Everyone's getting investigated! Actually, no, just the SPD (twice) and two cycling advocacy groups (in a case unrelated to the SPD). Amazon reps local sci-fi, and Occupy Seattle coverage courtesy of us. Happy hump day. more ›

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. more ›

Seattlest has come to borrow from you again. more ›

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 all honesty, the iTunes book offerings are still immensely dissatisfying. And expensive: $50 for the newest Harry Potter, are you fucking kidding? more ›

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 illustrious ranks of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan as the only 3 presidents not to do anything with the national parks act while they were in office. But even their public approval ratings never dipped quite as low as W's.) more ›