The corpse flower, Weiner, the Viaduct, a whole lot of state departments shutting down, an injured baby duck and all the McKenna that's fit to print. more ›

• Feeling lonely? The Daily Weekly says Larry Phillips will email you if you email him. (Wonder if he'll send pics, too.)
• Publicola says Gregoire does not support a state income tax, so stop asking. Goldy at HorsesAss is not so sure he's entirely against the idea.
• Fourteen percent university tuition hike, anyone? The Capitol Record reports on why that might not be feasible.

• Oh no! That horrible flu everyone seems to have been getting lately has hit the schools, KOMO reports.
• In the most unsurprising news item of the day, West Seattle Blog reports that a high school has been vandalized.
• Lake City finally got its day in the sun when the Stranger wrote about the neighborhood's effort to clean up and fight crime. Lake City Live has the details.

• Few things bring us dorkier joy than guerrilla knitting, and PhinneyWood has photos of a newly spotted project.
• MyBallard reports that the Nordic Heritage Museum has plans to become a "world class museum" now that it's leaving its school house home. To this we say: held og lykke!
• According to HorsesAss.Org Bill Clinton got the biggest reception of the Democratic Convention by far. Guess ole' Slick Willie still has it.

Courtesy of local politics blogger extraordinaire Goldy at HorsesAss comes a YouTube video of the Washington delegates at the DNC when Michelle Obama takes the stage. We knew we weren't the only person who got teary or swelled up with pride during the speech, and it looks like Governor Gregoire was excited from the get-go...listen to that hooting and hollering! more ›

All of us here at Seattlest pretty much fell for cyclist Tyler Farrar after Seattlest MvB interviewed him this week. After all, he's a local, he's young and funny, and he's going to ride in the Tour de France. What's not to like? more ›

A: What Ken Jennings writes when he autographs copies of Brainiac. more ›