{"id":1602,"date":"2007-07-27T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-july-27-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-07-27T05:03:43","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T10:03:43","slug":"unrequired-reading-july-27-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-july-27-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: July 27, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a fresh batch of links, dear readers! Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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Tom Spurgeon keeps us up-to-date on happenings at Comic-Con International in San Diego<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Azar Gat gives a name to a model I’ve been trying to analyze\/wrap my brain around: authoritarian capitalism<\/a>, as distinct from the democratic version. (Subscription required, but it’s a really good article).<\/p>\n

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Khol Vinh at Subtraction writes about pinball and design<\/a>. (here’s the pinball documentary<\/a> he cites)<\/p>\n

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Say one more word about Another Woman<\/em> and I will beat your ass like a drum<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Modernism and everything after: why today’s big buildings are silly<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Raising the stakes on my question of whether to buy a German car, several thousand Israelis have “restored” their German citizenship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Jew-perheroes<\/a>! (“Heeb-roes!” didn’t sound as good.)<\/p>\n

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How to Cover Your Assad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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My wife: smokin’<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a fresh batch of links, dear readers! Enjoy!<\/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":[25,26,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-comics","category-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-pQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1072,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/showtime","url_meta":{"origin":1602,"position":0},"title":"Showtime!","author":"Gil","date":"August 10, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"We spent Tuesday \"down the shore\" with my brother, his wife, and their two daughters. 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