{"id":2106,"date":"2008-06-20T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2008-06-19T20:53:20","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T00:53:20","slug":"unrequired-reading-june-20-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-june-20-2008","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: June 20, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s get linkical!<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Is there some reason you’re not regularly checking out The Nonist<\/a> (and his new Nonist Annex<\/a>)? Because this post<\/a> should be enough to sway you.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I bought Arcimboldo<\/a> drink-coasters during my first trip to the Louvre.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

A SimCity energy plan<\/a> will surely lead to catastrophe. Or at least Monster Attack.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

William Gibson’s a smart guy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I meant to write about this<\/a> and this<\/a> a while ago, but got sidetracked by, um, whatever.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Sounds like George Will isn’t thrilled<\/a> with the prospect of a McCain presidency.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Embarrassingly, I don’t find the level of swag at the BIO show<\/a> to be too over-the-top. But you’d think people with a background in microbiology wouldn’t try on the same pair of Crocs as 800 other people just for a giveaway of a $4 pair of sandals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s get linkical!<\/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":[22,4,17],"tags":[203,204],"class_list":["post-2106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-literature","category-politics-explicit","tag-arcimboldo","tag-william-gibson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-xY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2220,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/this-is-getting-ridiculous","url_meta":{"origin":2106,"position":0},"title":"This is getting ridiculous","author":"Gil","date":"August 7, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, the NY Sun (Official Newspaper of Gil Roth) managed to put out more articles of interest to me than any other paper would in a month: Revising our views on Arcimboldo in light of the Allegorical Head of the Four Seasons Revising our views on neoconservatism via World Affairs\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":2113,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-june-27-2008","url_meta":{"origin":2106,"position":1},"title":"Unrequired Reading: June 27, 2008","author":"Gil","date":"June 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"You want links? 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