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RANDOM LINKS FOR 9/23/11

September 22nd, 2011 by Clark Humphrey

nordstrom photo, via shine.yahoo.com

Those $85 Starbucks designer tees? All net proceeds go to Starbucks. One more reason Howard Schultz is in the Forbes 400 richest-people list.
A Starbucks employee in Calif. posted a satirical song about his job onto YouTube. The song became popular; he became fired.
After 18 years, the homey and low-key Rosebud restaurant/bar on East Pike is calling it quits. The management (which just bought the place from its previous longtime owners) homes to reopen nearby.
Facebook’s got this big new feature that looks a lot like something already devised by a Seattle startup site.
The Real Networks spinoff Rhapsody, a subscription online music service, has some sort of free trial thing going on via Facebook.
Washington state: Now with even more poverty.
You want across-the-board cuts in all state spending? Fine. Welcome some new early-release inmates, who won’t get the supervision past parolees got.
Swedish Medical Center to lay off 150 staffers. So much for the aging-boomer-era medical boom.
The on-again, off-again scheme to drastically redevelop the parking lot north of Qwest CenturyLink Field is on again. For now.
An unfinished Kent parking garage will be razed and replaced by homes and stores.
Tacoma teachers’ strike: over.
Obama’s coming to town. You won’t get to see him.
The always-lucid Feliks Banel sees the retirement of J.P. Patches in the context of the institutional decline of local TV (particularly local non-news TV).
The “Occupy Wall Street” folk have finally proclaimed “our one demand”—11 of them, all big-big-picture stuff, essentially adding up to the complete re-orientation of the nation’s government, economy, and society.
‘Tis a sad, sad day for all who care about tradition, long-form storytelling, and frequently-remarried drama queens. The final network episode of All My Children airs today.
On a much happier note, you can become part of a new tradition tomorrow, the tradition of the ped-powered urbanites.