{"id":21284,"date":"2011-06-16T11:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T17:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/16\/unblogged-bits-thu-16-jun-11-1130.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T08:18:54","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T15:18:54","slug":"unblogged-bits-thu-16-jun-11-1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/16\/unblogged-bits-thu-16-jun-11-1130.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Thu. 16-Jun-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. The 3D \u2018Star Wars\u2019 Conversions Could End After \u2018The Phantom Menace\u2019<\/a> – I honestly have no great desire to see ANY of the SW movies in 3D.<\/li>\n
  2. Newlyweds: TSA Ruined Our Honeymoon Over Bottle Of Contact Lens Solution<\/a> – There’s a reason I keep going to the airport unreasonably early. You never know when you might be delayed beyond all reason by random, unpredictable, capricious events — like the TSA.<\/li>\n
  3. Do Not Body-Pierce Kittens And Sell Them As ‘Goth’<\/a> – Ugh.<\/li>\n
  4. HTC Desire to get Gingerbread—once HTC shrinks bloated Sense UI<\/a> – I understand that phone manufacturers want to present some sort of value-add to their customers — but, yeah, Sense doesn’t do much but slow things down and add a lot of icons.<\/li>\n
  5. Deluged with calls, state legislators take WiscNet off death row<\/a> – Guardedly good news.<\/li>\n
  6. Did the Bush administration try to spy illegally on Juan Cole?<\/a> – On #4, I’d bet (sadly), “No,” given precedent.<\/li>\n
  7. Former CIA Admits They Sought Information To Discredit Juan Cole For Bashing Bush<\/a> – Well, there’s a huge surprise. Sigh<\/b><\/li>\n
  8. Black Republican drops GOP over racist attack on Obama: John Aravosis (DC)<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Wii U won’t play DVD\/Blu-ray movies<\/a> – I suspect they will simply go the streaming route (as is possible with current Wii units). I think it’s a good move by Nintendo.<\/li>\n
  10. Arkansas Atheists Charged for Bus Ads<\/a> – Nice blaming the victim there, CATA!<\/li>\n
  11. French proposal: any URL to be arbitrarily blacklisted without due process<\/a> – I’m sure there are plenty of countries eying the proposal enviously.<\/li>\n
  12. Southwest Wildfires Are \u2018The Cost Of Climate Change\u2019<\/a> – But since they are costs borne in common (unless the GOP cuts disaster relief, of course), there will be little push to actually do something about it.<\/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 3D \u2018Star Wars\u2019 Conversions Could End After \u2018The Phantom Menace\u2019 – I honestly have no great desire to see ANY of the SW movies in 3D. Newlyweds: TSA Ruined Our Honeymoon Over Bottle Of Contact Lens Solution – … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Thu. 16-Jun-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":[16,372],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri","category-star-wars-media-movies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19210,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/15\/unblogged-bits-mon-15-nov-10-1032.html","url_meta":{"origin":21284,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits (Mon. 15-Nov-10 1032)","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 15-Nov-10 10:32am","format":false,"excerpt":"Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries .... 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