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RANDOM LINKS FOR 6/7/12

June 6th, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

Missed the transit of Venus? Fret not! You can still catch The Myrtle of Venus!
The lovely graphic at the left of this site’s “sidebar” column, inviting donations for the Cafe Racer shooting victims, was done by our ol’ pal Nick Vroman, an ex-Seattleite now in Japan. He’s also got a lovely site reviewing Japanese cult films.
With the arrival of Wednesday cameÂ The Stranger’s package of Cafe Racer shooting and mourning articles.
Joel Connelly calls the “war on drugs” America’s “second lost war of the half century.”
Contemporary art, product logos, graphic design, even web page designâ€”all these fields and more are frequently invaded by rank copycats, whose thievery can be caught red-handed at the site You Thought We Wouldn’t Notice.
Health Scare O’ the Week: the allegedly imminent arrival of drug-resistant gonorrhea.
The next frontier in confronting idiot misogyny: Multiplayer gaming.
Cell phone users are using their cell phones as phones a lot less. Companies plan to respond by raising rates. Huh?
Our heroine Amanda Palmer wanted to raise $100,000 from a Kickstarter campaign, to release and promote her next record. She ended up raking in a cool million.
Social-economy guru Richard Florida offers up some theories behind the revival of downtown retail around the country.