• Burien is busy branding--and the city is using très fancy technology to do so. B-Town Blog posted the latest video and offered a bullet-point summary of the very nice branding elements you will see, should you choose to spend minutes of your life watching a YouTube about all the wonders Burien has to offer.
• PhinneyWood would like you to donate your watches to charity via Jody Laine of the Tiempo Watch and Clock Shop. Why not? You probably use your cell phone for time-keeping already, anyway.
• Care for some Irish Knockers? Why, yes, thank you for asking! Magnolia Voice had the skinny on the new menu at Mulleady's, including photos of the restaurant's interior (they have a very inviting fireplace!).

The coolest building in Seattle was destroyed last year because it froze the earth under it after decades as a cold storage facility (and because, Skeptical Seattlest says, it was a billion square feet of prime Georgetown real estate that was scary and dark inside). The Sabey Corporation that owns the old Rainier brewery complex on Airport Way has been trying to figure out what to replace the cold storage building with since before it was made into rubble. We were at a community meeting hosted by Sabey in the fall where neighborhood residents openly revolted against their initial design drawings. Scrap what you've got, add brick, add arches, beef it up and start it at the street so that the Wall of Georgetown remains unbroken, they said. Sabey's current design looks like this: more ›