{"id":4541,"date":"2009-10-16T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2009-10-16T06:42:51","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T10:42:51","slug":"unrequired-reading-oct-16-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-oct-16-2009","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: Oct. 16, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s snowing in mid-October! Up is down! Black is white! Links are here! Just click “more”!<\/p>\n

Self-sabotaging Higgs bosons of the future<\/a>! (This was a much more interesting time-travel premise than the final issue of Planetary<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Regretsy<\/a>: the worst of Etsy!<\/p>\n

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NOPD<\/a> = Not Our Problem, Dude<\/p>\n

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Best. Gift. Ever<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ah, it’s not like anything happens in New Jersey<\/a>, anyway. (Just kidding; we’re doomed.)<\/p>\n

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Ellis Island today<\/a>: “We know what life after the apocalypse will look like.”<\/p>\n

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It’s like the basement of the Alamo<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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As sick as I’ve been the past few weeks, I’ve been very happy not to have swine flu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here are a couple of encomia (Wired<\/a> and PopMatters<\/a>) to Stop Making Sense,<\/em> the greatest concert movie ever, in honor of its 25th anniversary and Blu-Ray release.<\/p>\n

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In closing, here’s a neat essay by Tyler Cowen about the merits of our short attention span world<\/a>. I could make a joke about not having time to finish it, but I actually stuck with it to the end. Although I did check my e-mail twice while reading it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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