{"id":18598,"date":"2010-09-17T11:30:44","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/unblogged-bits-fri-17-sep-10-1130.html"},"modified":"2010-09-17T11:30:44","modified_gmt":"2010-09-17T17:30:44","slug":"unblogged-bits-fri-17-sep-10-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/17\/unblogged-bits-fri-17-sep-10-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 17-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. Identifying a key jobs program — and letting it die<\/a> – “In a sane political world, this would be a pretty big scandal, and Republicans would be afraid to kill an effective jobs program with an unemployment rate near 10%. Instead, the GOP is counting on being rewarded by Americans for taking steps like these, and polls suggest that’s exactly what’s going to happen.”<\/li>\n
  2. Stewart, Colbert to host D.C. rally on 10\/30<\/a> – Wow. I am sooooooo tempted …<\/li>\n
  3. USB-enhanced wall socket just makes more sense<\/a> – Very cool. I’ll keep these in mind for future home improvement projects where they might be useful.<\/li>\n
  4. Netbook Sales Are Crashing! Quick! Blame The iPad, Not The Lousy Netbooks!<\/a> – I don’t use my netbook very much right now (though I expect to do so more in November, during NaNoWriMo). For someone who wants\/needs a decent keyboard and a non-cell hone amount of screen size and more than 2-3h of battery life, it’s still the only way to go. Unfortunately for netbook manufacturers, that’s a tiny percent of the population.<\/li>\n
  5. Publicly Funded Christian Aid Group Fires Non-Christians<\/a> – It is certainly their right to insist on religious orthodoxy, as a religious organization. But not with my tax dollars.<\/li>\n
  6. Best Buy CEO: iPad Is Cannibalizing Laptop Sales By A Shocking 50% (AAPL, BBY)<\/a> – I think the iPad is probably useful for what a lot of people want a casual laptop for — games, browsing, media, very light typing. I expect it’s cannibalizing the netbook market even worse (though there still remains a distinct niche need for those).<\/li>\n
  7. Saying \u201cRSS Is Dead\u201d Is Dead, Saying \u201cRSS Is Not Dead\u201d Is Not \u2014 Today.<\/a> – How many people actually type feed URLs into their RSS reader?<\/li>\n
  8. A spider web that spans rivers made from the world\u2019s toughest biological material | Not Exactly Rocket Science<\/a> – “If we pull this off, we’ll eat like kings!” — The Far Side<\/li>\n
  9. Official BBC DIY Dalek blueprints<\/a> – “Distributing out of print Dalek blueprints is arguably what the Internet was made for.”<\/li>\n
  10. puppy care<\/a> – Heh.<\/li>\n
  11. Best Buy CEO: iPad Is Cannibalizing Laptop Sales By A Shocking 50% (AAPL, BBY)<\/a> – Crikey!<\/li>\n
  12. Inside Joke<\/a> – Nice.<\/li>\n
  13. Acid Attack Was A Hoax To Praise Jesus While Blaming An African-American<\/a> – Yes, Ms Storro — disfiguring yourself and then making up a fictional attacker to blame for it is just what Jesus would do. Yeesh.<\/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 …. Identifying a key jobs program — and letting it die – “In a sane political world, this would be a pretty big scandal, and Republicans would be afraid to kill an effective jobs program with an unemployment rate near … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Fri. 17-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_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-18598","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":8728,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/05\/01\/immigration_day.html","url_meta":{"origin":18598,"position":0},"title":"Immigration Day Stuff","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 1-May-06 7:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"So today is supposed to be a big Immigrants Rights and Boycott and Street Protests Day. 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