{"id":20817,"date":"2011-04-20T17:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T23:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/20\/unblogged-bits-wed-20-apr-11-1730.html"},"modified":"2011-04-20T17:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T23:30:34","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-20-apr-11-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/20\/unblogged-bits-wed-20-apr-11-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 20-Apr-11 1730)"},"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. Amazon To Offer Library eBooks on Kindle<\/a> – Good to hear. And, yes, it makes it much more likely I’ll check out library books on the Kindle.<\/li>\n
  2. 2012 Subaru Impreza drops power and weight for MPGs<\/a> – I’ll be curious to hear how it actually performs. Improving the Impreza mileage is pretty important, given the MPG drains of the AWD system.<\/li>\n
  3. Why Do They Get to Decide?<\/a> – It’s the foxes being asked to evaluate the security on the hen house.<\/li>\n
  4. Security researchers find iPhones, 3G iPads track user location<\/a> – Big Steve is watching you …<\/li>\n
  5. Alan Keyes Brings the Crazy, Part 2<\/a> – To be the slightest bit charitable to Alan Keyes, we had to sit through eight years each of Clinton and Bush being accused of actively plotting to have military coups \/ martial law \/ black helicopters keep them in power.<\/li>\n
  6. Jan Brewer Signs Bill Restricting Gay Adoption | On Top Magazine :: Gay & Lesbian News, Entertainment, Commentary & Travel<\/a> – With everything else going on in Arizona, this is a “critical issue”? Yeesh.<\/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 …. Amazon To Offer Library eBooks on Kindle – Good to hear. And, yes, it makes it much more likely I’ll check out library books on the Kindle. 2012 Subaru Impreza drops power and weight for MPGs – I’ll be … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 20-Apr-11 1730)”<\/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-20817","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":128669,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/10\/on-driving-stick-for-now.html","url_meta":{"origin":20817,"position":0},"title":"On Driving Stick — for Now","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 10-Nov-15 9:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"I love the manual transmission in my Subaru Impreza. 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