{"id":20078,"date":"2011-02-13T04:30:43","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T11:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/13\/unblogged-bits-sun-13-feb-11-0430.html"},"modified":"2011-02-13T04:30:43","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T11:30:43","slug":"unblogged-bits-sun-13-feb-11-0430","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/02\/13\/unblogged-bits-sun-13-feb-11-0430.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sun. 13-Feb-11 0430)"},"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\/J710J3xIUIc\/dumbass_question_of_the_day_1.php\">Dumbass Question of the Day [Dispatches from the Culture Wars]<\/a> &#8211; &#8220;You can fool all of the people some of the time &#8230;&#8221; seems an appropriate answer.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/tAg8cY6iXD0\/egypt-dance-dance-re.html\">Egypt: Dance Dance Revolution (big photo gallery)<\/a> &#8211; Remarkably, these are the folks that some Rightist pundits will have you believe are really into it just to destroy the USA.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/Three-starDavesSharedItemsInGoogleReader\/~3\/fqFVR7KI1Us\/\">Time for textbook tycoons to give students a break | Piece of Mind<\/a> &#8211; Textbooks are an incredible racket. 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