What do George Clooney and local SF author Neal Stephenson have in common? The diamond age: Diamond Age, based on Neal Stephenson's best-selling novel The Diamond Age: Or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, is a six-hour miniseries from Clooney and fellow executive producer Grant Heslov of Smokehouse Productions. When a prominent member of society concludes that the futuristic civilization in which he lives is stifling creativity, he commissions an interactive book for his daughter that......

Seattlest has come to borrow from you again. The Douglass-Truth library branch is set to re-open on Saturday, October 14th and it couldn't be soon enough. Despite the fact that we've tried vainly to justify our paltry reading habits this summer/fall by blaming it on silly things like getting married, the fact of the matter is that the remodelling project for our neighborhood branch seriously stunted our library habits. Yes, we're that lazy, but the......

International travel is a challenge for a book whore like Seattlest--how many titles can we cram into our carry-on and still have room for at least a few necessary items? (Our journey began before the foiling of the London plot, when we liked to carry toiletries with us in case our checked luggage got lost.) True, we have an iPod and we did load a few goodies of the bookish variety onto it, but in......

Earlier this month, the National Parks Conservation Association celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of our country's National Park system. Perhaps trying to steal a little limelight from Al Gore, President Bush managed to avoid his father's inactivity in this arena by using the 1906 Antiquities Act to establish a national monument in New York (an African Burial Ground) and creating the world's largest protected marine area off Hawaii's coast. (His pop joins the......