You know, you kind of want a guy who has a typography tattoo to put a little more effort into a cardboard sign and maybe elevate the medium a bit... Photo courtesy of Jeff Carlson from the Seattlest Flickr Pool.......

Confluence of Apple and local tech talent: Seattle startup UrbanSpoon (a restaurant review site with Yelp-like feedback features, but for serious foodies) has written a free app for the new iPhone. Says co-founder Ethan Lowry: "When Apple announced that they were going to allow third parties to write apps for the iPhone, we applied, and they accepted." How does it work? Part magic eight ball, part slot machine: you shake the phone, and it......

In the New Yorker's Talk of the Town this week, they mention the IdreamofHillaryIdreamofBarack website, at which people who have dreamed of either candidate are invited to share what went down (and recently, for balance, McCain dreamers are invited to contribute, too). It's pretty much what you'd expect, but the sole Seattle mention so far is disheartening. It doesn't say if the contributor is from Seattle or not, but either way, is this really how......

The snow is falling, our dear Seattle friends, it simply isn't falling here. Whistler just announced it is open for business, bagging the ultimate ski resort coup of cutting powder before we cut the turkey. Of course you want to go, but in fondly recalling the days of 1998 when the US-CA exchange rate swung wildly the other way, you fear you can really only afford to stay home and play Ski Resort Extreme Halo......

Mac released its new Leopard operating system on Friday, and low-tech Seattlest wonders what's up. So we asked Aron Beal, a Web applications developer and genuine Mac nerd, to tell us. 1) What's the deal with Leopard--is it a new thing, or just a normal upgrade, or what? Leopard is a full fledged operating system release, similar to the one you might have made when upgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows XP (or to Vista).......

Oh, Apple, Inc. America hates you 'cuz you're beautiful (it's all that plastic surgery!). Seattlest mostly just hates you because you won't let us tinker with your products. You're even getting charged with monopoly, along with AT&T, and Seattlest couldn't have been more smug when we heard about that news. But what's this? You say you want third-party applications on your iPhone? From Steve's keyboard to ours, via apple.com: Let me just say it: We......

There was a time when every urban iPod listener had a choice to make regarding personal speakers. Do you use some pair of headphones from the 80s with the orange foam on them that you found in the spare electronics box in the garage to disguise your identity as an iPod owner? Or do you fly the snowy whites your iPod came with and announce your Apple Cool to everyone on the bus, and......

LAist was comped front row seats by the Dodgers due to Malingering being struck by a foul ball last week, and she came back with some great photos, and earlier made fun of 4th of July on Venice Beach. But the biggest stories of the week was that the Mayor's Hot Tamale was revealed, and that a Kwik-E-Mart was erected in Burbank. Phillyist was busy doing the Fourth of July up right, exercising their......

If you can't tell what that picture is supposed to be, it's Seattlest's Nano strapped to the back of Seattlest's phone (which is, itself, an mp3 phone), which is as close to an iPhone as we'll be getting for the time being. Not that we're above a little gadget humping every now and then, but we're going to sit this one out. People with less restraint (or fatter wallets) than Seattlest will soon be......

As the world holds it's breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Super Bowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated the SXSW band listings and got called "punk rock" for their efforts by MTV. And an ice storm swept through the area. Bostonist said goodbye to John Kerry's plans......

Steve Jobs just unveiled the new iPhone in his keynote speech at Macworld in San Francisco. If you're a Mac freak you already know this because you've been sucking down the Mac Insider streaming coverage like crack through a straw. If not, would you just lookit this thing? Photo: Endgaget.com It has an accelerometer in it for chrissake. It is a phone, wide-screen iPod, and "internet communicator" all in one. No buttons, all done by......