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Unconfirmed reports from Halloween night place a Peet's "Coming Soon" sign at Broadway and Denny. Maybe a scary mask obscured someone's vision? Dunno, but we're interested to find out. A Peet's at that intersection would be a preemptive strike in anticipation of a Broadway light rail station.

And every ego will be crushed

The good news is that you can sign up for an official Seattlest commenter profile now. It'll have a little bit of information about you and the comments you've made in the past and even some comments that have been posted in reply to your comments. Neat stuff, particularly the part that displays comments on your comments. That stuff is difficult to keep track of on your own. The bad news is that you can still post as an anonymous-type, but you'll appear only as "guest" and you won't be able to make up cute little names for yourself that relate to the topic at hand. Lame, we know. At least you won't be forced to type in a nospam@whatever.com email address every time you comment. You will be asked for a valid email address if you sign up for a profile account, and a fake nospam@ address isn't going to work because you need to confirm your account via email. You won't be able to change that email address once your account is verified, either. WE WON'T SPAM YOU. Promise. In the near future this will be a link to our privacy policy.

Yelpers give it 4 out of 5 stars. The Accidental Hedonist says: "If you're a sandwich fiend, you can do no better than here." The Stranger suggests you get drunk and go (but what else is new).

-Some WASL results were released today but we'll still believe someone will get held back due to failing the test when we see it.

There we were, mostly strangers, alerted by email, huddled around a table in a Capitol Hill back room. The product to be sampled was an extremely high-grade Bolivian variety, hard to get. Just a single bag had been a cooperative venture. "Get your nose all the way down there," we were instructed, "and make sure it's a good long inhale."

The next time you put on makeup in the back of a cab, or make out back there, or light up a bowl, or break down crying, or make funny faces behind the drivers back, or knife him remember you're being recorded by the taxi cam. Over the last few months all 643 of Seattle's taxis have been outfitted with security cameras that snap a picture every few seconds. The article in the P-I doesn't mention what happens to the pictures once they're taken, but we assume that they're sent via wireless to a dispatcher or something? Is it someone's job now to watch 643 video monitors? Or are they just stored in the car until a cab driver turns up robbed?

The Senate was asked to support the troops this morning via a defence spending bill that included money for soldiers in Iraq, Katrina aid and, of course, drilling for oil in the Alaskan wildlife refuge. Attaching ANWR drilling to a defence spending bill that must get passed was the brainchild of Senator Stevens of Alaska who has been trying to dig up the refuge for twenty years, a move that Senator John McCain called, "disgraceful" and "disgusting." This is probably his most fail-safe attempt to date and it failed. Screw you, Stevens.

Thanks to Mister Snitch for alerting us that Bill Gates is legally changing his name to 'The Gates', after buying all rights to the name from the artist Christo for $30 million.

Our boys in Redmond chose the right venue yesterday--the RSA Conference--to finally admit that they won't be able to withhold Internet Explorer 7 until the 2006 release of the Longhorn operating system as they had planned. Bill Gates also announced a new Microsoft Anti-Spyware software package coming soon, saying "We've made the decision that all of our Windows licensees should have that capability." The implication is, of course, that non-licensed Windows computers will be shut out of patches and security updates in the future; a controversial decision.