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RANDOM LINKS FOR 9/20/12

September 19th, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

seattle chapter, american institute of architects via kplu.org

What to do with the soon-to-be former 520 floating bridge’s surplus pontoons? Several folks have ideas. One of them, above, is to build a walkway just below Lake Washington’s surface, for the ever-popular “walking on water” illusion.
Seattle’s own alt-country rising star Brandi Carlile has officially come out.
Fast Company seems to find it odd that Microsoft’s new hardware products have embraced a newly enriched design aesthetic without CEO Steve Ballmer being in hands-on charge of the initiative. A good boss knows when (and to whom) to delegate authority.
Amazon’s proposed three new towers won’t just be big, they’ll also be bold.
Earlier this year we mentioned how the Swedish Hospital system said it was losing loads of money. Similar news has now come from Group Health.
Private housing developers are getting tax breaks for building “affordable” housing units, without enough proof that they’re actually building ’em.
Meanwhile, City Councilmember Nick Licata wants you to know that more than of Seattle’s “renter” population, 20 percent spend more than half their income on rent.
Starbucks now has its own branded home espresso machine.
If there’s anybody with an apparent greater sense of L’etat, C’est Moi than Seattle police, it’s Bellevue police.
More first-birthday greetings to the Occupy movement: Bainbridge Island-basedÂ Yes! magazine uses aÂ tree graphic to show how the movement has “born fruit.”
Who wants to keep simple majorities in the Legislature from deciding revenue bills? Big business, of course. Like duh.
As of Wednesday evening, HuffPost’sÂ Electoral College map lists only one tossup state, North Carolina. Obama has taken leads (at least small ones) in all the other previously “swing” states.
Richard Eskow of the Campaign for America’s Future claims Romney’s “47 percent” speech reveals the combination of privilege, selfishness, and rage that defines “the radical rich.” (A certain megahome-building couple in Leschi might be considered among these.)
Those print-on-demand book machines are coming to lots more locations. But will the new models allow color interior pages, or be even halfway decent with photographs?
Jack Hitt atÂ The New Yorker has a hi-lariousÂ “Conservative History of the United States,” based entirely on wingnut politicians’ and pundits’ actual untrue statements.