Periodically, those of us in Seattle get reminded of the fact that a big chunk of the state feels more in common with our ultra-red-state neighbors to the east than they do with us ultra-red-commies in Seattle.
Gay rights bill for couples passed
The bill passed easily on a 63-35 House vote despite condemnations from conservatives who [...]
You are 82% Chicagoan!
Nice work. You know just about everything there is to know about Chicago. Stay out of the suburbs, friend!
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You are 95% Pittsburgh.
Great job! There’s nooooo doubt about it. You’re from Da Burgh. You deserve a reward, so go have an Ahrn City or two. [...]
Average Seattle worker cant afford to live here
Geez, how long have I been saying exactly this?
Tony To, a Seattle Planning Commission member and director of the housing agency HomeSight, said developers could take some steps without incentives. He lauded Belltowns moda condos, which got prices as low as $149,950 by cutting unit size to as [...]
Welcome to South of the Border Online
So anyone who has ever lived on the east coast knows south of the border. Any band that has ever toured has got at least one south of the border bumper sticker on a guitar case (along with the wall drug, mystery spot and little america bumper stickers). We [...]
The Geography of Nowhere (The Rise and Decline of America’s Man-Made Landscape), by James Howard Kunstler
I am a city planning geek. When I was first working on virtual worlds stuff in the mid-90s, I started reading it for work and I got hooked: Jane Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, Robert Venturi, Lewis Mumford and all their kin. [...]
[via John Nack]
This happened last year, but I hadn’t heard about it before. An artist in England submitted a sculpture for a show. The judging panel considered the support for the sculpture as a separate piece and liked it better, so that go into the show instead.
here is the full article
So, I’m finally watching one of your shows in real-time, and I get the “because you are watching this show in real-time go to our website to see blah blah blah blah“. So I go to your website, and I see ABSOLUTELY NOTHING SPECIAL BUT IT TAKES FOREVER TO LOAD ‘CAUSE ALL THE OTHER DORKS [...]
This is that stupid Visa commercial where everyone is moving smoothly, like the little cogs in the capatalist machine that they are, getting their food pellets and paying using their track-your-purchases-sell-your-data-while-opening-you-to -identity-theft-and-making-your-our-debt-slave-Visa card. Then some free thinker uses cash to pay and it gums up the whole thing. Anarchy is introduced until he moves along…
Beyond [...]
is that I’m finding myself sympathising more with the parents in the teen movies. When Larry Miller say “You’re 18, you don’t know what you want. And you won’t know what you want ’til you’re 45, and even if you get it, you’ll be too old to use it.” in 10 things I hate about [...]
Springwise: new business ideas for entrepreneurial minds.
This is a great site, always worth a visit. They just did all their tops of 2006 lists. I went through all of them so that you don’t have to:
Covering up IKEA: a company that sells high-quality slip covers for Ikea furniture.
Garden offices for lawn commuters: pre-fab, high quality, [...]
