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Daily Brief, March 18th 2010, Afternoon Edition

Only in Seattle could you hope to find a biofueled mountain shuttle for skiers and snowboarders France does a “Carbon Footprint Assessment” for their new TGV line Slate examines the history of media outlets sowing fear into our perceptions of technology Verizon continues to piss off Droid owners. Ironically iPhone owners in the US will continue to whine […]

Daily Brief, March 4th 2010, Morning Edition

A mostly factual list of Big Boy Franchisees The stages of male sports egos Take a visual journey through Google’s search suggestions lexicon Roger Eber announces the The Ebert Club, an annual $5 subscription service where members get bonus content and community features Redhook announces a new beer, the Big Ballard IPA. Redhook’s first brewery was built in 1981 […]

Daily Brief, February 26th 2010, Weekend Edition

Factory farming of salmon in Chile led to a virus that will reduce their salmon exports by 78% this year BusinessWeek reminds us of the 50 ugliest cars produced in the last 50 years Wired tries to convince us that doing anything but what you are suppose to be will make you more productive  You can now […]

Daily Brief, February 12th 2010, Weekend Edition

Somedays, what is actually going on with progress in the W3C’s HTML WG, with respect to HTML5, is anyone’s guess Adobe’s Flash player 10.1 supports a private browsing mode. For those unaware, like your web browser, Flash has cookies too Seattle’s Saltchuk Resources has developed a hybrid tug boat Ithaca’s Gimme! Coffee composted roughly 24 tons in 2009. […]

Daily Brief, February 8th 2010, Afternoon Edition

David Hyde presents the work of Anton Stankowski Kevin Lynch, Adobe’s Chief Technology Officer, informs readers on Adobe Featured Blogs that “Regarding crashing, I can tell you that we don’t ship Flash with any known crash bugs.” The post doesn’t address Mozilla’s comments that Flash support had to be removed from Fennec because “The Adobe Flash […]

Vegan Spa in Seattle’s Green Lake Neighborhood

Vegan Score has the scoop of an all-Vegan spa in Seattle: And so is yours! Sweet Surrender is an all vegan sanctuary spa studio located in Green Lake (the part with easy parking and good bus lines too). Proprietor, Heather Flanders, opened her one-person studio to share the gift of therapeutic massage, body sugaring, and holistic […]