{"id":18473,"date":"2010-09-09T11:30:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T17:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/09\/unblogged-bits-thu-9-sep-10-1130.html"},"modified":"2010-09-09T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T17:30:42","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-9-sep-10-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/09\/unblogged-bits-thu-9-sep-10-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 9-Sep-10 1130)"},"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. Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source<\/a> – I hate it when the Onion is indistinguishable from the real news.<\/li>\n
  2. Distracting wrist band toys banned from classrooms | band, toys, seven – Education – Colorado Springs Gazette, CO<\/a> – Oh, for heaven’s sake. There are ways to deal with kids getting distracted that are a bit more constructive than simply banning things they are being distracted by.<\/li>\n
  3. The Idiom Connection<\/a> – Fun resource on English (US, mostly) idioms.<\/li>\n
  4. Thoughts From Glenn on Church Plan to Burn Koran | The Blaze<\/a> – Aside from the fallacious Park51 equivalency, Beck very nearly makes sense here.<\/li>\n
  5. Pastor Has Novel Response: Read the Qur\u2019an Day | Religion Dispatches<\/a> – An excellent idea. Before you accept, or reject, something, one really ought to get to know it. And even if you’re not interested in converting to Islam, it’s worth getting a little direct exposure to it, simply to understand a bit more directly (unfiltered by others) what over a billion people on the planet profess belief in.<\/li>\n
  6. Comcast improves customer experience with mobile services<\/a> – Not to be a flack for Comcast by any means, but adding mobile services seems like a clever idea. There are times I’d love to be able to to set my home DVR while someplace else.<\/li>\n
  7. The Ghosts of the Blitz<\/a> – Very cool superimposition of London pix from the Blitz over the same streets today.<\/li>\n
  8. Consumer Reports Readers Rate The Best Burgers – Yahoo! Shopping<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Alcohol Is Healthy<\/a> – Well, moderate amounts thereof. To your health!<\/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 …. Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source – I hate it when the Onion is indistinguishable from the real news. Distracting wrist band toys banned from classrooms | … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 9-Sep-10 1130)”<\/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-18473","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":1100,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/16\/okay_this_is_th.html","url_meta":{"origin":18473,"position":0},"title":"Okay, this is the second funniest thing I’ve seen all week","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 16-Oct-01 2:12pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Okay, this is the second funniest thing I've seen all week I love the Onion. 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