Seattle musicians, if you can tear yourselves away from scanning threeimaginarygirls.com for any mention of your name for just a second and focus here we'd appreciate it. We know you're out there. We also know you're not working and right about now you're wondering how you're going to spend the day. Man, you lazy bastards. Hit the cafe again or just go straight to the bar? Just kidding - We know you're still in bed. As soon as you wake up and see this, though, grab your guitar, that crate of jumbled cord and pedals you haul everywhere, your Marshall head and your girlfriend's ibook and start convincing one of your sucker friends that they need to leave work immediately and drive you to Portland. They'll do it! No one can deny the power of the get-back. more ›

The Gnomedex conference ("...the technology people aggregator") kicks off tonight and it's completely sold out so you either registered long ago or you're not making it. Tonight is just the Welcome Reception - Tomorrow the good stuff starts with Chris Pirillo (who graciously talked to Seattlest a few weeks back) and Dave Winer at 8:30 and 9am respectively. Lots of other great events are scheduled at the conference the remainder of Friday and Saturday as well. Podcast messiah Adam Curry has the final keynote Saturday. more ›