"Heather / Carrie" by Shawn McClung Know what Halloween needs? A last gasp. And this one comes courtesy of our Flickr pool. re experimenting with when to schedule our photo of the day. Should Seattlest Pix come first thing in the morning, sometime around midday, or in the early evening? Or do you care? Comment away and let us know. ...

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Help from above? The lone survivor of a plane crash that killed seven people in British Columbia is not deeply religious but he must have received help from above to survive against staggering odds, his brother says. [...] Tom Wilson, 36, walked away from the Sunday morning crash that killed seven others, including the pilot and six of his co-workers. The Pacific Coastal Airlines plane, a Grumman Goose amphibious aircraft, went down on Thormanby Island, off the ...

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The Seattle Times reports that JP Morgan will lay off as many as 3,000 WaMu employees in the Seattle area, cutting the local WaMu workforce to just under a third of its former glory. Layoffs begin this week, and by December 1--in the thick of the holiday shopping season--all of the decisions will have been made about who stays and who goes. This doesn't come as a surprise, but the numbers are breath-taking and the ...

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Apparently, I Am Robot and Proud makes the loveliest, snazziest electropop in the whole entire universe. I looked into this, and turns out - it's true! From the 2008 release Uphill City. I Am Robot and Proud - Something To Write Home About I Am Robot and Proud - Uphill City Recently on Comfort Radio: Yuka Honda - Night Diving Citay - Last Days Last Eighty Mile Beach - What We Did Last Summer

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Fill'er up: CARPE DIEM: $1.45 Gas in Kansas City! Stuff White People Like: Black Music that Black People Don't Listen to Anymore BrothersJudd Blog: WHEN ARE THEY CARBON-DATING THE SHROUD OF DARWIN?: "If you didn't have the relics people might not believe the Prophet had existed." NASA and Google Successfully Test Deep Space Internet @ Universe Today In October, America bought nothing and built nothing.Housing Starts at Record Low @ Calculated Risk. And, in the same month, we became ...

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Pop that really nice bottle of champagne you've been saving folks, because the Seattle P-I is reporting that Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, has lost his re-election bid. To add injury to insult, his ouster came on his 85th birthday. Just think of it as a birthday present for the rest of us, Ted. ...

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