This entry was published at least two years ago (originally posted on September 30, 2008). Since that time the information may have become outdated or my beliefs may have changed (in general, assume a more open and liberal current viewpoint). A fuller disclaimer is available.
Sometime between September 29th and September 30th, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!
- Capitol Hill club files suit to stay open: Neighbours nightclub, a longtime institution in Capitol Hill and Seattle's gay community has filed a lawsuit to keep the music going at the club. In a suit filed in King County Superior Court Sept. 23, the club's attorney said the owner of the building where Neighbours operates is trying to terminate its lease. On Aug. 12, Tim Giacometti, representing the building's owners, wrote the club that it was terminating the lease, alleging a number of violations. (Sigh — while I haven't been in Neighbours proper in a few years, the current incarnation of the old Vogue is at the Neighbours Underground on Saturdays, and it's looking really nice. It would suck if they were forced to try to find a new spot…again.)
- You CAN see Russia from here!: The island is called Little Diomede. It looks like a rock plopped into the Bering Strait. Only about 150 Alaskans live on the whole island. And just about two miles away; in full view of every single house on the island is the nation of Russia. Specifically, it is the Russian Island of Big Diomede which sits about 25 miles from the Russian Siberian mainland (which you can also see from the American island). We were curious if Sarah Palin has ever visited this island. According to the natives, the answer is no. The island’s mayor has heard of her though. No American mayor resides in a city closer to Russia then Andrew Milligrock, and he says being two miles from Russia doesn’t give him any foreign policy expertise.
- John McCain Owns VoteForTheMILF.com?: Apparently my earlier assumption was wrong, and that voteforthemilf.com really is controlled by McCain's campaign. Classy. Really classy.
- Nasty as they wanna be? Policing Flickr.com: Lest your inner libertarian objects to…interventions, [Heather] Champ is quick to correct the idea that the community would ultimately find its own balance. "The amount of time it would take for the community to self-regulate — I don't think it could sustain itself in the meantime," she says. "Anyway, I can't think of any successful online community where the nice, quiet, reasonable voices defeat the loud, angry ones on their own." (via Waxy)
- FactCheck.org: FactChecking Debate No. 1: McCain and Obama contradicted each other repeatedly during their first debate, and each volunteered some factual misstatements as well. Here’s how we sort them out.