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RANDOM LINKS FOR 4/28/12

April 28th, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

joybra.com, via seattlepi.com

Dept. of Things You Never Knew You Needed: UW business students have designed a bra with a pocket for an iPhone.
Seattle’s (the nation’s? the world’s?) longest running serialized stage play, the Asian American-centricÂ Sex in Seattle series, ends after 12 years with episode 20, opening this weekend.
Amazon’s quarterly profits are 35 percent lower than a year ago. To Wall Street, that’s seen as good news somehow.
The Sacramento Kings’ arena deal is apparently dead. The team might or might not be put up for sale any week now. Seattle has a wannabe majority owner, a perfectly functional arena, and the land and initial plans for a new arena.
Vancouver punk legendÂ Joey “Shithead” Kiethley sez he’ll run next year for a seat in B.C.’s provincial legislature. He’s done this twice before, on Green Party tickets. But this time he’ll run on the ticket of the New Democrats (Canada’s official national “opposition” party). He’s putting into practice his old motto, “Talk – Action = Zero.”
Gay Divorcee Dept.: A B.C. judge has ruled that a split-up lesbian couple has to split their jointly owned sperm-bank deposit.
Are outspoken homophobes really gay but suppressing it? All I know is for me, other men’s bodies are like eggplant casseroles. I don’t wanna eat ’em but I don’t mind if you do.
Will the Arab world need a full-scale “cultural revolution” before women have rights there?
Nutella: not as “healthy” as some consumers apparently thought.
The story about Egypt legalizing sex between widowers and their dead wives? A complete hoax.
In an interview promoting her new film Hysteria (about the first electric sex tools for women and the “medical” excuses advertised for them), Maggie Gyllenhaal talks about why there are so few emotionally powerful sex scenes in U.S. movies. My theory: Most sex scenes in mainstream films are escapist in nature. Many serve as breaks from the plot, like the songs in many musicals. These include scenes choreographed to emphasize the woman’s responses. To use such a scene to reveal a character’s personality, emotions, and vulnerabilities, to show a female character with her sense of public decorum stripped away, is a rare feat.
Did Romney only tell 10 major lies last week?