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RANDOM LINKS FOR 10/17/12

October 17th, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

via interestingengineering.com

Circa 1833, one W.D. Kellogg published a lithograph entitled A Map of the Open Country of Womanâ€™s Heart. It goes, as the hereby-linked article states, “from the mole traps in the Province of Deception, to the city of Moi-meme in the Land of Selfishness, to the Plains of Susceptibility in the Region of Sentimentality.” There’s no Aorta of Righteous Disgust, though. Speaking of whichâ€¦.
Yep, it’s the meme of the day: “Binders Full of Women.”
You’ve heard of wanted criminals (and debtors) getting caught via phony contests and giveaways. But a chewing-gum survey?
The debut of Microsoft’s “Surface” tablet computer mark’s the company’s biggest effort yet to take control of its own destiny, away from the desktop/laptop PC makers. However, it doesn’t mean they’re actually making the things themselves. Speaking of whichâ€¦.
A Shanghai newspaper got a guy in to work as a Foxconn factory laborer. As it happened, he got onto the iPhone 5 assembly lines. Note: Most consumer electronics products today, no matter the brand, are made under similar conditions.
Paul Buchheit at AlterNet lists “Five Ways Corporate Greed Is Bankrupting America.”
The latest company to be bled to the point of death under Bain Capital (which Mitt Romney’s “officially” not part of anymore): Clear Channel, the owner of too many hundreds of radio stations and employer and/or syndicator of most of the worst right-wing talkers.
A class action lawsuit accuses Morgan Stanley of deliberately targeting Af-Am households for junk mortgages, believing them to be less knowledgable or to have less access to legal recourse.
An ex-American Apparel store clerk talks low pay, long hours, and being expected to laugh at non-skinny women.
Today’s teenage scare story is brought to you by vodka-soaked tampons.
The Arizona National Guard and its recruiters hunted homeless people in Phoenix with paint guns, and bribed/pressured some of them (and some of their own female members) to show their tits.
A guy puts a song up on the digital music services. Some other guy “samples” the entire track, dubs a few bird-chirping sound effects onto it, puts it up on the same digital music services, and way outsells the original. The maker of the original gets perturbed.
The ever-vigilant xkcd reminds you that every Presidential election has set one precedent or another (some more trivial than others).