{"id":28675,"date":"2012-07-29T11:54:59","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T17:54:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=28675"},"modified":"2012-07-29T11:54:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T17:54:59","slug":"unblogged-bits-for-2012-07-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/29\/unblogged-bits-for-2012-07-28.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits for 2012-07-28"},"content":{"rendered":"

And here are some bits and bobs from yesterday — mostly Olympics, I think.<\/p>\n

Olympics<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. The Opening Ceremony of the Olympics<\/a> – On some messages Danny Boyle was sending, domestic and international.<\/li>\n
  2. More on NBC’s “adaptation” of the Opening Ceremonies<\/a> – Is there anything they didn’t actually mess up?<\/li>\n
  3. Olympic coverage<\/a> – via Dave Barry in 1996. The more things change …<\/li>\n
  4. More NBC Opening Ceremony Fail<\/a> – Imagine if the BBC edited out a tribute in an US-based Olympics to the victims of 9\/11, in favor of an interview with some English athlete. \u00a0Stay classy, NBC!<\/li>\n
  5. Folks who sound like they have an arrow through their head<\/a> – Demonstrating once again that there is a difference between rooting for your tribe and being an asshole about it.<\/li>\n
  6. The Olympics really does bring people together …<\/a> – … in their disdain for how NBC handled the opening ceremonies.<\/li>\n
  7. The Olympic Map<\/a> – Nice interactive map of countries participating over the years.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Non-Olympics<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. “The message all of this sends out, especially to younger officers in the force, is one of impunity”<\/a> – Looking at the NYPD during the Occupy Wall Street protests.<\/li>\n
    2. A climate skeptic changes his mind<\/a> – And does so on the Koch Bros. nickel. A good read.<\/li>\n
    3. The monoculture economy<\/a> – Putting all our economic eggs in one crop basket, and what the drought means because of that.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      And here are some bits and bobs from yesterday — mostly Olympics, I think. Olympics The Opening Ceremony of the Olympics – On some messages Danny Boyle was sending, domestic and international. More on NBC’s “adaptation” of the Opening Ceremonies – Is there anything they didn’t actually mess up? Olympic coverage – via Dave Barry … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits for 2012-07-28”<\/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":[77,63,9,67,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-environment","category-politics-law","category-media-sports","category-media-tv"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28703,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/unblogged-bits-for-2012-07-29.html","url_meta":{"origin":28675,"position":0},"title":"Unblogged Bits for 2012-07-29","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 30-Jul-12 9:23am","format":false,"excerpt":"I heard from the plugin developer yesterday, and when he finally got a free minute to try things out, I'd not set up something properly to let him test. 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