Don't call them fair-weather churchgoers--these masses stood in rain and wind to get their Easter service on. more ›

Aside from on-field accomplishments, one of the shining successes of the Sounders FC organization was its connection to fans and the community at large. Today, as part of festivities leading up to Sunday's MLS Cup at Qwest Field, a few Sounders are chipping in to build an entire elementary school playground. In one day. more ›

• "Thousands" of Seattle residents have access to Qwest's superfast VDSL2 already, says TechFlash, with a top speed of 40 mbps download/20 mbps upstream, and all for only $110 per month...when combined with your monthly phone service.
• Don't worry, reassures the Seattle Transit Blog, light rail ridership will grow like kudzu. And then the Seattle Times will write about how crowded it is.

For some time, Qwest has been deluging us with those damn "Get in the Loop" TV ads touting the "quality, mobility, high-definition and high-speed that Qwest technology provides." All we're really after is the 12-20 Mbps speed from the new fiber optic lines, so we signed up for an email alert of when they'd go live. Last week we got that email. Huzzah! This week, we got this one: "Qwest is working hard to expand the availability of our higher Internet speeds. Unfortunately, we sent you an e-mail last week saying that our higher speeds were now available to you when, in fact, they are not. We sincerely apologize." Then there are some linguistic contortions about "confusion and inconvenience." The email doesn't include any ownership or explanation of Qwest's mistake in sending it or any estimation of when the service can be expected. Which just makes us wonder if Qwest could have more profitably spent all that ad money on speeding up the implementation of their faster service in the first place. Nothing advertises like word of mouth. more ›

Until about 30 minutes ago, we were excited about our switch to Clearwire, a provider we'd never tried before. But as we were signing up for their ~$35/mo. Premium (1.5 Mb/s) plan, we discovered whoops some extra costs not mentioned before: the modem was either $99 to buy or $5/mo. to lease. And of course there was a $50 installation fee. (You know, for the service you just plug into a outlet.) more ›