The big stories last week

Maybe it says something about our readers' priorities, or just about the fact that in the end it wasn't that big a surprise, but our exclusive early announcement that Boeing had picked Everett as the final assembly site for the 7E7 didn't draw nearly as much traffic as Mariners contract news. Or, for that matter, our coverage of the new "Lord of the Rings" film.

And the week's other theoretically big story, the emotional sentencing of convicted serial killer Gary Ridgway, didn't even make the list.

None of those, however, was the actual No. 1 story on seattlepi.com ...

Top clicks (most read articles):

1. Highway workers lament increase of human waste
2. From book to movie: Changes made in the translation
3. Lord! We love this movie
4. Agent: Garcia probably gone
5. Million-dollar Army mom sounds off about her 'Survivor' tour of duty
6. Lewis will give strained shoulder time to recover
7. M's cut deal with Spiezio, trade Colbrunn for McCracken
8. M's continue to attempt winter deals
9. M's call off Vizquel deal
10. Everett lands 7E7

Top picks (most e-mailed articles):

1. Highway workers lament increase of human waste
2. State jobs moving to workers overseas
3. Cold Heat comes up with a hot new way to solder
4. Generation Y needs new business model
5. Lord! We love this movie
6. Everett lands 7E7
7. We'll all recycle or else, City Council decides
8. Feds claim adopted 'orphans' had parents
9. From book to movie: Changes made in the translation
10. Senseless gunfire changes a young life