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Seattlest, as you know, has long been an advocate of playing hooky on Friday. Today, if you're looking for an excuse to cut out early, just tell your boss you can't bear to sit in the office any longer on the Happiest Day of the Year. How did "they" figure out that today is the happiest? A simple math formula, of course: "According to the research this has been worked out using the equation O + (N xS) + Cpm/T + He." Naturally, divide the Cpm by T.

In December we wrote about local restaurant review site Urbanspoon. We loved it then, we love it now, and we've been loving it in the interim. Since we last chatted with Ethan Lowry, one of the three brains behind the site, Urbanspoon has really fleshed things out and branched out to a bunch of other cities.

A friend and Seattlest discovered the UW surplus warehouse while walking home from Agua Verde one day a couple of years ago. We just walked in and started wandering through the shelves of cast-off computers, unidentifiable but important looking measuring equipment and bad office furniture. To us, techies both, it was like two sixteen-year-olds accidentally wandering into a porn shop for the first time. This is before we'd come across Re-PC. Everything had a little yellow price tag on it. Computers were marked $10. Strange machinery with big bubble displays cost $50. Half of the stuff in there looked like it could have been ripped from the set of Flash Gordon or Frankenstein's laboratory - We were suckers for that kind of thing. Luckily, we realized that nothing was for sale to the public before we gathered a complete haul. We were the public, unaffiliated with the University in any way shape or form. When questioned about our department at the checkout we tried to make something up, "Uh...English?" which, of course, didn't work at all.