{"id":18643,"date":"2010-09-20T11:30:42","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T17:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/20\/unblogged-bits-mon-20-sep-10-1130.html"},"modified":"2010-09-20T11:30:42","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T17:30:42","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-20-sep-10-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/20\/unblogged-bits-mon-20-sep-10-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 20-Sep-10 1130)"},"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\/qnEuJQ5RRr8\/\">Mila\u2019s Daydreams | Yurock<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/Bi4SAbZ1GF4\/\">Conditional Risk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/FmdGhZtv4Bc\/\">Still evil and wrong: McIlhinney still leads a cover up of malaria facts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/QxzQd10nrMA\/florida.quran.pastor_1_security-plans-qurans-security-costs\">City plans to bill pastor for security around planned Quran burning &#8211; CNN<\/a> &#8211; While it&#8217;s hard to find to be too sympathetic to Rev. Jones (and, honestly, it was a responsibility whether he wanted the security for himself and surrounding areas of not), we also need to be careful that this doesn&#8217;t become a mechanism to punish or suppress unpopular speech.  &#8220;You can say these things, but it will cost you $X in police protection&#8221; would be an easy thing to abuse.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/crf5GrqrlXc\/\">Google Is Making Your Account Vastly More Secure With Two-Step  Authentication<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;ll be curious to see how this plays out.  Yes, it&#8217;s annoying, but it&#8217;s also a serious uptick for security. The downside is that it seems to require you to have a mobile phone (your mobile phone) with you in order to access Google stuff, which is not necessarily a given in all circumstances or for all people.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/3FrhtFzdQhw\/gop-aims-to-erode-white-house-agenda.html\">&#8220;GOP Aims to Erode White House Agenda&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; By hook or by crook.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/_iGdvRF3q6c\/Image:San_francisco_in_fog_with_rays.jpg\">San Francisco in fog with rays<\/a> &#8211; Lovely<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/7a18SVwDeyU\/about-obamas-recent-comments.html\">About Obama&#8217;s recent comments<\/a> &#8211; The question is, what are Dems &#8212; including liberal\/progressive Dems &#8212; going to do about it? If the choice is a president who isn&#8217;t doing everything you think he should, and an opposition party that wants to undo what&#8217;s been done so far (if not moreso), what&#8217;s the right thing to do?  Eating dog food isn&#8217;t appetizing, but if you&#8217;re faced with a choice between that and someone force-feeding you shards of glass, dragging your feet going for the can opener may not be productive.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/2JKLnXjAS_I\/kitchen-rivera-george-percent.html.csp\">St. George soup kitchen \u2018in trouble\u2019 | The Salt Lake Tribune<\/a> &#8211; I&#8217;m sure the increased demand and reduced donations are all because of those lazy people sitting around and luxuriating on unemployment &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/GejVyU2sX8Y\/radium-woo-the-bad-h.html\">Radium woo: the bad health science of yesteryear wants to irradiate your colon &#8211; Boing Boing<\/a> &#8211; This might have been one of those cases when you&#8217;d hope the snake oil salesman WASN&#8217;T including the &#8220;real&#8221; ingredients &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/nj3PgGJ86oE\/19kristof.html\">Message to Muslims &#8211; I\u2019m Sorry &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> &#8211; There are those who see apologies as a sign of weakness. But more often, I think they are a sign of strength.<\/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;. Mila\u2019s Daydreams | Yurock Conditional Risk Still evil and wrong: McIlhinney still leads a cover up of malaria facts City plans to bill pastor for security around planned Quran burning &#8211; CNN &#8211; While it&#8217;s hard to find to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/20\/unblogged-bits-mon-20-sep-10-1130.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unblogged Bits (Mon. 20-Sep-10 1130)&#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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18643","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":21003,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/10\/security-101.html","url_meta":{"origin":18643,"position":0},"title":"Security 101","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-May-11 5:24pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Bruce Schneier does indeed rock, as he talks about all his basic beliefs and ideas about security at the TED conference last October: The feeling of security and the reality of security don't always match, says computer-security expert Bruce Schneier. 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