Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......

Seattlest once got lost in Kmart while our mom was trying to buy our brother clothing, and we're still reeling from it one week later. So we're curious about a story that the Times has picked up from the AP, reporting that some national parks and search and rescue organizations will be testing out a radio transmitter system originally designed to help law enforcement types find disabled people (primarily those with Alzheimer's or autism) who......

Whoa, whoa, whoa there, Spencer Kim. We just caught up with Salon's reaction to James Kim's father's finger point-a-thon in the Washington Post. James Kim is, of course, the San Francisco technology journalist who died in the mountains of Oregon after getting stranded there with his family, and Spencer Kim's article blames the credit card and cell phone companies who put a lot of red tape in front of the transaction and call records of......

When something seemingly senseless happens, people often feel helpless. Distance from here to San Francisco, among other things, buffers people's sadness at the death of James Kim, and we all move back to the minor (or possibly major) worries of our own lives, perhaps to be reminded of the Kims when others go missing. But two crafty women—artists/sisters Lisa Congdon and Stephanie Barnes—have put together an impressive benefit auction of gorgeous art, clothes, and......

Before we begin, we'd like to extend our deepest sympathies to the family of James Kim. We are not, by any means, trying to discount that tragedy by juxtaposing posts about the Kims with more light-hearted posts. It's the nature of doing a compilation such as this one: we're trying to give a full slice of the goings-on in the Ist-a-Verse: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Londonist wants you to know where......

As if you needed further proof that life is cruel and unfair, James Kim dies after 2 days in the wilderness in a failed attempt to get help for his family, but this idiot is out for 4 days and gets picked up alive by a helicopter. Fuck. So, 3 pounds of dope and at least $16,500 in rescue-related costs? They should be about even.......

We can't remember the last time a news story brought us to tears. Others have gone missing--we've watched, we've hoped they'd be found but with an inevitable slight detachment buffered by distance and not knowing the people intimately. And yet like so many others across the country, we were glued to the Kims, we held our breath for every piece of news. They had to be found; a kind, good family that just went off......

Search and Rescue in southern Oregon has located the body of James Kim. From the Oregon State Police website: Update: Search for James Kim Ends; Searches Located Him Deceased - 12/06/06 Josephine County Undersheriff Brian Anderson confirmed Wednesday afternoon that the body of JAMES KIM was found by searchers deceased at approximately 12 noon. His body was found within the area of focus in the Big Windy Creek drainage. The KIM family requests the media......

Our apologies if you're not following this story, but it just continues to break our heart. Family found! But without dad. So bittersweet. From CNET: "James set up camp for them, just like it was a camping trip for them, to help them get through it. They had the store of things that they would normally have for the girls...bottled water, blankets," Sandy Fleming, Kati's mother, said Tuesday on the ABC program Good Morning America.He......

We occasionally post about things Portland-related, and this time we do so with a heavy heart. CNET editor James Kim and his wife and two daughers are apparently missing after a family Thanksgiving roadtrip to Portland. They're from San Francisco, and Seattlest has been to one of the wonderful stores the couple owns, Doe. SFist is reporting that helicopters are searching the Oregon coastline. Stories like this make us think we should get back into......