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A judge on Friday ruled tha Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will have to testify in a class-action suit over the "Vista Capable" logo program that Microsoft ran ahead of the launch of Windows Vista. Microsoft had sought to limit depositions in the case to former Windows executives Jim Allchin and Will Poole, both of whom have since left the company.

With just nine days until Thanksgiving, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer saw fit to find a way to rain on the holiday that pretty much any American can and does celebrate regardless of religious background or ethnicity.

San Francisco, Nov 13 (DPA) Drummer Mitch Mitchell, who with Jimi Hendrix founded the Jimi Hendrix Experience in the 1960s, has died at the age of 61.The last surviving member of the trio was found dead Wednesday in a hotel room in Portland in the north-western US state of Oregon, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported.

The case has already gone all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court to decide what the issues at trial will be, and finally the trial date has been set for the case against W.R. Grace and six of its executives for exposing residents of Libby, Montana to dangerous levels of asbestos, causing hundreds to die from asbestosis and mesothelioma.

Yesterday I noted how the Associated Press reported how it's "cool" to be American "again" overseas. Today the Seattle Post-Intelligencer found it's cool to be American again in its own backyard. "Red, white and true blue: With newfound patriotism, Seattleites want to wave the flag," read the teaser headline on the Seattle P-I Web site.

"Content is revealed by process...to understand my work it must simply be looked at. I want the encounter to be very, very quiet." Francine Seders Gallery presents Lauri Chambers's well-worked black and white paintings this month. In the Seattle P-I, Rgina Hackett writes that Chambers locates the impure pleasure of painting within the world of abstraction.

Who is the Geek of the Week?

Passport to Terror? Three words — terror, terrorism and terrorists — came to mind after reading a Seattle Post-Intelligencer article about five visiting scholars from Kabul University in Afghanistan being reported missing from the University of Washington.  None of those words, however, appeared in

Veteran painter Joseph Goldberg has a show of new work at Greg Kucera this month. According to Regina Hackett in the Seattle P-I, Goldberg is one of "the country's first wave of encaustic painters, binding beeswax to linen with industrial heat and pressing powdered pigments into the still-warm surfaces,

This morning's Nickelsville PI Editorial, Ending Homelessness, A Broader Effort, gets a lot right, and the haters have already lined up to comment. Homelessness is a far larger problem than Seattle, based in three decades of rising inequality, bad federal housing policy, and growing economic insecurity for the majority of Americans.