{"id":16960,"date":"2010-03-24T09:11:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T16:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-wed-24-mar-2010-1211pm.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T13:16:33","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:16:33","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-wed-24-mar-2010-1211pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/03\/24\/unblogged-bits-for-wed-24-mar-2010-1211pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Wed, 24 Mar 2010, 12:11PM"},"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. HCR – Big Fing Deal! Tee Shirts from Zazzle.com<\/a> – Apparently there are quite a few shirts, bumper stickers, and coffee mugs available to honor the Vice President’s comment. Heh.<\/li>\n
  2. CampusProgress.org | By the Numbers: Student Loan Company Lobbying<\/a> – If they have that much money to lobby with, then clearly they’re making huge profits with our taxpayer money (and from our needy students). I really don’t see a reason why my taxes should go to someone using my tax money to lobby to protect their profits from my taxes.<\/li>\n
  3. Stupak receives death threats after voting for health reform.<\/a> – So how is it that ostensibly “pro-life” people are issuing death threats? Yeesh.<\/li>\n
  4. Sen. Barrasso Apologizes For Falsely Claiming House Member Voted For Health Care To Secure Judgeship: Igor<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Work with Care: OSHA brings worker fatalities to its homepage [Collective Imagination]<\/a> – I don’t think it’s morbid — I think it’s an excellent reminder that safety isn’t about statistics, but about actual lives lost (or saved).<\/li>\n
  6. Tea Partier Gives Out Congressman\u2019s Address, A Wrong One, And Won\u2019t Change It<\/a> – Because it’s more important to be Angry than Accurate!<\/li>\n
  7. Disneylands’ Swiss Family Robinson treehouse construction photos<\/a> – Very cool.<\/li>\n
  8. Secret ACTA fights over iPod border-searches<\/a> – Remember that Big Media will pressure the government to allow them access to anyone and anything, anywhere, if they think it will help curb “piracy” (and\/or protect their profits). Do you really want border guards searching your iPod, your computer, your thumb drives, your camera chips, etc.? Do you really think they don’t want just that thing?<\/li>\n
  9. Steampunk Star Wars costumes<\/a> – Very cool.<\/li>\n
  10. What Lillian did in the war\u2026<\/a> – These women were heroes of “the Greatest Generation,” too. It’s a shame that their recognition has been so slow in coming.<\/li>\n
  11. Bringing Lots of Liquids on a Plane at Schiphol<\/a> – Having gone through security and duty-free at Schiphol (and having a bottle of genever to prove it), I can visualize how this would be done.<\/li>\n
  12. Dead on the No-Fly List: schneier<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Which Browser Should I Use: Firefox or Chrome? – Web browsers – Lifehacker<\/a> – I haven’t quite formally transitioned from Firefox to Chrome, but I use both pretty frequently.<\/li>\n
  14. Bah, Humbug: Florida City\u2019s Holiday Policy Raises Church-State Concerns \u00ab The Wall of Separation<\/a> – Um … why does the city have to issue “official proclamations” recognizing any<\/b> religious holidays?<\/li>\n
  15. Why George Washington would disagree with the right wing about health care\u2019s constitutionality.<\/a> – HA! Of course, the early administrations did all sorts of things that TODAY would be considered unconstitutional (the Alien and Sedition Acts being an obvious example), but having this example to throw back at the GOP (tied to Militias and Gun-Bearing, no less!) is delightful.<\/li>\n
  16. Bill Gates Wants To Build A Nuclear Reactor<\/a> – And in the category of “Scariest Damn Idea I’ve Heard In A Long Time …” Radioactive Blue Screen of Death for the win!<\/li>\n
  17. “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story” from Eric Appel, Aaron Paul, Olivia Wilde, Al Yankovic, Patton Oswalt, Paul Scheer, BRIAN HUSKEY, and christiansprenger – Video<\/a> – No, not real, but an amazing facsimile …<\/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 …. HCR – Big Fing Deal! Tee Shirts from Zazzle.com – Apparently there are quite a few shirts, bumper stickers, and coffee mugs available to honor the Vice President’s comment. Heh. CampusProgress.org | By the Numbers: Student Loan Company Lobbying … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Wed, 24 Mar 2010, 12:11PM”<\/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":[263,16,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-disney","category-potpourri","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":43373,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/06\/people-have-goals-and-aspirations-corporations-are-out-for-profit.html","url_meta":{"origin":16960,"position":0},"title":"People have goals and aspirations. 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