Stupid Patent of the Month: Wetro Lan Sues Entire Network Security Industry With Expired Garbage Patent
A patent for a non-firewall firewall that actually makes your system dumber? So good that a patent troll bought it and now you might, too. Daniel Nazer writes.
Hypnogogia, Community and the Night: The Cabiri’s Ezid
Thoughts on the Cabiri’s production of Ezid and contemporary mythmaking.
The Escape
A getaway weekend in the country doesn’t go as planned. Fiction by William Thomas Sherman.
Big Choices, Fake Storefronts: Seattle Musical Theatre’s 1776
What if Seattle’s theater community is actually a Potemkin village? Omar Willey muses on Seattle Musical Theatre’s latest production.
Haiku 30
Another hokku cycle from Andrew Hamlin for your summertime blues.
Public Means Public
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray has apparently approved the possible privatization of two crucial downtown city parks. What’s next? Jeff Stevens reports.
Facial Discrimination
In a world obsessed with beauty, living with a facial disfigurement can be hard. Neil Steinberg explores the past and present to find out what it’s like to look different.
Science, Law and Art: Steps to Solving the Bee Problem
With honeybee populations on the decline, scientists, lawyers, and even artists have set out to save humanity’s most important pollinators.
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