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Today Seattle's Amanda Knox--on trial for the murder of her British roommate--had to once again celebrate a birthday, this time her 22nd, in an Italian jail cell. As her trial continues in Italian courts, she had once hoped she wouldn't be spending another birthday in jail.

Bill Gates! Mr. Gates turns 53 today. In honor of the once-richest man in the world, we suggest you use Internet Explorer in Windows to read Gates' 2007 Harvard University commencement speech ("I'm a bad influence") and this entirely apocryphal list of "Rules Kids Won't Learn In School," which Gates did not actually write or deliver. Ah, well. It's all in the nerd appreciation vein. When Seattlest was growing up in the Northwest, Gates was on legend status as an uber-tech-savvy, 7-11 coffee-drinking whiz kid who made good--and monopoly suit or no, that's still the first image that comes to mind for us. Happy 53rd!

Saturday // Macklemore // Nectar // $7 //21+

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Ben Kweller knows his way around a pop song, and his audience has full appreciation for everything he does. Seattlest has a soft spot for pop, so we were excited to finally get to see Ben Kweller do his thing at the Showbox Saturday night. And a wonderful thing it was, finding Seattlest joining in the chorus of fans singing along to all of our favorites, like some version of indie-pop camp.

Londonist prepares a Happy Birthday bath for Buddah this week and then things get all cliched. A madman goes on a rampage while axe-wiedling and London's mayor warns an American diplomat to avoid the kitchen if the heat bothers him so much.

Back in 2003, when Art Brut formed, the British music scene was dominated by power pop outfits like The Libertines, who were better as celebrities than musicians. Today, we have similarly over-hyped bands like The Arctic Monkeys and The Subways, who release albums that NME fawns over for six months until the next big thing comes along.

For the second time in a week, Seattlest found ourselves enjoying some live music, even though we didn't have a clue as to what the songs meant. Last Wednesday it was Sigur Ros, and yesterday it was Dungen (pronounced "doon-yun"), a Swedish band that plays what everybody's terming "folkrockpsych" due to its decidedly '70s throwback feel. Hipsters and hippies alike have been drooling over this album for a while now, which the diverse crowd at Neumo's reflected completely. The mostly male audience was full of white belts *and* dreadlocks, as well as a smattering of old dudes and music nerds who just wanted to hear some hardcore jamming. They would not go home disappointed.