{"id":18732,"date":"2010-09-27T23:31:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T05:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/unblogged-bits-mon-27-sep-10-2331.html"},"modified":"2014-06-17T09:37:57","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:37:57","slug":"unblogged-bits-mon-27-sep-10-2331","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/unblogged-bits-mon-27-sep-10-2331.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 27-Sep-10 2331)"},"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. Google Launches Free e-Book Reader<\/a> – Interesting. Problem is, how many of them are books I’m actually interested in reading at any given time?<\/li>\n
  2. Verizon CEO confirms plans for tiered data pricing — Engadget<\/a> – Ugh.<\/li>\n
  3. And the Hobbit Is @#$%ed Again<\/a> – SIGH<\/b><\/li>\n
  4. Topless Robot – The Birds of Prey Have a Theme Song<\/a> – Okay, now I can’t wait for this ep to show here in the States.<\/li>\n
  5. Xmarks Sync to be Discontinued<\/a> – Well, this sucks. Yes, Firefox and Chrome have native sync tools — but nothing out there does Firefox AND Chrome AND IE. I was growing very used to having the same bookmarks and toolbars between all my PCs. Sad …<\/li>\n
  6. Children Can Now Stay On Parent’s Health Care Policies Until Age 26, And 3 Other Health Care Reforms That Just Kicked In<\/a> – Hopefully folks will remember this.<\/li>\n
  7. More Signs Of GOP Civil War<\/a> – There are certainly possibilities there — but, then, everyone was painting the GOP as finished in Dec. 2008, and we all know what (predictably) happened after that.<\/li>\n
  8. Diplomats Desperately Try to Save Mideast Talks – NYTimes.com<\/a> – Just in case it wasn’t clear (actions and words), the Netanyahu government has no intent of really negotiating in good faith, but simply continuing to run the clock. Not that I expect the US government (the only entity that could) to ever do much about it, given the political climate.<\/li>\n
  9. Did the Stimulus Create Jobs? | FactCheck.org<\/a> – Do not interrupt my partisan screed with facty factfulness!<\/li>\n
  10. Why you don’t like changes to your design – The Oatmeal<\/a> – Yeah, been there, ground my teeth over that. But now I have to find a way an excuse to shout “DROP SHADOW FUNTIME WEEEEEEE!”<\/li>\n
  11. Los Angeles breaks its all-time heat record<\/a> – Been hearing about this from correspondents on that coast. My condolences to those having to suffer through it.<\/li>\n
  12. Tea Party Nullifiers Seek Revenge Against Florida Supreme Court Justices<\/a> – I think voting for (or to retain) high ranking judges in a state is a generally bad idea. I don’t say that because I am fond of all judges (there are many nitwits, ideologues, and folks I generally disagree with sitting on the bench), but because deciding on the law and what it means and whether it is constitutional should not be a matter of public vote. Leave open a provision for impeachment, yes, but judges should not be playing (or be played by) politics.<\/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 …. Google Launches Free e-Book Reader – Interesting. Problem is, how many of them are books I’m actually interested in reading at any given time? Verizon CEO confirms plans for tiered data pricing — Engadget – Ugh. And the Hobbit … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 27-Sep-10 2331)”<\/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":[382,65,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lord-of-the-rings","category-my-mobile-pda","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":137488,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/23\/in-a-hole-in-the-ground-there-lived-a-hobbit-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":18732,"position":0},"title":""In a hole in the ground, there lived … a Hobbit."","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 23-Dec-18 10:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I love the Rankin\/Bass production of The Hobbit, and can still sing most of the songs from it. 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In other words, it was like NaNoWriMo, with a multi-million dollar\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":127486,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/09\/tolkien-reading-the-hobbit.html","url_meta":{"origin":18732,"position":2},"title":"Tolkien reading "The Hobbit"","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 9-Aug-15 8:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a 1952 reading by J R R Tolkien of Bilbo and Gollumn riddling each other in The Hobbit, recorded by a friend with a portable tape recorder. It's sort of fascinating hearing the voices and rhythms Tolkien chose for his own creation. 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