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Huge turnout at the MoveOn "Families Belong Together" rally outside the SeaTac Detention Center

This startup is hoping to cash in on people's inability to turn their phone 90 degrees: amp.businessinsider.com/dreams

Fireboat showing off on this fine sunny day in Elliott Bay

Oh great. The Facebook apology add has followed me into the movie theater. Go away Facebook, you are just being clingy now.

Getting a recruiting email from Amazon that opens with a bunch of Matrix-inspired "red pill" language makes me feel just perhaps they might not have been paying attention to what's been going on in the culture for the past couple years... :(

Not that I would have considered working there under any circumstance.

Seattle friends, if you like Firefly, True Grit, and happen to be free on the evening of June 21st, you could do much worse than to check out an encore screening of Prospect, a scrappy, locally produced SF flick that I really enjoyed, being shown as part of "Best of SIFF". Shot in the Hoh rain forest, it features good performances, an excellent soundtrack, and amazing prop work that really contributes an amazing amount to the world-building.

siff.net/year-round-cinema/pro

🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🦡🍄🍄

_A Software Development Glossary_

(the following definitions have been revised)

Done: actually deployed and accessible to other parts of the system, not just coded and checked in.

Deployed: running on a maintained production machine, not on a box that lives under somebody's desk.

I'd tell you, but then I'd have to make you sign a non-disclosure agreement

siff.net/festival/secret-festi