The Seattle Bubble blog pointed me at this article from Forbes listing Seattle as the best place in the US to flip a house. Anyone shopping for a house within twice the median price in Seattle isn’t surprised by this at all. I’d say at least 40% of the houses we looked at were houses [...]
Third scandal today!
The Interior Department said Friday that it would review and probably overturn eight decisions on wildlife and land-use issues made by a senior political appointee who has been found to have improperly favored industry and landowners over agency scientists.
The appointee, Julie A. MacDonald, resigned on May 1 as a deputy assistant secretary for [...]
How much more incompetent can this administration get. Every time I think we’ve hit bottom with the Bush administration’s lack of respect for the American people, they manage to find another bottom.
More than 66,000 of the victims still live in FEMA’s trailers, unable to return home. In a sickening twist to their woeful tale of [...]
The belief in his convictions, and the lack of an executive office successor is allowing George Bush to really show his true stripes as his administration collapses around his ankles. Because the S-Chip bill expands government coverage for children instead of forcing poor families into un-affordable private health care (those with children already sick would [...]
new Harry Potter book sighting in the wild this morning. At 8am. Being carried (prominently) by an unpleasant-looking 40-something woman. Without children. Coming out of Macrena.
Her bookmark was a good 200+ pages in.
Microsoft Expands in Canada Amid U.S. Visa Crunch
Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it will open a software development center in Vancouver, giving it a place to employ skilled workers snagged by U.S. immigration quotas.
It may signal the start of a new hiring trend, with other U.S. high-tech firms following in Microsofts footsteps to Canada, where [...]
Virtual marketers have second thoughts about Second Life - Los Angeles Times
At http://www.secondlife.com — where the cost is $6 a month for premium citizenship — shopping, at least for real-world products, isn’t a main activity. Four years after Second Life debuted, some marketers are second-guessing the money and time they’ve put into it.
“There’s not a [...]
Apple: No BS iPhone Review - Gizmodo
I think I’ve been a fairly restrained geek for pretty much ignoring it on my blog before now. No, I don’t own one. No, I don’t plan on buying one… yet. Like the gizmodo writer, there are some fundamental things missing for me: MMS being something I use a [...]
Ok, Hollywood makes movies from books. Hollywood makes movies from musicals. Hollywood has made movies from musicals from movies (The Producers, Hairspray). But now, Hollywood is making movies from musicals from movies from books (Phantom of the Opera). I can’t wait to see the movie from the musical from the movie from the musical from [...]
