The October issue of the Atlantic Monthly is on newsstands now and on its cover are the words "America's Smartest Cities." Please, nothing draws a Seattleite to a magazine faster than a tagline that indicates his intellectual ego is about to receive some much needed stroking. On the other hand, we've seen articles with this kind of headline on the internet and they're generally disappointing. Yeah, yeah, we have a lot of college graduates and bookstores - Give us our World's Smartest ranking and go away. more ›

Seattle's Most Famous Blogger no longer works for Microsoft. Actually he doesn't even live in Seattle anymore, but we're going to let him keep the 'Seattle's Most Famous' title until either someone else rises up or he does something noteworthy at his new job and destroys the facade. So far, nothing. more ›