Unrequired Reading: June 11, 2010

I’m back from Chicago (via Madison and Milwaukee)! Time for a load of Unrequired Reading, dear readers!

Neat insight into the financial complexity that led Zappos to sell out to Amazon.

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Stanley Fish on the importance of a classical education. I always praise St. John’s College by explaining that it’s where I learned how to learn.

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That is one fine desk.

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Can I use Snoop’s nail-gun?

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Pinko City.

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I cried a little when I read this post by Ta-Nehisi Coates.

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I think the BusinessWeek redesign makes it look like a technical manual. (And occasionally like a knockoff of Monocle.)

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Finding Nighthawks: 1, 2, and 3 and coda.

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Thoughts on Hadji Murat.

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And let’s end with Stephen Fry on the experience of viewing art!