UPDATE #1: My ol’ pal Susan Rathke’s second and final Jeopardy! episode appeared tonight. Though she was felled by a particularly tuff “Final Jeopardy” question, she still left with $23,000 and a cool overseas vacation trip (not to mention an NY Times subscription and a copy of the home game). Way to go!

UPDATE #2: A Calif. entrepreneur is trying to relaunch Luxuria Music, the Internet radio station that played an amazing blend of lounge, exotica, swing, and related music prior to its April demise at the hands of radio mega-chain Clear Channel Commuications. You can read more about the scheme at his site, Luxuriamusic.net.

PARTYING LIKE IT’S 1999: The Seattle WTO protests of two years ago were already a nostalgia topic six months later. They were remembered in a series of events today. The one I went to (at Westlake Center) and the one attended by one of our MISC informants (at Seattle Central C.C.) were dull, pallid affairs. Each had no more than a couple hundred anarcho-hippies and aging punk rockers singing songs, chanting chants, and otherwise giving rote by-the-numbers “radical” stances.

Before today, we’d wondered aloud how the anti-globalization movement would respond after the terror attacks of Sept. (which were centered at a symbol of globalization that even had “World Trade” in its very name). The answer, at least as far as today’s events went: Quite lacklusterly. The two outdoor commemorations attracted few beyond the hardcore far-left kids (and even among them, the Mumia and Revolutionary Communist cliques didn’t have much of a presence).

A good case against global corporate power-grabbing can still be made. It is possible to despise what the skyjackers did and still seek a more fair, more just world, a world in which the needs of the people and the earth would be given more importance than the Almighty Stock Price. But such a stance would now require more subtlety, more tact, and more intelligence than the more one-dimensional parts of the anti-WTO shtick could’ve accommodated.