{"id":22008,"date":"2011-08-06T23:30:39","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T05:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/06\/unblogged-bits-sat-6-aug-11-2330.html"},"modified":"2013-06-05T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T22:30:24","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-6-aug-11-2330","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/06\/unblogged-bits-sat-6-aug-11-2330.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 6-Aug-11 2330)"},"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. This is a new one on me<\/a> – When you play in someone else’s imaginary backyard, you can’t take it personally if they, someday, relandscape it. Most of the good writers for the major comic book companies (David included) realize this when they work on a company-owned character, too.<\/li>\n
  2. Maximum cuteness level achieved: admin<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Wear Sunglasses to See Better When Driving in the Rain<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. How the World Wide Web was nearly called The Information Mesh<\/a> – (1) The chosen name increased the number of times the letter “w” was said out loud by several orders of magnitude. There’s probably a fantasy story there involving some plotting by a demon named “Dubuyu”. (2) I loved Gopher. The service protocol, not the Love Boat crewmember.<\/li>\n
  5. The Best Wi-Fi Names of All Time [Pic]<\/a> – Heh.<\/li>\n
  6. Nuclear Implications for China’s High Speed Train Wreck – IEEE Spectrum<\/a> – I’m sure all the good Ayn Rand fans will suggest that if train construction contractors or nuclear plant engineering companies do a shoddy or corner-cutting job, the only thing to do is simply to buy from someone else after the resulting disaster.<\/li>\n
  7. Wikipedia Is Slowly Dying<\/a> – Well, that would be sad.<\/li>\n
  8. The Onion Testing A Metered Paid Model | paidContent:UK<\/a> – Why look — the Onion wants to have fewer people reading articles passed around from it.<\/li>\n
  9. Some people don\u2019t know this<\/a> – Well, I<\/b> knew this. But, then …<\/li>\n
  10. Record-High 45.8 Millions Americans Using Food Stamps<\/a> – Parasites!<\/li>\n
  11. Man With Breast Cancer Can’t Get Medicaid Coverage Because He’s A Man<\/a> – I’m pretty darned sure that wouldn’t stand up to a court challenge. Of course, he’d probably be dead by then.<\/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 …. This is a new one on me – When you play in someone else’s imaginary backyard, you can’t take it personally if they, someday, relandscape it. Most of the good writers for the major comic book companies (David included) … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 6-Aug-11 2330)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[3,11,379,77,134,108,16,26,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-media-comics","category-cute","category-economy","category-health-care","category-history","category-potpourri","category-travel","category-writing-and-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135455,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/28\/comic-books-dyslexia.html","url_meta":{"origin":22008,"position":0},"title":"Comic books and dyslexia","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 28-Nov-17 12:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"Comic books are often recommended for dyslexics for training in reading, as the smaller chunks of text and illustrations can help make meaning clearer. 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