Unrequired Reading: Mar. 7, 2008

Sorry about the lack of posts yesterday, dear readers! I was busy (more on that this weekend) and figured you got four decent posts on Wednesday, so get offa my ass, okay!?

I shouldn’t have snapped at you like that. Here’s an extra-fantastic selection of week-ending links! Enjoy!

Surprisingly, NJ is only the third worst-governed state!

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I tried talking my boss into replacing our Flavia heated-brown-fluid-emitter with this $11,000 coffee machine, but he shot me down.

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“To Hamas, from the Residents of Ashkelon”

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There used to be 2.4 rules to understanding Canadians; now there are three. (Lousy weak dollar, muttergrumble . . .)

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Action Park: a NJ institution for training people in careers as crash-test dummies.

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Witold Rybczynski wonders how we build libraries in the Google Era.

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“Not like this,” replies Donald Pittenger.

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I can never identify Sam Rockwell when I see him in a movie. He almost always does a great job, but it’s like he gets a full face/body modification before each flick. Maybe this interview will help me out.

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The funniest story I’ve seen in a while: accusing Ikea of “Swedish imperialism.”

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