http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute en-us Reader-submitted tips 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. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1644089 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 This is icky: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/405431_IDAHO23.html?source=rss This is also icky: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/405403_tubaman22.html?source=rss http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1639265 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Just a heads up, former Nirvana bassist Krist Novaselic and Guns n’ Roses Duff McKagan will be fill in hosts on KIRO radio TODAY 5pm-7pm. To stream live: http://www.mynorthwest.com/?nid=1. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1637719 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Had to snap a picture because they looked so nice in the candle light Tulips from Western Washington http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1637468 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Tulip season in Western Washington http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1632317 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Susan Hutchison running for King Co. exec KING 5 story http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1620458 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Cherry blossoms are just starting to bloom. Should be exploding with colors in a week or two before they drop and disappear for another year. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1607628 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Ug. Hard Rock Cafe, coming to Seattle. Across from the PPM, it looks like (116 Pike Street). Here’s the press release: http://www.hardrock.com/corporate/press/content.asp?id=257 Apparently, they’re saving the planet now. Really. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1606083 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Awesome Fancy Rat Show! Check out the event posting on TheStranger: http://classifieds.thestranger.com/seattle/ViewAd?oid=716170 http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1605887 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/402591_girlscouts07.html sucka’s who stole from the girl scouts got caught -troy http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1605854 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 I’m trying to rent my apartment. Free rent until May (I’ll be footin’ the bill). That’s a hella interesting story. -troy http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1602710 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/402005_schene03.html?source=rss Can we talk about Deputy Douche— er Deputy Schene. And where’s that one website that rates police officers? -troy http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1599275 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 The following seemed to be up your …. alley. Not exactly local, except that we have logging in this state: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/feb/26/toilet-roll-america http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1596574 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Former Gov. Gary Locke next pick for Commerce Secretary New York Times Caucus Page http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1581915 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 murderer lock her up for ever!!! http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1580426 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_020409WAB-bank-robbery-bomb-TP.1cc1ec41.html 5th and union is blocked off… http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1577320 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Someone on Capitol Hill has a BB gun and is shooting at people/apartments. I know because my girlfriend and I hear shots whiz by our head the other night, and then I got this note under my door from my land lady: http://flickr.com/photos/tvangoethem/3245398121/ Thanks. http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1574920 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Okay, with the Superbowl coming up, my friends and I are trying to find a 6-foot sub sandwich. Jimmy John’s is the only one and it’s over $100. Where can we find one of these man-sized sandwiches?! -tm http://www.Seattlest.com/labs/contribute/#1573315 Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:20:22 -0500 Here’s a story on the Seattle Courant on the ongoing Viaduct saga. Viaduct Watch: Agreeing to disagree