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Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. Comcast Rebranding Itself As “Xfinity”<\/a> – Oh, yuck. Ugly name, ugly logo.<\/li>\n
  2. Watchmen 2 Looks Like a Real Possibility<\/a> – And leading up the list of “Comic (and Film) Projects Not Only Least Necessary but Definitively Unwelcome” …<\/li>\n
  3. Palin Abandons Her “Screw Political Correctness” Mantra<\/a> – Why anyone would take Palin’s utterances — past, present, or future — seriously is beyond me.<\/li>\n
  4. 8 Ways To Make Sure Your Complaint Letter Will Be Ignored<\/a> – Moire people would be more happy if they read this. Though, heck, I kind of wish I could send this out to everyone in my company in regards to their emailed complaints about IT service …<\/li>\n
  5. Religious freedom is self-contradictory?<\/a> – No, it’s not — as long as people are willing to see religion as a personal, not societal, structure. My personal salvation doesn’t depend on my neighbor’s. We can get along quite nicely even if he and I disagree about metaphysics and theology — unless<\/b> one or the other of us demand the other’s adherence to their own beliefs.<\/li>\n
  6. Teens think blogging is about as cool as Rick Astley hits<\/a> – “Hey, you kids! Get off my social media!” No, seriously, no surprises here. Blogging takes a focused, concerted effort. Kids (not just these days but any days) go for minimum effort, maximum social cool. Facebook is easy, and provides a creative outlet inside an authoritarian structure — it’s not surprising teens are all over FB, vs. the less structured (and thus, paradoxically, more effortful) Twitter.<\/li>\n
  7. Study: Time spent on Web linked to depression<\/a> – As Marvin would say, “The first 5 million sites were the worst … the second 5 million sites were the worst, also …”<\/li>\n
  8. Watch As This AT-AT Walker Stomps All Over Flash [Flash]<\/a> – Fired up Chrome and … yup.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. Comcast Rebranding Itself As “Xfinity” – Oh, yuck. Ugly name, ugly logo. Watchmen 2 Looks Like a Real Possibility – And leading up the list of “Comic (and Film) Projects Not Only Least Necessary but Definitively Unwelcome” … Palin … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 03 February 2010”<\/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-16655","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":30007,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/28\/sleeper-house-is-ugly-say-it-aint-so.html","url_meta":{"origin":16655,"position":0},"title":"Sleeper House is ugly? 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