{"id":19992,"date":"2011-02-02T22:30:32","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T05:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/02\/unblogged-bits-wed-2-feb-11-2230.html"},"modified":"2011-02-02T22:30:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-03T05:30:32","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-2-feb-11-2230","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/02\/unblogged-bits-wed-2-feb-11-2230.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 2-Feb-11 2230)"},"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. Honeycomb Is The First Shot Fired Along Apple\u2019s Bow<\/a> – I might very well consider an Android tablet in the future …<\/li>\n
  2. Georgia Lawmaker Believes Drivers\u2019 Licenses Are Too Much Government Intrusion<\/a> – Why, yes, he IS a Republican. How do did you guess?<\/li>\n
  3. A Question for Republicans Who Want to Kill Teacher Tenure for Bad Teachers [Mike the Mad Biologist]<\/a> – And the argument here points out precisely why teacher tenure is so important — not to protect the incompetent teacher (certainly a problem), but to protect teachers from retribution for teaching the “wrong” thing.<\/li>\n
  4. Why Letting Yourself Make Mistakes Means Making Fewer of Them | Psychology Today<\/a> – “Focusing on getting better means always thinking in terms of progress, not perfection.” Very, very true. And very, very hard (speaking personally).<\/li>\n
  5. Woman Charged With Animal Cruelty For Mailing Live Puppy<\/a> – Okay, I volunteer to be one of the people to slap this asshat silly.<\/li>\n
  6. Family Wakes Up To Cell Tower In Front Yard<\/a> – Yeah, clearly something that a little midnight landscaping can take care of. Though who knows … maybe it really helps their household cell reception (God knows I’d be tempted if that were the case).<\/li>\n
  7. Spray-On Skin: A Demonstration [Video]<\/a> – Science fiction meets reality …<\/li>\n
  8. San Francisco Supervisor Criticized For Not Saying Pledge Of Allegiance<\/a> – How dare she engage in political dissent! That’s positively un-American, as all the Founders would quickly tell you!<\/li>\n
  9. The Google Art Project Launches<\/a> – Very cool …<\/li>\n
  10. Asking People if They Have Seen Themselves<\/a> – O wad sum pow’r the giftie gie us …<\/li>\n
  11. 10 Nerdiest Roles of David Warner – Topless Robot – Page 1<\/a> – David Warner truly rocks.<\/li>\n
  12. Flickr Accidentally Wipes Out Account: Five Years And 4,000 Photos Down The Drain<\/a> – The fact that a deleted account cannot be restored, in toto, is mildly appalling … but a supporting reason why I treat Flickr as a public mirror of my photo collection, not as the source.<\/li>\n
  13. Republicans Vote To Repeal Obama-Backed Bill That Would Destroy Asteroid Headed For Earth<\/a> – The free market is the best way to deal with global armageddon!<\/li>\n
  14. Rand Paul Email Touts False Gun Conspiracy About U.N. Treaty That Doesn\u2019t Exist<\/a> – Don’t let the facts interfere with our critical fact-challenged fund-raising!<\/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 …. Honeycomb Is The First Shot Fired Along Apple\u2019s Bow – I might very well consider an Android tablet in the future … Georgia Lawmaker Believes Drivers\u2019 Licenses Are Too Much Government Intrusion – Why, yes, he IS a Republican. … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 2-Feb-11 2230)”<\/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-19992","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":20906,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/01\/unblogged-bits-sun-1-may-11-1730.html","url_meta":{"origin":19992,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 1-May-11 1730)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 1-May-11 5:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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