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  • Blogs

    September 9, 2011

    Why Does Sealy, the Mattress Company, Still have the World Trade Center on the Side of its Trucks?

    ​Ten years after 9/11, why does Sealy, the mattress company famous for its talking sheep commercials, still have the World Trade Center on the side of some of its trucks? Walking to work yesterday, I saw one of said trucks slowly pass by. Two things instantly grab your eye -- the backside of ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 22, 2011

    Jim Woodring

    ​Ten years after 9/11, why does Sealy, the mattress company famous for its talking sheep commercials, still have the World Trade Center on the side of some of its trucks? Walking to work yesterday, I saw one of said trucks slowly pass by. Two things instantly grab your eye -- the backside of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Microsoft Claims Mexican Drug Cartels Are Selling Fake Copies of its Software

    ​David Finn, Microsoft's associate general counsel for antipiracy, called it "the scary side of counterfeiting" today at the Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy in Paris. Mexican drug cartels, he says, are making fake copies of Office 2007 and pedaling them on the streets of ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 24, 2010

    Memory Upgrade

    ​David Finn, Microsoft's associate general counsel for antipiracy, called it "the scary side of counterfeiting" today at the Global Congress on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy in Paris. Mexican drug cartels, he says, are making fake copies of Office 2007 and pedaling them on the streets of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2010

    Seattle's 9/11

    ​Rick Anderson, writing four years ago from tomorrow about an event that happened five years before that: "Outside New York City, Seattle has a singular place in the calamitous history of five years ago today. It was here that people helped design and build the World Trade Center, here that pe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 16, 2010

    Mayor McGinn's Consultant on Expanding Booze Hours is Funded by the Booze Industry

    ​Upon announcing his proposal earlier this week to get rid of last call and allow bars and clubs to serve liquor around the clock, Mayor McGinn released a consultant's report [pdf] that finds Seattle to be "a model city" for such a plan. We all know that consultants are happy to arrive at wh ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 16, 2009

    The Yes Men

    ​Upon announcing his proposal earlier this week to get rid of last call and allow bars and clubs to serve liquor around the clock, Mayor McGinn released a consultant's report [pdf] that finds Seattle to be "a model city" for such a plan. We all know that consultants are happy to arrive at wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 27, 2009

    Dubai Debt Threatens Boeing

    Dubai, the very picture of modesty and moderation, feels the credit crunch.​Have global economy. Have global economic problems. Boeing's recent move to South Carolina may have saved the jet-maker a couple bucks on non-union labor. But it looks like that money might be needed immediately now t ... More >>

  • Arts

    August 18, 1999

    Show Us the Money

    The not-so-bright future of the world economy.

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