Downtown slowdown: Seattle, Bellevue building projects take a hit | Seattle Times. i’ve been gone 4 months and there’s already a ton of new condos in cap hill.

The Associated Press: McCain gains backing of Joe the Plumber. what a surprise. idiotic plumber endorses someone who will screw him over at a flag store. really? a flag store?

InfoQ: Rockstar Memcaching. Tobi’s talk from rubyfringe.

YouTube - Fox News’ Barbara West vs. Joe Biden. “are you joking? is that a joke?”. I think Biden handled himself perfectly.

Finding a Gold Mine in Digital Ditties - NYTimes.com. hilarious. this guy has won a dozen online contests for self-produced ads.

CONTEMPORIST ยป W New York - Downtown - Hotel & Residences. i’d love to have a place that looks like it’s from the future.


YouTube - Wassup 2008. Change.

Under the Radar: Revealing the Hidden Attacks against Obama. i like the “palin denounces robocalls and then makes one” including the actual recording.

Brand New: Pepsi, Revealed. Sort of.. pepsi is rebranding their circular logo.

Remindr. a very simple reminder tool. i like their use of type in the UI.

Linode.com - VPS Hosting. interesting looking vps. has dns tools and good pricing.

Hedge Fund Manager: Goodbye and F—- You - Portfolio.com. that guy seems pissed.

“stock up on stumptown coffee: done.” - twitter

Amazon Web Services Blog: Big Day for Amazon EC2: Production, SLA, Windows, and 4 New Capabilities. load balancing, monitoring, automatic scaling, and windows support. all coming in ‘09. load balancing will be so nice.

TheScore.ca has, quite easily, the greatest 404 error page ever. ever.

Watching the Growth of Walmart Across America. pretty cool data visualization. via ram.


Daily Show’s Jason Jones Visits Wasilla, Alaska. the interview with the mayor was scary. and i’ll never get over how people can turn 9/11 into whatever they want.

“latte and a mighty-o donut at victrola. quintessential seattle.” - twitter

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For the two people who supposedly subscribe to the comments feed, it seems it was broken for quite some time. It’s now fixed.

“want to feel depressed? Look how well Kerry was doing on this very date 4 years ago: http://tinyurl.com/5ukkfr” - twitter