{"id":22418,"date":"2011-08-30T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T17:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/unblogged-bits-tue-30-aug-11-1131.html"},"modified":"2013-06-03T11:27:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T17:27:51","slug":"unblogged-bits-tue-30-aug-11-1131","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/unblogged-bits-tue-30-aug-11-1131.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Tue. 30-Aug-11 1131)"},"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. Arctic sea ice will be below average again this year | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine<\/a> – But it’s all a cycle! Or a hoax! Or sun spots! Certainly not anything that humans have caused, or contributed to, or have to do something inconvenient or even painful about!<\/li>\n
  2. In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir by Dick Cheney – The Washington Post<\/a> – It sounds like a book more designed for current audiences than for any historic perspective from the future.<\/li>\n
  3. Amazon’s tablet will be Android’s White Knight<\/a> – It’s certainly something I’d take a look at …<\/li>\n
  4. Massive Diet Coke<\/a> – Nice redesign (though I’m not a Diet Coke fan, if I have a choice in the matter).<\/li>\n
  5. Flash: 99% Bad<\/a> – Yup. Yup, yup, yup. (And I kept thinking of all those awful, awful restaurant sites out there, which are particularly egregious at abusing Flash.)<\/li>\n
  6. Monsanto GM corn is losing its pest-resistance<\/a> – Well, there’s a huge surprise.<\/li>\n
  7. 83 Died in U.S.-Guatemala Syphilis Experiments: \u201cWe\u2019re talking about intentional deception.\u201d<\/a> – Disgusting. And particularly so, given that, over in Nuremberg, Germany, we were trying Nazi scientists for doing the same sort of criminal research.<\/li>\n
  8. Drug Testing for Welfare Recipients? Why Stop There?<\/a> – Sauce for the goose …<\/li>\n
  9. Stuart Varney on the Poor: What They Lack is the Richness of Spirit<\/a> – Remember when we used to be proud that even the poorest in our country could afford a refrigerator (or afford an apartment that had a fridge in it)? Now it’s being used as a club by the Right to prove that poor aren’t really all that poor.<\/li>\n
  10. 18 Things You (Probably) Didn\u2019t Know About Firefly [Infographic]<\/a> – Some of this isn’t new, and I knew a lot of it already, so I’ll just quietly note that it is INSANE that it has been 9 years since Firefly first aired.<\/li>\n
  11. The Illusion of Asymmetric Insight \u00ab You Are Not So Smart<\/a> – The bane of the blogosphere (if not the world). “In a political debate you feel like the other side just doesn\u2019t get your point of view, and if they could only see things with your clarity, they would understand and fall naturally in line with what you believe. They must not understand, because if they did they wouldn\u2019t think the things they think. By contrast, you believe you totally get their point of view and you reject it. You see it in all its detail and understand it for what it is \u2013 stupid. You don\u2019t need to hear them elaborate. So, each side believes they understand the other side better than the other side understands both their opponents and themselves.”<\/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 …. Arctic sea ice will be below average again this year | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine – But it’s all a cycle! Or a hoax! Or sun spots! Certainly not anything that humans have caused, or contributed to, or … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Tue. 30-Aug-11 1131)”<\/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":[361,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-tv-fireflyserenity","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":51307,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/05\/29\/rt-mysmugcat-my-cat-is-smug-because-he-is-in-a-drawer-and-you-almost-certainly-arent.html","url_meta":{"origin":22418,"position":0},"title":"RT @MYSMUGCAT My cat is smug because he is in a drawer, and you almost certainly aren’t","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 29-May-15 2:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"RT @MYSMUGCAT My cat is smug because he is in a drawer, and you almost certainly aren't View on Twitter","rel":"","context":"In "~Tweets"","block_context":{"text":"~Tweets","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/tweets"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/CFTS-WgW8AAHXgM.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/CFTS-WgW8AAHXgM.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/CFTS-WgW8AAHXgM.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/CFTS-WgW8AAHXgM.jpg%3Alarge.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27037,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/10\/there-are-certainly-worse-ways-go-to.html","url_meta":{"origin":22418,"position":1},"title":"There are certainly worse ways go to","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 10-Mar-12 11:39pm","format":false,"excerpt":"#ddtb Embedded Link Conductor dies leading philharmonic in concert - The Denver Post LITTLETON\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Arapahoe Philharmonic Conductor Vincent C. 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