{"id":1677,"date":"2007-09-28T05:09:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-28T10:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-sep-28-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-09-28T05:15:37","modified_gmt":"2007-09-28T10:15:37","slug":"unrequired-reading-sep-28-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-sep-28-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Sep. 28, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

My October ish is (just about) done and it’s time to head off to Milan for the CPhI\/ICSE conference! Have some Unrequired Reading, my dear unrequired readers!<\/p>\n

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Michael Hsu celebrates the opening of Muji stores<\/a> in the U.S. (I picked up a little something<\/a> from their shop at MoMA once.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

What starts out as a 2Blowhards discussion of web-authoring tools for non-geeks<\/a> leads into an interesting meditation on design and a little take on the mystic symbolism of the internet.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Jane Jacobs was not whoever you wanted her to be<\/a>. (For my part, I felt that her housing “regulations” were the weakest\/least defensible part of Death and Life of Great American Cities<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Yom Kippur: the re-mix<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The 10 greatest Air Jordans<\/a>, my ass! The VI rocked the shit<\/a>! (Maybe I’ll have to pick up a pair of Gil II Zero<\/a> sometime.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I really hope that this is an accident<\/a>. (Not like the DoD having a giant pentagram for an HQ, or anything. . .)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I respect Iron & Wine for not being too much of a hardass about how his music gets licensed<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Who knew there were 65 ways<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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