{"id":16660,"date":"2010-02-04T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-04-february-2010.html"},"modified":"2010-02-04T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T00:00:31","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thursday-04-february-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/unblogged-bits-for-thursday-04-february-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 04 February 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. The NY Times shines a light on ‘The Family’ and its ‘National Prayer Breakfast’<\/a> – Actually, Jesus regularly dined with sinners …<\/li>\n
  2. Why did Republicans side with AIG bonuses instead of everyone else?: Chris in Paris<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. UM’s open shame, the Center for Spirituality & Healing [Pharyngula]<\/a> – The hurt-feewings response of woo-meisters responding to scientific criticism is so predictable. “Ow! Why you so mean?”<\/li>\n
  4. Fun with punctuation<\/a> – I will have to send this around to my team, as I’m known as “Too Many Commas Man” by my boss.<\/li>\n
  5. The Straight Dope: What’s this “pact with the devil” that Pat Robertson says caused Haiti’s woes?<\/a> – Money graf: “If the claim is that superstition and ignorance impede progress, you won’t get an argument from me. Haiti possibly is one example. Pat Robertson is another.”<\/li>\n
  6. Apple granted patent for touch-sensitive bezel<\/a> – Cool enough, but I hope this is a patent for a particular technical implementation, not for the whole concept of a touch-sensitive bezel. Knowing the US Patent Office, though …<\/li>\n
  7. Analyst: Email will lose ground to social networks<\/a> – So email will blur with social networks … but social networks will supplant email .. so … Gartner will get lots of consulting money. Got it.<\/li>\n
  8. House Republicans Assail White House Briefing on Christmas Day Bomber – Political Punch<\/a> – So when the White House actually mentions progress in a terrorism case, it’s all about dangerous politics that endangers national security. Got it.<\/li>\n
  9. Flashback: McCain cited Colin Powell as justification for opposing DADT repeal.<\/a> – What, like he needs to actually come up with a coherent reason for changing his mind?<\/li>\n
  10. McDonnell: Opposition to gay measures based on law | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com<\/a> – Right! Discrimination won’t be tolerated … but it won’t be illegal. Got it!<\/li>\n
  11. A Horrifying Picture of Life With Christians In the Workplace<\/a> – Brilliant. Simply brilliant.<\/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 …. The NY Times shines a light on ‘The Family’ and its ‘National Prayer Breakfast’ – Actually, Jesus regularly dined with sinners … Why did Republicans side with AIG bonuses instead of everyone else?: Chris in Paris UM’s open shame, … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Thursday, 04 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_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-16660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}