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RANDOM LINKS FOR 11/29/12

November 29th, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

spoon-tamago.com via buzzfeed.com

Newest fun invention from Japan: the “3D photo booth.” Stand very still for 15 minutes, and a few days later a figurine that looks like you shows up in the mail.
Wash. state is Number One! As, er, a “net importer of out-of-state parolees.”
Question: “Is Amazon.com Taking Over the World?” Answer: No. Only the world’s potential profit centers.
The remaining Tully’s coffee houses may have a buyer.
Did the Bellevue City Council not really know that light rail tracks have to have a rail yard (train car parking lot) with them?
Gender-neutral marriage licenses are on the way. Will they show up in time for the first rush of gay nuptials?
Walden Three, Greg Lundgren’s ambitious attempt to set up a multimedia arts center in the old Lusty Lady building (and to partly pay for it all as a years-long “documentary film shoot”), now has a blog. In it, Lundgren spins completely fictional stories about fabulous exhibits and shows that would be occurring there if it were operating now.
The Illinois company calling itself Boeing is still stonewalling in talks with the engineers’ union.
After 11 years, the final edition of KING-TV’s Up Front With Robert Mak airs this Sunday. It’s ending for no good reason. A studio interview show doesn’t cost that much to make, particularly if any good bits can be reused on your regular newscasts.
Yes, the Florida Republicans really were trying to stop people in Dem-leaning districts from voting.
Speaking of state-level GOPpers, they’re now in full control of 24 state houses. Expect more Wisconsin-like extremist legislation and dirty tricks, just on the other side of the holidays (if not sooner).
I still meet left wingers who imagine that in some utopian pre-television age, all newspapers were local mini versions of the NY Times, noble progressive institutions exposing social ills. In real life, even the NY Times mostly wasn’t like that. A lot of them were pugnacious right-wing rags that supported, or even contributed to, climates of fear and hate. Case in point: The Hollywood Reporter. The venerable showbiz trade paper recently ran a big essay describing, and apologizing for, its role in promoting the 1950s “blacklist” against film people even suspected of “communist” beliefs.
The “Black Friday boycott” at Walmart stores, thankfully, turned out to be more than just self-serving online rants by lefties who never go there anyway. There were actual pickets and other actions at the stores, in favor of fairer labor practices.Â And now,Â fast food workers in NYC are also demanding a living wage.
Something lost in all the copyright-police suppression drives against “file sharing”: the “obscure music” blogs, which unearthed and shared long-out-of-print LPs, 45s, and 78s in all kinds of non-hit categories.
Larry Hagman, 1931-2012: The Dallas/I Dream of Jeannie star was as kind hearted and generous off screen as he could be villainous on screen. I once got to know his daughter Kristina, a local painter who had a space in the old 619 Western building. She is also a kind and generous soul.

http://kuow.org/post/washington-leads-nation-net-importer-out-state-parolees