Dishin' It

[July 5th, 2006] Portland drinkers, raise a glass to local imbibers Jason Glaspey , Matt King and Geoffrey Lorenzen . They're the trio behind the shiny new website www.unthirsty.com , which uses Google Maps software to pinpoint happy hours at local restaurants and bars 24 hours a day . Although it's only been live since last Thursday, at press time the site already boasted 71 user-posted happy hours. Check it out and add your own haunt to the rapidly growing list. Glaspey's fave watering hole? New Old Lompoc's NoPo outlet, 5th Quadrant. >> Speaking of web chow, seemingly overnight, food-obsessed message board Chowhound (www.chowhound.com) has morphed from a fugly museum of '90s technology into a site that, in addition to actually being navigable, is bursting with goodies like lengthy feature stories by chowhound-in-charge Jim Leff, slick photography, and web radio. Is this Chowhound? And why is the site's modern style eerily reminiscent of the short-lived Chow magazine ? Turns out nerdy yet buff media company CNET has acquired both Chowhound and Instant Comma Inc., parent company of Chow (now online at www.chowmag.com), and plans to merge message board and magazine at www.chow.com later this summer.