{"id":16199,"date":"2009-11-15T17:00:26","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T00:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-15-november-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-11-15T17:00:26","modified_gmt":"2009-11-16T00:00:26","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-sunday-15-november-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-15-november-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 15 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.gawker.com\/~r\/jezebel\/full\/~3\/O0NobgZut68\/if-you-want-to-be-popular-you-cant-afford-to-be-skinny\">&#8220;If You Want To Be Popular, You Can&#8217;t Afford To Be Skinny.&#8221; [Oldies But  Goodies]<\/a> &#8211; This was the end of the era when lots of people really were very skinny due to poor nutrition.  Now, of course, too many people eat too many calories, so celebrities and models all try to look like (and sell products to help you look like) concentration camp survivors.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/geekdad\/2009\/11\/10-geeky-laws-that-should-exist-but-dont\/\">10 Geeky Laws That Should Exist, But Don\u2019t | GeekDad | Wired.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=blog&amp;id=58296\">What is it with coffee?<\/a> &#8211; There had always been hints that klava wasn&#8217;t &#8220;just&#8221; coffee, but more explicitly spelling out the difference so far into the series was a good reveal.  (Recipe at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/dragaera.194307012\">http:\/\/www.cafepress.com\/dragaera.194307012<\/a> )<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/ScienceblogsCombinedFeed\/~3\/UtMVxVyhk9E\/so_thats_what_twitter_does_to.php\">So that&#8217;s what Twitter does to your brain\u2026 [Pharyngula]<\/a> &#8211; Ha!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/dvice.com\/archives\/2009\/11\/road-trains-loo.php\">&#8216;Road trains&#8217; look like a severe pile-up in the making<\/a> &#8211; This sounds like one of those idea that sounds great in theory, but depends on technology and people working perfectly. And, as an IT professional, I can guarantee neither of those conditions are likely to persist for long.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/slacktivist.typepad.com\/slacktivist\/2009\/11\/evangelicals-and-immigration.html\">Evangelicals and immigration<\/a> &#8211; A very nice analysis of the difference between the people whose politics is driven by their religion, and the people whose religion is driven by their politics.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/matthewyglesias\/~3\/5C2DzwFPFi4\/same-sex-marriage-by-age-and-state.php\">Same Sex Marriage By Age and State<\/a> &#8211; The mills of the gods grind slowly &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/mikethemadbiologist\/2009\/11\/peter_galbraith_others_blood_f.php?utm_source=combinedfeed&amp;utm_medium=rss\">Peter Galbraith: Others&#8217; Blood for Iraq&#8217;sHis Oil : Mike the Mad Biologist<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m not willing to leap to the conclusion that, yes, it was all about the oil up front &#8212; but clearly a lot of the post-war activity is all about the oil &#8230; and not even from a &#8220;protecting American interests&#8221; standpoint, either.<\/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;. &#8220;If You Want To Be Popular, You Can&#8217;t Afford To Be Skinny.&#8221; [Oldies But Goodies] &#8211; This was the end of the era when lots of people really were very skinny due to poor nutrition. Now, of course, too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-sunday-15-november-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Sunday, 15 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-16199","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":27520,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/oh-no-too-skinny.html","url_meta":{"origin":16199,"position":0},"title":"Oh, no! 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