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RANDOM LINKS FOR 8/10/11

August 9th, 2011 by Clark Humphrey

Our ol’ pal Wendi Dunlap has scanned and posted the first two issues of her vital ’80s Seattle pop-rock zine Yeah! Great work, then and now.
Amy Rolph has an online slideshow of 15Â iconic Seattle fashion statements. Not included: “Skinny white boy with exposed boxer shorts.”
Our own U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, who conveniently doesn’t run for re-election in ’12, was named one of the Dems on the deficit-cuttin’ “super congress.” Also named: John Kerry and frequent DINO (Democrat In Name Only) Max Baucus (drat).
For the third consecutive year, all Seattle Public Library branches will be closed for a week later this month, with all staff on unpaid leave.
Seattle Weekly has struck back at Mayor McGinn with all the editorial influence and rhetorical force it’s got these days.
Now showing on the Seattle waterfront, the “world’s fastest sailing ship.” It’s Russian and it’s really big.
Amazon UK: Profiting from the UK street riots as a seller of baseball bats and other “weapons”?
Anybody shedding a tear for the fiscally ill Bank of America? No?
Apple was, for a brief time Tuesday, America’s biggest company. If you measure the size of a company by the Almighty Stock Price. Which I don’t.
The big recall in Wisconsin seems to have fallen one seat short of ending Republican control of that state’s senate. As one might have predicted, it all came down to the county with the GOP elections boss already known for questionable integrity and/or competence.