November 2007
All entries and daily links from November 2007.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
- You are just like everybody else (yourscenesucks.com)
Stereotype your friends into just a handful of cliched archetypes!
Monday, November 26, 2007
- "The Paris of the West" (SFist)
Richard from Sparkletack takes a look back to when to a time when San Francisco was "the" culture center of the Pacific coast.
- User Experience of the Future (Smashing Magazine)
The state of the art interfaces, though most of Sun's 3D Operating System demo exists already in Windows Vista and Mac OS X Leopard. Before you get too excited about touch screens though, remember your arms will get tired fast dragging objects around.
Disappeared
Wednesday, November 21, 2007 at 9:11am -3 comments
If you've missed my rambling posts full of spelling and grammar mistakes and random links, then you're in luck, I haven't forgotten you, I've just been down sick. Two days after getting a flu shot I came down with what seemed like the flu, but several people have told me that a few people react by coming down with what seems to be the flu.
Now that I've dug myself back out of a pile of work I missed and needed to catch up on work, now I can start catching up on news so I can post random links to the stuff I find. Like this post about that Kindle device.
Friday, November 16, 2007
- Paleontologist discovers "Mesozoic Cow" (NPR)
"[M]ost people think it looks like a vacuum" says paleontologist Paul Sereno of the fossil he discovered and describes as "some kind of Darth Vader dinosaur".
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
- Petition to end the use of bunker fuel
Bunker fuel, used by container ships is 1,000 times dirtier than the diesel fuel. Last week 58,000 gallons were leaked into the San Francisco Bay when a container ship stuck the Bay Bridge. Sign the Friends of the Earth petition to stop the use of bunker fuel.
Oil Spotting
Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 2:11pm 0 comments
This is a public service announcement of sorts.
Following yesterday's oil spill in the San Francisco bay, authorities are asking for our help to track the spread of the oil and report injured animals.
Report oiled wildlife to: 1 (877) 823-6926.
Help authorities track the movement of the spill by reporting oil slicks to O'Brien's Group of Southern California, a private cleanup company assisting with the spill: 1 (985) 781-0804.
The spill was caused by a cargo ship, the Cosco Busan, hitting the Emperor Norton Bay Bridge in heavy fog yesterday morning, cutting a gash in the ships side on the protective skirt around the bridge's pier. The spill was first reported as 140 gallons, but was revised upward to a heartbreaking 58,000 gallons of what the Chronicle reports to be the nastiest kind of fuel oil.
The photos of oil slicks surrounding the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin Headlands, Aquatic Park and the local wildlife covered in oil nearly made brought me to tears.
The Surfrider Foundation is providing updates with on Twitter.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
- Was Radiohead's name your own price release a failure? (djchall.com)
Chris does the math and figures the band might have made about $2.3 million. I paid them $10 for the album, figuring a buck-a-song, like iTunes, is a fair price.
- SF vote for more parking losing in early voting (SF Chronicle)
The vote tally so far has the parking increase proposition loosing, but the proposition to reform and increase transit funding is only barely ahead with 50.7%.
Election Day
Monday, November 5, 2007 at 4:11pm 0 comments
Since it's an odd year, this wouldn't normally be a big election year, but here in San Francisco we'll be going to the polls to elect a new mayor (well, we are pretty certain to be re-electing mayor Gavin Newsom) as well as some major transit related issues.
If you still haven't figured out how you're voting, I recommend The Usual Suspects election guide and I want to urge everyone to vote Yes on A, which will bring much needed reform and accountability (as well as millions of dollars) to the SFMTA/Muni. And vote No on H, which calls for more parking in the city, but would do so at the expense of transit, pedestrians and cyclists along with driving up the cost of housing with greater parking requirements.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
- Toot Toot! Marin Wants a Train, Too (Curbed SF)
Curbed finds the idea of a historic streetcar line through Marin surreal. Ok, so it probably is, but San Francisco's F-Line is a success and the smaller historic cars fit better with the neighborhoods.
- "The Boss of the Sauce" tomato sauce competition
A friend is helping organize the nations largest tomato sauce cookoff and it's coming up pretty quick. It got me to thinking today is one of those cold, foggy, San Francisco days that's perfect for a trip to North Beach for a warm italian meal.
