Man, if the EU court that stuck it to Microsoft this weekend and Mr. and Mrs. Slowsky were in a race it would probably go off the board for betters. It's. Taking. For. Ever. The crime is Microsoft shutting out competitors by bundling Windows Media Player with Windows, which, to us at least, seems like an ancient issue. What are they going to go after Microsoft for next? Attaching round wheels to an axle? We were all about this issue when it was browsers that were being shut out of Microsoft operating systems, but for some reason we can't get all that excited about media players. Real Player? QuickTime? Fuck 'em. More troubling to us are the protocols that Microsoft has refused to open. Standards; there is a point to it, after all. more ›

Oh performance art, you're so absurd. Seattlest got a taste of that absurdity first hand at last night's opening of Computer by Seattle-based collective High Kindergarten Performance Group. We weren't quite sure what to expect going into the show---we had read that it would involve an office workday and Lawrence Welk---but we didn't realize that 90 minutes later, there would be stuff everywhere: fake blood, shaving cream, Mountain Dew, and a lotta candy. Nor did we realize there'd be a naked dude on a ladder the whole time. more ›

This woman just can't follow directions. This Ali Marcus. "Send us the url to a freely downloadable MP3 written and performed by you," we said, and she sends in a link to an entire album's worth of Windows Media formatted files. We don't know where she thinks she's going in life with an attitude like that, but might Seattlest suggest something in the "creative field." more ›

Seattlest met some guy over the summer who wanted to talk about the biodiesel operation he was planning in Georgetown. There was a warehouse and a giant vat and honestly Seattlest was only so interested at the time. Seattlest sometimes has interesting opinions on what's interesting and what's not when Seattlest is drinking. The truth is that biodiesel in Seattle is interesting, and the big yellow billboards (pictured) driving around downtown are doing a good job of bringing vegetable-based fuels into Seattle's conciousness, even if they are only a tiny fraction of the fleet. more ›