{"id":22236,"date":"2011-08-19T17:30:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T23:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/unblogged-bits-fri-19-aug-11-1730.html"},"modified":"2011-08-19T17:30:49","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T23:30:49","slug":"unblogged-bits-fri-19-aug-11-1730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/unblogged-bits-fri-19-aug-11-1730.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Fri. 19-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. Censorship On The Rise: U.S. Schools Have Banned More Than 20 Books This Year<\/a> – Yes, it’s much better if, instead of reading, those kids sit at home playing Nintendo and watching football.<\/li>\n
  2. Costco Shopper Writes Insane Fake Shopping Lists For The Amusement Of Others – The Consumerist<\/a> – Heh.<\/li>\n
  3. Life Without a Chance<\/a> – Lock ’em up and throw away the key, even when they’re kids, is the stupid-easy way to fight crime. It’s also evil.<\/li>\n
  4. When C’s Became A’s<\/a> – Well, that sucks.<\/li>\n
  5. The GOP candidates have no time for your “science,” scientists – War Room – Salon.com<\/a> – Science is scary!<\/li>\n
  6. After Supreme Court Win Forcing Customers to Arbitrate, AT&T Now Sues to Stop the Arbitration – News – ABA Journal<\/a> – It would be nice to see them hoist on their own petard.<\/li>\n
  7. 6 Reasons The Guy Who’s Fixing Your Computer Hates You | Cracked.com<\/a> – HA! Though, to be fair, the folks that I still do PC tech support for are not nearly this self-destructively stupid.<\/li>\n
  8. Cute kittens playing in pots on Japanese TV. \u00ab Stupid Evil Bastard<\/a> – AAWWWWWWWWWWWW …<\/li>\n
  9. 10 Science Fiction Books That Changed the Course of History<\/a> – That’s not a bad list, though I’ve only read half of them.<\/li>\n
  10. As Union Membership Falls, RGA Chairman Gov. McDonnell Says There\u2019s Been \u2018More Unionization\u2019 Under Obama | ThinkProgress<\/a> – Don’t let your facts get in the way of my talking points!<\/li>\n
  11. Most Android apps sit idle, top-50 apps make up 61% of all usage, Nielsen finds<\/a> – I know I have a lot of apps on my phone that I downloaded for perfectly good reasons, and that I simply never use. This isn’t at all surprising.<\/li>\n
  12. Liberty Counsel Declares The APA To Be A \u201cPseudo-Scientific Organization\u201d<\/a> – The truth can be sooooooo inconvenient.<\/li>\n
  13. Consumer Rights Advocate Elizabeth Warren Explores Race for Mass Senate<\/a> – Sounds like a great idea — and getting rid of Scott Brown is icing on the cake.<\/li>\n
  14. Otters in jackboots<\/a> – Today otters, tomorrow the wolves! (Okay, maybe I don’t want wolves wandering through my neighborhood, but it was too good to pass 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 …. Censorship On The Rise: U.S. Schools Have Banned More Than 20 Books This Year – Yes, it’s much better if, instead of reading, those kids sit at home playing Nintendo and watching football. Costco Shopper Writes Insane Fake Shopping … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Fri. 19-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":"","_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-22236","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":43893,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/27\/kids-vs-no-kids.html","url_meta":{"origin":22236,"position":0},"title":"Kids vs No Kids","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 27-Jul-14 5:53pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Heh. 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