20 hours ago

MetaFilter In case you haven't, please meet Ricky Williams. He has had one of the most fascinating careers of any professional athlete: he was a high school phenom in Football, Baseball, Track, and Wrestling. He played FOUR YEARS of minor league baseball with the Philadelphia Phillies organization. He was a two time all American at Te (Read More)

1 day ago

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: Sometimes, though not often, nature points the way to knowledge even the wisest philosophers believe to be beyond our comprehension.The composition of stars is one example.  In 1835, the French scientist Auguste Comte declared the composition of stars was an example of knowledge forever beyond human understanding.  Just a f (Read More)

2 days ago

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: Music Jabon Seattle sound engineer Scott Colburn has gained notoriety for hisstudio sorcery with Animal Collective, Mudhoney, and others, but hismost interesting work occurs under his Jabon guise. Dressed in a"dark wizard robe and weird harlequin mask" and manipulating astack of analog keyboards, J (Read More)

5 days ago

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: Today I went to the final sing-along party for the Henry gift shop installation “I know, I know” by Jenny Zwick and Joe Park. When I arrived, neither of them were around- but their life size cut outs were. Their faces and bodies had been projected on to wooden silhouettes and anchored on a boat marooned in the left corner o (Read More)

6 days ago

New York Times Plans by an ambitious Internet marketing company to hand out cash in the streets of Paris went wrong, leading to mayhem near the Eiffel Tower. (Read More)

7 days ago

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: Is there any doubt that in the race for mayor of Seattle, Mike McGinn was a Mac while Joe Mallahan and Greg Nickels were PCs?Not really—and if there was any doubt, the election results pretty much settled the question.So it probably shouldn't be any surprise that McGinn's transition team is looking into whether the mayor's (Read More)

Nov 13, 2009

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: Seattle police say officers arrested a person of interest in a series of Greenwood arsons early Friday morning near where a three-alarm fire gutted a vacant building in the 16900 block of Aurora Avenue North in Shoreline. (Read More)

Nov 11, 2009

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: Are we not pins? (via situationist). (Read More)

Nov 10, 2009

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: The results of the pussy campaign are in!Thanks to the hard work of readers of this blog, in just six days, the following definition of pussy was voted #24 out of 121 definitions of pussy in urbandictionary.com:PussyCool or awesome; exciting and new“That band’s totally pussy, dude! They rock!”This new definition of pussy f (Read More)

Nov 09, 2009

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: Any moment, the snow will start to swirl around your window (ok, it's 75 degrees here today, but I'm looking at the calender, not out the window). The holidays are just around the corner, and since you probably work a shitty service industry job, that means as the days get shorter, your hours get longer . . . and, what's m (Read More)

Nov 08, 2009

The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs Every once in a while you get to see a mainstream outlet cover a story right alongside a blog, so you can put them up against each other and see why one was so much better than the other. This week TechCrunch and the New York Times (photo) provided just such a lesson.The issue was a company called Zynga, which makes online (Read More)

Nov 08, 2009

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News Massive and unremarkable, the Terrace Apartments was subdued Saturday as residents displaced by the police shooting the night before returned to their homes. (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by Mwhybark from Google Reader: House, 1977, a comedy/fantasy/horror/Japanese movie. It’s playing at Central CinemaHausu (House)How to describe Nobuhiko Obayahshi’s 1977 movie House? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of Scooby Doo as directed by Dario Argento? Any of the above will do for this hallucinatory h (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

Boing Boing Image via Sandy Austin's FlickrPeople always ask me what I like to do in Tokyo. What's fun? What's cool. Well here's my dirty secret. Most nights, I sit in my parents' living room and watch silly game shows while drinking green tea and eating persimmon. SujeonggwaPeel and thinly slice 2 inches of fresh ginger root. Bring th (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

Submitted by Chromjuwelen from Google Reader: *Dueling tattoo legends & bosom buddies-- Al Schiefley (left) & Les Skuse (right)*Yep.  On a tattoo kick again.  Check out these sick pics and you’ll know why.  This ain’t no Miami Ink — this is Olde School, Hard-Ass Tats.The legendary tattooist, and founder of the Sandusky Tattoo Club, Al Schiefley lived and worked out of (Read More)

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