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RANDOM LINKS FOR 6/23/11

June 23rd, 2011 by Clark Humphrey

Somebody’s buyingÂ PopCap Games, the Seattle maker of utterly cute video games, for a cool billion. But who? If, as rumor has it, the buyer is gaming giant Electronic Arts, what will happen to the PopCap office and staff?
Somebody at Huffington Post has compiled a list of 10 brands expected to die by 2012. American Apparel. Nokia. A&W restaurants (at least in the US). Even Sears. (No, not Sears!)
Fareed Zakaria at Time looks back wistfully to a past when conservatives at least pretended to be pragmatic, even “reality based.”