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Odilon Redon

2011-11-08T11:46:00.000-08:00

Bertrand-Jean Redon, better known as Odilon Redon (April 20, 1840 – July 6, 1916) was a French symbolist painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastellist. More on Redon from our source

About Steve Jobs on 60 Minutes

2011-10-24T10:38:00.000-07:00

Jobs’ quote on companies stagnate when sales people run the show.

“I have my own theory about why the decline happens at companies like IBM or Microsoft. The company does a great job, innovates and becomes a monopoly or close to it in some field, and then the quality of the product becomes less important. The product starts valuing the great salesmen, because they’re the ones who can move the needle on revenues, not the product engineers and designers. So the salespeople end up running the company.”

Milkyway at Jökulsárlón

2011-10-20T18:12:00.001-07:00

Milkyway at Jökulsárlón, a photo by Iceland Aurora (Photo Tours) on Flickr.

Seattle Skyline Photo

2011-10-19T22:04:00.000-07:00

Night Fall in Seattle by Ross Murphy

No Parking

2011-10-19T21:33:00.001-07:00

sign006, a photo by Phil Rodriguez on Flickr.

Photo taken from inside my car on a rainy late afternoon in Edmonds. Used a 2 megapixel cheap camera.

Woodland Mist.

2011-10-18T14:16:00.001-07:00

Woodland Mist., a photo by Pete Hyde on Flickr.

Trucker disappears with $400,000 worth of crab | Seattle Times Newspaper

2011-05-27T17:05:00.000-07:00

One week ago, a trucker pulled his rig up to to a cold-storage warehouse in Los Angeles and picked up a load of Russian king crab that was headed to Seattle. The trucker was supposed to deliver his load on Monday.
Instead, he's disappeared — along with some 25,000 pounds of king crab that could wholesale for more than $400,000.
Local News | Trucker disappears with $400,000 worth of crab | Seattle Times Newspaper

2010-03-12T23:02:00.001-08:00

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Discovering Seattle's Soul in It's Small Eateries

2010-03-07T11:06:00.000-08:00

"Returning to Seattle after nearly a dozen years away, journalist and big eater Hugo Kugiya seeks to renew his vows with the city by exploring its smaller eateries. What he finds are the unique cultures and cuisines that keep a city interesting and alive".
Entertaining article from Hugo. Whatever you do...do not eat in Woodinville this is where I Lost My Soul. Discovering Seattle's Soul in It's Small Eateries

Chris Jordan's Midway Photos

2010-01-15T03:29:00.000-08:00

Images by Chris Jordan.

Midway
Message from the Gyre

These photographs of albatross chicks were made on Midway Atoll, a tiny stretch of sand and coral near the middle of the North Pacific. The nesting babies are fed bellies-full of plastic by their parents, who soar out over the vast polluted ocean collecting what looks to them like food to bring back to their young. On this diet of human trash, every year tens of thousands of albatross chicks die on Midway from starvation, toxicity, and choking. Check out Chris Jordan's Midway source

Copy Shop

2010-01-11T18:13:00.001-08:00

We are so Flattered… Not. The Mars Volta Deserves better!
Designers rip-offs skull poster.
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Vampire buzz takes bite in Kirkland

2009-12-26T08:44:00.003-08:00

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Amidst a vampire buzz in popular culture, local author Richelle Mead has taken the furor by storm.The New York Times and USA Today bestselling urban fantasy author for both adults and teens recently launched her fourth book, "Blood Promise," in her young adult series “Vampire Academy.” And fans are talking.
Read...Vampire buzz takes bite in Kirkland
By CARRIE WOOD
Kirkland Reporter Editor
Dec 21 2009, 3:17 PM · UPDATED
Richelle Mead's Blog
Book Website
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The New Community Rules - O'Reilly Media

2009-12-22T22:31:00.001-08:00

The social web provides businesses with a largely untapped marketing channel for products and services -- the trick is knowing how to take advantage of it. With this book, you'll understand how social web technologies work, and learn the most practical and effective ways to reach the people who frequent these websites. You'll get intelligent advice and strategies -- including what works and what doesn't.

The New Community Rules - O'Reilly Media

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Layers of Colour

2009-12-12T13:03:00.001-08:00

Layers of Colour
Originally uploaded by Sikario

Real Salt Lake Wins MLS Cup

2009-11-27T15:28:00.000-08:00

SEATTLE –
The image most expected of David Beckham and Landon Donovan holding the championship of Major League Soccer for the league's marquee franchise will wait. Read more.

Fall Palette

2008-06-01T12:09:00.001-07:00

Amazing palette! The landscapes are breathtaking. Fall colors bouncing against the hazy filtered sunlight. You will love these photos so
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Programmers in a Zoo: An Inspiring Insight

2008-05-11T14:10:00.000-07:00

From, "You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss" by Paul Graham.

March 2008

A few days ago I was sitting in a cafe in Palo Alto and a group of programmers came in on some kind of scavenger hunt. It was obviously one of those corporate "team-building" exercises. They looked familiar. I spend nearly all my time working with programmers in their twenties and early thirties. But something seemed wrong about these. There was something missing. And yet the company they worked for is considered a good one, and from what I overheard of their conversation, they seemed smart enough. In fact, they seemed to be from one of the more prestigious groups within the company.

So why did it seem there was something odd about them? I have a uniquely warped perspective, because nearly all the programmers I know are startup founders. We've now funded 80 startups with a total of about 200 founders, nearly all of them programmers. I spend a lot of time with them, and not much with other programmers. So my mental image of a young programmer is a startup founder.

The guys on the scavenger hunt looked like the programmers I was used to, but they were employees instead of founders. And it was startling how different they seemed. So what, you may say. So I happen to know a subset of programmers who are especially ambitious. of course less ambitious people will seem different. But the difference between the programmers I saw in the cafe and the ones I was used to wasn't just a difference of degree. Something seemed wrong.

I think it's not so much that there's something special about founders as that there's something missing in the lives of employees. I think startup founders, though statistically outliers, are actually living in a way that's more natural for humans. I was in Africa last year and saw a lot of animals in the wild that I'd only seen in zoos before. It was remarkable how different they seemed. Particularly lions. Lions in the wild seem about ten times more alive. They're like different animals. And seeing those guys on their scavenger hunt was like seeing lions in a zoo after spending several years watching them in the wild.

Trees

What's so unnatural about working for a big company? The root of the problem is that humans weren't meant to work in such large groups. Another thing you notice when you see animals in the wild is that each species thrives in groups of a certain size. A herd of impalas might have 100 adults; baboons maybe 20; lions rarely 10. Humans also seem designed to work in groups, and what I've read about hunter-gatherers accords with research on organizations and my own experience to suggest roughly what the ideal size is: groups of 8 work well; by 20 they're getting hard to manage; and a group of 50 is really unwieldy.

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Welcome to Seattletown.com

2008-05-11T13:46:00.000-07:00

Seattle is the largest city in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is located in the state of Washington between Puget Sound and Lake Washington, about 96 miles (155 km) south of the Canada United States border in King County, of which it is the county seat. The Seattle area has been inhabited for at least 4,000 years, but European settlement began only in the mid-19th century. The first permanent white settlers, Arthur A. Denny and those subsequently known as the Denny party arrived November 13, 1851.

Early settlements in the area were called "New York-Alki" and "Duwamps". In 1853, Doc Maynard suggested that the main settlement be renamed "Seattle," an anglicized rendition of the name of Noah Sealth, the collective chief of the two indigenous tribes. As of 2006, the city had an estimated population of 582,174 and an estimated metropolitan area population of approximately 3.3 million. If you want to read more about Seattle, check out the original content from Wikipedia.