{"id":16710,"date":"2010-02-10T18:01:19","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T01:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/10\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-10-february-2010-2.html"},"modified":"2010-02-10T18:01:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T01:01:19","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-10-february-2010-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/02\/10\/unblogged-bits-for-wednesday-10-february-2010-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 10 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. Juveniles crowd Mich. sex offender registry<\/a> – Like so many efforts driven by fear, sex offender registries have metastasized to encompass people that most citizens probably don’t think of as sex offenders, and to carry a punishing onus that most people don’t realize. But, of course, no politician ever was hurt by creating harsher penalties for “perverts.”<\/li>\n
  2. Hide\/Remove Google Buzz Updates from Your Gmail Inbox [Distractions]<\/a> – Actually, it’s kind of convenient that discussion threads show up in the inbox, but it’s nice to know how to turn that behavior off.<\/li>\n
  3. LookInMyPC Is a Must-Have Tool for Computer Troubleshooting [Downloads]<\/a> – Noted for future reference.<\/li>\n
  4. Sarah Palin calls global warming studies \u2018snake oil science.\u2019<\/a> – She knows as much about science as she knows about … well, anything of substance. Namely, close to zilch.<\/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 …. Juveniles crowd Mich. sex offender registry – Like so many efforts driven by fear, sex offender registries have metastasized to encompass people that most citizens probably don’t think of as sex offenders, and to carry a punishing onus that … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Wednesday, 10 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-16710","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":44390,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/08\/15\/the-problems-with-sex-offender-registry-laws.html","url_meta":{"origin":16710,"position":0},"title":"The problems with sex offender registry laws","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 15-Aug-14 12:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It seems like a great idea: keep a system of state databases of convicted sex offenders so that police, and even parents, can keep track of these predators, and force them to both check in with the cops regularly and restrict their access to children. \u00a0What could go wrong?Well, just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6704,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/30\/pinned_down.html","url_meta":{"origin":16710,"position":1},"title":"Pinned down","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-Jul-04 8:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"The civil libertarian in me -- who believes in punishment for the crime at hand, and that being the end of it -- deplores the \"Scarlet M\" that sex offender...","rel":"","context":"In "ZT & PC"","block_context":{"text":"ZT & PC","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/zt-pc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4143,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/29\/inconceivable_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":16710,"position":2},"title":"Inconceivable","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Jan-03 2:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"At times, the way that the legal system deals with custody cases absolutely blows my mind. 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