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The Scarecrow Project is a new non-profit which proposes to assume management of Scarecrow Video to preserve & grow the vast library.

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A guide to coworking & maker spaces

This week is coworking week, and in celebration I've been working on a new microsite: http://space.seattle.io.

It's a guide to Seattle's coworking & maker spaces! Take a look and let me know what you think.

I could use some help fleshing out descriptions of the spaces, so if you're interested in helping with that please let me know.

This is just the first iteration of the project. Upcoming additions to the site include a map and interviews with folks that run and work at these spaces.

Introduction to JavaScript workshop

I'm also running an introductory JavaScript workshop in September. If you are interested in getting started with learning to code it's a great opportunity to spend an evening learning about the basics of JavaScript.

You can sign up for the event on meetup: http://www.meetup.com/seattle-io/events/194380392/ Or get tickets here: https://ti.to/newsnw/intro-to-javascript-seattle-sep-22-2014

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Get ready to be terrified! This Halloween, VRcade and EMP are teaming up to bring you the world's first virtual reality haunted house. You have never been scared like this before! Sign up now for your chance to win free tickets to the event and news about our upcoming KickStarter campaign. Be first in line to be a part of VR history and Seattle's hottest event this October!

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Look at this video of the Dead Baby Downhill, a bike celebration in the Georgetown neighborhood.

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Macaroni salad isn't as popular on Kickstarter as potato salad. Someone from Seattle has raised $20 for macaroni.

I heard somebody is making really good potato salad. I would like a better salad with macaroni. Well-funded macaroni.

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The Sisterhood of Shred

A documentary about Women riders who provide daily motivation while supporting each other & pushing personal limits on & off the bike

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Terrene Odyssey: Party Based Card Combat

A battle card game based on battle systems from JRPGS

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Why.

Someone in Seattle has so far raised $610 through a crowdfunding campaign to create the word's biggest dick drawing. 

I'm not even going to link to that thing. I know you can find it if you want to.

The drawing will be an inch for every dollar, so currently it'll be a 50+ foot dick.

Noooooooooo.

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Wizard Dodgeball. How could you not want to play a game called Wizard Dodgeball

Look at this corwdfunding campaign for a two-player, turn-based fantasy sports game made by a local game designer.

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Ever wanted to work at a coworking space? Coworking Week is about to happen, so you'll get your chance

Hey, Seattle. Stop working in your living room or bathroom or whatever. Work at one of the local coworking spaces!

Coworking Week happens August 4-9, and it is a perfect opportunity to learn more about what a coworking space is and what it's like to work at one.

You can check out all the different events happening and the places you can work for free next week at collaborativespaces.org/coworking-week

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Behold this thing of beauty. A integrated streetcar system connecting South Lake Union, Downtown, Pioneer Square, Chinatown/International District, First Hill, Yesler Terrace, and Capitol Hill. It brings a tear to my transit loving eye.

The Seattle City Council voted 8-1 yesterday to accept the First Avenue alignment as the preferred alternative for the missing downtown link, and voted to pursue funding to make this thing a reality.

Sure, even if they got the full $75 million they’re applying for a $40 million funding gap would exist. And sure, the City doesn’t have that money and are in fact seeking to acquire that exact sum in November in hopes of preventing a massive shut-down of our existing bus transit system.

But those are pesky details that get in the way of the dream. The dream of transit that makes rich folks and tourists feel good. But hey, if we’re going to have a streetcar system, we might as damn well make it useful by connecting the damn things. 

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Back in the Saddle (by Aaron Eakin)

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Want to empower African American kids? Give them bikes

One kid raised his hand and said, “I like doing the rides. But man, there are a lot of white people out there. It seems like when we go outside of our neighborhood people don’t look like us.”

I asked them if they knew why that is and they said no. Thank goodness one of our ride leaders does a lot of work with youth transformation and empowerment around race and equity. He broke down the redlining of the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s, and the geographic differences. And he explored that out, asking the students what else they notice when they ride to [the whiter, more affluent neighborhoods of] Ballard or Redmond or Alki Beach. The students pointed out those communities have grocery stores, bike lanes, nice roads, libraries, Starbucks. Everyone has nice bikes.

We asked them how that’s different than their communities. “Well, we have 7-11s, we have the corner store. We have people hanging out doing nothing. We don’t have bike lanes. We have potholes. We have a jail. We have payday loans. But we don’t have a grocery store.”

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Seattle, WA

Source: TheKankar (reddit)

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Pocket Guide to Writing SVG – a technical book by a seattle resident

SVG is an awesome format for creating illustrations and animations for the web. This book will give you the basic knowledge needed to get started. And it's written by Seattle person Joni Trythall!

Take a look at the Pocket Guide to Writing SVG.

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