We don't have a shred of evidence for that headline; it's a gut thing. We're rollin' Jack Fuckin' Welch-style. But Citigroup research analyst Mark Mahaney does predict this will be a Kindle Christmas; he's doubled his sales estimates to nearly 400,000 units. At $359 per, that's over $136 million from a single product. Mahaney says Amazon's e-reader will bring in $1 billion by 2010. This projection is based on the Kindle selling as many units......

For a brief moment last night, it was summer in Seattle. Inside the sold-out Ting Tings show at Chop Suey, it was hot and humid. The house was packed with young people drinking, dancing, and carousing. The music was pounding, and the gays were in full effect—all the trademark signs of summer. And then, about half an hour later, it was over. Anni Rossi kicked off the show with an abbreviated twenty-minute opening set.......

You're headed to Vancouver for the weekend, excited because Canada is like almost a foreign country. Visions of staring at Belugas and spending your wad of rapidly-depreciating USD's on Robson Street bounce loosely around your head when suddenly a border patrol agent is directing you to a special lane at the Peace Arch. There's a problem and you've got to get out of the car. "Sir, this is aboot your iPod and the copyright infringements......

"Mac vs. PC" by Etchasketchist, with permission. Cool! Microsoft's getting busy this spring, as well they should. Reports of two separate deals struck by the corporate behemoth with NBC Universal and Hyundai came rolling in late last night, as well as a flurry of speculation and analysis on the failed Yahoo buy-out. Despite last-ditch efforts, is this the beginning of the end for Gates & Co? The NBC deal means you'll be able to......

Last night at Benaroya Hall, author Richard Powers read from a new short story called "Modulation." It was classic Powers; a dense, far-reaching, and meticulously vivid tale of a computer virus that infects music player devices via filesharing sites. He weaves the story around four different individuals: a Japanese hacker recently released from prison and now employed by the RIAA to huntdown filesharers, a Brazilian journalist researching soldiers in Iraq who blast ear-crunching music from......

A few months ago we switched back to Rhapsody music service from Yahoo!'s whatever-the-hell-it-was. A year earlier, we'd been bargain-shopping and Yahoo!'s $5.99/mo. price point had caught our eye. We locked in a year's subscription -- and then discovered Rhapsody's selection was superior (from tiny indie bands all the way through classical and foreign), as well as its player's features. That $9.99/mo. was worth it, after all. (We don't pay for the more expensive subscribe-your-mp3-player-too......

Inspired by a random iPod event at Seattlest's Thanksgiving, a friend lamented the early death of John Denver and then launched into a diatribe about how he didn't pull a Kennedy; that is, Denver wasn't a dilettante pilot. He went on to explain that Denver was an experienced pilot who owned many planes and flew often. He died, our friend claimed, when one of the fuel tanks in the experimental plane he was flying......

The snow is falling, our dear Seattle friends, it simply isn't falling here. Whistler just announced it is open for business, bagging the ultimate ski resort coup of cutting powder before we cut the turkey. Of course you want to go, but in fondly recalling the days of 1998 when the US-CA exchange rate swung wildly the other way, you fear you can really only afford to stay home and play Ski Resort Extreme Halo......

Amazon released an eBook reader today, it's three years in the making. They call it Kindle. Here's a big 'ol Newsweek piece about it. Barnes and Noble has seen its stock drop 5% today (as of 3:01 EST), as investors ask and answer the question--is print dead? (Note--you aren't reading this in print.) News of the Kindle launched a spirited discussion amongst various Seattlesters touching on the merits of eBooks, of iPods, book history, and......

If you've never had the chance to see Broken Social Scene together, you've at least had, or have, ample opportunity to see current and former members roll through town during October/November. Last month, it was Metric (with BSS alumni Emily Haines and James Shaw), then Mr. BSS himself, Kevin Drew. Next week, Stars (with BSS alumi Millan, Cranley and Campbell ) come to the Showbox. But first, coming to a Paramount Theater near you --......

The husband-and-wife team Over the Rhine [MySpace] play at the Triple Door at 7:30pm this Thursday and Friday, and both shows are already sold out -- SRO tickets will be on sale the nights of the shows. They're touring for their new album The Trumpet Child, which All Music Guide reviews thusly:Produced by Brad Jones and recorded in Nashville, the album's music is steeped in the other kind of Americana: not the gothic country one......

There was a time when every urban iPod listener had a choice to make regarding personal speakers. Do you use some pair of headphones from the 80s with the orange foam on them that you found in the spare electronics box in the garage to disguise your identity as an iPod owner? Or do you fly the snowy whites your iPod came with and announce your Apple Cool to everyone on the bus, and......

The only reason Silverchair’s blistering Showbox performance didn’t surprise us: We had no idea what to expect from the band. We’d never seen them live, but we’d observed their gradual musical evolution from Frogstomp to Young Modern (out tomorrow) and didn’t know if they’d rock or pop through Friday’s show. Per our conversation with Ben, we knew not to expect much, if anything, from their first album, but otherwise we were clueless. While opener......

We’re only going to be in our twenties for the next three weeks, so lately we’ve been trying to feel younger--and there is no better place to accomplish this than at a local district Democrat meeting. Once again we were one of the youngest people in the room. We love you sweet, sweet democracy. What always strikes us about these meetings is how hard it is to find parking, and all the wasted paper......

Every once in a great while we'll be reading the Seattle Times (we're housesitting and they get it here) and we'll learn something. We can't express to you the shock of it. This morning we were reading their Bumper column (the Times's version of the P-I's Getting There), and ran across this comment from a guy who got a warning for honking...well, here, you read it:The other day Mark Cruz, of Renton, was waiting to......

There's been a lot of hype about this disc--Clarkson fired her management and pissed off Clive Davis in the process of making it--and you can bet pretty much every reviewer will mention that somewhere in their assessment. We're sheep, so we thought we'd open with that and get it out of the way. We'll be honest. Nobody's going to be giving Kelly Clarkson an award for being a great lyricist, so just get it out......

You know when someone's acting like an idiot at an intersection? They miss their turn at a four way stop or they're making some crazy-ass right turn from the way far left lane, slowly, though, and with maximum exposure and danger to both their life and yours and everyone else's? And you're like, "This motherfucker's on the phone," and it turns out that they are so you honk and yell at 'em, "Hang up the......

Nate Robinson hit what he believes to be a lifetime-high of eight threes in a game against Portland last week. On his blog, he's unsure what caused this outburst of marksmanship:Maybe it was the music I was listening to on my iPod before the game. I went old school that day, listening to Rick James, Aretha Franklin (R-E-S-P-E-C-T!). You know, stuff like that. Maybe I should always listen to that music before a game, but......

If he were alive today Kurt Cobain would be blowing out 40 candles on his birthday cake. We were 19 when he died, and were sleepwalking through a higher education that we never asked for at a university in central Illinois where life, frankly, sucked, and it was made worse when we heard that the guy who single-handedly saved us from the ridiculous crap we were filing our ears and minds with until then had......

There's a potentially interesting article in the Seattle Times about a potentially interesting class at Seattle University that includes in its coursework a potentially interesting experiment. It's an experiment in "media deprivation" for a class called "Restorative Solitude." Ninety six hours, no media. Awesome. It reminds us of Chris Pirillo's Google Fast. In the teeny bopper world in which the article is set "media" are things like cell phone, email, internet, iPod, TV, at least......

Hello, gorgeous. When last we tried to resuscitate our iPod after an accidental ride through the washing machine, connecting it to our powerbook led to the display of "Please wait, very low battery power." And we waited. And waited...all day. OK, so that wasn't working. Consulting Apple's support section online, we discovered that if the battery gets fully drained (likely in this case), it may not come back up when connected to a USB power......

Monday AIR SUPPLY: Eric Klinenberg’s new book, Fighting for Air, examines how corporate ownership and control of local media has remade American political and cultural life. Klinenberg, a sociology professor at New York University, is interviewed by Michael Fancher, Seattle Times editor-at-large. 7:30pm // Town Hall // $5 Tuesday PANEL OF POETS: Sherman Alexie, Chelsea Rathburn, Richard Wakefield and Eric McHenry present "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Rhyme": a roundtable discussion......

We're still waiting for the verdict: Zune, the "next gen iPod killer," or Zune::Microsoft as albatross::Ancient Mariner. But this post is about an earlier ill-fated Microsoft expedition. The Seattle-Search blog mentions that December's search scores are in, and here's how the top three stack up:Google +0.4 share with 47.3% of the market Yahoo! +0.3 share with 28.3% of the market Microsoft -0.5 share with 10.5% of the marketHere's the comScore release. In real numbers,......

Which of the following will you not hear on a Mariners television broadcast this season: A. "Lined back up the middle, and that is Vidro's third hit of the game." B. "Swing and a miss, and it's over. The Amazing Horacio has come through again." C. Rick Rizzs D. All of the above. Sadly, the answer is D. The Mariners have announced their 2007 broadcast team, following the departure of Ron Fairly, and Rizzs is......

Steve Jobs just unveiled the new iPhone in his keynote speech at Macworld in San Francisco. If you're a Mac freak you already know this because you've been sucking down the Mac Insider streaming coverage like crack through a straw. If not, would you just lookit this thing? Photo: Endgaget.com It has an accelerometer in it for chrissake. It is a phone, wide-screen iPod, and "internet communicator" all in one. No buttons, all done by......

Did you listen to The Works this week? We haven't yet. It's cocked and loaded on the iPod which ran out of batteries before we could listen to John Moe talk about Nerd Core and interview MC Plus+. We're not looking forward to it anymore, though, because now we're going to have to listen to it while knowing that John Moe is leaving KUOW. He's moving to Weekend America, which, yeah, is great and all,......

--142 drive-through Starbucks customers "payed it backward" in Illinois? Bull. Shit. --We couldn't even get past the headline of this KOMOTV story the first time though. Next time we might be able to scan the page for photos before we close the tab, and maybe tomorrow we'll read it. --It's Second Thursday tonight which means absolutely nothing to you unless you're a West Seattle resident looking for an art walk near the Junction. --Our......

About seventy percent of my iPod contains music that could be construed as a guilty pleasure, and most of that is right out there in the open. I'm just not really feeling a whole lot of guilt over it. However, there's also a playlist so innocuously named that it couldn't possibly attract any attention ever and that playlist contains the lowest of the low; the truly embarrassing shit, the shit that is sure to come......

Right on the heels of the iPod killer's lousy reviews and ever-plummeting sales, the clandestine and nefarious forces behind the Zune marketing team couldn't manage to fill up Neumo's last night. Even with the promise of free entry and a hosted bar if you said the magic words ("Welcome to the social." [shudder]), the venue was still fairly empty by the time L.A.'s The Little Ones took the stage. No matter, the band was......

After the Zune's launch hype and the initial not-so-great reviews (including Seattlest's hometown rag's hilarious evisceration: "I've spent a week setting this thing up and using it, and the overall experience is about as pleasant as having an airbag deploy in your face."), but ultimately it's a consumer electronics device and the proof is in the Amazon Sales Rank. A P-I blog noted that the Zune debuted in the second position behind only the mighty......