{"id":1375,"date":"2007-03-09T06:14:41","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T11:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-mar-9-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-03-09T06:14:41","modified_gmt":"2007-03-09T11:14:41","slug":"unrequired-reading-mar-9-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-mar-9-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Mar. 9, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Always with interesting links that I didn’t have time or motivation to write about!<\/p>\n

BLDG BLOG on wind batteries and the Aeneid<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Steven Johnson sez, “Short attention span, my ass!<\/a>”<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

You’ve always wanted to know where the MP3 was born<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I get to break out my Schwarma Police<\/a> joke again!<\/p>\n

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I be it’d be a lot easier for Michael Oxley to denounce the Sarbanes-Oxley bill<\/a> if it weren’t named after him.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Michael Penn’s new website has launched<\/a>, with a novel approach. I’ve been thinking about his song “Walter Reed” lately.<\/p>\n

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Why Apple stores rock<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I leave you with a slideshow of vintage poster art from Asia<\/a>. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Always with interesting links that I didn’t have time or motivation to write about!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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":[22,27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-big-business","category-literature"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-mb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":16012,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/bonus-episode-after-michael","url_meta":{"origin":1375,"position":0},"title":"Bonus Episode – After Michael","author":"Gil","date":"April 23, 2023","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show Bonus Episode: After Michael Last week I talked about finding Michael Denneny dead at his apartment when I showed up for our podcast session (here's his Washington Post obit). 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