{"id":20063,"date":"2011-02-10T10:31:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/unblogged-bits-thu-10-feb-11-1031.html"},"modified":"2011-02-10T10:31:21","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T17:31:21","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-10-feb-11-1031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/unblogged-bits-thu-10-feb-11-1031.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 10-Feb-11 1031)"},"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. Heroic Support – DORK TOWER, Thursday, February 10, 2011<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Government transparency doesn’t matter without accountability<\/a> – Ultimately, accountabilty in a democracy depends on both representatives and public servants who actually represent and serve, and a citizenry ready to step in through the vote when they don’t.<\/li>\n
  3. Cyanide & Happiness #2322 – Explosm.net<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Citing The Founders, Rand Paul Breaks With His Party And Announces He Will Oppose Extending PATRIOT Act<\/a> – One of the first things Paul has said that I agree with.<\/li>\n
  5. A fit, fun, unemployed guy<\/a> – It will be interesting to see if we ever learn why Lee resigned while so many other GOP sex scandal stars (Vitter, Ensign) have not.<\/li>\n
  6. The hard-to-execute flip-flop-flip<\/a> – Not at all hard-to-execute. Just ignore or handwave away the inconsistency. The GOP leadership is great at that.<\/li>\n
  7. Mitt Rewrites Himself – Talking Politics – Boston Phoenix<\/a> – As in literally rewrites portions of his book for the paperback edition in order to garner some support for his presidential bid. Stay classy, Mitt!<\/li>\n
  8. ‘Stuff is just made up’<\/a> – Not to lend an anonymous report about how Fox operates too much weight … but it certainly rings true.<\/li>\n
  9. What makes fructose fattening? Some answers found in the brain<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Motorcycle helmets reduce spine injuries after collisions; Helmet weight as risk to neck called a ‘myth’<\/a> – We’ve done our best to teach Katherine to recognize (even mock) as unsafe folks who are riding motorcycles without proper safety equipment — of which helmets are Number One.<\/li>\n
  11. A stunning commitment to odometer numerology [LOLCars]<\/a> – Nice!<\/li>\n
  12. Do Your Users Have Shopping Cart Abandonment Issues?<\/a> – When I abandon (web store) shopping carts, it's almost always because the just-revealed shipping & handling costs are too high.<\/li>\n
  13. Diet soda tied to stroke risk, but reasons unclear – Yahoo! News<\/a> – Preliminary, but discouraging.<\/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 …. Heroic Support – DORK TOWER, Thursday, February 10, 2011 Government transparency doesn’t matter without accountability – Ultimately, accountabilty in a democracy depends on both representatives and public servants who actually represent and serve, and a citizenry ready to step … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 10-Feb-11 1031)”<\/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-20063","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":130158,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/10\/rip-paul-ryan-no-the-comic-book-paul-ryan.html","url_meta":{"origin":20063,"position":0},"title":"RIP, Paul Ryan (no, the comic book Paul Ryan)","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 10-Mar-16 5:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Ryan wasn't my favorite artist of all time, but he was a reliable workhorse for Marvel, cranking out art on many of their major titles in the 80s and 90s -- Avengers, Fantastic Four, Captain America, and more. 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