{"id":22077,"date":"2011-08-10T17:30:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T23:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/unblogged-bits-wed-10-aug-11-1730.html"},"modified":"2011-08-10T17:30:34","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T23:30:34","slug":"unblogged-bits-wed-10-aug-11-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/10\/unblogged-bits-wed-10-aug-11-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Wed. 10-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. Kill The Myth: Incandescent Bulbs Are Not Banned | Fast Company<\/a> – Yeah, right, like “facts” and “information” will sway the lunatic incandescent fringe.<\/li>\n
  2. Denver Regional Transportation District Secures Federal Transit Administration Grant Worth $1.03 Billion<\/a> – Excellent! (ObDisclosure, I feel that way as a Denverite, a light rail user, and employee of a company that does work for the Denver RTD.)<\/li>\n
  3. Rare Sand Kitten Birth Gives Hope for Conservation<\/a> – TEH CUTE!!!!<\/li>\n
  4. Every Space Nerd Must Get This Thing For Their Bathtub [Design]<\/a> – Ooooooh ….<\/li>\n
  5. The Daily Show: Couple “Forecloses” On Bank Of America<\/a> – Watched this last night. It was pretty darned funny.<\/li>\n
  6. Apple, publishers conspired against $9.99 Amazon e-books, says lawsuit<\/a> – Hmmmm. Well, this’ll be an interesting suit to follow. It paints a very plausible picture, but is there hard evidence to back it up?<\/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 …. Kill The Myth: Incandescent Bulbs Are Not Banned | Fast Company – Yeah, right, like “facts” and “information” will sway the lunatic incandescent fringe. Denver Regional Transportation District Secures Federal Transit Administration Grant Worth $1.03 Billion – Excellent! (ObDisclosure, … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Wed. 10-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_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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22077","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":18963,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/10\/19\/incandescent.html","url_meta":{"origin":22077,"position":0},"title":"Incandescent","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 19-Oct-10 2:29pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Autumn Blaze Maple in our front yard.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":26629,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/22\/fiat-lux-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":22077,"position":1},"title":"Fiat Lux!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 22-Feb-12 11:24am","format":false,"excerpt":"It bugs the heck out of me when I can't find the \"incandescent wattage equivalent\" on non-incandescent bulbs. 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