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It would be tempting to discount Icke as a harmless crackpot, but he’s moved aggressively to cultivate an audience in the American extreme right.
Gothamist found out that the same fish has been residing in a Queens pet store's fish tank for the past 41 years. Also, his name is Buttkiss.
The Seattle Times reported that minority group leaders called both McGinn and Joe Mallahan "strangers," and not in the Balki-Bartakamos wacky roommate way.
James Longley, documentarian, and local poet Heather McHugh, are the recipients of two of the MacArthur Foundation 2009 Fellows Program grants.
- DCist was recovering from having their city be overrun with 9/12 & tea party protesters last weekend.
- SFist did what San Fransicans love best: navel gazing. This week they reflected on the size and scope of the city via a David Bryne quote.
If you’re the sort of person who looks at a parking space and thinks "That’s nice…but what would be really great would be a miniature park in that space," today is your day of days. Today is Park(ing) Day--over 30 parking spaces in Seattle will be converted into temporary parks for the day.
Mike McGinn got the smackdown from local blogs. Is confidence in the candidate waning, or is the guy just having a bad week?
KOMO reports that UW is testing out the use of the Amazon Kindle in their classrooms this fall.
The University's Computer Science & Engineering Department will give every CS&E graduate student a Kindle DX, which will replace textbooks and research papers in their first-year courses. Kindle-edition textbooks and other materials will also be given to them free of charge. Amazon's sending Kindle DXs to six other universities throughout the United States. UW will be the first to get the book-killers.
It was a coincidence that Central Cinema was showing an all-Swayze ticket starting the night of his death. They're showing Dirty Dancing tonight at 7, and Road House every night until September 17 at 9:30.
Gregory Christine, a junior from an L.A. suburb, doesn't have a football scholarship. A walk-on, he's spent his entire UW career on the scout team, seeing live action just once. He was a third-stringer coming into fall camp. Yet Christine, that smiling guy pictured, will start at left guard for the Huskies on Saturday. And already he's our favorite walk-on since Joe Jarzynka.
Mobile Phone App Coddles UW Freshman
Isn't the first day of college supposed to be about getting lost on campus and desperately searching for a classroom you should have been in twenty minutes prior? Nowadays, UW freshman have it way too easy with their new fancy-schmancy University of Washington iPhone app (and a mobile phone site no less!) that was launched yesterday. TechFlash reports that not only does the mobile mommy app provide a campus map, it also offers sports scores, a course catalog, school spirit-inspired wallpaper, and personalized class schedules. We can only assume herein marks the end of the dorm room dry erase board era.
- Oh noes! It must be bank-robbing Thursday, as police investigate
threetwo mid-day stick 'em ups.The robber(s) hit up a BofA in Renton this morning, then ventured to Cap. Hill to rob the Group Health Credit Union on 15th Ave., reports CHS Blog. - Seattle's newest blog--err...sorry--e-magazine on the block, The SunBreak launched today. The site was created by a familiar moniker we all just so happen to know. (waving) Hi MvB!!
Stranger writer Dominic Holden does not suggest, but demands today that the local media do their jobs--you know, like, actual journalism--by reporting not only on Referendum 71 by way of deconstructing its meaning, but also by reporting on its creators, pushers, and the true interests behind its hateful and hypocritical beginnings. It's a fascinating and cringe-inducing reminder of how this all got started and we agree completely with Holden that it is an important and relevant part of the story.
Big Issaquah Pot Farm Seized on State-Owned Lands
More than 25,248 marijuana plants have been confiscated from their home on the nicely irrigated land in Issaquah, known as Taylor Mountain. With a helicopter overhead and a SWAT team on the ground, in total the Eastside Narcotics Task Force spotted and removed three outdoor pot-growing operations, worth an estimated $5 million yesterday. In addition, drug enforcement agents also located a deserted camp, believed to house up to four people tending to the weed along the slopes of the Department of Natural Resources state-owned land. It's not every day that police reports end in such irony.
UW was awarded $126 million from the National Science Foundation to build an ocean observatory to study the Pacific Ocean. The $126M is part of $385 million being parcelled out by the NSF over 5½ years as part of its ocean observatories initiative, which is intended to build an underwater network to study climate variability and issues in circulation and acidification. UW will get $35 million in 2010 to install about 500 miles of cabling and sensor nodes on the sea floor, which will give researchers real-time access to oceanic data. They'll have their hands full.
More than 100 Sounders fans are packed into a downtown D.C. pub this afternoon, sucking down liquid courage in advance of their foray into enemy territory for tonight's U.S. Open Cup final against D.C. United.
City Selling Old Seattle Street Signs
The City’s undertaking a program to upgrade street signs from aluminum fiberglass (they’re shinier and last longer), and so the Department of Transportation is selling the old street signs for $5-15, depending on condition. SDOT’s put up a list of available signs (pdf here), or you can check the signs out in person at the City’s Surplus Warehouse at 3807 Second Ave. S. More info is available on the Surplus Warehouse website. The program is funded by the Bridging the Gap repair levy, which was approved a few years ago. By 2016, every neighborhood will have had their signs replaced--so if you want a particular sign, just wait.
Hat tip to the Central District News.
- Another creepy Washington horse story, of course, of course. A 26-year-old Kennewick man was arrested Friday, caught without his pants and chasing the neighbor's very scared horsey. Ummm...dude, if you don't recall, horse and human sexual relationships generally don't have a
happypleasant ending. - The Puget Sound Business Journal spells it out in big numbers that a whopping 68,800 jobs have been lost over the past year in Seattle alone.
$11 Million/Year Mariner Pitcher Not Good Enough for Minor League Pennant Race
The Mariners are sending free agent bust Carlos Silva out on a rehab assignment today. The original plan was to send him to AAA Tacoma, but Silva will go to A-ball Everett instead. Why? Because the Rainiers have unexpectedly stormed back into the Pacific Coast League pennant race, and having Silva pitch might "jeopardize" their chances, in the words of TNT's Larry LaRue. Yes, a pitcher who'll make $11 million this year (and $11.5 million both next year and the year after) can't be trusted against the Salt Lake Bees. Just shoot us now.
Salmon Bay Sand & Gravel Co. has been fined $12,000 by the Washington State Department of Ecology for spilling sand and gravel into the Lake Washington ship canal. The company, which has been operating in Ballard since 1907, spilled sand and gravel mixtures, which can damage the marine habitat and clog the gills of fish from shoreside bunkers. They have also been cited by the Department of Ecology for lacking a spill-response plan and for not having any records of required stormwater inspections.
Everyone has a weakness (even Chuck Norris). LSU is no different. Quarterback is the one and only position where the Huskies have an edge.
Referendum 71 Signatures, Everything But Fake
There was some hope when the math was getting too tough and many signatures for the "everything but marriage" Referendum 71 were turning up invalid, fake, or unregistered. But with a tally of 121,486 valid voter signatures, the referendum will be ballot-bound this November. All the while, Vermont is off celebrating the new same-sex marriage law with a bowl of Ben & Jerry's newest gay-friendly flavor, Hubby Hubby. One day. (sigh...)
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