{"id":17009,"date":"2010-04-01T10:11:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T17:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-thu-1-apr-2010-111pm.html"},"modified":"2010-04-01T10:11:12","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T17:11:12","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-thu-1-apr-2010-111pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/01\/unblogged-bits-for-thu-1-apr-2010-111pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Thu, 1 Apr 2010, 1:11PM"},"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. Inside Google Books: 3D Books! – Google Books Now Offers Digital Books in a New Dimension<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Grunt, Woof and Moo to you too: Lawrence Chang<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Today\u2019s vowel outage: The Gmail Team<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. The Fox Nation and its gay-baiting ways | Media Matters for America<\/a> – Well, they certainly know what headline will encourage click-throughs and readership, right? It may be drivelous journalism, but it’s great business, right? Murdoch must be very proud of them.<\/li>\n
  5. Colbert: Hutaree Militia Is Making ‘Heavily-Armed Apocalyptic Christian Militias Look Bad’ (VIDEO) | TPM LiveWire<\/a> – Hee!<\/li>\n
  6. Hutaree militia member believed bogus chain email<\/a> – Well, it’s clear they were ready to believe pretty much any wacky thing that supported their beliefs. A shame that so many lies were floating around out there to add fuel to the fire.<\/li>\n
  7. A new kind of media ‘interview’<\/a> – I think this really does qualify for the “Faux News” label. Cutting and pasting Palin into a previously recorded (years ago!) interview, then talking about how the guests “will speak to Palin” makes the title — “Real American Stories” all the more laughable.<\/li>\n
  8. Georgia\u2019s Attorney General Disputes Cuccinelli\u2019s Claim That Frivolous Health Care Suit Won\u2019t Cost Taxpayers<\/a> – If there’s nothing better for Cuccinelli’s staff to do than fritter away time on this law suit — i.e., there are no opportunity costs to any of this — then I suggest the good people of Virginia could save some tax dollars by dramatically reducing the size of the Virginia Attorney General’s office.<\/li>\n
  9. Google Reader – ReaderAdvantage\u2122 Program<\/a> – I am submitting my resignation to my boss Right Now! I’m set for life! Yippee!<\/li>\n
  10. Craig T. Nelson Has Plum Had It With Paying Taxes, Dangit! – glenn beck – Gawker<\/a> – “I’ve been on food stamps and welfare. Did anybody help me out? No!” Yeeeeeeesh.<\/li>\n
  11. Area 51 veterans speak: No space aliens [Respectful Insolence]<\/a> – Of course they’d say that. And, of course, on April Fool’s Day …<\/li>\n
  12. Religious right group urges RNC donor boycott<\/a> – I have to wonder, too, if the libertarian \/ TP \/ states-rights \/ anti-Washington sentiment wafting through the Right is causing folks to turn away from the central party and focus more locally. That may be to the Dems immediate advantage, but long-term it’s a bit scarier, since (believe it or not) that national party level has usually kept the fringes under at least some level of control.<\/li>\n
  13. Dunkie Drinks Dunkin’s Coffee<\/a> – I think the new logo is awesome, but the typeface for the text is, while the right idea, too cramped. (The old text would have worked quite well with the new logo). Overall good — it lends a certain retro panache to a very utilitarian vendor.<\/li>\n
  14. 4 Myths About Tipping From A Former Pizza Delivery Guy – The Consumerist<\/a> – An amazing amount of comments on this post; people feel passionate about their deliveries and tipping (there are also some threads in the conversation that remind me a lot of the recent health care debate). That all said, the once or twice a month we get food delivered, I tend to tip at least a couple of bucks an order, more if it’s delivered very quickly or if “the weather outside is frightful.”<\/li>\n
  15. Not Throwing Stones: A Protestant Remembers The Best Of The Catholic Church: Serene Jones<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Does The Hutaree Militia Represent Christianity? A Muslim Knows Better<\/a> – It’s certainly worthwhile for Christians to consider how their faith can be twisted into what folks like the Hutaree believe … and, as well, consider how the same may be true of extremists and terrorists of other faiths.<\/li>\n
  17. Marry Me, Bristol: Christian Hypocri-sex, Pt. II: Rob Asghar<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. A history of what is sexy<\/a> – I am, truly, a Renaissance Man, I guess — greatly admiring a full-bodied blonde …<\/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 …. Inside Google Books: 3D Books! – Google Books Now Offers Digital Books in a New Dimension Grunt, Woof and Moo to you too: Lawrence Chang Today\u2019s vowel outage: The Gmail Team The Fox Nation and its gay-baiting ways | … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Thu, 1 Apr 2010, 1:11PM”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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-17009","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":28268,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/13\/books-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":17009,"position":0},"title":"Books!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 13-Jun-12 6:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Heh. 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