{"id":5366,"date":"2010-06-11T04:00:15","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T08:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2010-06-11T18:19:33","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T22:19:33","slug":"unrequired-reading-june-11-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-june-11-2010","title":{"rendered":"Unrequired Reading: June 11, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m back from Chicago (via Madison and Milwaukee)! Time for a load of Unrequired Reading, dear readers!<\/p>\n

Neat insight into the financial complexity that led Zappos to sell out to Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Stanley Fish on the importance of a classical education<\/a>. I always praise St. John’s College by explaining that it’s where I learned how to learn.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

That is one fine desk<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Can I use Snoop’s nail-gun<\/a>?<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Pinko City<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I cried a little when I read this post by Ta-Nehisi Coates<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

I think the BusinessWeek redesign makes it look like a technical manual<\/a>. (And occasionally like a knockoff of Monocle<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Finding Nighthawks: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, and 3<\/a> and coda<\/a>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Thoughts on <\/a>Hadji Murat<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

And let’s end with Stephen Fry on the experience of viewing art<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Apple is replacing the monitor and hinge\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5814,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-dec-24-2010","url_meta":{"origin":5366,"position":4},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Dec. 24, 2010","author":"Gil","date":"December 24, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"No Unrequired Reading for you this week, dear readers! I'm on vacation! I'll have an extra-special edition for you next week, to close out 2010! Okay, okay. Just to give you something, here's the 3-D Yule Log.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1286,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/unrequired-reading-jan-12-2007","url_meta":{"origin":5366,"position":5},"title":"Unrequired Reading: Jan. 12, 2007","author":"Gil","date":"January 12, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"It's time for some post-birthday Unrequired Reading, dear unrequired readers! Christopher Hitchens \"reviews\" Ann Coulter. * * * Idiocracy is out on DVD. * * * An even-handed take on the mystery of how much oil is really remaining in the earth. * * * The zen of Jimmy Buffett.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Politics (explicit)"","block_context":{"text":"Politics (explicit)","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/politics-explicit"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5374,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions\/5374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}