{"id":21995,"date":"2011-08-05T17:30:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/unblogged-bits-fri-5-aug-11-1730.html"},"modified":"2011-08-05T23:41:24","modified_gmt":"2011-08-06T05:41:24","slug":"unblogged-bits-fri-5-aug-11-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/05\/unblogged-bits-fri-5-aug-11-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 5-Aug-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. Maybe David Barton “Should Take A Lesson in Religious Freedom”<\/a> – Religious freedom for me, of course, but not for thee.<\/li>\n
  2. Mad scientists<\/a> – HA!<\/li>\n
  3. Comcast Rolls Out $10 Internet Access For Low-Income Families<\/a> – I’m sure the Randites will pop a blood vessel over this.<\/li>\n
  4. Last Known Gay Surivor Of The Nazis’ Concentration Camps Dies At Age 98<\/a> – While the Holocaust against Europe’s Jews is the best known of Hitler’s Final Solutions (and, by the numbers, ought to be), it’s too often forgotten that other groups — gays, Gypsies, political opponents — were targeted for extinction as well.<\/li>\n
  5. Ford Is Purging CD Players from Their Cars<\/a> – I still use the CD player in my car for audiobooks. I’d really rather not have to either rip same to MP3 and\/or download MP3s to an iPod and then have the iPod in the car.<\/li>\n
  6. Time Warner Cable’s Porn Problem – Free Porn is Dragging Down VOD Revenues<\/a> – Heh.<\/li>\n
  7. Many US ISPs in epidemic of covert search-hijacking of their customers<\/a> – Wow. That’s fairly slimy.<\/li>\n
  8. The TSA Blog: Weird Science: Traveling With Homemade Gadgets<\/a> – Yes, whatever you do, don’t alarm the nice TSA men. Don’t have anything in your carry-on that might cause suspicion. Don’t put it in your checked bags, either, because they’ll tear those apart, too. Just show up barefoot and in your pajamas with nothing in your pockets (except your ID!). Then all will be well …<\/li>\n
  9. mental_floss Blog \u00bb We Love Lucy! Secrets From Your Favorite Episodes for Lucille Ball\u2019s 100th Birthday<\/a> – I grew up with these shows. Still funny as all hell.<\/li>\n
  10. AP source: Obama signs bill to end FAA shutdown – The Denver Post<\/a> – Thanks, GOP, for letting the hostage go and take a pee for a minute before getting locked back up. Yeesh.<\/li>\n
  11. NASA launches spacecraft on 5-year trip to Jupiter – The Denver Post<\/a> – Cool!<\/li>\n
  12. Stop! It\u2019s A Really Bad Time To Buy A Kindle<\/a> – I am sure that I don’t need to replace my Kindle. Nuh-uh. No way. Working fine. No reason to replace it. None at all. (Hmmmm … wonder what the new features will be …)<\/li>\n
  13. Wells Fargo And Wachovia Merger Is Bad News For Divorced Couple<\/a> – Crikey.<\/li>\n
  14. $300 Million Button: making customers create logins to buy cost etailer $300M\/year<\/a> – Yes. This. “‘The $300 Million Button,’ Jared Spool’s 2009 article on usability and ecommerce design, is remarkable in that it a) articulates something that anyone who shops widely online already knows; b) is advice that would make a lot of money for sites if they adopted it; c) has been part of the literature for at least two and a half years; d) is roundly ignored.”<\/li>\n
  15. Animal Tracks – Ants give new meaning to ‘you are what you eat’<\/a> – Fun.<\/li>\n
  16. Lessons of the deficit ceiling showdown<\/a> – “America has now made clear that it will not necessarily pay its debts. We have become, in some ways, like other economically troubled countries where it is no longer a certainty that debt can be fully repaid, and where debt has become a political commodity. All because of the Republicans.” Lovely.<\/li>\n
  17. Republicans Have Already Taken Their Hostages For \u201cSuper Congress\u201d Negotiations<\/a> – Stay classy, GOP.<\/li>\n
  18. \u202aFDR Warning about Today’s Republicans\u202c\u200f – YouTube<\/a> – HA!<\/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 …. Maybe David Barton “Should Take A Lesson in Religious Freedom” – Religious freedom for me, of course, but not for thee. Mad scientists – HA! Comcast Rolls Out $10 Internet Access For Low-Income Families – I’m sure the Randites … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Fri. 5-Aug-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-21995","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":135415,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/26\/religious-freedom-freedom-oppress-religious-opinions.html","url_meta":{"origin":21995,"position":0},"title":"When “religious freedom” is “freedom to oppress other religious opinions”","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 26-Nov-17 11:51pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, who is truly surprised that Donald Trump -- a man with few truly definable religious opinions -- is more than happy to garner political support by nominating a theocratic zany to the federal bench? \u201cReligious Freedom\u201d Proponent Jeff Mateer Is the Most Dangerous of Trump\u2019s Judicial Nominees Mateer defends\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed-5.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":137358,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/10\/18\/religious-freedom-cuts-both-ways.html","url_meta":{"origin":21995,"position":1},"title":""Religious Freedom" cuts both ways","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 18-Oct-18 10:57pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A man who claims that he is compelled by his religious and moral beliefs to help illegal immigrants passing by, even where such help violates federal law, is claiming that the same \"religious freedom trumps everything else\" arguments that Hobby Lobby and Masterpiece Bakery have used apply to his case\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132426,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/23\/religious-freedom-for-atheists-too.html","url_meta":{"origin":21995,"position":2},"title":"Religious Freedom for Atheists, Too","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 23-Dec-16 11:10am","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm glad to see this 1998 US religious freedom law noted to include atheists and agnostics as well. 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