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--Are we dense yet? The Sightline Institute's Eric de Place has realized that more than half of the people that live in Seattle don't live in traditional house-and-yard setups.
--ESPN's Jim Caple has a message for Ichiro, unfortunately, he wrote it in English.
--Bill Nye, the Science Guy on Dice-K and the gyroball ...who knew he was such a big baseball fan? Via Baseball Musings
--Here's Huan Hsu of the Weekly's Real Change piece. It meanders in search of a point, and never finds one. A classic "we wrote the headline and then wrote the piece" piece.
--Here's a much better piece by Huan Hsu, he zipped around Key Arena last night, asking Yao Ming jersey wearers why why Yao Ming's jersey isn't the top-seller in China. Interesting, funny, enlightening. Sadly, print readers won't see it.