{"id":16403,"date":"2009-12-11T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T00:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-11-december-2009.html"},"modified":"2009-12-11T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T00:00:29","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-11-december-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-11-december-2009.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 11 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.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/web_tech\/how_to_turn_off_the_internet_while_writing_on_your_computer_145625.asp?c=rss\">How to Turn Off the Internet While Writing on Your Computer<\/a> &#8211; I can very, very, very much see the value of something like this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.sciencedaily.com\/~r\/sciencedaily\/~3\/dhE-iADCLiQ\/091210162222.htm\">Bacteria engineered to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel<\/a> &#8211; Wow &#8212; that would be very cool if it ever came to fruition (i.e., industrial reality).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2009\/12\/091209194437.htm?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29\">Formula to detect an author\u2019s literary \u2018fingerprint\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Interesting, though more as a mental excerise than anything I suspect would be of real use.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/coffeeem.livejournal.com\/135558.html\">coffeeem: Please, please help.<\/a> &#8211; From Emma Bull.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/pecunium.livejournal.com\/456870.html\">pecunium: Root and branch<\/a> &#8211; Worse and worse.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/will-bunch\/while-dying-editor-publis_b_388209.html\">Will Bunch: While Dying, Editor &amp; Publisher Showed Journalism How To Live: Will Bunch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/nielsenhayden.com\/makinglight\/archives\/011966.html\">Making Light: Peter Watts, distinguished Canadian SF writer, arrested by US border police while trying to re-enter Canada<\/a> &#8211; Rrg.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/R2TbZLf54mc\/dr-peter-watts-canad.html\">Dr Peter Watts, Canadian science fiction writer, beaten and arrested at US  border<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;d really like to believe that there is a lot more to this than the story indicates &#8230; but I&#8217;m not at all confident that there is.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~3\/tt43T110TYk\/\">iPhone economics<\/a> &#8211; The bright-shiny keeps drawing me &#8230; sort off like a bug zapper, I fear &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.au.org\/2009\/12\/10\/spiritual-survey-new-study-points-to-rise-of-doityourself-religion\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+AUblog+%28The+Wall+of+Separation%29\">Spiritual Survey: New Study Points To Rise Of \u2018Do-It-Yourself\u2019 Religion | The Wall of Separation<\/a> &#8211; I think there&#8217;s a lot to be said for drawing on tradition and &#8220;orthodoxy,&#8221;, but also applying your own reason and conscience to your spirituality (cf. Hooker). The problem comes when orthodox authorities become, well, authoritarian, and don&#8217;t just think they&#8217;re right, but that they are completely right and the only ones who are.  Think how scared they must be.  Indeed, you can hear it in their increasingly shrill voices every day.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2009\/12\/10\/stupid-drm-abusive-e.html\">Stupid DRM, abusive EULAs, hopeless ecommerce: why I&#8217;m not even going to try to sell my short story collection audiobook downloads<\/a> &#8211; Goofiness.  I&#8217;m really hoping that in five years, we&#8217;ll be done with all the DRM\/EULA crap and can have a rational working model that provides a profitable experience for all and a pleasant experience for the customer.  call me a cock-eyed optimist.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/firedoglake.com\/2009\/12\/08\/john-gibsons-new-book-the-media-brainwashed-america-into-hating-george-w-bush\/\">Firedoglake \u00bb John Gibson\u2019s New Book: The Media Brainwashed America into Hating George W. Bush<\/a> &#8211; So &#8230; does that mean swiftboating is bad?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mymodernmet.com\/xn\/detail\/2100445:BlogPost:176634\">10 Eye-Opening Infographs You May Have Missed<\/a> &#8211; There are some nice ones here.  Others are perhaps a bit too clever for clarity.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/42743\">mental_floss Blog \u00bb The Island of Misfit Christmas Specials<\/a> &#8211; I loved the Mr Magoo &#8220;Christmas Carol&#8221; growing up.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/673\/\">The Sun<\/a> &#8211; Heh.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/microsoft\/news\/2009\/12\/mozilla-exec-urges-firefox-users-ditch-google-for-bing.ars?utm_source=rss&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss\">Mozilla exec urges Firefox users ditch Google for Bing<\/a> &#8211; Schmidt&#8217;s comments aren&#8217;t heartening, but, really &#8212; Microsoft?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ETAOIN_SHRDLU\">ETAOIN SHRDLU &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a> &#8211; It always makes me thing of the Fredric Brown story.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20427381.500-the-perfect-way-to-slice-a-pizza.html?full=true\">The perfect way to slice a pizza &#8211; physics-math &#8211; 11 December 2009 &#8211; New Scientist<\/a> &#8211; Money quote: &#8220;It&#8217;s a funny thing about some mathematicians. We often don&#8217;t care if the results have applications because the results are themselves so pretty.&#8221;  Which is kind of nice, sometimes.<\/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;. How to Turn Off the Internet While Writing on Your Computer &#8211; I can very, very, very much see the value of something like this. Bacteria engineered to turn carbon dioxide into liquid fuel &#8211; Wow &#8212; that would &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/11\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-11-december-2009.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 11 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-16403","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":40166,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/12\/21\/takin-a-right-turn-at-albuque.html","url_meta":{"origin":16403,"position":0},"title":"Takin&#8217; a right turn at Albuque&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 21-Dec-13 10:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"Takin' a right turn at Albuquerque. #GoWestYoungMan","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":33526,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/03\/4-of-5-stars-to-turn-coat-by-j.html","url_meta":{"origin":16403,"position":1},"title":"4 of 5 stars to Turn Coat by J&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 3-May-13 10:26am","format":false,"excerpt":"4 of 5 stars to Turn Coat by Jim Butcher http:\/\/t.co\/6eLFwfGxRA","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":50258,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/turn-on-the-spigotpour-the-beer-and-swig-itand-gaudeamus-igit-ur-pomonaaw15.html","url_meta":{"origin":16403,"position":2},"title":"Turn on the spigot,Pour the beer and swig it,And gaudeamus igit&#8211;ur.#PomonaAW15","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 2-May-15 5:31pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Turn on the spigot, Pour the beer and swig it, And gaudeamus igit- -ur. #PomonaAW15 View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~Tweets&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/CECa8-EUsAIsiOc.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/CECa8-EUsAIsiOc.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/CECa8-EUsAIsiOc.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":130452,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/18\/why-do-apples-turn-brown-when-cut-open.html","url_meta":{"origin":16403,"position":3},"title":"Why do apples turn brown when cut open?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 18-Apr-16 2:43pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And now I know. 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