"Everything you need to know about microwave popcorn" by Flickr contributor Aim and Shoot! We learned a new word from a recent issue of Wired magazine: popcorning. It's a scientific theory involving "a chain reaction in which the accidental explosion of one nuclear warhead causes others in the vicinity to detonate, releasing lethal radiation for miles in every direction." (We are imagining some hungover crane operator over at the Bangor sub base, hitting this button......

This fall we are combining our love of the football and our dream of learning to cook by preparing a meal from the city of the Seahawks' opponent. As we’ve mentioned before, we are the world’s pickiest eater, but there is one food that we love the pants off of, ham. Sweet Jesus, do we love ham. When we go to the deli counter to buy our lunch meat for the week, we stare at......

Only the hardest of dorks will care, but the Seahawks have now lost two offensive coaches to our NFC rivals the Washington Redskins. Former Seahawk quarterbacks coach and long-time quarterback Jim Zorn was named head coach in the other Washington several days ago. Today, the departure of our running backs coach Stump Mitchell to the Redskins was announced. In a strange turn of events, according to The Washington Post, the Seahawks are bringing in......

Frank Hughes of the Tacoma News-Tribune reports that Mike Holmgren will announce whether he's going to remain as Seahawks coach, retire, or what, this afternoon. Over the weekend Hawks assistant coach Jim Mora withdrew his name from consideration for the Washington Redskins coaching job, despite being the 'Skins top candidate. This has led to speculation that Mora withdrew his name because he'd been promised Holmgren was retiring and that he'd get the Hawks job.......

The Cougar men are for real. They beat the Huskies Saturday night, but it didn't feel like an upset to us. It felt like a pretty good team getting some timely shooting and capitalizing on foul trouble (Brandon Roy's) to beat another pretty good team. The Huskies are 1-2 in Pac-10 play. Not encouraging. But the renaissance of WSU basketball is good for the state. We could have three state teams in the tournament this......