photo by Margaret Sunshine [flickr] via our group pool [#]

• In a hotly contest blogelection, Dave Cameron lost a scholarship to someone from DailyKos. [slog]
• Dan Savage’s obsession with Marlee Ginter continues. [slog]
• The New York Times spend a(nother) day and a half in Seattle hitting up the Olympic Sculpture Garden, the Public Library, Center for Wooden Boats, Neumo’s, Cafe Presse, Quinn’s, Matt’s in the Market, the Zig Zag, with time for a jaunt to Columbia City along the way. [nyt]
• On Apple Cup weekend the presidents of WSU and UW give up a pay raise. [p-i]
• The Blethyns are angry that Google is directing people to their news stories and making money along the way. This, I think, says a lot about what the Times’s might think that the main function of a newspaper is to deliver advertising. [horsesass]
• Urban hikers are trekking from library to library, saving gas along the way. As I always wonder, why take a two hour car trip to take a long walk anyway? [myballard]

agendaesque:

• NON-Agenda: at least one person is excited about NKOTB. [reverb]
• AGENDA: 826 Seattle celebrates mustaches with a music showcase, the non-Movember crowd breathes a sigh of relief that the month of ill-advised facial hair is nearing an end. [seattle.lj]
• AGENDA: So many good shows tonight like the Hold Steady at WaMu [lineout], Deerhunter + Times New Viking (the glorious contrast!) at Neumo’s [subsonic], but I will also be seeing Sera Cahoone tonight in Dick Cheney’s secret bunker. [seattlest]