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• Posted Area Beaches to Seattlest
  The last few days have been overcast haze, and the forecast doesn't look much better. But summer hit Seattle a week ago, with temperatures into the high 80s. So it is about time to dust off the swimsuit and get ready to head down to your local Seattle Parks beach. You can check the bacterial count and the temperature before you go at the King County Beach monitoring website. Signs should be posted if...
• Posted Weekends Wi-Fi Free to Seattlest
  Victrola is a cool coffee house on Capitol Hill where tech-savy baristas serve up beautiful espresso. They offer free wi-fi, but in an effort to reclaim their atmosphere, they have turned off the wireless router on weekends. The result? "The place was noisy and jumpin' - people actually conversed," according to a Victrola barista. Local tech guru Glenn's report at Wi-Fi Networking News has generated an impromptu philosophical debate about the cultural implications of free...
• Posted Wi-Fi-nally to Seattlest
  Seattle is a great progenitor of technology, but only now, in the year 2005, is municipal Wi-Fi finally coming to town. To put this in context, Spokane has had a wireless downtown corridor for over a year. Is Seattle behind the times? Mayor Nickels launched the service on May 18th by logging on via laptop in Columbia City. His office's press release cites the Seattle Wi-Fi Project's goal to... ...attract more customers to local business...
• Posted Seattle Pedia to Seattlest
  While going through and cleaning out old emails, we found an email that Seattlest had written to Seattlest not long ago. It said to check out WikiPedia's entry for Seattle. And of course there is our own local wiki, Seattle Wiki. It turns out that you can learn a lot from a wiki:...
• Posted A Frenchman Loves Seattle to Seattlest
  What is the newcomer visitor's impression of our fair city? To get an idealistic, naive, oddly balanced, yet sentimentally contemplative exposition on what and how Seattle impresses the self aware and unrushed foreign visitor, you've got to read the opening section of this piece** in the Atlantic Monthly (June 2005). **Click below "Continue Reading", to get the full text - the Atlantic Monthly only allows reading on their site when the article is old. This...