I walked by the Cinerama Theater today and got to witness the wonder that is the Star Wars line. They actually had three different lines going for the first three showings starting at midnight. I for one will be going in a day or so in a Chuck E. Cheese mouse outfit. [...]
While waiting for my plane to board at Seattle’s Sea-Tac airport, I popped open my notebook to see if there was any WiFi available and was presented with these two overpriced options.
Priced at $10 or $7, that’s some pricey bandwidth especially when you consider that most people would only use the connection for the hour [...]
My dreams of swimming in bandwidth are finally coming true, if slowly and expensively. Speakeasy is broadcasting WiMAX wireless broadband from the top of the Seattle Space Needle. Now, we’ll ignore the fact that WiMAX as a standard doesn’t really exist at this point so as to enjoy the coolness of this. [...]
I’m a sucker for good aesthetics in product design, especially in categories where your choices are generally bland and blander (I’m looking at you Samsonite), so when I bumped into Pare Umbrella’s new collection the other day at KOBO at Higo in the International District, I was quite impressed. I had heard new designs [...]
A few weeks ago, I expressed some concern over the news that King County Library System in Washington State was distributing public domain works with privite DRM. It seemed rediculous to me that the public library would have people waiting their turn for items that already belong to the public. I’m happy to [...]
Last week, I went to the opening night of The War Room on Capitol Hill. I had walked by the location a number of times as it went through it’s transformation from previous failed venue to a wood paneled mystery. When I heard that on Sunday they would be open for business, I [...]
They Might Be Giants played a free show at Easy Street Records in Seattle the other day and I checked it out with my brother and Jon. It was for their new kids album Here Come The ABCs as well as a Here Come The ABCs DVD. They Might Be Giants also operate [...]
The Seattle Times did a comparison of the iPod Mini and the Zen Micro and managed to make the following statement in doing so:
When the Zen Micro arrives, I open the box and pull out a bright, lime-green player that’s a little smaller than the iPod mini and fits perfectly in my hand.
The problem with [...]
Very much by chance I found myself at the Capitol Hill Farmer’s Market in Seattle on 10th between Pike and Pine (just one block above Broadway.) I had seen signs for it on previous weekends but hadn’t actually seen the market itself. On one walk through I ended up with a few european [...]
The Seattle Times is reporting that the King County Library System in Washington state is now offering audiobooks that can be downloaded and accessed from people’s home computers. This seems like a resonable advance in bringing libraries toward lending digital goods until I saw that books in the public domain are among the [...]
