Archive for the ‘News’ Category
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008
Seattle Police stated the robbery happened around 10:10 a.m. at a Wells Fargo Bank in the 2300 block of California Avenue in West Seattle.
The FBI says one man wearing a black dress and a wig and carrying a gun jumped the counter. He took off to a waiting gold SUV ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
It was a run of synchronicity today as I filled up the tank of my car with more than $60 of gasoline. I got back into my car, twittered my mileage information to FuelFrog and listened to a brief story from the Associated Press on NPR about a trend ...
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
For the last week or so, I have seen banners on Interstate-5 overpasses reading "No Peace. No Work. May Day." I'm not sure if Seattle is tight in the grips of Big Peace--or if the ILWU holds particular sway here in the Emerald City--but driving into the city today was ...
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Sunday, March 18th, 2007
Dan Savage has a scathing response for Garrison Keillor’s piece on marriage and family --a thinly veiled attack on same-sex marriage--over at Salon.
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Wednesday, March 14th, 2007
Seattle voted strongly against a tunnel option to replace the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct in a whopping 70%-30% split. Not a bad decision considering the tunnel would have been dug in loose soil, near water and in an earthquake zone.
It really is not a pretty sight, and it does decrease ...
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Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Do you rack up miles flying around all year? If you've accumulated 2,000,000 miles on Virgin Airlines, you could exchange your miles for space flight when Virgin Galactic makes its maiden voyage in 2009. To put that in perspective, that would be the equivalent of 125 round trip flights ...
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Monday, April 11th, 2005
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/h...fic/4419993.stm
Due to a land shortage, Hong Kong is looking for different solutions that will permit them to store the growing number of ashes of cremated people. The Hong Kong government is considering high-rise mourning and remembrance structures for this purpose.
In order to ensure that people have a proper ...
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Saturday, April 9th, 2005
Over at Scobleizer, Robert points out something I found very interesting.
He compared Google Map's image of 1 Microsoft Way to that of TerraServer. At first glance, it looks like TerraServer's image is clearer and has less distortion. Indeed, TerraServer hands down serves up the better image of ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2005
http://www.nytimes.com/20...&partner=rssnyt
In documents made public on Wednesday, health regulators estimated that up to 93 percent of silicone breast implants ruptured within 10 years. The surprisingly high figure will further roil a debate next week about whether to lift the 13-year-old ban on silicone implants for breast enhancement. Yet, as I always ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2005
http://www.google.com/googlegulp
Google has announced the "Google Gulp (BETA) with Auto-Drink" (LIMITED RELEASE), a line of "smart drinks" designed to maximize your surfing efficiency by making you more intelligent, and less thirsty.
Think fruity. Think refreshing. Think a DNA scanner embedded in the lip of your bottle reading all 3 gigabytes of ...
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