{"id":20940,"date":"2011-05-03T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/03\/unblogged-bits-tue-3-may-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2011-05-03T11:30:57","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T17:30:57","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-3-may-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/03\/unblogged-bits-tue-3-may-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 3-May-11 1130)"},"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. Carriers crack down on wireless tethering app for Android<\/a> – Making one small but real additional reason to someday root my Android.<\/li>\n
  2. Chris Hedges on the death of Osama bin Laden<\/a> – As I said the other day, OSL was no Hitler, no Stalin, no Mao. He commanded a tiny force that committed some awful crimes. But we let that (or were manipulated into letting that) spiral into some giant existential battle of Good vs Evil and West vs East and Christian vs Muslim and US vs Iraqistan … and so made him, and his movement, into much bigger boogymen than they were.<\/li>\n
  3. Republicans Rush to Rewrite History of Bush and Bin Laden<\/a> – Y’know, there’s politics, and I understand that. But the GOP seem to be going out of their way to avoid any hint that Obama might have done something right here, either by solely crediting Bush or crediting Obama only to the extent that he (they say) followed Bush policy. And that’s just really sad.<\/li>\n
  4. Higher Standards – SMBC May 03, 2011<\/a> – Exactly.<\/li>\n
  5. Rep. Peter King: We Should Still Use Waterboarding Because That\u2019s How We Captured Bin Laden<\/a> – That fact that it didn’t will certainly not change anyone’s mind — at least not King’s.<\/li>\n
  6. Tea Party Billionaire David Koch Disses Donald Trump As Motivated By Publicity, \u2018Not Qualified\u2019<\/a> – Doesn’t Trump know that the proper political place for the hyper-rich is behind the scenes, not in front of them?!<\/li>\n
  7. On Purim, God Told Chuck Pierce That Bin Laden Would Be Brought to Justice<\/a> – I had a dream last night that someone would make some silly psychic\/religious post hoc “prediction” of OBL’s capture, and, hey presto, here we go. Obviously I, too, am in touch with the divine. Please send money.<\/li>\n
  8. Frog Loses Battle to Speech Bubbles: Armin<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. US in 2005: legalizing TiVo, CD ripping “sends the wrong message”<\/a> – Yes, it sends the message that citizens want more convenience than Big Media wants them to have.<\/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 …. Carriers crack down on wireless tethering app for Android – Making one small but real additional reason to someday root my Android. Chris Hedges on the death of Osama bin Laden – As I said the other day, OSL … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Tue. 3-May-11 1130)”<\/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-20940","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":28637,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/17\/voice-search-siri-vs-jellybean.html","url_meta":{"origin":20940,"position":0},"title":"Voice search: Siri vs. JellyBean","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Jul-12 11:59pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Honestly speaking, I've never been in a location where it made more sense to search for stuff by voice than by typing something in. 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