{"id":18698,"date":"2010-09-23T11:30:32","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T17:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/unblogged-bits-thu-23-sep-10-1130.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T11:05:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T18:05:53","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-23-sep-10-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/unblogged-bits-thu-23-sep-10-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 23-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. Numbers of the Beast<\/a> – It would not at all surprise me.<\/li>\n
  2. Child Hunger, As Seen At Wal-Mart<\/a> – How is it all those “lazy” unemployed people who are being “encouraged to not work” by all that unemployment and welfare largesse are still managing to make it to Wal-Mart at midnight …?<\/li>\n
  3. GIF: U Bettr Run, Bear!!!<\/a> – Why do I have the feeling this is a Han Solo Running Down The Corridor Screaming moment …?<\/li>\n
  4. Prepaid Electricity Meter Fraud<\/a> – The Law of “Unintended Consequences from a New, Convenient, High-Tech System That Nobody Could Ever Hack, Right?”<\/li>\n
  5. How and Why Chrome Is Overtaking Firefox Among Power Users [Video]<\/a> – I’m currently running FF by default at work, Chrome at home. FF still has a much richer and more powerful extension community, and (through extension) a more robust tab handling capability. And because I run in those two browsers plus IE for some things at the office, Xmarks and LastPass remain my syncing tools of choice. That said, Chrome is a solid alternative, and does feel tighter and faster.<\/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 …. Numbers of the Beast – It would not at all surprise me. Child Hunger, As Seen At Wal-Mart – How is it all those “lazy” unemployed people who are being “encouraged to not work” by all that unemployment and … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 23-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":"","_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":[16,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9386,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/wal_mart_tries.html","url_meta":{"origin":18698,"position":0},"title":"Wal-Mart tries to be hip, but barely manages hep","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 18-Jul-06 6:56am","format":false,"excerpt":"Wal-Mart, seeing more teen shopping dollars going to Target, is trying to woo the cool kids back by building its own MySpace-type of site. 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