Unrequired Reading: March 12, 2010

It’s Unrequired Reading time! You know you wanna check out this week’s load o’ links!

London: the past ain’t what it used to be.

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The hidden thread of Martin Scorsese.

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I’ve written before about how NYTimes architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff sucks. Here’s a designer’s (and architecture critic’s) perspective on why he sucks.

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Boom! goes the dynamite liquid oxygen cylinder.

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And a donut with no hole is a danish.

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Israel: so hardcore that it’s supermarkets parody Mossad hit-squads for commercials.

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There are airports you’d prefer to be on the no-fly list.

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I probably would’ve liked Reality Hunger back when I was in college. That is not praise for it. Neither is Sam Anderson’s review.

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And now, your moment of zen ironing: