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Jeff Bezos & Hillary Clinton, together at last for Kindle announcement next week

Who would have ever guessed we’d see these two people on stage together? Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Amazon… Read More

Jersey grandmother to play ‘Solitaire Blitz’ for 30 hours to set Guinness Record, raise money for clean water

File this under awesome. A 68-year-old grandmother from New Jersey is going to play Solitaire Blitz for 30 hours to… Read More

Where the Hell is Matt? North Korea of all places

It looks like Matt Harding — the Internet celeb best known for his wacky worldwide dancing antics at Where the… Read More

Mars Hill Church, now with its own music label

Rock, rap and Jesus? Seattle-based ministry Mars Hill is launching a record label to serve and attract its growing membership.… Read More

New research: Meditation makes you a better geek

As if you needed one more reason to convince your boss that you need a break at work, the University… Read More

The Oatmeal raises $100k for charity, and counting, after legal threat from FunnyJunk

Matthew Inman, the Seattle-based webcomic artist better known as The Oatmeal, has raised more than $100,000 to fight cancer and… Read More

Wacky weekend fun: Pinball mania arrives in Seattle

I grew up with an old pinball machine in the basement, spending countless hours knocking the silver ball against the… Read More

Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012

Ray Bradbury, the legendary science fiction writer known for landmark novels including Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles, has died at… Read More

Craig McCaw pays $35M for classic Ferrari — most expensive car ever sold

If you’ve ever driven off a car lot feeling like you spent more than you should have, you can take… Read More

Geek Made: Squirt-gun robot, electromagnetic fish tank and more from Mini Maker Faire

The makers were out in force this weekend at Seattle Center, sharing their squirt-gun-shooting robots, laser-cut dollhouses, and the crazy… Read More

Pioneer Square tower plan: Jenga puzzle meets Borg ship

For a while now we’ve been keeping an eye on developments in Pioneer Square as the Seattle neighborhood tries to… Read More

On the auction block: Bill Gates’ old Porsche 911

Does a Bill Gates pedigree command a premium in the market for classic cars? Over the years I’ve spent more… Read More

Photo booth of the future: Star Studio will drive teens wild

Earlier this week, I popped by Coinstar’s analyst day in Bellevue to get an inside look at some of the… Read More

How to make a shower karaoke with your iPad

Have you heard this coming from your neighbor’s shower in the morning: “Just small town girl, livin’ in a lonely… Read More

‘The Bachelorette’: KOMO says tweetup boosts ratings

Can tweeting really boost ratings? If KOMO-TV’s tweetup event last night for The Bachelorette is any indication, then yes. The… Read More

Photo of the day: Gates and Buffett play ping pong

Now, here’s a pairing we’d love to see at GeekWire’s upcoming ping-pong tournament. At the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting earlier… Read More

Geek Made: Matthew Parker’s Amazing 10,000 Straw Project

Visitors to the Viking Union Gallery at Western Washington University are greeted with a dazzling display of 10,000 black and… Read More

Arizona man wins 20-minute space trip by walking around Seattle’s Space Needle halo

Gregory Schneider, a 28-year-old father of two from Arizona, beat out more than 50,000 applicants to win a trip to… Read More

Edvard Munch’s ‘The Scream’ just sold for $119 million, and Paul Allen isn’t the buyer

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen owns sports teams, massive yachts and even his own island, though that San Juan island property… Read More

The latest influence score to obsess over: Klouchebag

If you say nothing else about social media, you can at least say it’s developing a sense of humor. Mean?… Read More

Free Klout trips a success, says Seattle tourism bureau

What’s the price of influence? It may just be a free trip to Seattle. While the digerati, including Wired in… Read More

Photos: Intuit uses downtown Seattle street as driving range

Some people had visions of duffers driving golf balls against the sides of skyscrapers after hearing about Intuit’s plans to… Read More

First piece of Seattle’s Space Shuttle Trainer arrives

Seattle’s Museum of Flight today unpacked the first piece of its new Space Shuttle Trainer, unveiling one of three engine… Read More

Downtown driving range: Intuit closing Seattle’s 2nd Avenue for golf stunt

Update: See this follow-up post with pictures from the event. Intuit, the company behind the Quicken financial software, is shutting… Read More

Comedian Jon Stewart rips Google glasses and Instagram’s $1B valuation

The weird and wild gyrations of the technology industry are certainly open to ridicule. And comedian Jon Stewart of The… Read More

Coming to Bravo: A reality TV show starring Cheezburger’s Ben Huh

“Huh?” That’s the working title of new reality TV show that Bravo announced today featuring none other than Ben Huh,… Read More

Photo Gallery: Weird scenes from Emerald City Comicon

It’s always the pleasantly strange things at Emerald City Comicon that catch my eye. A wizard eating a burrito. Darth… Read More

Comicon poll: Which superhero would you elect U.S. president?

Let’s take a pause for a moment from the heated rhetoric and political grandstanding coming out of the Barack Obama… Read More

Comedy superhero web series premieres at Seattle Comicon

Super Friends meets The Office? That, in a nutshell, is how Seattle production company Moon Bullet Studios describes its new… Read More

Seattle’s Space Needle soon to be inside Angry Birds Space

First, Angry Birds became part of the Space Needle. Now, the Space Needle is literally becoming part of Angry Birds.… Read More