seattle

Seattle is the largest city in Washington State, as well as one of the major seaports on the west coast. Once best known for the Space Needle, the Emerald City has in recent years become as renown for its contributions to technology, culture — and let's not forget coffee — as it once was for its notoriously rainy climate.

Seattle is the home to both Microsoft and Starbucks, as well as companies as diverse as Nintendo and Amazon.com.

Seattle has also become known for its music. Jimi Hendrix was born in Seattle, and Nirvana's Kurt Cobain first made his name there.. But if anyone thinks Seattle's music scene is limited to the grunge sound of the nineties, think again. Seattle has also given the world everyone from Kenny G to Sir Mix-A-Lot to the Fleet Foxes and Death Cab for Cutie.

As a hub for technology, Seattle is also a dominating presence within the blogosphere. In addition to music, you'll find Seattle bloggers dishing about their favorite sports teams like the Seahawks and the Mariners, as well as everything from it's thriving arts scene to its great seafood.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “seattle”

• Into the Thickets

  
  I Thought a Think — Authority: 134
  Its a statement of fact that school district budget documents are mostly inscrutable; that would make the budget for the Seattle Public Schools the most inscrutable of all. That makes it quite hard to cut the budget, when you cant always tell where the hell the budget is going.
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• Dendreon Burns $28M in Q3

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  Biotech , cancer , Drugs Luke Timmerman wrote: Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN ), the Seattle-based developer of a new treatment to stimulate the immune system against prostate cancer, said today in its quarterly financial report that it ended September with $259.6 million in cash and investments. That means it ...
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• Type A/B free agent rankings

  
  Angels blog — Authority: 608
  Elias Sports Bureau (keepers of all things statistical) has released its official rankings of this year’s free-agent class.Free agents ranked in  the top 20 percent at their position by Elias are considered Type A free agents. Players ranked in the 21-40 percent range at their position are Type B free agents.This ...
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• The Odds of Selling Your Seattle-Eastside Home in October, 2009

  
  Eastside Real Estate Buzz — Authority: 116
  Seattle Eastside Real Estate Sales, October 2009 The odds of selling a home on the Eastside in October 2009 ranged from a low of 14% to a high of 26%, with an average 20% absorption rate. (The absorption rate is the number of homes for sale in any given month divided by the actual number of homes sold that ...
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• ZymoGenetics, King Pharma Brawl Over Drugs to Control Surgical Bleeding

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  Biotech , Legal , Surgical Bleeding Luke Timmerman wrote: ZymoGenetics started really playing hardball with King Pharmaceuticals in August , and now a high-and-tight fastball has come right back at the Seattle biotech company. The projectile in question is a lawsuit filed on November 2 by Bristol, ...
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• BREAKING: “Missing” Man Nicholas Francisco Found Alive In Another State, Living Under A New Name

  
  The B-Town (Burien) Blog | Burien News, Events, Entertainment & More, Updated Daily. — Authority: 484
  Just got off the phone with Sgt. John Urquhart of the King County Sheriff’s Department, who reports Monday (Nov. 9th) that Nicholas Francisco, a SeaTac man who went missing in Feb. 2008, has been found alive and well, living in another state, living under a new name. Francisco, 28 at the time, told colleagues at a ...
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• Mariner Musings: Lackey, Washburn, Bedard, Branyan

  
  MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com — Authority: 716
  Earlier today we learned that Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik is looking forward to having Felix Hernandez around for the next two years, but the rumors dont stop there... ESPNs Buster Olney  writes that the Mariners are a sleeper in the John Lackey sweepstakes. Larry LaRue of The News Tribune says the ...
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• Looking for affordable 9-month housing near Kirkland, WA

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 634
  Looking for recommendations for an affordable apartment/studio complex within 20min of the Bungie offices in Kirkland, WA for a 9 month lease. Im looking for whatever might be cheaper, be it in Redmond or maybe further to the East. The workplace, from last I heard, is in Kirkland, but a ten to twenty minute commute ...
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• Ottawa Personal Injury Lawyer Speaks Out Against Lowering Benefits to Car Crash Victims l Seattle Auto Accident Attorney

  
  Seattle Accident Attorney | Seattle Injury Attorney | Seattle Personal Injury Blog — Authority: 106
  Ottawa personal injury attorney Brenda Hollingsworth has spoken out against changes in a new Ontario law that will substantially decrease the medical benefits available to car accident victims.  The new law will take effect next year.  It will reduce the amount of medical and rehabilitation benefits from ...
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• Verathon, Maker of Diagnostic Ultrasound Tools, Acquired by Roper as Part of $356M Deal

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  Biotech , Devices , Ultrasound Luke Timmerman wrote: Bothell, WA-based Verathon, which markets a simple ultrasound technology to help doctors diagnose common bladder disorders, has been acquired by Sarasota, FL-based Roper Industries in a pair of transactions worth a combined $356 million. Roper ...
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• Seattle Humane Society 2010 Calendar | Dog Photographer

  
  Dog Photographer Erin Vey — Authority: 117
  The Seattle Humane Society 2010 Power of Companionship Calendar is finally done and up for sale today! It is hard for me to say this and it sounds awfully selfish, but I have never been able to work with shelters up to this point because I would either a) go home in tears or b) go home with a car full of dogs. But ...
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• U2 360° Tour coming to Qwest Field

  
  Spew — Authority: 145
  MICHAEL SWAN: US 2010 >>> Live Nation announced that U2 is coming back to Seattle:   SEATTLE, WA — Having performed in a limited number of North American cities in 2009, U2 360° is set to touch down in a new set of stadiums next summer including stops in Anaheim; Denver; Oakland; Seattle; ...
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• Artist Salon - Matthew Offenbacher

  
  best of — Authority: 130
  For the second installment of the Artist Salons series , Matthew Offenbacher will be leading folks in a workshop tonight beginning at 4pm. Outside of his artistic practice , Matts probably best known for his passion for building community . While geared towards Seattle University students, everyone is ...
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• Bachelor Pad Designs Altered in the Downturn

  
  faith sheridan's blog — Authority: 121
  The NYTimes says , “In 2008, the unemployment rate for men ages 20 to 34 in New York State was 7.4 percent.” Previously, with ample cash, they spent lavishly on their living spaces. In our current recession these young men find themselves one of the hardest hit demographic segments. When this expert Seattle ...
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• About That Brian Ching Goal

  
  The Offside Rules — Authority: 511
  I spent yesterday morning/early afternoon with my missus & our offspring taking in the rare 70+ degree November day at Coney Island; we hit the aquarium, at funnel cake, listened to a random psycho-surf blues band, decided to learn Russian (Coney Island is Mini-Moscow) and watched crazy people swim in what is ...
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• MONTI’S News

  
  The Ladies Room — Authority: 143
  Obama marks win, but challenges mountProsecutors prepare charges against suspect Boy Who Fled Chemo Treatment Now Cancer-Free(Image courtesy: Barack Obama. Used by creative commons)
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• Next Stop, the Moon: Seattle Team Wins Space Elevator Competition

  
  Blogging the Singularity — Authority: 128
  A Seattle team has collected a $900,000 prize in a NASA-backed competition to develop the concept of an elevator to space — an idea spurred by science fiction novels… Click here for the article found on Fox News.
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• The Pharmacy

  
  Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog — Authority: 466
  The Pharmacy prescribes the following links to combat Monday online anemia. Blog: My Parents Were Awesome New inspired crowd-sourcing blog, ‘ My Parents Were Awesome ‘, collects evidence that, “before the fanny packs and Andrea Bocelli concerts, your parents (and grandparents) were once ...
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• San Diego’s PaxVax Developing Oral Tablet Vaccine, Looks to Raise More Cash With Support of Seattle’s Ignition Capital

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  Life Sciences , VC , vaccines Bruce V. Bigelow wrote: PaxVax, a San Diego startup backed by Seattle’s Ignition Capita l, has raised $2 million of a planned $6 million investment round, according to a document filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The biotech was founded in early ...
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• The Rise of Agile Organizational Development

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 707
  startups , entrepreneurs , Mentorship Andy Sack wrote: There’s lots of buzz in the startup community about agile software development; there are software programs, books, and seminars on the topic, and even huge firms like IBM are now touting their “agile development solutions”. The general idea is ...
  14 hours ago

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