{"id":2578,"date":"2008-10-03T05:00:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T09:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2578"},"modified":"2008-10-02T22:03:01","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T02:03:01","slug":"unrequired-reading-oct-3-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-oct-3-2008","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Oct. 3, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Are you ready for some linkage? I put in some hefty ones, to make up for last week’s hiatus (woop-woop-woop!). Also, because my brain was going to shut off if I listened to any more of the VP debate. Just click more!<\/p>\n

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Make your blog more like The Wire<\/a>! (Seriously, I think this is an awesome post. Hat tip to Subtraction<\/a>, who’s fittin’ to raise up and get his blog back on.)<\/p>\n

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“Alright, stop what you’re doin’, \/ ’cause I’m about to ruin \/ the image and the style that you’re used to<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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Sports Guy has an epic (like, 9,000-word) piece on Manny Ramirez’ trade from the Red Sox<\/a>. I think he uses footnotes as a tribute to David Foster Wallace. Or maybe its exorbitant length was the DFW tribute. Anyway, give it a read<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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No decongestant for you! A man has been convicted of a felony for having sniffles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Lots of good stuff on e-readers and the marketplace<\/a>, kourtesy Kassia Krozser.<\/p>\n

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Vote Dalek<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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Christians and Jews! Doing business together<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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The 50 things that every comics collection truly needs<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I finally agree with Nicolai Ouroussoff on something: let’s blow some buildings up<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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FDA: how can we generate worse PR . . . by hiring a PR firm<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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The internet gives voice to some odd projects. For example, finding and crossing every bridge in New York City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Speaking of New York, we end with Jay McInerney on the city, Yuppies and, of course, cocaine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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