2003: Never Forget This week's Stranger news section contains an article about a Nintendo contractor who was fired for her blog. "Not work appropriate" said Nintendo, although, what the hell does that have to do with anything? The blogger Jessica Zenner blogged anonymously and without naming her employer or her coworkers. It sounds like her blog was known among her coworkers, though, and according to the article she used "hormonal, facial-hair-growing, frumpy" to describe......

--The P-I gazes into the crystal PDF and fortells the future of downtown's condo development. Words here. --Portland vandals don't like Starbucks. --Vancouver cops don't like WiFi. --A new Modest Mouse track has escaped into the wild. --A local blogger takes on Digg. We want nothing to do with this. In fact we never heard of Michael Hanscom. Wrong number! --Tomorrow morning is going to be the warmest Saturday morning you will ever experience......

-That traffic snarl you're either about to experience or just experienced wil be/was caused by the funeral procession for the cop that got killed by the chick with the SUV. -Seattle City Light is carbon neutral for the second year in a row at a cost of about $2 per customer per year. -Did the Blue Moon finally read the graffiti on the bathroom wall and sign the dreaded Good Neighbor Agreement or did......

-The contract the P-I's union has tentatively accepted stipulates higher severance packages if the paper stops publishing. Well played, union. -Ben Gibbard's playing Lance Armstrong by offering these guitar string bracelets for charity. Via Indieblogheaven. -Sound Transit has decided to build light rail alongside I-90. Construction begins 2045. -"Here is a molester!" Tokyo subway groping ain't what it used to be. -The B.C. guys who spent a year and $400,000 digging a drug tunnel......

There aren't many days left at Cal Anderson like the one depicted in this Michael Hanscom photo set. We're sure it'll be just as nice under the clouds, but go bath in the sun soon if you don't want to wait out our 62 months of winter......

The world of blogs is becoming more mainstream everyday, which sucks, 'cause now we can't feel very special about our online-publishing selves. All we have now is the silent suspense of the impending consequences for all this cyber posting. All we can do is be careful. But whatever you do, don't tell Jen, Jake or Gothamist that we are blogging on the job. Why not, you ask. Because people get fired. Way back before Google,......