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RANDOM LINKS FOR 5/17/12
May 16th, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

zgf architects via seattle times

  • If you’re gonna build a condo tower that’s utterly, totally out of scale with the historic district immediately adjacent to it, it might as well be a real PoMo monolith.
  • UW researchers say they may be able to prove the existence of “gaydar.”
  • With a little over two weeks to go before the state liquor stores go away forever, some of the auction sales of the outlets fell through. Eighteen stores will be re-bid.
  • Now we know why they call it Bitter Lake. It’s had raw sewage flowing into it for at least a decade.
  • The dream is over: Dennis Kucinich won’t run for Congress from Wash. state.
  • Amazon’s first non-Bezos-family investor gave a hot speech about income inequality in America, and how rich folks like himself really just aren’t “job creators.” (It was given at a TED conference, but isn’t one of the videos posted on that organization’s site. But you can read it; which I prefer doing anyway.) (And to be fair, here’s a different economic-inequality speech that was posted on TED’s site.)
  • Is this the beginning of the end for soft drink sales in America? If the fizz really does die out, remember: Those who forget New Coke are doomed to repeat it.

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