We lifted this sound recording of a weird and prolific screamer at Belmont and Denny from the Seattle LiveJournal community. more ›

-Lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth, wrath, envy, pride...blogging? more ›

Yesterday we learned via the Seattle Times that the Roosevelt pet shelter Animal Talk was broken into and vandalized over the weekend. Almost all the animals were let out of their cages and a number of rodent-type things appeared to have been stepped on or killed by the approximately fifty cats that were also released from cages. more ›

Online communities are a tricky thing. They're notoriously difficult to manage, but once things get settled into a groove -even if it's an odd little groove with rules and mores known only to its participants and opaque to the outside world- things tend to move along more or less smoothly. And then someone comes along and fires all the volunteer moderators and things go haywire. more ›