 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; I.e., someone&#8217;s done shoddy research.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/health\/la-na-flu11-2009nov11,0,4904843.story\">Lawmakers call for emergency sick-leave requirement &#8212; latimes.com<\/a> &#8211; Tellingly, the conservative response is to discount the public health concerns and rush to defend the business community.  The idea that the two might actually have a common cause here (if you discount short-term profit) is inconceivable to them.  The only thing they can imagine is that this is going to cause workers to &#8220;cheat&#8221; &#8212; a telling judgment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/11\/effs-secret-files-anatomy-bogus-subpoena\">From EFF&#8217;s Secret Files: Anatomy of a Bogus Subpoena<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;This story is an an important example of how government abuses breed in secrecy.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2009\/11\/murderer-wikipedia-shhh\">Convicted Murderer To Wikipedia: Shhh!: jennifer<\/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;. Wiped: &#8216;Dollhouse&#8217; goes inactive as Fox cancels the show: Tempo Jamison Foser: Lies, Damed Lies, and Gateway Pundit&#8217;s use of statistics: Jamison Foser Abortion Rights Supporters In Congress Request Talks With Obama: The Huffington Post News Team DADT Likely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/11\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-11-november-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 11 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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16177","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":18230,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/23\/unblogged-bits-mon-23-aug-10-2000.html","url_meta":{"origin":16177,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 23-Aug-10 2000)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 23-Aug-10 2:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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