http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute en-us Reader-submitted tips http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#3033118 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Look for the Northern Lights tonight, if the weather holds out!! http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2847719 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Some folks at th UW are doing interesting work to peek into whats happening at in Fukushima, remotely all the way from here by studying our local serving of the radioactive fallout. Fission Products in Seattle Reveal Clues about Japan Nuclear Disaster http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2794692 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 I never knew that Seattle hits hard in the Magazine World. seattle-homes-and-lifestyles http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2765349 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Last Sunday we had an incredible sight at Snoqualmie Falls! I got a chance to get up there with my camera and get some video of snoqualmie falls as flood stage…this is the link to my video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg7JkJmIhGc http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2747345 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Belltown restaurant looking for ovens to cook turkeys for the homeless http://blog.seattlepi.com/insidebelltown/archives/229341.asp?source=rss http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2743791 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2670313 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 In the early 1960s there was a weekly newspaper in Edmonds with that name (Western Sun). I have a trophy for a sailboat race that they sponsored in 1964. I believe that Tom Kincaid was one of the principals of the paper. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2651493 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 How do I leave event information on the website? http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2592463 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 is there anyway for the public to ad events? http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2508915 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Seattle is one of the few cities to have decreased hours lost in traffic (1997-2007) Traffic Congestion http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2508151 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Tip. Wa State House Bill gives tax bailout to Microsoft. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/14/broke-ass-washington.html http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2504071 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 I had my comments removed as well. Silencing dissent because “it’s offensive” is the biggest offense of all. I respect the fact that this is a private website and you can do whatever you want with it, but removing what another person says in a forum type environment is childish at best. I am going to do whatever I can to make sure as many people as possible know how this site operates. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2502917 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 What’s up with deleting and then shutting down comments on a post? No notice, not even acknowlegement it was done. Was it some nebulous TOS violation? Then say so. No wonder readership is down so much here. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2483731 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Tip. Wa State House Bill gives tax bailout to Microsoft. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/02/14/broke-ass-washington.html http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2468785 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 John Stossel has a blurb about the Dance Steps fiasco. Stossel on Dance Steps http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2460228 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 This happened on my front porch this past Tuesday. Contents included cat pee deodorizer and a lifetime supply of steel washers, so I don’t think it was such a great score for her. :) Amazon reimbursed me for everything. More details in video description. Ballard package theft video http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2441524 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 anybody knows anything about singularity? http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2404888 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 The web links to contribute to Lakewood police guild are impossible to find, every web page in all web sites give no access to contribute. This is so stupid http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2379509 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 In Woodinville there’s a hole-in-the-wall charcuterie named Bill The Butcher which has the most outlandish prices (expensive that is) humanity has possibly ever seen. Please investigate. I know this is kinda outside your coverage area but extraordinarily rich people from all over Novelty Hill need to know what “sustainably farmed” means in the name of $29/lb. rib eye steak. www.billthebutcher.us for more details. Beware if you visit. Outlandish use of serifs and mixed fonts on signage everywhere. Despite the relatively well done website, it’s a designers/cattle holocaust at their physical location. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2377695 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 The police just knocked on my door in the Brettonwood subdivision east of Crossroads in Bellevue to tell me a neighbor reported sighting a bear. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2327859 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 http://www.seattlepostglobe.org/2009/08/31/cascade-that-area-that-got-swallowed-by-south-lake-union-gets-its-signs-back http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2311917 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 I wanted to pass along the following item in the event that it may be of interest to your readers. Today I won a judgment in King County District Court for the unauthorized use of one of my digital photographs by a commercial real estate broker. I think this story would be relevant to any digital photographer or anyone else in the creative arts who creates intellectual property that is shared or distributed on the Internet. There’s also a bit of a David and Goliath hook to it too. I am a freelance photojournalist who has shot for a range of print and online news outlets in the US and abroad. Here in Seattle my work is mostly featured in the West Seattle Blog (WSB)where I’m a paid, accredited photographer, though my photographs have also appeared in Seattlest too. Last November the WSB covered the closing of the Beato restaurant at 3247 California Ave SW. I went out and grabbed an image which appeared at the top of the Blog (over my credit) the following morning. Six months later I was researching some commercial real estate listings in West Seattle when I stumbled upon my image of Beato which had been posted on a commercial real estate broker’s listing for the restaurant. I made a few attempts to contact the listing agent, Laura Miller of Catalyst Commercial Partners, but she chose to ignore me. I did manage to get the webmaster for the site to remove the image. Whereas I would have been satisfied to have resolve the matter with a polite apology, the fact that the real estate agent refused to be responsible for what she had done motivated me to defend my copyright in court. So earlier today Judge Judith Eiler heard the case here in Seattle. Once she established the image was mine and that it had been published over my name, she asked Ms. Miller why she felt she was not responsible for the use of the image. Ms. Miller’s only defense (other than that her assistant had acquired and uploaded the image) was that they did not know where the image had come from. She said they never pay for images and get them from multiple places. The judge admonished her that “Just because it is on the Web doesn’t mean it is free.” I think Ms. Miller’s excuse was as unreasonable as a thief who, when caught with stolen merchandise, tells a police officer that it was OK because he didn’t know where the merchandise had come from. Apparently the judge agreed. I was awarded the full damages I was seeking plus court costs. I’m obviously delighted with the outcome and happy to have had a judge who appreciates the value of intellectual property. As a freelance journalist, without the big legal department of a media giant behind me, it is reassuring that I was able to be successful without having to go to the trouble and expense of hiring an attorney and filing a case in Federal court. Though in my research I did discover a Federal case from last year with almost the same merits. And in that case the photographer won a successful judgment against a commercial real estate company for $12 million! I’d be happy to discuss this with you further if you think it might be something of interest to your audience. I’d like to get the word out to amateur and semi-pro photographers alike that there can be a fairly simple recourse when a commercial interest steals their intellectual property and uses it for profit without their permission. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2301763 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Did anyone else see the glowing, red, sun-like phenomena towards the south / southwest in the midst of the Seattle skyline at about 1:20am this morning? We watched it for about two minutes from our apartment window on Cap. Hill (on 15th), then headed up to our roof deck. By the name we got there, the occurrence had disappeared. This is by far the strangest sky-related or atmospheric event to which I have ever been witness. Any insight, anyone? Although I hyperbolize, it appeared almost apocalyptic! http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2301632 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Blue Angels over Lake Washington http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2271191 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 review of Othello… did you all know or bother to find out, that the cast was different? you did not see the NY production, not at all. do your research. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#2002841 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 you guys gotta check this out, Bedlam is saving a Belltown, unlikely icon http://bedlamite.com/next/?p=429 http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1972551 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Um, get over yourself Lizzie: http://www.politico.com/blogs/anneschroeder/0609/No_namecalling.html?showall Meet Jim McDermott’s bitch, I mean, executive assistant, Elizabeth Becton. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1876542 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 It’s time to start adding Storm game reports folks! Regular season opened Saturday when we beat Sacramento in Sacramento. Home opener was last night when we beat Sacramento again by ten. The team looks really solid so far. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1836192 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 crazy shaft of light at seattle center tonight. saw it from Edmonds! people were pulling up when i got there just milling around confused… came from all around the seattle area http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1756212 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Mary Kay Letourneau bringing her crazy to Seattle bar: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009249390_webletourneau22.html http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1708721 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 all four of your RSS feeds show up as “Seattlest” in my feed reader (bloglines). It would be helpful if they had differentiating titles… http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1669401 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 I thought Seattlest might be interested in this current situation of a Seattlite taking a photo of an ATM at REI and getting arrested for it. http://iamshane.com/2009/05/09/of-atms-iphones-and-911/” target=”_blank”>Of ATMs, iPhones… and 9/11? http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1652617 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 http://www.citymayors.com/statistics/richest-cities-2005.html We’re ranked number 24 in the world in GDP production (in 2005) at 186bn. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1651238 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Seattle is the 7th most popular city photographed on Flickr according to a life.com survey. The Ten Most Photographed Cities http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1646385 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 FYI, Mike O’Brien (is he still local head of the Sierra Club?) is declaring for position 8 on the city council, which puts him up against Jordan Royer. Don’t know if anyone else is going for the same spot yet.