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RANDOM LINKS FOR 10/4 (GOOD BUDDY!) /11
October 3rd, 2011 by Clark Humphrey

satirical ad by leah l. burton, godsownparty.com

  • To CNN, it’s apparently news that conservative preachers denounce gay marriage and birth control, but can’t get themselves to preach against greed.
  • Filmmakers are getting ideas from the oddest sources these days. A feature’s being shot in Seattle, based on a classified ad. (A joke classified ad, to be more precise.)
  • A bigger North Cascades National Park: why not?
  • Highway 520 construction crews have taken down the trees that let wealthy Eastside households imagine they were in “the country,” not next to the freeway they were actually next to.
  • Whatever happened to Seattle’s neighborhood activists?
  • Seattle, now with one-third more transit users per capita than Portland.
  • Local scifi author Neal Stephenson asks whatever happened to America’s (and Seattle’s) hope for the future. His answer: an obsession with “certainty” at the expense of daring.
  • In the online music world, Seattle-based Rhapsody has bought the subscription rosters and other assets of Napster. In other news, Napster still existed as of last week.
  • It’s official. The Kress Building on Third Avenue will hold a J.C. Penney store. But they’d better let the Kress IGA supermarket stay on the lower level.
  • Our ol’ pal Ronald Holden sings the praises of a better industrial food thickener.
  • The head of the U.N.’s World Intellectual Property Organization predicts print newspapers will disappear in the U.S. by 2017. In other lands, they could last as long as 2040. Believe it or don’t.
  • One mainstream media outlet has finally found a way to cover Occupy Wall Street—as “New York’s newest tourist attraction.”
  • The Koch Brothers are secretive, wealthy backers of all sorts of anti-democracy and anti-middle class projects on the federal and state levels. Now we learn they’ve made part of their fortune through illegal, secret chemical sales to Iran. Whooda thunkit?
  • And, though I’ve not been following this at all, there apparently was a verdict in a legal appeal out in Europe somewhere.

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