{"id":17999,"date":"2010-07-31T00:02:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T06:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/unblogged-bits-sat-31-jul-10-0202.html"},"modified":"2010-07-31T00:02:35","modified_gmt":"2010-07-31T06:02:35","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-31-jul-10-0202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/unblogged-bits-sat-31-jul-10-0202.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 31-Jul-10 0202)"},"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. This gorgeous rail station looks like it belongs in some perfect utopian future<\/a> – It certainly looks pretty. On the other hand — are they really going to plant all that grass around it? On the high plains? Rilly?<\/li>\n
  2. Classic \u201cWriter\u201d Hat…<\/a> – That’s it! That’s what I’ve been missing! Woot!<\/li>\n
  3. Film a cop, face 16 years in jail<\/a> – “This is an extreme example of the arrogance of power, in which a Maryland cop exercised bad judgment, was embarrassed when he was publicly exposed, and got his colleagues and prosecutors to exercise still worse judgment.” Which, naturally, is all the more proof why oversight is needed. We literally need to be able to Watch the Watchmen …<\/li>\n
  4. Drink Up! The Stories Behind 11 Regional Soft Drinks<\/a> – I’ve had a couple of these, but I have to confess to being curious …<\/li>\n
  5. Major Corporations Are Downloading Those 100 Million Facebook Profiles off BitTorrent [BitTorrent]<\/a> – Corporate America thanks you for using Facebook …<\/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 …. This gorgeous rail station looks like it belongs in some perfect utopian future – It certainly looks pretty. On the other hand — are they really going to plant all that grass around it? On the high plains? Rilly? … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 31-Jul-10 0202)”<\/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":"","_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-17999","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":135052,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/10\/10\/guns-escalation-dangers-quickly-available-lethal-force.html","url_meta":{"origin":17999,"position":0},"title":"Guns and escalation and the dangers of quickly available lethal force","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Oct-17 8:40am","format":false,"excerpt":"One major problem with guns is that they allow for very fast, very easy, potentially lethal escalation of a situation. 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