• Hello, weekend windstorm! The neighborhood blogs were aflutter about wind damage, power outages, and waves crashing over 520.
• The Rainier Valley Post has their weekly must-read letting you know what your City Council Member is scheduled to be up to this week. Looks like an exciting week at the City Council, covering topics such as sidewalk cafes (right in time for winter!) and the Mercer mess.
• MetBlogs has something about free money--which automatically makes us click off, fearful of what identity scam is coming next. But at quick glance, it appears to be legitimate--show up and get $10 and there is some pay-it-forward aspect to the scheme.

We had heard that Saint John's University over in Minnesota was working on a contemporary version of an illuminated Bible, the first handwritten and illuminated Bible ever commissioned since the invention of the printing press back in the 16th century. And now--oh history-dorkish glee!--the first three volumes of that project have been completed and 100 beautifully crafted pages are in Tacoma for awhile, available to the gaze of curious Pacific Northwestern eyes. more ›