{"id":17585,"date":"2010-06-10T12:01:04","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/unblogged-bits-thu-10-jun-10-1401.html"},"modified":"2010-06-10T12:01:04","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T18:01:04","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-10-jun-10-1401","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/10\/unblogged-bits-thu-10-jun-10-1401.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 10-Jun-10 1401)"},"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. Uninsured Americans have 50 percent higher odds of dying in hospital from heart attack or stroke \u2014 Science Blog<\/a> – Recall the GOP claim that everyone can get “universal care” by going to the ER …<\/li>\n
  2. Resolving the iPhone resolution<\/a> – I don’t care about the iPhone, but it’s an interesting discussion of screen resolution.<\/li>\n
  3. Finally, Obama’s British Past Connected To Scandalous British Present<\/a> – J’accuse!<\/li>\n
  4. The Duchenne Smile<\/a> – “One may smile, and smile, and be a villain” – Shakespeare (Hamlet)<\/li>\n
  5. FRC Ominously Warns of “The Pinking of America”<\/a> – I have to note the phrase “LGBT aficionados” is hilarious. It makes them sound like wine snobs.<\/li>\n
  6. Autism and the search for simple, direct answers<\/a> – People who look for simple answers to complex problems are actually simple themselves.<\/li>\n
  7. Nah, They’re Not Racist At All : Dispatches from the Culture Wars<\/a> – I would hope the yahoos involved would be embarrassed about their mistake … but I suspect they will find any number of reasons to justify or ignore it.<\/li>\n
  8. WTF is HTML5 and why should we care: El Guru<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Prediction: Media Will Be Angrier About AT&T iPad Security Breach than Illegal Wiretapping<\/a> – If nothing out, it might make those generals et al. reconsider whether AT&T is secure enough to handle a wiretapping program …<\/li>\n
  10. How many Texans does it take to decide whether a university dormitory should be named for a Reconstruction-era Klansman?<\/a> – That whole Texas secession thing keeps sounding better and better.<\/li>\n
  11. One Div Zero: Who Will Throw the Hammer This Time?<\/a> – While I’m not devoted to having (or not having) Flash, I’d prefer to make the decision myself, rather than relying on Big Steve making it for me.<\/li>\n
  12. Twitter changes from 140 to 120 characters (sort of), and launches a URL shortener<\/a> – This will be very interesting to follow, both for the effect on bit.ly<\/a> and for how various Twitter clients handle it.<\/li>\n
  13. Microsoft hides mystery Firefox extension in toolbar update<\/a> – Appears to be mostly inept programming, but it does end up Bing-ifying new Firefox installs if the Bing search bar was already in use on IE.<\/li>\n
  14. Why Open Primaries Are A Really Bad Idea<\/a> – While there is room for shenanigans in open primary states, the setup (theoretically) also allows more centrist candidates who don’t have to run to the fringe to get as much base support. Either way, the system feels imperfect.<\/li>\n
  15. BP, Halliburton, And Transocean Skip Mississippi Hearings On The Oil Disaster<\/a> – Well, with Haley Barbour as governor, there’s not much risk in blowing off the state investigation, is there?<\/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 …. Uninsured Americans have 50 percent higher odds of dying in hospital from heart attack or stroke \u2014 Science Blog – Recall the GOP claim that everyone can get “universal care” by going to the ER … Resolving the iPhone … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 10-Jun-10 1401)”<\/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-17585","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":130210,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/16\/on-the-naming-and-renaming-and-misspelling-of-british-place-names.html","url_meta":{"origin":17585,"position":0},"title":"On the naming (and renaming (and misspelling)) of British place names","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 16-Mar-16 11:40pm","format":false,"excerpt":"As the article notes, British place names are gobs of Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Norman French, and Scandinavian, stirred vigorously, then subjected to centuries of accents, internal conquests, pronunciation drift, and linguistic entropy. 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