16 days ago
nelson : Four Barrel Coffee - opened today; finally, a serious coffee place without fucking wifi
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21 days ago
nelson : Death Star over San Francisco - Some tourist footage from Fleet Week
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27 days ago
nelson : Hotel Union Square - nice looking boutique hotel in downtown SF; recommended by some friends
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deusx : Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue | InfoWorld | News | July 18, 2008 | By Paul Venezia - "An inside source reveals details of missteps and misunderstandings in the curious case of Terry Childs, network kidnapper"
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2 month ago
joshua : Mapping Walkability – San Francisco
Andy Baio : Lee Byron maps walkability in San Francisco - built using Walkscore, Google Maps, and Processing
nelson : SF walkability - Walkscore + Google Maps
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philgyford : 493. South Park, San Francisco. - South Park around 1860 or 1870. One of many great old photos on this University of California site.
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3 month ago
deusx : Moving On (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) - "The other big problem is that San Francisco is fairly shallow. When I go to coffee shops or restaurants I can't avoid people talking about load balancers or databases. The conversations are boring and obsessed with technical trivia, or worse, busine
Jeremy Zawodny : Moving On - Moving On: "San Francisco is filled with distractions. There are always crews tearing up the street, trains that are delayed, buses that have broken down, homeless people begging, friends having parties, and so on."
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3 month ago
43folders : Start!
Rod Begbie : Start! - A one day conference for folks interested in starting their own company. A cheap $200, since this is one of those conferences that's hard to convince your boss to let you expense. I'll be there. #
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3 month ago
nelson : SF kiteboarding regatta - Looks like fine; kiteboarding near Crissy Field all week
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3 month ago
nelson : SF polling places - Sure would be nice if it was the same place every election
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4 month ago
Rod Begbie : Treasure Island Music Festival - Awesome looking two-day music festival in San Francisco -- Justice, Goldfrapp, Spiritualized and The Raconteurs are amongst the acts. Tickets go on sale next week. [via] #
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5 month ago
Rod Begbie : San Francisco Giants Band Together To Score Run | The Onion - I really shouldn't laugh at this, since I now work across the street from AT&T Park, but... heh. [via] #
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5 month ago
plasticbag : I'm a significant fan of Flora Grubb Gardens - San Francisco sometimes weirds me out a bit. I've not really come across anything like a UK Garden Centre, although I'm sure they exist. There are however, these amazing little boutique places. S'weird.
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5 month ago
nelson : Cancel the Examiner - how to prevent the daily litter from this fake newspaper being delivered for free
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nelson : The end of Moose's - SF institution is going entirely away
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7 month ago
nelson : Vanished Waters of SE SF - Historical essay on where the creeks used to be around the Mission
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8 month ago
deusx : The $20,000 Coffee Maker, Step by Step - The New York Times > Dining & Wine > Slide Show > Slide 1 of 11 - "The Japanese siphon bar, which makes brewed coffee, at the Blue Bottle Café in San Francisco. The only halogen-powered model in the United States, the siphon bar was imported from Japan at a cost of more than $20,000."
Greg Storey : They make it sound like $20k is a lot to spend on coffee brewing equipment. - The reality is that Italian machines will run you twice the price.
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8 month ago
deusx : Six Apart - News and Events: Hacking on OpenSocial - "Attention (hackers? Programmers?): If you live in San Francisco, or if you’ll be in town for Macworld next week, you’re invited to join an OpenSocial hackathon at the Six Apart offices in San Francisco."
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8 month ago
nelson : Tiger on the Loose: Can It Happen Here? - New York Times with the local angle!
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nelson : Honk if you miss our tiger! - Ah, San Francisco, whose people will second guess killing a rampaging tiger
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9 month ago
deusx : Metroblogging San Francisco: BREAKING: Tiger dead, 1 person dead, 2 injured at SF Zoo - "A Siberian tiger was shot dead tonight at the San Francisco Zoo after attacking at least three people."
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9 month ago
deusx : Silicon Valley Shaped by Technology and Traffic - New York Times - "But in general, the nerds with minimal social lives like me are well down in the Valley, and the cool kids with the trendy glasses and Prada shoes who like to go to parties are in San Francisco"
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9 month ago
Simon Willison : 5 ways to break past the San Francisco echo-chamber - 5 ways to break past the San Francisco echo-chamber. I like the idea of using the square-footage allocated to different things in Walmart to get an idea for what’s popular outside of geekdom.
deusx : Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen: 5 ways to break past the San Francisco echo-chamber - "In a country where the median HOUSEHOLD income is $48k, the average SF engineer in his late 20s making $130k might want to read a little more about how the rest of the country is split up."
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10 month ago
nelson : 5.6 near San Jose - hopefully not big enough to really hurt much
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