{"id":1911,"date":"2008-02-22T06:05:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T11:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-feb-22-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-02-22T06:05:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T11:05:33","slug":"unrequired-reading-feb-22-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-feb-22-2008","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Feb. 22, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look who’s makin’ with the links, dear readers!<\/p>\n

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As a connoisseur of retail landscapes, I thought Daniel Gross made some good points about excess retail space<\/a>. Even if he tries to use some sparse anecdotal items about freegans.<\/p>\n

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The national drink of Brazil<\/a>? I’m gonna stay far away from that, thanks; one caipirinha knockout is quite enough for my life.<\/p>\n

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Hitchens on anti-semitism and Memoirs of an Anti-Semite<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

A sour old joke from prewar Germany has two elderly Jews sitting in a Berlin park, with one of them reading a Yiddish paper and the other one scanning the pages of Der St\u00c3\u00bcrmer. The latter Jew is laughing. This proves too much for the former Jew, who says: “It’s not enough you read that Nazi rag, but you find it funny?” “Look,” replies the other. “If I read your paper, what do I see? Jews deported, Jews assaulted, Jews insulted, Jewish property confiscated. But I read Der St\u00c3\u00bcrmer, and there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s finally some good news. It seems that we Jews own and control the whole world!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Nonist: in balance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Glass has become the new white brick<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Let’s get naked<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Look who’s makin’ with the links, dear readers!<\/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":[25,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-design"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-uP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":722,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/reading-material","url_meta":{"origin":1911,"position":0},"title":"Reading material","author":"Gil","date":"November 17, 2005","format":false,"excerpt":"Neat interview at BusinessWeek about innovative retail achitecture with New Retail author Raul Barraneche: [W]hat interests both the company and the architects involved is the fact that retail spaces are, by nature, building types that allow for innovation. 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