{"id":17023,"date":"2010-04-02T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-03T00:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/02\/unblogged-bits-for-fri-2-apr-2010-800pm.html"},"modified":"2014-11-16T13:17:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T20:17:19","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-fri-2-apr-2010-800pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/04\/02\/unblogged-bits-for-fri-2-apr-2010-800pm.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for Fri, 2 Apr 2010, 8:00PM"},"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. 5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading [Publishing]: Annalee Newitz<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Preacher Compares Attacks on Pope to Anti – Semitism – NYTimes.com<\/a> – The more the Vatican criticizes the attacks being made — painting itself as victim instead of the children who were abused — the more credibility and sympathy it loses. And, on another note, hiding behind what your aide did on your behalf is hardly a substantive defense. “The buck stops here,” as Truman put it.<\/li>\n
  3. Michele Bachmann: Nancy Pelosi Tried To Incite Something By The Way She Crossed The Street<\/a> – “And if she’d been raped it would have been her fault, too.”<\/li>\n
  4. KFC’s Bacon Sandwich On Fried Chicken “Bread” Starts Killing People Nationwide April 12<\/a> – The O.R. one is the same calories and fat as a Big Mac (but twice the sodium). Maybe too much of a good thing.<\/li>\n
  5. Star Trek Re-Watch: \u201cWhat Men Dare Do\u201d<\/a> – One of the lengthiest and most nicely done April Fool bits I saw all day: part of Tor’s ST:TOS retrospective, in this case a fake TOS episode review. Brilliant.<\/li>\n
  6. Obama admin: time to make radio pay for its music<\/a> – I would rather eat broken glass than fill the coffers of the RIAA … unless, of course, if it were at the expense of ClearChannel. Hrm. While this will likely hurt small broadcast stations (and public radio) more than Big Broadcasting, it’s also clearly a case where something needs to be done to rationalize both the domestic and international markets.<\/li>\n
  7. Wes Anderson Is the Hipstery Lord of the Rings<\/a> – Amazing what a different sound track and some clever cuts will do to a trailer. Amusing.<\/li>\n
  8. Topless Robot – The 8 Most Common Ways D&D Characters Die<\/a> – That’s pretty much the gamut all right.<\/li>\n
  9. Improved comment collapsing for Google Buzz posts<\/a> – Nice. I’m still not settled in my use of Buzz, as it falls sort of between GReader and Twitter without really replacing either. But for what I do use it for, this will be helpful.<\/li>\n
  10. Pineberry to Make Debut in U.K. Stores<\/a> – Hmmmm … need to keep my eyes open for these here in the States. Though I’m generally not a big fan of fresh fruit.<\/li>\n
  11. RNC’s Filings Reveal Creative Definitions Of ‘Office Supplies’<\/a> – Okay, okay, it’s probably (maybe) just expenses entered under the wrong account code (as someone who both does expense reports and tries to reconcile departmental expenses vs. budgets, I’ve seen this happen a zillion times). That said, it’s still damned funny.<\/li>\n
  12. Palin’s 20 House Dem Targets Use Her As A Fundraising Ploy<\/a> – I suspect her involvement will get more traction from Democrats than Republicans.<\/li>\n
  13. Indiana Threatened By Giant Poop Bubbles, For Realsies<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Northeast Hit With Devastating Floods, As Federal Flood Insurance Expires Due To GOP Obstruction<\/a> – Well played, GOP! Let’s all remember this next fall!<\/li>\n
  15. Erickson: I\u2019ll \u2018pull out my wife\u2019s shotgun\u2019 if someone comes to my door for the American Community Survey.<\/a> – To summarize: “I’m not advocating killing census workers. I’m advocating threatening to kill them with a shotgun if they come onto my property.” That’s a remarkably nuanced approach for a Erickson.<\/li>\n
  16. Scott Roeder gets Hard 50 in murder of abortion provider George Tiller | Featured Story | Wichita Eagle<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. Can Animals Be Gay? – NYTimes.com<\/a> – An interesting (and long) article on same-sex mating and social behavior in a remarkably lengthy list of species. That complicates the “‘Tain’t Natural!” argument (though it can still be noted that it’s less usual than male-female activity), but, then, that’s never been the point, to me, of why we should (or shouldn’t) accept homosexual behavior in humans, which boils down to, “Why the heck shouldn’t we? Where’s the harm?” (Note: “I think it’s icky” is not an actual harm.)<\/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 …. 5 Ways The Google Book Settlement Will Change The Future of Reading [Publishing]: Annalee Newitz Preacher Compares Attacks on Pope to Anti – Semitism – NYTimes.com – The more the Vatican criticizes the attacks being made — painting itself … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for Fri, 2 Apr 2010, 8:00PM”<\/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":[3,36,748,100,81,63,38,22,298,79,25,382,41,42,358,16,27,360,348],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-media-books","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-dolts","category-elections-2010","category-environment","category-food-drink","category-gaming","category-guns","category-media-intellectual-property","category-gay-stuff","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-media-movies","category-media-music","category-poor-citizenship","category-potpourri","category-religion","category-media-tv-star-trek","category-women"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13484,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/12\/01\/mumbai_terror_lessons.html","url_meta":{"origin":17023,"position":0},"title":"Mumbai terror lessons","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 1-Dec-08 3:21pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Robert Schneier sums up the security implications from the Mumbai terror attacks. 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