Whoopsies! The Lifewise ad with the slumped-over dummy that prompted an emergency response yesterday when someone mistook it for a real human was not a potential-disaster diorama, but a legitimate accident, Lifewise employee Amy Carter told us in the comments yesterday. more ›

KIRO's headline from earlier today, "Lifeless man dangling from Seattle building turns out to be dummy," brings to mind still-hanging Halloween decorations gone awry. Perhaps a zombie dangling from a tree. But no: police and fire personnel were called to 2nd Avenue and Virginia Street today because of a meta-billboard for Lifewise health insurance, featuring a lifeless dummy who was seemingly about 80% finished painting a large ad, about eight stories up, before slipping off in some horrible accident. more ›

• Find the closest (and cleanest) jug near you. The newly remodeled beer lovers heaven, aka Bottleworks, has tricked out their store and added five taps and growler service. Now grab your growler and run.
• The Southlake blog can't seem to figure out what the new (and mysterious) street sign spotted in SLU stands for. Clearly not for the S.L.U.T., it looks like an urban cowboy crossing. Hmmm?

Washington Basic Health, the state's health care plan available on a sliding scale to people making under $22,800 a year, is feeling the budget squeeze already; the program will stop filling half of the slots that open up for new applicants starting December 5th, this Friday. The aim is to reduce the number of people covered by 7,700. We'd usually be worried about this, as several of our friends are covered by Basic Health and we expect to need the program ourselves in the near future, but our radical left buddy tells us health insurance is all a big scam anyway and even if it weren't, Obama probably came up with a great plan to fix this problem before anyone knew it was even an issue. Our president-elect is just that good. more ›