Something in the Strait of Georgia is producing severed human feet at alarming intervals. In the past six months, three different human feet have washed ashore right in the backyard of our beloved San Juans. All right feet, all wearing tennis shoes, and all springing forth from the frigid currents of the Strait of Georgia which separates Bellingham from the unrivaled scenery of the island chains. The sequence of discoveries and geographical proximity of......

And it fucking sucked! Proposition 1, the roads and transit thing, was stabbed in the eye with a hot needle. It was closest in King County where it wasn't close (55%-44%), with Snohomish and Pierce counties pwning it 57%-42%. Money quote: "There is no Plan B." Tim Eyman's anti-tax initiative sucker punched almost every county except King, Jefferson, San Juan and Whitman. Resolution 4204, which would have allowed school district levies to pass with a......

Something's going on at TechCrunch, the website you and 18 kajillion other Web 2.0 fans have recently become slavishly addicted to. Are they reporting on where venture capital riches go over there, or are they directing it? It's open to questioning. Anyway, TechCrunch wonderboy-in-chief Michael Arrington is not exactly AWOL right now, but he's obviously taking it down a few notches and there's a new face picking up the slack in a decidedly journalist-y manner.......

A record-setting 20 teams competed in Seattlest trivia at the Old Pequilar last night. The winning team scored 64.5 points (out of 80) and toook home $150. We'll post complete results this afternoon. Want to give it a whirl? Here are the 60 regular questions. Look for the answers later, too. Round 1: Geography -- Special All Islands Edition 1) What is both the county seat of and the largest town in San Juan......

Last night at the Old Pequliar, eight teams competed for cash at Seattlest's debut quiz. With Newcastle's doubling of the prize pool, that left $80 to be divvied among the top three teams. The results: 1) Friendship Is a Weapon: 66 points, won $60 2) Faust: 62 points, won $15 3) Fighting Amsih: 53 points, won $5 4) Pasargada: 51 points 5) The Newbies: 48 points 6) Team Awesome: 45 points 7) Mixology: 39......

No, not those crazy people. Adventure racing uber-event Primal Quest is underway outside Moab, Utah. Anyone familiar with the terrain down there is probably wincing at this point, because that part of the world is just downright miserable at this time of year, especially for us NW types. Temps are supposed to get into the triple digits as of tomorrow, and there's a few local teams slogging through the harsh desert for a minimum of......

Mother Jones magazine has a web page up that chronicles five threats to our oceans and gives information on how to defend against them. As you can see from the map we can blame polar bears, Washington D.C., fish pirates (heh, heh, whatever that means), "the dead zone", and our very own orcas. Dammit, when are those orcas going to stop ruining the ocean?! Actually the site isn't blaming the orcas for anything. Insinuating,......

Guy's name is Barry, camel's name not recorded. Location is across from San Juan Vineyards. One theory of how camel got there explained by Culinary Fool in a blog entry over the summer. --Remember the UW professor who died tragically? No, not the one who was eaten by a crocodile. That was Richard Root. This one got wiped out by logs falling off a truck on Hwy. 101. His name was Anthony Qumar, and......

Ah summer in Seattle. You never know what you might find around the bend. Whether it’s 19 cannons being fired off at Pier 36 this morning, bad traffic, or the Blue Angels screeching overhead, Seafair continues into August. So don’t forget to check the schedule to mark where you want to be or not be. Personally Seattlest can’t wait for the Parade of Ships on August 3rd. And guess what? You can actually take a......

The population growth around Seattle is generally of the highly-visable variety: enormous cranes downtown, insta-condos (just add water!) everywhere, that old 1960's rambler next door getting torn down and rebirthed as a triplex. It turns out, though, that King County is a laggard in terms of growth in the state of Washington. The population growth of King County, by percentage of the total state population, currently stands behind Franklin, Island, Clark, San Juan, Whatcom, Thurston......