The Atlantic profiles Super Deli Mart: ‘Postmodern Elks Club’
“Readers across America (and likely beyond) who check out The Atlantic‘s website today have the opportunity to read about West Seattle’s Super Deli Mart. The article by Christopher Solomon is headlined “A Postmodern Elks Club Serving Some of the World’s Best Beer” but talks about the 35th/Barton store as a community gathering place as well as a beverage retailer.” Read more…
Hey, that’s right around the corner from where I live! —drego
(source: The Atlantic, via West Seattle Blog)
Wireless contact lens display now a reality
“It has finally been done: A team of US and Finnish bioengineers have embedded an antenna, radio receiver, control circuitry, and LED into a wearable contact lens. If you’re a rabbit, you can hop along to their research lab at the University of Washington, Seattle, and try it out right now — but if you’re a human, you’ll still have to wait a couple more years for the bionic, Terminator-like HUD of your dreams.” Read more…
(source: ExtremeTech)
Microsoft touts Kinect at tiny hut in shadow of Apple store
“Crowds flocked to the Apple store at University Village in Seattle on Saturday afternoon, enticed by the possibility of picking up a new iPhone 4S. But a few steps away, Microsoft was doing a little guerilla marketing of its own. The company has set up a temporary hut within spitting distance of the Apple store. It is not really a store, since nothing is for sale.” Read more…
(source: GeekWire)
Umbrellas are now illegal in Seattle thanks to Mayor McGinn
“As basic human rights go, the right to take shelter under an umbrella is about as basic as it gets, especially in drizzly Seattle. It’s also a right that, at least for the Occupy Seattle protestors in Westlake Park, seems to have been revoked, thanks to Mayor Mike McGinn.” Read more…
(source: Seattle Weekly)
5 major cities that are going to be destroyed
“If you turn on the news and hear that some city is being devastated by its fourth flood in 20 years, or that a village at the foot of some volcano has just been buried under lava, there is a 100 percent chance that someone in the room will ask, Why don’t those people just move? It’s a good question, and the answer gives us a nice insight into mankind’s absolute refusal to back down from nature, even if it means certain destruction.”
- San Francisco: earthquake
- Venice, Italy: sinking
- Seattle, WA: earthquake (Holy crap! That’s where I live!)
- Goma, DRC: volcanic eruption
- Dahka, Bangladesh: almost everything
West Seattle: Fish and chips en route to Westwood
“WSB contributor Bill “Hutch” Hutchison spoke today with its new owners, sisters Muzit and Senait, who shared a bit of information about their plans to open West Seattle Fish House. They plan to primarily serve fish and chips to begin with, along with a variety of side dishes, not yet finalized, and more menu items to be added along the way as they ramp up.” Read more…
(source: West Seattle Blog)
West Seattle wildlife: Longfellow Creek coyote’s breakfast
Photograph (by Jen Izutsu) of a coyote making a meal of a snake, in my neighborhood. Read more…
(source: West Seattle Blog)
Mark Zuckerberg discusses Facebook's hiring plans in Seattle
“Relative to Facebook’s growth, ‘That 60 percent is actually pretty restrained.’ This requires another kind of discipline. ‘I think the way you do that is by making sure that every person that you hire is like, really good,’ [Zuckerberg] said, then joked about how every company says that, but Facebook has a formula. ‘One thing you find in engineering is a really good person is like 10 times as productive as a pretty good person. I’m not talking about a bad person — I think bad people are negatively productive because of all the externalities of stuff that has to be cleaned up around them — but pretty good people, who would be the best engineer at a lot of companies.’” Read more…
(source: The Seattle Times)
The good, the bad and the ugly of greening cities
“Today at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Siemens and the Economist Intelligence Unit unveiled a new tool for city planners. The U.S. and Canada Green Cities Index took 27 cities and scored them on CO2, energy, land use, buildings, transport, water, waste, air and environmental governance.” Read more…
(source: The Atlantic)
35th/Roxbury medical-marijuana business now open
A few blocks from my house…
“Two and a half months after we first reported a medical-marijuana business was taking over the 35th/Roxbury ex-Payday Loans space, Northwest Patient Resource Center is open.” Read more…
(source: West Seattle Blog)
Zippy's Giant Burgers re-opens in White Center
Just tried out Zippy’s Giant Burgers which recently relocated to White Center near my neighborhood in West Seattle. Best burger I’ve had in quite a while, and OMG they serve tatter tots!
(source: Zippy’s Giant Burgers, via WestSeattleBlog)
