{"id":16355,"date":"2009-12-07T17:00:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-07-december-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-12-07T17:00:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T00:00:23","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-monday-07-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-07-december-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Monday, 07 December 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.decrepitoldfool.com\/index.php\/weblog\/mmmgeog\/\">Monday Morning Music: the original National Geographic theme<\/a> &#8211; Not my favorite rendition of the music, but cool enough.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogoscoped.com\/archive\/2009-12-07-n27.html\">Google Visual Search: Future Mobile App to Let You Snap Photo, Get Info  About It?<\/a> &#8211; Sounds cool, but somehow all those HUDs of info in SF shows always seemed a lot more definitive than, say, Google results.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/evolvingthoughts.net\/2009\/12\/06\/sausages-and-science\/\">Sausages, and science<\/a> &#8211; Actually, I daresay most policy discussions, white papers, strategic missions, etc., both public and private, go through the same sort of sausage-making process.  Anyone who wouldn&#8217;t mind their dinner table, water cooler, or bar counter conversation being recorded and transcribed for the general public can cast the first stone on this one.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/timpanogos.wordpress.com\/2009\/12\/06\/what-if-al-gore-were-wrong-about-global-warming-that-would-be-great-news\/\">What if Al Gore were wrong about global warming? That would be great news.<\/a> &#8211; Contrary to some anti-warming types, most people concerned and wanting to act on global warming aren&#8217;t doing so out of some desire to destroy Western Civilization, or to turn us into some eco-hippie socialist paradise.  We&#8217;d actually really love it if it weren&#8217;t a problem &#8212; though, honestly, most of the actions which global warming suggests we need to do are things we ought to be doing for other reasons as well.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/news\/2009\/12\/so-verizon-about-those-doubled-early-termination-fees.ars\">&#8220;So, Verizon, about those doubled early termination fees&#8230;&#8221;<\/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;. Monday Morning Music: the original National Geographic theme &#8211; Not my favorite rendition of the music, but cool enough. Google Visual Search: Future Mobile App to Let You Snap Photo, Get Info About It? &#8211; Sounds cool, but somehow &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/07\/unblogged-bits-for-monday-07-december-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Monday, 07 December 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-16355","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":27315,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/03\/the-google-profile-is-all.html","url_meta":{"origin":16355,"position":0},"title":"The Google Profile is All!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 3-Apr-12 12:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"On the one hand, it's cool that when I look at my own profile, I can see the contact info I have for myself there. 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