{"id":1940,"date":"2008-03-07T06:41:37","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T11:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-mar-7-2008\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T09:21:19","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T13:21:19","slug":"unrequired-reading-mar-7-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-mar-7-2008","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Mar. 7, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry about the lack of posts yesterday, dear readers! I was busy (more on that this weekend) and figured you got four<\/em> decent posts on Wednesday, so get offa my ass, okay!?<\/p>\n

I shouldn’t have snapped at you like that. Here’s an extra-fantastic selection of week-ending links! Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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Surprisingly, NJ is only the third worst-governed state<\/a>!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I tried talking my boss into replacing our Flavia heated-brown-fluid-emitter with this $11,000 coffee machine<\/a>, but he shot me down.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

“To Hamas, from the Residents of Ashkelon”<\/a><\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

There used to be 2.4 rules to understanding Canadians; now there are three<\/a>. (Lousy weak dollar, muttergrumble . . .)<\/em><\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Action Park: a NJ institution for training people in careers as crash-test dummies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Witold Rybczynski wonders how we build libraries in the Google Era<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

“Not like this,”<\/a> replies Donald Pittenger.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I can never identify Sam Rockwell<\/a> when I see him in a movie. He almost always does a great job, but it’s like he gets a full face\/body modification before each flick. Maybe this interview <\/a>will help me out.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

The funniest story I’ve seen in a while: accusing Ikea of “Swedish imperialism.”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry about the lack of posts yesterday, dear readers! I was busy (more on that this weekend) and figured you got four decent posts on Wednesday, so get offa my ass, okay!? I shouldn’t have snapped at you like that. Here’s an extra-fantastic selection of week-ending links! 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":[25,17,20,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architecture","category-politics-explicit","category-religion","category-urban-issues"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-vi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":969,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/its-a-carnival","url_meta":{"origin":1940,"position":0},"title":"It’s a carnival!","author":"Gil","date":"May 28, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"This week's Carnival of NJ Bloggers is up! 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