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Sound Garden accessible again

Upon moving back to Seattle in 2000, one of my favorite discoveries was the Sound Garden, a public art project built by Doug Hollis in 1982 and 1983. It's on the grounds of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which adjoins Magnuson Park, a huge Seattle park that used to be a naval air station.

The Sound Garden consists of 12 towers, each with an attached contraption consisting of a hollow metal pipe and a metal fin or rudder. The rudders catch the wind off Lake Washington, and the contraptions rotate around the central pole of each tower … Read more

Microsoft lets people drive in online map

In what looks like a newfangled video racing game, Microsoft is previewing new technology in Windows Live Local that shows a street-level view from a driver's perspective and includes an interactive element that lets a user "drive" down the street using a keyboard's Up and Down arrows.

On the bottom half of the screen, a cartoon car navigates the city streets in a view that combines an aerial satellite map and a road map with street names. Users can change the border of the driver's window to "race car" or "sports car,&… Read more