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RANDOM LINKS FOR 7/16/13

July 15th, 2013 by Clark Humphrey

I’ll have my own comments about the big Sub Pop anniversary shindig in a bit. But here’s Charles Peterson’s definitive pic of the event.
The next local funky institution to fall victim to overdevelopment: the venerable downtown music club Noc Noc.
We already told you of the development scheme that would erase Wallingford’s beloved Chinese restaurant and dive bar Moon Temple. Now it turns out CVS, a pharmacy chain with little presence in this region heretofore, is anchoring the project. A petition has been started.
One of those Forbes.com “contributors” describes today’s Pearl Jam as a “mature lifestyle business.”
How do artists make it fiscally in today’s Seattle? With great difficulty.
The Pike Place Market’sÂ “gum wall” is bigger than it’s supposed to be.
At Microsoft today, “radical” reorganizations are almost as frequent as they used to be at Apple. (By the way, here’s what Jean-Louis GassÃ©e, who led Apple during some of that firm’s reorgs, had to say last year about MS’s callous way of picking people to fire.)
UW students are planting anti-human-trafficking messages with feminine napkins. The story doesn’t say how the students plan to get the products to the intended recipients.
Alaska Airlines doesn’t want the City of SeaTac to impose “living wage” requirements on airport-based workers.
Still need a tourist destination for the rest of this summer? Check out Pocatello ID’s “Museum of Clean.”
Some extremist nutjob tried to pass off footage of the 2011 Vancouver Canucks fan riot as if it were Miamians protesting the Zimmerman verdict, instead of depicting the peaceful, anti-violence protests here and elsewhere.
Mark Sumner at Daily Kos ponders whether humankind’s strive toward a greater future could just putter out.
Bob Moser at The American Prospect sees the south turning solidly progressive, but perhaps not for another decade.
Some YouTuber has edited all of Terry Gilliam’s animations from Monty Python’s Flying Circus together into four complilations.