"Head In The Clouds" by Seattlest Flickr Pool contributor Soleil1016. The winds, they are coming! West Seattle Blog has our area's official wind advisory re-published on their site, and the advisory includes a mention of possible local power outages.Time to charge up your computer batteries and boil a few eggs to last you for the duration.Pedestrians and cyclists, remember to wear bright-colored clothing or reflective gear when you're trekking through the ...

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ANIMAL COLLECTIVE - MERRIWEATHER POST PAVILION (Album Review)Animal Collective's new album is named after the Frank Gehry-designed ampitheatre in Maryland where as highschool kids they saw the bands – notably the Grateful Dead - that first blew their minds. Choosing such a title (which they now share with a Jerry Garcia Band live album), might suggest that the AC are simply acknowledging that, for all their outsider art beginnings and freaky enthusiasms, their burgeoning cult ...

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[@375]Twits du JourAnother firmware upgrade for my Samsung Blu-ray player. That was quick. #@comcastcares Whatever you guys did; It worked. After rebooting the comcast router for the 10x times today, everything is back to normal. #@RussB Russ, use ping.fm to update all of your statuses at once. That's what I do. #@comcastcares Still getting harendous packet loss in Everett, WA. Been going on pretty much all day. #My whole morning was spent dealing w/ a ...

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photo by manuel w. [flickr] via our group pool [#] A surprising poll for the Fleet Foxies not to win, but they came in second to New Faces among imaginary readers. [threeimaginarygirls] this Crocodile tweets. [twitter] White whine, the saga continues: city council holds another special storm response meeting [slog]; scolds Metro. [slog] Woodland Park in bad company on “worst ten” list for elephants. [dailyweekly] A reason to avoid chain restaurants: being faced with the calorie counts upon ...

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