You probably want my Puget Sound (Seattle + Eastside) Outdoor Summer Movies for 2012 post, not this one!

The long-awaited Seattle summer is almost here. There’s nothing more fun than heading outdoors on a July or August evening to catch a classic movie at a local park. The most popular nights are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday. On some nights you can choose between two or three different movies.

Take some snacks, a blanket, and a low-profile folding chair. Some of these events are free, others have a suggested donation per person or per family.

Here are all of the movies that I know about for 2011 in Seattle and on the Eastside (scroll to July or August if necessary). Leave a comment if I’ve missed any:

More information on times, accommodations, and ticket prices are available at each venue:

• Bellevue
• Edmonds
• Fremont
• Kirkland
• Magnuson Park
• Marymoor Park
• Mercer Island
• Red Hook Brewery
• West Seattle

• Network World: 3D Conferencing Hits the Enterprise – “Immersive virtual meeting environments allow participants to use avatars to walk around a virtual environment, and are useful tools for collaborating on and prototyping 3D designs, such as new products, buildings, or factories. Companies are also finding them useful training environments, since meeting managers can create virtual replicas of hospitals, assembly lines, or sales rooms and have employees practice skills without endangering themselves or equipment.“
• ReadWriteHack: 5 Free E-Books and Tutorials on Lua – “I thought this would be an excellent occasion to do a free e-book round-up for Lua. Whether you want to learn it for game scripting, extending Renoise or building Web servers, these references will help you get started with the language.“
• HttpWatch: Investigating the Network Performance Of Firefox 5 – “The performance benefit we measured in this scenario was substantial. We consistently found that the screenshot image loaded about twice as fast in Firefox 5 as it did in Firefox 4.“
• Matt Might: How to Email – “The problem with email is that people think it’s electronic mail. Email is not mail in electronic form. You are not writing a letter. “

• Stephen O’Grady: Why You Should Pay Attention to Node.js – “plicit in node is a fundamental rejection of traditional I/O. It’s pushing an asynchronous agenda with its event loops, based on the assumption that concurrency cannot be achieved with a thread per connection. Having just recently suffered through a Daring Fireball induced meltdown of RedMonk.com as Apache spawned dozens of threads, each waiting for the connections to complete, I’m sympathetic to this perspective.“
• TinyGrab: Social Screenshot Sharing – “TinyGrab 2.0 makes simple screenshot sharing social. Taking the critically acclaimed original TinyGrab and building on it. TinyGrab 2.0 adds a tonne of new features and proves on the existing service.“
• Twig: The Flexible, Fast, and Secure Template Engine For PHP – “When it comes to template engines in PHP, many people will tell you that PHP itself is a template engine. But even if PHP started its life as a template language, it did not evolve like one in the recent years. As a matter of fact, it doesn’t support many features modern template engines should have nowaday“
• The Internet Craftsmanship Museum – “Now featuring the Internal Combustion Engine Collection on loan from the Miniature Engineering Museum and highlighting the best craftsmen from around the world and their miniature projects in metal and wood.“