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RANDOM LINKS FOR 5/23/13

May 23rd, 2013 by Clark Humphrey

'every driver every time it ever rains ever'

I’m still trying to decide how I feel about When You Live In Seattle, a site of original GIF-animation “memes.”
What follows the XBox 360? “XBox One.” This is not to be considered a comment on the gaming platform’s market share.
Our ol’ pal Sean Nelson’s got his first solo CD out at long last. And, as you can here at the hereby-linked stream, it’s very much worth the wait.
May Day protesters say they’re not spoiled children of privilege having a lark, but people with serious grievances against the government, particularly an increasingly militarized police.
Amazon’s letting people sell fan-fiction ebooks for money on the Kindle platform. Just as long as the fan fictions take place in the “universes” for which Amazon’s got official licenses. And they can’t have any porn in ’em.
In a rare victory for neighborhoods and small businesses, lower Queen Anne’s Tup Tim Thai restaurant won’t be rent-hiked out of existence after all.
Threats against reproductive rights aren’t just for red states anymore.
Pot: Good for pigs, bad for dogs?
Apple has not “cheated” on its federal taxes. It simply took advantage of every legal tax dodge its lawyers could discover (or advocate for), just like so many other corporate titans.
Despite what you might have read on inflammatory websites, PBS did not “kill” a documentary critical of the Koch brothers, the billionaire backers of many extreme-right-wing political endeavors (and of some major PBS affiliate stations). It was ITVS, a separate nonprofit program supplier, that declined to include Citizen Koch among the indie films it packages to the PBS network feed and to local public-TV stations. Citizen Koch still exists, and is still playing the festival circuit.
Actually, there are real reasons why the IRS should investigate the Kochs’ “Tea Party Patriots” and similar nonpartisan-in-name-only outfits.
When the Executive Branch started stalking Fox News and the AP (allegedly for those outfits’ investigations of CIA documents about North Korea), was it just a continuation of the sort of tactics played against WikiLeaks?
Google bossÂ Larry Page has a plan to fix what’s wrong with the worldâ€”more anti-government, corporate Libertarianism. Exactly the direction that got the world into these (economic, ecological) messes.
Australian writer Elmo Keep believes free and cheapÂ downloads are killing just about all professional media/arts endeavors.
Henry Grabar at the Atlantic calls theÂ anti-flouridation movement (recently victorious in Portland and several other cities) “history’s weirdest alliance of paranoiacs.”
Meanwhile,Â NY Times essayist Maggie Koerth-Baker claims to know “why rational people buy into conspiracy theories.” Or so the Germans would have you believeâ€¦.
A famous author’s Wikipedia page got “edit trolled” by a rival author.
In the countdown toward Arrested Development’s revival on Netflix streaming, NPR.org’s got a thorough chart chronicling the recurrence of more than 150 running gags through the original series.
Some guy on YouTube edited together Hamlet quotations and references from 198 different movies and TV shows. Not included: Chewbacca’s “Alas, poor Yorick” pantomime with C3PO’s temporarily disconnected head.
Yes, at one time people really wrote by hand, and did it this well. It took a lot of intense practice.

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