Good riddance. Credit: Erikona/Getty Images
Good riddance.
Good riddance. Erikona/Getty Images

The Seattle Times has determined an unofficial name for our hockey team: They spent a month on this unofficial poll over there. Though it seems tantamount to nothing—but Nathalie, what’s the harm in speculation? In getting excited for our NHL future? The harm, dear reader, is that these assholes chose the Seattle Sockeyes as the unofficial name for the hockey team. I get it, salmon and also hockey players punch people. That’s a little too obvious for my taste. The Seattle Kraken had my vote (since apparently no one liked the Seattle Freeze as much as I did). Now? We mourn.

Northgate will be the home of “Seattle Sockeyes” practice facility: See how dumb that looks? So dumb. Anyway, NHL Seattle is planning on building a practice facility with three ice rinks at Northgate Mall. It will cost $70 million. This is part of a 15-year redevelopment plan for Northgate Mall. It’s also meant to anchor hockey into Pacific Northwest culture.

Has the cat killer turned to dogs? Thurston County has seen its fair share of animal mutilations this year. All of the victims that turned up were mutilated cats. Today, passerby stumbled upon a mutilated dog.

We love you, Capitol Hill Seattle Blog: No, no, that’s not just another, sometimes-very-accurate, name for The Stranger. CHS does a ton of important, hyper-local and in-depth reporting that we all benefit from. It’s CHS’s one year anniversary of coming back to daily news coverage. Check ’em out.

No address, no problem: Homeless people can vote. An address is not a requirement for registering to vote. Ballots can be sent to shelters or even intersections, according to this KUOW article. That’s important for the thousands of homeless people in King County.

Oregon is in the news for two very different reasons right now: The first is that an Oregon man won the Half Moon Bay Pumpkin Weigh Off for the fourth time. His pumpkin weighed over a ton. The other top Oregon news story is that someone drove through a crowd of protestors. They were demonstrating on behalf of a man shot and killed by police.

Space X takes flight: Sorry, those weren’t aliens in the sky. It was just Space X launching their Falcon 9 rocket. Back to business.

Daniel Radcliffe worked as a fact-checker at The New Yorker: It was for a day. Maybe even an hour (We don’t have a fact checker for everything, here, okay?). Dan, of Harry Potter and nude Equus fame, was prepping for a role on Broadway where he played a fact-checker. It’s a fun read. I forgot about all stress and am now going to reread all of Harry Potter, something I started independently of this article yesterday but am feeling more strongly about after reading this article.

After that reprieve, back to your regularly scheduled programming: Trump has declared that Kavanaugh is completely innocent. I wonder if the Supreme Court plays into the I scratch your back, you scratch mine mentality. What an interesting and depressing future we have ahead of us. Please vote!

Here lies Google+, the social media that never was: A boy I knew in middle school named Rowan was the only person I knew with a calculator watch and a Google+ account. He was really the only person I knew with a Google+ account in general, but the calculator watch thing was too cool not to mention. Anyway, Google is pulling the plug on Google+ after the Wall Street Journal reported that Google had exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of people and didn’t tell anyone. A security bug allowed “496,951 users’ full names, email addresses, birth dates, gender, profile photos, places lived, occupation and relationship status” to be exposed, reports TechCrunch. I hope Rowan is okay.

Facebook wants you to forget about those privacy breaches and buy its new tablet: The tablet—or, smart screen—is Alexa-enabled and has a camera. It’s called “Portal.” Weirdly, it’s also an Alexa competitor. The webcams are so you can let Facebook spy on your living room have video chats with your family and friends. Who knows.

A fun fact for you about everyone’s favorite film, Stuart Little:

That limo that crashed in upstate New York wasn’t supposed to be on the road: The crash killed 20 people making it the deadliest U.S. transportation accident in nearly a decade, reports CNN. The limo had failed an inspection and was not authorized on the road. Not only that, but the driver wasn’t properly licensed to drive the vehicle. Four other vehicles at the same limo company had been pulled off the road in the past.

Hurricane Michael is brewing off the coast of Florida: Bad news for the 90 percent of the population named Michael, including our intern, my older brother, and Michael (B.) Jordan. It’s worse news for the Southeast. Florida Governor Rick Scott has already declared a state of emergency. Michael will make his debut on Wednesday.

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Nathalie Graham covers anything she finds fun, weird, or interesting. You can find a lot of that in her column, Play Date. Her work has also appeared around town in The Seattle Times, GeekWire, and the...