“Seattle fog” courtesy of The SunBreak Flickr pool’s Simple Insomnia

It’s cold and blustery outside, but Cliff Mass says we’re going to stay dry for a few days, with only the possibility of fog. Personally, I’m all for fog. We don’t get enough, in my book. If we do get a pea-souper, I welcome any and all fog photos to our SunBreak Flickr pool. Drop ’em in there–you know it’s free to join, right?

I know it seems like Black Friday was just yesterday–and it was–but thanks to internet technology, TechFlash can report that Amazon gained significantly on WalMart, so far as Black Friday online traffic goes. Amazon’s traffic jumped from a 9.6 percent share in ’08 to 12.4 percent in ’09. In other online news, the Seattle Public Schools new student assignment maps are up.

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In news featuring guns, a Seattle attorney is suing the city for $1 in damages, after being told to leave the Southwest Community Center when he arrived with a permitted Glock. His principled stand suffers from the bad timing of fellow pro-gun Seattleites though.

Last night a man was shot to death near St. James Cathedral on First Hill, just a week after last week’s First Hill shooting. And in South Seattle, a motorist had his tire shot out–a group of 10 to 15 teens may have been doing target practice with a .45 caliber handgun.

Here at The SunBreak this week, we talked over the Metro bus service restored by the King County Council, Seattle’s parking fine increase, and the likelihood of getting mugged at a bus stop.

Seth NIT-picked Seattle U’s basketball team and reviewed Ray Charles singing “Old Man River” (for as yet unknown reasons), and I went downtown to get an enhanced driver’s license and shop for booze, which I realize are two things that do not go together. At the movies, Audrey pointed out that “nothing says Thanksgiving like Asian gore.”