Today’s deal on LivingSocial (Groupon’s frenemy) is a very useful $10 for $20 worth of stuff on Amazon.com. You may have already heard about this deal from every friend you have via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Wordpress blog, skywriter airplane, etc. more ›

Yesterday, Seattle City Councilmember Bruce Harrell held a press conference to mark the start of a 30-day countdown to the transition from analog to digital television. Most local stations will cease their analog broadcasts at 9 a.m. on June 12, 2009; others will close out their analog broadcasts earlier. more ›

MONSTER MASH: Everyone's favorite non-robotic, non-dinosar body of awesome, a.k.a. the ferocious, hard-banging electronica/hiphop group Truckasaurus, is playing at Neumos with Head Like A Kite and Slender Means on Saturday. Heads up--Truckasaurus might be a band and not a car-eating machine, but they can still metaphorically smash your face in with their thumping, crunching, stomping version of music. It's beautiful, too. Imagine that! more ›

Yes, Starbucks fucked up. Their "complimentary iced grande beverage" email coupon rapidly escalated beyond its intended audience, to no-one's surprise but Starbucks management's. They're embarrassed, and they should be -- it's a rookie Internet mistake, the kind of thing that we associate with the wild-'n'-woolly days of early '00 or so. more ›

If your workplace is anything like Seattlest's, you've seen this free iced grande beverage coupon a few times already. If you're as skeptical as Seattlest, you double-checked with Snopes to make sure it was legit. And you discovered that yay, it was legit! (Actually, if you're like Seattlest, you wished it was for a free Tazo lemonade because you don't drink coffee.) more ›