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Since there's a "Blogger Lounge" here at MacWorld, we figured we'd use it. What the hell.

Maybe you caught the thing about the guy who tours the country putting political signs up on highways in The Stranger this week? While we think he should have a long talk with the Name Analyzer, there's no denying the "Freeway Blogger" does great work.

Princess Cruises and Holland America are both currently in a kind of limbo in Seattle. They use Terminal 30 by Harbor Island which the Port wants to convert back to something that can be used by container ships. The plan is to move the cruise berths to Terminal 91 in Magnolia where they can be properly outfitted with shore power and whatnot, but the cruise lines aren't excited about it because that will mean a bigger moorage bill for them and they'll have to schlep their passengers that much farther from the airport. Last month the Port announced that it was delaying the project, uh, until construction prices come down? Does the Port know something we don't? Construction prices don't come down.

One of the best things on the local internets last month was the Spanning_time blog's Black History Month series "A Revolution Stunted." February's over and the series has reached its conclusion, but that only means that now is a great time to check it out in its entirety. Blogger Donte Parks (of Seattlest fame) compiled the depressing, enlightening, inspiring, insipid and insightful body of video clips that chronicle one man's relationship to the revolution. A revolution...stunted? We asked him what that means:

The first time we saw "Ask an Uptight Seattleite" in Seattle Weekly we thought it was a fake headline for "Ask a Mexican" and was supposed to be some kind of joke reaction to Seattle's reaction to "Ask a Mexican." Then we read it and it was the funniest thing we've probably ever read in the Weekly. It was funny and accurate (and exactly the kind of thing that would be great on Seattlest) and it gave us a glimmer of hope for the alt-weekly that's been living under a cloud of Big Changes Coming for, it seems like, ever. If this is the new Weekly, the promised New Yorker of Seattle, maybe it's going to work. Maybe it can make its way back into must-readville, assuming it ever had an address there. We weren't born here, so who knows.

Though Seattlest has long given up dreams of becoming a professional mountain biker, that doesn't stop us from still wanting to get paid to ride our bikes. (If you tell us to become a bike messenger we will be forced to bitch-slap you.) But the moment is finally upon us, and every other two-wheeled geek in Seattle. The P-I just ran a piece on a number of Seattle-area companies that are "best workplaces for commuters" according a list compiled by an EPA-based coalition.

Seattle's Most Famous Blogger no longer works for Microsoft. Actually he doesn't even live in Seattle anymore, but we're going to let him keep the 'Seattle's Most Famous' title until either someone else rises up or he does something noteworthy at his new job and destroys the facade. So far, nothing.

Seattlest received word a few weeks back that at least eight employees - mostly wait-staff - at the Wallingford branch of popular Italian eatery Tutta Bella quit their jobs in a span of a few weeks, with some quitting in the dramatic walk-off/no-show fashion. Our source claimed on the condition of anonymity that the restaurant’s tip-pooling compensation plan short-changed the servers, allegedly giving most of the tips to four salaried managers. A week later, corroborative testimony came in from a second source, also on the condition of anonymity, who had also just quit the wait-staff position.

Seattlest loves Vancouver. It's got a feel up there that's almost, you know, urban. We could sit here and list all of the things we like aboot our northern neighbor, but we're sure you have your favorite activities north of the border as well. Instead we'll just give you one extra reason to load up the car and dig out the passports this weekend: The vibrant Vancouver blogging community is throwing itself a little conference at UBC's downtown campus Saturday.

This week's Stranger contains their Seattle's Sexiest People survey and Seattlest is lamenting the lack of a Sexiest Blogger category. We're tired of winning Sexiest Street Kid! (We wish we could win that category - Those kids are hot).