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RANDOM LINKS FOR 8/31/13

August 31st, 2013 by Clark Humphrey

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Turns out there’s a word for these massive fan-made visual displays at soccer matches. The word is “tifo.”
The NY Times notes that Amazon hasn’t asked for a dime in extra tax breaks for its big Seattle development schemes.
Meanwhile, could Amazon start its own wireless cell-phone network?
Even the rarified realm of Seattle sushi, there are problematic “bigot diners.”
After almost 50 years, the Francine Seders Gallery in Phinney Ridge closes this December.
After 22 years, the radio station known as “The Mountain” is leaving the air, sort of. An Internet feed and a digital sub-channel will continue the format (but will they have live DJs?).
The UW experiment in “mind control” won’t immediately lead to anything useful, like helping disabled people regain control of their limbs or anything.
“Celebrity architects” don’t always design monumental, scenery-dominating houses in the countryside for fat cat clients. Sometimes they do it for themselves.
In keeping with my occasional claims that we’re entering a long attention span generation, the Guardian claims that big epic novels “are back.”
It’s not just McDonald’s workers who are getting screwed over. Franchise operators allege the company’s been overcharging them with rent and fees.
Coca-Cola’s marketing a stevia-sweetened “Coca-Cola Life” drink, with vague claims of “healthiness,” but only in Argentina.
Could the building blocks of life on Earth have come here from Mars?
It turns out that Larry Summers, the onetime Harvard president who may be nominated to head the Federal Reserve, was involved in the World Trade Organization and its 1999 efforts to force big financial deregulation upon all its member countries. (You may remember a little protest when the outfit had its convention here.)