Zombies: 100% Post-Consumer Human : The Order of the Stick Store!

Zombies: 100% Post-Consumer Human : The Order of the Stick Store!




I love this t-shirt design, I mean how can you resist environmental zombies? It's by Rich Burlew writer and artist of The Order of the Stick an awesome web comic. Go read it and support Rich by buying stuff from his Cafepress store.

U.S. to finance 40 percent of light rail extension costs

U.S. to finance 40 percent of light rail extension costs
"The federal government will increase its contribution and finance more than 40 percent of the cost of extending Sound Transit light rail service from downtown Seattle to the University of Washington.

Groundbreaking for construction will be in a few weeks, and work to remove buildings from a Capitol Hill station site will begin this month.

Federal Transit Administration acting chief Sherry Little said Thursday her agency will finance $813 million of the $1.9 billion project. Federal approval came, Little said, after her agency insisted that Sound Transit add $127 million in 'contingency' amounts for unforeseen costs of tunneling, 'one of the riskier components' of the expense."

This is good news. I'm not too thrilled that this leg will end at Husky Stadium, I'd rather have it go the Ave somewhere but I guess the extension from their though to Lynnwood will take care of that.

Fix is on for Viaduct, opposition files initiative to stop it

Fix is on for Viaduct, opposition files initiative to stop it: "An agreement ending years of discord over replacing the aging Alaskan Way Viaduct will cost $4.24 billion and entails a new state Route 99 corridor from the sports stadiums to South Lake Union in a tunnel, restoring the land to a four-lane surface street.

Gov. Chris Gregoire, King County Executive Ron Sims, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, and Port of Seattle Chief Executive Officer Tay Yoshitani Tuesday formally announced their agreement to replace the highway along Seattle's central waterfront with a deep bored tunnel under downtown Seattle."

Personally, I think we should have repaired/rebuilt the viaduct but I'm not totally opposed to a tunnel as long as the new waterfront is not just going to become "Condo Heaven" like the waterfront down by the cruise ship terminal.

What we really need down on the waterfront is a nice large park with a kids play area and a venue that can be used for the outdoor concerts and events that used to be held on Pier 62/63 before it was deemed to be unsafe in 2004. The Summer Nights concert series has bounced around ever since and have been cancelled several years.

I will try to remain optimistic but with Mayor "Suck up to the Developers" Nickels in office it's kind of hard.

Senate boosts wilderness protection across US

Senate boosts wilderness protection across US

T

he measure - actually a collection of about 160 bills - would confer the government's highest level of protection on land ranging from California's Sierra Nevada mountain range to Oregon's Mount Hood, Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado and parts of the Jefferson National Forest in Virginia. Land in Idaho's Owyhee canyons, Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in Michigan and Zion National Park in Utah also would be designated as wilderness.

This is a good start to the new Congress. I'm kind of surprised though that Mt Hood and the Sierra Nevadas weren't already protected.

For sale: The P-I

For sale: The P-I

Alas it looks like Seattle is going to become a one newspaper town.

After 146 years of delivering news, the Seattle P-I faces becoming what it has chronicled: history.

The Seattle P-I's parent company, The Hearst Corp., said Friday that it has put the paper up for sale and will stop publishing unless someone buys it in 60 days. If no buyer emerges, the paper would either become a Web-only publication or cease all operations.

Maybe Paul Allen will buy it to keep the more liberal voice of Seattle alive.

New Mexico Independent - Big solar plant planned for Mesa del Sol is still full steam… er, sunshine… ahead

New Mexico Independent - Big solar plant planned for Mesa del Sol is still full steam… er, sunshine… ahead

The Associated Press is reporting that despite the current economic downturn, Schott Solar, a New York-based manufacturer and distributor, is still doing well and the plans for a 250,000-square-foot Albuquerque solar panel plant are going ahead as planned. The plant will be built in the Mesa Del Sol area on the southern end of Albuquerque.

This is just the kind of manufacturing that we need to build in the U.S. to help save the middle class and keep us from slipping into third world nation status - basically an exporter of raw materials and a play haven for the rich.

Obama, Spider-Man on the same comic-book page - USATODAY.com

Obama, Spider-Man on the same comic-book page - USATODAY.com

On Jan. 14, Marvel Comics is releasing a special issue of Amazing Spider-Man #583 with Obama depicted on the cover. Inside are five pages of the two teaming up and even a fist-bump between Spidey and the new president.

And you can get this comic at your local neighborhood comic shop. Mine is Arcane Comics & More. You better get it when it comes out on Wednesday though because its already up on e-bay for $15.00. (I refuse to link to e-bay auctions gouging people for a comic that hasn't even hit the stands yet.


update 1/10/09: Added cover image