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1. Great, long article about Stephon Marbury's continuing adventures in China. Via.

2. Serious Eats: Passover Recipes We Love.

3. "Which HBO pilot has more nudity: True Blood or Game of Thrones?" A detailed analysis by io9.

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1. The WSJ:

When Rabbi Naftali Marrus does his spring cleaning, he doesn't use a mop. He rolls with the Inferno.

The Inferno is a three-and-a-half-foot-long propane torch Rabbi Marrus uses during the critical days before Passover to scour commercial kitchens catering to observant Jews and obliterate the smallest particles of bread and other leavened foods, which are forbidden during the holiday that commemorates the Jews' flight from Egypt.

Maybe next April's art contest should be designing a logo for the rabbi and his Inferno? Via.

2. Digital subscriptions are for suckers:

Apparently, if you're a Kindle owner with a magazine subscription, and you decide to stop subscribing, the back issues you previously downloaded are also lost—for good.

3. Songwriter/music producer/former American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi has a new book to promote, in which she says that she was "date-raped by a well-known music producer" and "sexually harassed by a 'hugely successful artist.'" The article doesn't mention whether she took any steps to protect other women from the men.

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1. The NY Daily News says, a woman won a settlement of $850 a month for life in alimony and "the couple's home by convincing a court three years ago that a 1997 car accident left her too injured to work." But her husband spotted photos she had posted about her daily belly dancing and turned them into the court. "Confronted with the damning evidence, [the woman] told the court she was prescribed belly dancing as treatment for her injuries - a statement her doctor contradicted on the stand."

2. The Awl imagines what the menu would be at Passover at Guy Fieri's House (for example, "Gefilte fish parmigiana jammers"). Via.

3. The Mortal Kombat 9 fatalities and Stage Fatalities stepped past amusingly violent and are more like short snuff films. But the babalities are very cute.

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1. This seems like a short story waiting to happen. Or maybe the start of the article is a short story all by itself:

In a small, windowless room in the bowels of the Westin St. Francis hotel on Union Square, Rob Holsen washes the hotel's money.

Every penny, nickel, dime and quarter.

Via.

2. The Chinese respect the Jews:

Last year’s Google Zeitgeist China rankings listed “why are Jews excellent?” in fourth place in the “why” questions category, just behind “why should I enter the party” and above “why should I get married?” (Google didn’t publish a "why" category in Mandarin this year.) And the apparent affection for Jewishness has led to a surprising trend in publishing over the last few years: books purporting to reveal the business secrets of the Talmud that capitalize on the widespread impression among Chinese that attributes of Judaism lead to success in the financial arts.

Via.

3. The Wall Street Journal's list of the best economics blogs.

Official Florida Panthers yarmulke

Tuesday, December 7, the Florida Panthers are giving away yarmulkes. Via these sites.

Oswald the unemployed rabbit (link roundup)

Oswald the Unluck Rabbit via these sites.

And a few more links:

1. Toy Story outtakes, perhaps.

2. Amsterdam's mayor has ordered the police to use "decoy Jews" in an effort to catch anti-Semitic attackers. Via.

3. Recipe for Toasted Marshmallow Shake. (!)

*Previously: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit desktop wallpaper.

*Buy Oswald the Lucky Rabbit toys at eBay.

International Federation of Shofar Makers (link roundup)

Made up Jewish union labels by Jewnion on sale here. Via.

And a few more links:

1. The founders of a high-performing charter school in the San Fernando Valley have been charged with embezzling $200,000.

2. The New York City teachers union has an office in Boca Raton, Florida.

3. A study indicates lots and lots of drinks marketed to kids contain lead.

*Previously: Jewish zodiac t-shirts.

*Buy Gustave Dore's illustrated Bible at Amazon.