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RANDOM LINKS FOR 1/9/14

January 8th, 2014 by Clark Humphrey

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DVD sales may be collapsing in the Age of Streaming, but cheap knockoff imitations of famous animated features keep showing up.
Has the City of Seattle finally found an effective legal weapon against notorious U District/Roosevelt slumlord Hugh Sisley?
The fallout of the Boeing Machinists’ vote is just going to get messier. And it’ll set lousy precedents all around.
Noah Smith at the Atlantic believes the years have proven the Seattle WTO protesters were right.
An especially gruesome local child-abuse scandal has made the UK tabloids.
No Country for Old Men novelist Cormac McCarthy’s ex wife was found arguing with her current boyfriend about UFOs, when she “gave birth” to a concealed gun.
Pundit Edgeny Morozov sees the brouhaha over Edward Snowden’s high-tech-snooping allegations not for what they say about modern governments but for what they say about modern business.
Fewer people are smoking (as a proportion of the world’s population). But more people are smoking (counting raw numbers).
Sir Run Run Shaw, 1907-2014: The king of Hong Kong commercial cinema essentially created the martial-arts action genre. The Shaw Brothers studio originally intended it as escapist entertainment for the international Chinese diaspora across the Pacific Rim. But many of these films, by Shaw’s and other studios, became a cinematic trope of global appeal. (Seattle’s own Bruce Lee worked for the Shaws’ archrivals Golden Harvest.) Raise a toast to the man while watching possibly the greatest studio-logo sequence in film history.