"What’s exciting about sitting at a resort somewhere? Where’s the living in that?” Travis Arket asks, and sets down his pho chopsticks. Matt Crabtree nods. “Not exciting.” Travis and Matt (pictured) are two of the three members of Team Robot House, a non-profit adventure philanthropy corporation based here in the Seattle area that takes on a few extreme challenges each year to raise money for charities such as Mercy Corps. This weekend they’ll be......

Earlier this week, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced that:Jeff Raikes, 49, will succeed Patty Stonesifer as head of the world's largest philanthropy, managing a $37 billion endowment, $3 billion a year in grants, and ambitious goals such as eradicating malaria and developing a vaccine to prevent AIDS.How lucky that Raikes was right there at Microsoft all along. It's like Gates hired based on keywords, one of which is "my company." In 1997, with......

Tonight through Saturday, On the Boards is presenting a world premiere from the John Jasperse Company. Jasperse is a New Yorker-recommended choreographer, and that's more than you've done, admit it. Misuse Liable To Prosecution is a 5-dancer work "about capitalism, having capital and not having capital, worth, wealth, whoring, begging, stealing, seduction, philanthropy and blood money. Everything used in the production, all the props, costumes and sets were either found, borrowed or stolen." Electric harpist......

Jen Graves posted about this on the Slog on Tuesday and we've got a bit of a beef with everyone's beef about it. When the Gates Foundation's new headquarters open across from Seattle Center in 2010, visitors will be able to visit a 15,000 square foot interpretive center dedicated to educating patrons about the work of the Foundation. We're with Jen on this one: we're pretty intrigued by the idea of a museum dedicated......

--Seattle: slightly less drug use than San Francisco, slightly more than Detroit. --Six books we've never heard of are winning awards from the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association. --The Gates Foundation invests heavily in companies that undermine it's philanthropy says the Seattle Los Angeles Times. --Timothy Burgess wants onto the Seattle City Council and the only thing Seattlest knows about him is that Sound Politics seems to be in favor of him. --Lake City experiences......

-Some people loved the new Pride for what it was and some people loved it for what it wasn't. And some people weren't that impressed. -The Gates Foundation hit the jackpot courtesy of Warren Buffet. Check out this hot video of bridge partners discussing philanthropy (NSFW!). -If only things were going so well at Bill's day job. EU officials are recommending a daily fine on MS and the vaunted file system that was cut from......

Salon.com is reporting today that The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, local philanthropy extrodinaire, has pledged ten million smackaroos to the Discovery Institute since 2000. Wait, you say, the same Discovery Institute tank of thinkers that promotes Intelligent Design? Yes, we tell you, that same Discovery Institute. Say it ain't so, Bill. The money was specifically given to the Cascadia Project to research transportation issues in the area. Seattlest is anxiously awaiting a report from......