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Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. The Tragic Story of a Russian Cosmonaut Who Was Sent into Space Knowing He Would Die [Space]<\/a> – When politics trump reality, tragedy usually ensues (and usually not to the politicians themselves). Wish some folks in DC would pay attention to that.<\/li>\n
  2. Your 3G T-Mobile Phone Will Be Useless After AT&T Annexes T-Mo’s Cell Sites [Blip]<\/a> – Well, it does sound like they are going to replace the phones, but …<\/li>\n
  3. What Jesus Would Do<\/a> – Heh.<\/li>\n
  4. Google guesstimates release dates for movies and games<\/a> – Amazing what you can do with some data aggregation.<\/li>\n
  5. Good For Them: Halifax Library Refuses To Carry DRM-Limited HarperCollins E-Books<\/a> – Good for them, indeed.<\/li>\n
  6. Complete Integration Of Google Voice And 50 Million Sprint Customers, Plus 4G Nexus S<\/a> – Beginning to consider looking at Google Voice for a variety of reasons. This simply adds to my interest.<\/li>\n
  7. Consumers Union: Hard To See Benefit Of AT&T And T-Mobile Deal<\/a> – Silly CU — as if “benefiting the consumer” has anything to do with business deals or regulatory approval of same.<\/li>\n
  8. Permanent anti-fog coating could mean end to steamy specs<\/a> – Using it on bathroom mirrors sounds like an instant win, too.<\/li>\n
  9. House panel considers ‘In God We Trust’ \u2013 CNN Belief Blog – CNN.com Blogs<\/a> – More vigorous “Jobs First!” activity from the GOP.<\/li>\n
  10. Click and weep<\/a> – I can only hope that the appalling scientific illiteracy of Americans in surveys such as this is because they are having problems reading and understanding the surveys.<\/li>\n
  11. A Tangled Web of Shortened Links – Technology Review<\/a> – I thought bit.ly<\/a> had been acting a bit squirrelly lately.<\/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 …. The Tragic Story of a Russian Cosmonaut Who Was Sent into Space Knowing He Would Die [Space] – When politics trump reality, tragedy usually ensues (and usually not to the politicians themselves). Wish some folks in DC would pay … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Mon. 21-Mar-11 1131)”<\/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-20508","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":131830,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/19\/colonies-in-spaaaaaaace.html","url_meta":{"origin":20508,"position":0},"title":"Colonies! 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