{"id":4467,"date":"2009-09-18T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4467"},"modified":"2009-09-17T19:47:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T23:47:06","slug":"unrequired-reading-sept-18-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-sept-18-2009","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Sept. 18, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shana Tova! Happy New Year Links! Just click “more”!<\/p>\n

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Double down<\/a> and throw up!<\/p>\n

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INTERNAL DECAPITATION?!<\/a> And he recovered enough in less than 5 months to throw out the opening pitch at an Angels game? Go, Jon Wilhite!<\/p>\n

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Neil Patrick Harris: OMNIMAN!<\/a><\/p>\n

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Chris De Burgh is not taking your shit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Even though Federer was beaten in the finals by an unfrozen caveman who eschewed his racket for a club, I still dig The Fed Foot Way<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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They had bookstores in 1945<\/a>?<\/p>\n

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You’re stepping on my line<\/a>! (which we both stole from The Clash, but hey)<\/p>\n

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“This oblique and shifting cathode mosaic uncovers the blueprint for an era of new sensations and possibilities. An era of the conceivable made concrete, and of the casually miraculous<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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At my day job, I occasionally get irate when a contributing writer concludes that “communication is key” to successful outsourcing. Then I read more about Boeing’s disastrously mismanaged 787 project<\/a>, and I can only conclude that, yes, comnmunication is<\/em> key, and no, you shouldn’t<\/em> outsource project management.<\/p>\n

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It’s the end of The World<\/a> as we know it. And, in fact, I do feel fine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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