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RANDOM LINKS FOR 2/7/12

February 6th, 2012 by Clark Humphrey

shadow planet productions

A Fremont video-game studio has won aÂ national animation award for its Xbox gameÂ “Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet.”
Hoop-la dept.: Seattle Weekly believes the current hype over bringing men’s pro basketball back to town could potentially save Mayor McGinn’s political career.
Central Cinema says it can’t survive sans booze.
Intiman Theatre says it will rise again this summer.
Facebook regularly deletes photos of nudity, even if they depict breastfeeding. Local moms went to the company’s Seattle programming branch-office with a “nurse-in.”
Pioneer Seattle photographer Asahel Curtis (brother of the even more famous Edward Curtis) wasn’t just a great shutterbug. He was also a master at the art of hand-coloring his pictures.
Sound Transit believes spending $24 million on blueprints for light rail to Federal Way could help grab Federal bucks to actually build the thing.
In a new ad pitch, Microsoft says its online apps and tools are more privacy-friendly than Google’s.
It’s worth saying again, those six words that usually define a bad movie: “Set in Seattle, Filmed in Vancouver.”
Brock Howell has a simple catch phrase for the kind of communities we need to develop and support: “Coffee shop neighborhoods.”
Keep on truckin’ strikin’. Local short-haul truck drivers are often immigrants, and are often treated as overworked, underpaid, benefits-deprived “contractors.” They’re taking action for a better deal.
Univision and Disney are said to be planning a cable news channel for English-speaking Latinos. I presume that means no political analysis from Sabado Gigante‘s “Chacal de la Trompeta.”

One Response

Art Marriott writes:
February 8th, 201212:16 pmat

Perhaps the line to Federal Way can be funded with some of the money sent back to Uncle Fed by “roads-or-nothing” governors in other states. This, of course, would assume we don’t wind up with Rob McKenna taking Christine Gregoire’s place next year.