Valleywag is reporting that the $300 million Microsoft ad campaign featuring Jerry Seinfeld has been canceled as the company seeks other ways to remind consumers that its products, like the characters in the ads, were totally cool in the Nineties, but now, not so much. As one commenter on Valleywag opined: "the Bill Gates ass wiggle still haunts me." more ›

Tired of those ridiculously clever Mac vs. PC commercials painting them as out-of-date and incompetent, Microsoft is trying a new ad campaign of their own. A $300 million dollar ad campaign to be exact, with Jerry Seinfeld as the star-power at the helm. We're a PC-owner and we find ourselves nodding knowingly at the Apple ads all the time. So Microsoft and Seinfeld are going to have to come up with something mighty clever to distract from the truth found in those witty Apple ads. The ad campaign debuts on September 4th. We don't suspect it will end our Mac lust. more ›

We present this classic Seinfeld clip: more ›

The host kicked off trivia with theme music, and we were immediately jealous. If we can figure out how to play Darth Vader's entrance theme next time we host at the Old Pequliar, we're totally ripping off that idea. more ›

Seattlest watches as a S.L.U.T. is born and Seattle Flickr users go nuts over a local art installation. A restaurant critic demands a Diner's Bill of Rights over a gnat next to her drink, and, in lieu of a Portlandist, Seattlest debates with itself over the identity of the Northwest's crown jewel. Seattlest also joins the guys from Fantagraphics for an ill-fated gun party in the woods. more ›

Providing yet more evidence why you should avoid documentaries with far more than a 35-millimeter pole, the producer of Iraq in Fragments today released a gag-inducing "open letter" to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences calling on them to apologize because someone made a joke he didn't like. more ›

Welcome to the new Seattlest! Same as the old Seattlest, of course, but a little less green with some more leg room. It kind of feels like...do you remember that Seinfeld where Kramer is on stage at the Laff Factory repaints the lanes on the segment of highway he adopted? Yeah, it's so luxurious. If you see some weird image formatting or maybe Seattlest contributors going off on long, seemingly-pointless diatribes that's just us swerving back and forth, getting a feel for our new extra-wide lanes. Right now we're kind of in the dark as to exactly how much swerve room we even have. Previously, full-width images were 512 pixels wide. Now? Who knows! There's nothing over there on the right constricting us. We could make 'em 1512 pixels wide. It's like America in the early days, except reversed. Our established East Coast is over there on the left; Boston, New York, our category links and advertisements. On the right is the Western wilderness; massive pictures, senseless links, open spaces. Seattle lives over there, on the west/right. And that's where we'll hang out. more ›

Thirteen teams turned out for Seattlest trivia last night at the Old Pequliar. Want to see how you'd do? Here are all the questions. We'll post answers later today, along with a list of team standings and anything else interesting we find to say about the event. more ›