{"id":1695,"date":"2007-10-19T05:00:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T10:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-oct-19-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-10-19T05:01:48","modified_gmt":"2007-10-19T10:01:48","slug":"unrequired-reading-oct-19-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-oct-19-2007","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Oct. 19, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

Have a good weekend, dear readers! There are plenty of links awaiting you! Just click “more”!<\/p>\n


\nI’m proud to say that I’ve never seen a single one of these movies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Design isn’t always important in advertising, but it is important not to come off as creepy when describing how you watched a teenage girl as she “grew increasingly more sensual” over the course of your young son’s favorite show<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Who wrote what now<\/a>?<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Gah! Trabi is back<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I’m feeling lazy, so here’s a collection of links & commentary<\/a> assembled by BLDG BLOG.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

He calls it “tinschlager<\/a>” or something.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

More on Pfizer’s inhaled insulin disaster<\/a>. (It was such a can’t-miss, they bought out one marketing partner for $1.3 billion two years ago.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I leave you with an oldie (2004) but goodie: the MySpace Stupid Haircut Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Bonfire of the Vanity Fairs. * * * Apple: bad for design? * * * Why do American bazillionaires buy UK fooball clubs? * * * Anne Applebaum, Charles Krauthammer, and Ron Rosenbaum muse about the death of Boris Yeltsin (standard joke: I didn't even know\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1787,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-nov-23-2007","url_meta":{"origin":1695,"position":3},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Nov. 23, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"November 23, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time for some post-Thanksgiving links, dear readers! Happy Black Friday! Go buy me stuff! The NYTimes reviews its new building. * * * Good thing they didn't get Frank Gehry to design it! * * * I'm sad that my personal fave was nowhere near gaudy enough to win\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Architecture"","block_context":{"text":"Architecture","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/architecture"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1664,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-sep-14-2007","url_meta":{"origin":1695,"position":4},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Sep. 14, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"September 14, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy new year, my Jewish readers! Have a good Ramadan, my Muslim readers! I offer up links for all! Agent Zero on the Glove, and Relationships 101. * * * My college had the worst architecture I've ever seen on a campus. 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