Shawn Medero » Seattle http://shawn.medero.net An Online Notebook Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:20:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Daily Brief, March 18th 2010, Afternoon Edition http://shawn.medero.net/2010/03/18/daily-brief-march-18th-2010-afternoon-edition/ http://shawn.medero.net/2010/03/18/daily-brief-march-18th-2010-afternoon-edition/#comments Thu, 18 Mar 2010 20:43:06 +0000 Shawn Medero http://shawn.medero.net/?p=301
  • 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 about not being given an option to enjoy the same horrible customer service
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  • 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 and was located in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood.
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  • 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 tour the “Boneyard”, a US Air Force aircraft storage and maintenance facility in Tucson, Arizona, on Google Earth
  • Seattle’s own Mighty-O Donuts makes Bon Appétit’s list of best donuts in the United States
  • SyncLost presents the history of electronic music
  • New York State Governor David Patterson drops out of Governor race
  • The most talked about technology story will surely be Facebook’s patent for their activity stream’s user interface
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  • Seattle vegans have a lot of options for Sunday brunch
  • Simon Page’s prints for the International Year of Astronomy
  • Measuring traffic on the web is hard for 3rd party tracking companies
  • Conan O’Brien is on Twitter (hat tip: Phil )
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  • 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. [Read about how it happens and what the end product is][4a]
  • Director and writer John Hughes’s son have uncovered roughly 300 notebooks of their father’s notes
  • Aaron Schwartz muses on concepts of “Open Government” and “Transparency” in politics 
  • Captain America feels out of touch with the Tea Party
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  • 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 plugin used on many sites degraded the performance of the browser to the point where it didn’t meet our standards.”
  • Journalists will be asked to pay CAD $260 for internet access at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games
  • The International Coffee Organization warns of a global coffee shortage as production will fail to meet demand by about 5 million bags
  • Viewing Flickr photos is now an option in Google Street View A search for the Space Needle in Seattle provides a demonstration. (Hat tip: Kellan Elliott-McCrea)
  • A man is held for trial in Florida but his native language is the Mayan tongue of Mam. The court system keeps given him Spanish interpreters though and no one is sure if the defendant understands a word. Interesting side-note: Checkout the expanded online coverage the St. Pete Times provides with their feature to hear the same word in Spanish and Mam
    • ]]>     http://shawn.medero.net/2010/02/08/daily-brief-february-8th-2010-afternoon-edition/feed/ 0     Vegan Spa in Seattle’s Green Lake Neighborhood http://shawn.medero.net/2010/02/08/vegan-spa-in-seattles-green-lake-neighborhood/ http://shawn.medero.net/2010/02/08/vegan-spa-in-seattles-green-lake-neighborhood/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:58:40 +0000 Shawn Medero http://shawn.medero.net/?p=192 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 skin care with all Seattlites. Heather is vegan and all of the products she uses are 100% vegan.

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