If you're reading this, we have the ability to post. You don't have the ability to comment...yet. Hang in there. Once the backend shenanigans are finished, there's a new "look" for Seattlest that's going to come online as well. Along with some other holiday goodies. For one thing, if we're reading the instructions correctly--lessee, flange A goes to socket B---you'll be able to type link URLs into comments and we'll convert 'em to live hyperlinks on the fly. Is that cutting edge of 2003 or what! Anyway, it's very exciting, so stay right there on the edge of your seat. more ›

That should push Gregoire's numbers up even more, as King County is Gregoire country, and while about 370,000 votes have been counted, King County elections estimates they have 380,000 more to go. If that's correct, then about 67 percent of the county's registered voters turned out in the 2008 election. Which is okay. But not great, King County. Not superlative. Here's the statewide voter turnout. Little Columbia County, down in the southeast corner of Washington state, looks to be the GOTV leader so far. more ›

Remember the Sasquatch/Bigfoot corpse found in Georgia recently? Last week we heard it "failed a DNA test"--and this week, we find it failed the DNA test because the corpse was made out of rubber. That's kind of funny, but far less interesting than if it had indeed turned out to be Homer Simpson (Seattlest commenter zagreusmd's prediction). Are we the only Pacific Northwestern child ever regaled with medium-tall tales about the Quarks that roam local forests? Surely, those are real. more ›