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Todd Bishop of the Seattle-PI (go Seattle!) is reporting that Microsoft and Eolas have settled their patent dispute (Techmeme discussion):
Flash users will recognize this as the cause of the annoying ‘click to activate’ problem in Internet Explorer that hit all Flash applications that used the embed tag. Geoff Stearns created SWFObject which got around using […]

WSB reader Val sent the two photos below from 35th & Holden, where the end seems near for a nondescript little house that’s on part of the land where the city will build the new Fire Station 37 to replace the historic building 4 blocks north (the substation next door is on the other part […]

Next major WS road to get the “sharrows” now gracing Beach Drive (photo right) and Lincoln Park Way: Admiral. We noticed them roughed in (like this) on the fresh pavement after striping crews finished their work last weekend.

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Nicolas over at aboutnico.be just posted about an app he’s been working on that brings Google Analytics functionality into Adobe AIR. The screenshots are sick and while Nico isn’t affiliated with Google, he’s using the APIs from Analytics to provide a rich desktop experience based on your data. He’s planning to release a beta later […]

In a Seattle Times op-ed published today, our own Clark Williams-Derry opines on what the great Seattle Clog that Wasn’t can teach us about transportation.

A couple of the money paragraphs are posted below. We’d encourage you, though (how could we not) to read the whole thing, comment below, and share with your pals. (Also see Clark’s original post “Apocalypse. Nah.”)

This lesson — that traffic is more flexible than we think — should teach us something about today’s transportation debates. For example, the amount of northbound traffic diverted from I-5 was just about equal to the volumes that enter the Alaskan Way Viaduct every day from south of the West Seattle onramp.

The two cases are not precisely parallel — closing I-5 for a few slow summer weeks is certainly not exactly the same thing as closing the viaduct for good.

Yet the fact that the existing transportation system sufficed to forestall a disaster should give us more confidence that, with modest improvements in transit and traffic flow, the region’s commuters can find workable commuting solutions without the massive costs and neighborhood disruption of rebuilding the viaduct.

I don’t know about you, but my money is on greater Seattle’s commuters. We’ve proven ourselves to be a crafty bunch — if we can outwit an I-5 lane closure, with a little help I bet we can handle just about anything.

Some interesting findings and observations here.

Some folks grump at us from time to time for deciding to refer to the venerable California Avenue Southwest as “Cali.” Yes, we admit, we made it up, although there is at least one business that uses the shorthand (Cali Nails, south edge of The Junction). Other new abbreviations have started to appear in the […]

A tongue-in-cheek note accompanied the photo of recently harvested carrots from a Gatewood garden …

The e-mail subject line: AMAZING WEST SEATTLE CARROT. The text follows. Perhaps a flood of comments from insistent carrot lovers will force the gardeners to bask in their deserved spotlight.
We just pulled this pair of intertwined carrots from our garden in […]

So says this short article just posted by the P-I, and a similar one posted by the Times. He’s expected to be in court tomorrow.

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September is almost here, and with it arrives your annual chance to pull a fun stunt for a good cause: The Furry Faces Foundation is offering you the chance to send somebody a flock of plastic pink flamingos — 10 bucks for every five birds you would like them to land in your target’s yard. […]