{"id":17964,"date":"2010-07-26T18:00:50","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T00:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/26\/unblogged-bits-mon-26-jul-10-2000.html"},"modified":"2014-11-07T13:11:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-07T20:11:45","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-26-jul-10-2000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/26\/unblogged-bits-mon-26-jul-10-2000.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 26-Jul-10 2000)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. <\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/g9O-G0RGYw8\/destination\">Egypt Family Vacation | Adventures by Disney<\/a> &#8211; Hmmmm &#8230; Egypt, you say? Hmmmm &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/BdAbhHvA92g\/\">&#8216;Avatar: The Last Airbender&#8217;: Nickelodeon Greenlights TV Spinoff &#8216;The Legend of Korra&#8217; &#8211; Speakeasy &#8211; WSJ<\/a> &#8211; I had heard rumors about this at the Con, but none of the details. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m more surprised that the movie did good box office (I&#8217;ve yet to hear anyone say anything more than tepid enjoyment of it), or that they&#8217;re setting the new series 70 years later.  At least it sounds like the same team as before, which means I&#8217;ll give it more than the benefit of the doubt.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/TqwyBlUGjEY\/\">Super Heroes vs. the Westboro Baptist Church &#8211; ComicsAlliance | Comics culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews<\/a> &#8211; This is Teh Awesome.  I did not, alas, get to actually see the Counter-Protest, but much of the below is brilliant. (&#8220;DARKSEID IS!&#8221;)  The CIA protest guy was, apparently, legit (well, sincere) and there all weekend, and there were usually some other, much milder non-Phelpsy &#8220;Jesus Saves&#8221; signs up on 5th Avenue, partially obscured by the big Syfy balloons most of the time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries &#8230;. Egypt Family Vacation | Adventures by Disney &#8211; Hmmmm &#8230; Egypt, you say? Hmmmm &#8230; &#8216;Avatar: The Last Airbender&#8217;: Nickelodeon Greenlights TV Spinoff &#8216;The Legend of Korra&#8217; &#8211; Speakeasy &#8211; WSJ &#8211; I had heard rumors about this at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/26\/unblogged-bits-mon-26-jul-10-2000.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Mon. 26-Jul-10 2000)&#8221;<\/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":[529,263,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avatarairbenderkorra","category-disney","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38401,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/08\/07\/disney-princess-last-airbender-mash-ups.html","url_meta":{"origin":17964,"position":0},"title":"Disney Princess \/ \u00a0Last Airbender Mash-ups","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Aug-13 2:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not perfect, but darned fun.Reshared post from +The Mary SueRacookie3 has redesigned Disney princesses as characters from Avatar: The Last Airbender. 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