Quoted: Coming Clean is a network of groups and individuals whose common goal is to work together on chemical policies and campaigns to protect public health and the environmental from exposures to harmful and unstudied chemicals. Coming Clean serves as an incubator for these campaigns and strategies. Coming Clean was formed in early January 2001 to take advantage of the tremendous public education opportunity provided by the PBS broadcast of Trade Secrets: A Moyers Report. Bill Moyers' groundbreaking 90 minute documentary reported on how the chemical industry has produced thousands of man-made chemicals that have not been tested for their effect on the public's health and safety.

For friends in Seattle

Quoted: Saturday, December 9, 2006
Market Theatre
(in Pike Place Market)
1428 Post Alley, Seattle
Register & check in: 8:30-9:30 am
Start: 10:00 am

Two-hour foot option only.
A benefit for the Market Foundation

Limit 230 participants!
Register online or by mail
Event day details

Here's the schedule of webcasts for World Usability Day

Quoted: World Usability Day promotes the value of usability engineering, user-centered design, and every user's responsibility to ask for things that work better.

I had no idea, there is a World Usability Day!

Quoted: Imagine your users asking, “What the @#$%^ were they thinking when they designed this UI?”. Then imagine a day during which product managers, designers, and engineers can learn how to preempt that scenario.

Quoted: That’s the opportunity event organizers are seeking to provide. The UPA, UPA chapters, and allied organizations will all hold events, revolving around a common theme — “Making life easy!” — with a focus this year on accessibility and inclusion

I am going to this next Friday

The RE Store
1440 N.W. 52nd
Reception: Oct. 20, 7 pm-12
Haute Trash Fashion Show starts at 9 pm at RE Store
Gallery Hrs: Wed-Sat 3-6 pm

Quoted: The ReStore’s Recycled Art & Fashion Show, now in its 5th year, humbly returns to bring Seattle the finest in Art and Fashion recovered from its waste stream. Diane Kurzyna, aka Ruby Reusable, this year’s curator said, “We sift and sort until we uncover the visual pun, the hidden history, the value in that deemed worthless, beauty where it is least expected.”
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Going to Elliott Bay with Mikhail for this tonight.

Quoted: We are most pleased to welcome back that chronicler of much useful knowledge (and intrepid correspondent and 'expert' for Comedy Central's The Daily Show with John Stewart), Mr. John Hodgman, as he returns to Elliott Bay for the new paperback edition of his bestselling delight, The Areas of My Expertise: Which Include: Matters Historical, Matters Literary, Matters Cryptozoological, Hobo Matters, Food, Drink, & Cheese (a Kind of Food), Squirrels & Lobsters & Eels, Haircuts, Utopia, What Will Happen in the Future, and Most Other Subjects (Riverhead). Yes, a lot of information is covered. "John Hodgman brings more than mere laughter to the world. He also brings a whole world: one of strange melancholy and unexpected beauty, and the scope and meticulous consistency of the deranged. His world is similar to our world, but better in that its geography is crossed by magic and hoboes and lies so odd and bold and true that they may even qualify as fiction. Even if you buy this book for the Seven Hundred Hobo Names alone, you will have gotten more than your money's worth."

Good for planning vacations around holidays.

Quoted: Year 2007 Calendar of Holidays, Events and Observances

World Changing coming to Seattle...

October 28th: SEATTLE - Town Hall presents an evening with Bruce Sterling and Alex Steffen
7:30, Launch Party to follow...
1119 Eighth Avenue (at Seneca Street)

Quoted: In each place, we'll be giving talks and parties to celebrate not only the book, but also the local community of people and organizations who are engaged in worldchanging work. Each event will also feature brief introductory remarks from people we respect and admire. The point is to create an avenue for spotlighting and connecting worldchangers and worldchanging things...and most importantly, to meet one another and have a great time.

I have been enjoying great theater for Cheap for a while, and thus dreading the day I turn 26 (not for a while, but this is a pre-emptive strike...err... research) when I have to pay 2, 3, 4, 5, 10 times as much.

Quoted: The Crew is Seattle Rep's dynamic social and subscriber group for under-40 professionals. Crew members subscribe to the theatre on specially designed Crew Nights and are invited to attend "Members Only" Crew-sponsored events. In addition to providing Crew subscribers with a chance to socialize with old and new friends, Crew events often include unique behind-the-scenes opportunities to hear from the cast, producers, playwrights, and staff at the Seattle Rep about how plays are produced.