The blessed and indispensible Things blogs the living heck out of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, exposing my mind to the odd fact that Ian Fleming’s absurdist flying car was a) based on a real car and b) that said car was powered the engine of a WWI era Gotha. Thus, she flew.

City of Seattle South Park Neighborhood Plan. I believe that this plan may be one of the plans disavowed by Mayor Nickels as a consequence of his stiff-arming the neighborhood planning process subsequent to taking office.