{"id":16537,"date":"2010-01-15T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T00:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-15-january-2010.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:49:00","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-friday-15-january-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-15-january-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Friday, 15 January 2010"},"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.npr.org\/blogs\/monkeysee\/2010\/01\/mythbusters_grant_imahara_expl.html?ft=1&amp;f=93568166\">&#8216;Mythbusters&#8217; Grant Imahara Explains Something Gross (Not Safe For Lunch)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/cynical-c\/nxDH\/~3\/Twox4CSRAbU\/\">The Six Million Dollar Jedi<\/a> &#8211; Yes, what &#8220;Return of the Jedi&#8221; was missing was bionics sound effects &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joeydevilla.com\/2010\/01\/15\/multitasking-in-the-mad-men-era\/\">Multitasking in the \u201cMad Men\u201d Era<\/a> &#8211; Timesharing &#8212; ah, that brings back the good ol&#8217; days.  Though I get mildly miffed when people thing that the idea of &#8220;virtual machines&#8221; was invented only a couple of years ago.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blameitonthevoices.com\/2010\/01\/how-media-can-manipulate-our-viewpoint.html\">How the media can manipulate our viewpoint: xco<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/stupidevilbastard.com\/2010\/01\/boy-dies-from-easily-treatable-condition-while-family-prays-for-healing\/\">Boy dies from easily treatable condition while family prays for healing.<\/a> &#8211; Well, obviously, since his prayers weren&#8217;t answered, he didn&#8217;t have enough faith. QED. Or so some would say.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/kotaku\/full\/~3\/ZgxT852ivEQ\/video-game-statistics-at-a-glance\">Video Game Statistics At A Glance [Statistics]<\/a> &#8211; Some interesting stats.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bigpicture\/2010\/01\/haiti_48_hours_later.html\">Haiti 48 hours later &#8211; The Big Picture &#8211; Boston.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/presurfer.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/most-beautiful-woman.html\">The Most Beautiful Woman<\/a> &#8211; Well, that&#8217;s a fairly, um, narrow range of &#8220;celebrity beauties,&#8221; but the result is striking (to my eyes, at least).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/freeexchange\/2010\/01\/end_haiti_0\">The end of Haiti?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.technologyreview.com\/click.phdo?i=365c70500c584c2b814c51ea096a9b82\">The Global Shipping Network Revealed<\/a> &#8211; Very cool.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crunchgear.com\/2010\/01\/14\/locals-your-radio-tower-gives-us-rashes-company-you-mean-the-one-thats-been-off-all-this-time\/\">Locals: \u201cYour radio tower gives us rashes!\u201d Company: \u201cYou mean the one that\u2019s been off all this time?\u201d: Devin Coldewey<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/headlines\/ci_14195453\">Much of Colorado&#8217;s aid to Haiti stuck in limbo &#8211; The Denver Post<\/a> &#8211; We do a lot of medical and educational support work for Haiti, including in the town of Petit Trou de Nippes (referenced at the end of the story).  It sounds like the school built there is okay (thank you, Engineers Without Borders).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedpastor.com\/archives\/4500\">cartoon: suffering and stupidity graph | nakedpastor<\/a> &#8211; For &#8220;stupidity&#8221; also exchange &#8220;arrogance&#8221; and &#8220;uselessness.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/01\/14\/limbaugh-haiti-tampons\/\">Limbaugh stands by his Haiti remarks, tells critical caller she\u2019s a \u2018bigot\u2019  with \u2018tampons in her ears.\u2019<\/a> &#8211; Limbaugh continues to demonstrate what a really awful person he is.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~r\/lifehacker\/full\/~3\/DKJ0qtLnshQ\/pack-a-gun-to-protect-valuables-from-airline-theft-or-loss\">Pack a Gun to Protect Valuables from Airline Theft or Loss [Air Travel Tip]<\/a> &#8211; Clever.<\/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;. &#8216;Mythbusters&#8217; Grant Imahara Explains Something Gross (Not Safe For Lunch) The Six Million Dollar Jedi &#8211; Yes, what &#8220;Return of the Jedi&#8221; was missing was bionics sound effects &#8230; Multitasking in the \u201cMad Men\u201d Era &#8211; Timesharing &#8212; ah, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/15\/unblogged-bits-for-friday-15-january-2010.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits for Friday, 15 January 2010&#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":[16,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129140,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/16\/movie-review-return-of-the-jedi-1983.html","url_meta":{"origin":16537,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: &quot;Return of the Jedi&quot; (1983)","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Dec-15 1:51am","format":false,"excerpt":"So it's part of the original trilogy, so that's a good thing. 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