{"id":2975,"date":"2008-12-05T05:00:14","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T09:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2975"},"modified":"2008-12-03T16:59:33","modified_gmt":"2008-12-03T20:59:33","slug":"unrequired-reading-dec-5-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-dec-5-2008","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Dec. 5, 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everybody’s working for the weekend! Now make with some links! Just click “more”!<\/p>\n

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Spam filters are like the Communist blacklists in the 1950s<\/a>? Around two years ago, a company once e-mailed me at my day job with an announcement about how they had helped Pfizer develop the active ingredient in Viagra as a heart medication (its original treatment target, before that certain side effect, um, popped up). I called them to tell them that I’d run the announcement in one of our news departments, solely because they put the word “Viagra” in the subject line of an e-mail and it actually sailed right through our spam filter. They told me it didn’t even occur to them when they sent the e-mail. This guy, on the other hand, sounds like a self-important jerk.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

More like Idiocracy<\/a> every day. . .<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Somebody bought this<\/a> for me off of my Amazon wish list<\/a>. Yay!<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

We were uninterested in Mad Men<\/a>, too. Especially because we tried watching it right after finishing The Wire<\/em>. (Oh, and Lt. Daniels is pissed<\/a> about the show’s lack of awards.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

“I got no time for the corner boys<\/a> \/ Down in the street making all that noise. . .”<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Go Geek Girls! I’m glad I coincidentally read this<\/a> and this<\/a> back-to-back last week.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

A Quantum of Wallace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Good thing Eloise got out when she did<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

One of Kyle Baker’s funniest comics involved a pair of people trying to escape New York, but unable to find a gas station for their car. I believe Manhattan is now down to three<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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