Wired is having a contest to see who can make the coolest stuff from Starbucks packaging, and leading by example is Wired photographer Dan Winters who created the Tie Fighter below from a coffee box and some cup holders. It is something to behold. more ›

Apparently we're not the only ones with hope for Microsoft! Wired Magazine published an interview this morning with Mary Jo Foley, author of the cutely-titled book Microsoft 2.0, about the future of the company as Bill Gates leaves the day-to-day ops in the hands of Steve "I walked away from Yahoo" Ballmer. more ›

Second chances are rare, but here you go, Seattle. Last time Great Northern came to town, y'all bunked out and went home instead of sticking around for the inevitable encore. The band pulled the plug, had a smoke and packed it in. And we were sad. Though it seems they were just here, Great Northern is touring again in support of their new EP, the appropriately titled, Sleepy Eepee. Check out the new songs here.... more ›

This week we'd like to congratulate the -ist network's Mother Hen, Gothamist's Jen Chung, who found herself a recipient of Wired Magazine's Wired Rave Award. If that doesn't sound terribly exciting, keep in mind another recipient was J.K. Rowling. Yep, that's right, the -ist network and Harry Potter now have something in common. Go us. more ›

We here in the Ist-A-Verse know that we're sensational, but it's very rare that we get a chance to be sensationalistic. This week, we've decided to have ourselves a little fun and try our hand at tacky tabloid headlines, using nothing more than our favorite posts from this week. more ›

--There's a wind advisory in effect for tonight. Good thing you haven't even lugged the generator back into storage yet. more ›

Speaking of Violet Blue, she weighed in on the "Craigslist Experiment" over the weekend on her blog: more ›

Protector of all things free in the Interwebs, Pied Piper of copyright freedom, Underdog of the digital era--Lawrence Lessig has a new love, and it is...Microsoft? Lessig recently wrote a short post for Wired, in which he lauds the new Borg technology in Vista called InfoCard. more ›

After Wired ran a story documenting the GoogleCenter of the United States a bunch of ists jumped on the opportunity to figure out their own middle. Gothamist, Chicagoist, Bostonist and Seattlest all zoomed in on their creamy GoogleCenters. A crack cartography team is hard at work determining the GoogleCenter of the Ist-a-verse as you read this... more ›

At the risk of appearing overly enthused about Google Maps this week we've got to say something about Seattle's Googlecenter. Wired talked about the Googlecenter of the US this week and our mother ship Gothamist pointed their readers to NYC's Googlecenter so here we have Seattle's. The Googlecenter is where you end up if you simply zoom all the way in. If you open maps.google.com and zoom all the way down you get to some field in Kansas. If you go to maps.google.com and search for "seattle, wa" and zoom all the way down you get the block above. more ›

It's no secret that you are likely to be recorded by security cameras just about anywhere you go in public in a metropolitan area. That's no secret, right? And it's not "the government" watching you on a flat panel display. It's more likely to be your friendly neighborhood retailers. Or the parking garage employees. Or, alright, the government. more ›

Davos may be home to the World Economic Forum, cofounded by northwest businessman Bill Gates, but Seattle knows where the new economy is going (because we read Wired). Seattle is hosting the Business Blog Summit. The annual Swiss event may have a blog, but Bill Gates does not. The new economy wants new media. Blog + Bidness = Bling. more ›