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RANDOM LINKS FOR 10/3/11

October 2nd, 2011 by Clark Humphrey

linda thomas, kiro-fm

If only more real-world buildings could be more like the ones displayed at BrickCon, the gathering of Lego maniacs.
If you still measure companies by the Almighty Stock Price (and you really shouldn’t), the once mightyÂ IBM is bigger than Microsoft for the first time in 15 years.
An Internet photo of a Sharpie-penned list of bookstore employee pet peeves, supposedly from a now-closed Borders branch, has been going around lately.
So, apparently, has whooping cough.
The next big idea for Seattle bike lanesâ€”site them on side streets instead of major arterials.
Open Circle Theater has produced what it called “fantastical theater for a daring audience” since 1992. In recent years, it moved into the old Aha! Theater space on Second Avenue, bring live theater back to Belltown. Now, it’s apparently defunct. No word yet about the other troupes that have been sharing OCT’s Belltown space.
Danny Westneat claims that, despite the hype,Â Seattle Public Schools are actually pretty good these days.
State schools superintendent Randy Dorn is refusing to offer Gov. Gregoire a list of programs that could be sacrificed in the next round of budget cuts. Dorn claims to do so would violate the state constitution’s requirement for basic education support.
The “voter fraud epidemic” so loudly hyped by the right-wing media despite its complete nonexistence? KIRO-TV hyped it too. Even though the state gave the station the facts that negated the station’s claims.
The Occupy Wall Street protests continue. And they’ve now got a Seattle branch operation, which also continues.
Mark Sumner argues that the old Dutch tulip mania makes a better metaphor for the Wall Street speculation bubble than it did for the late-1990s dot-com bubble.
Despite what the religious right and its right-wing-media hucksters claim, America’s actually becoming a more secular nation.
Mike Dillon, who first got me doing the occasional essays I do for the Capitol Hill Times, has some nice things to say about my book Walking Seattle. Thanks.