"Reading-the-funnies" by Greg Phipps (El Gregein) How much do we love you, sweet Flickr pool of ours? So, so much. And it's shots like these that make it so. There's more where this came from, so dive in and share your own.......

Since its development in 1982, Victor Steinbrueck Park (formerly "Market Park") has been a melting pot of downtown green-space seeking citizenry and tourists. Just about every class of human being can be seen here on a warm, sunny day. We, being fortunate enough to work near the market, spend many a lunch here. We always bring a book to read, but on a day like today, little reading gets done because of all the people......

We'd just polished off the Poulet rôti à votre commande, potage aux légumes de printemps (“Chicken roasted to order, on a celery-scallion-sultana ragout and salt-roasted fingerling potatoes”) at Le Pichet ($34, serves two, allow an hour for the roasting) and life seemed particularly pleasant, generous, abundant. There was plenty of daylight still and we realized we hadn't been to Zig Zag to see Ben in forever, so we set off, past Victor Steinbrueck Park and......

Seattle is a great progenitor of technology, but only now, in the year 2005, is municipal Wi-Fi finally coming to town. To put this in context, Spokane has had a wireless downtown corridor for over a year. Is Seattle behind the times? Mayor Nickels launched the service on May 18th by logging on via laptop in Columbia City. His office's press release cites the Seattle Wi-Fi Project's goal to... ...attract more customers to local business......