• The Belltowner covered the Monorail's latest debacle. If the Monorail is looking for a new slogan, we submit the following: "The Monorail--And You Thought the Ferries Were Busted."
• Phinneywood celebrated the latest artistic addition to their neighborhood: a mural by local artist Ryan Henry Ward. Ward is in the midst of trying to paint 50 different murals in Seattle neighborhoods.
• Central District News warns of coyotes in the neighborhood. Yes, coyotes in the CD. The comments on the post are filled with first-hand sightings.

Local technology super-user and former Seattlest interview subject Chris Pirillo is in the midst of a GoogleFast; that is, he's refusing to use Google for anything (save the ad programs they run on his sites) for a period of one week. No Google search, no Google maps, no Gmail, no Groups, no News, No Google Your Entire Online Life, no Google nothing. And this is a guy who uses the internet for more different activities in a day than Seattlest has since 1998. Pirillo's whole thing is that he uses the internet hard, and, increasingly, using the internet hard means using Google hard. He's trying Yahoo, MSN and his own search tool gada.be as replacements for that which cannot be replaced. more ›

Seattlest had a dream last night wherein we were shrunk down to thumbtack size and sucked into Google Maps. All of our readers/participants could dial us up on the internet at Google Maps and watch our various exploits across the city, clicking the pinheads scattered in our wake in either map or satellite view to read our little blurbs or view our tiny photographs. more ›