• Want to start your morning with the most oddly amusing photo you will see all day? Of course you do! So check PhinneyWood where they have the photographic answer to the question, "what's bigger, a Gordito's double burrito or a baby?"
• Beacon Hill Blog says hello to "Hello Bicycle"--a new addition to the neighborhood. We also extend our salutations to the Beacon Hill Blog, making its first appearance on the roundup today.
• Capitol Hill Seattle reminds us that Halloween is just around the corner, it's time to finish up the final touches on our costume, and we still need to decide where to celebrate. Happily, CHS also gives us a few options for Hill-based Hallow's Eve fun.

For the past seven years, Seattle public high schools haven't issued a single failing grade. That would be an impressive statement if it was based on student academic performance, rather than a bureaucratic decision to call what would have previously been called an E (the Seattle public schools' equivalent of a F) an N (for "no credit"). The lovely thing about an N grade is that it didn't count against your GPA like that ugly E grade does. The school district is reverting back to the E grade because they found the no-credit mark they'd created actually violated school board policy. Oops...talk about a move that deserves a failing grade. more ›