SomaFM grooves
SOMA FM streams beloved CliqHop and delightful Groove Salad.
September 18, 2007
April 29, 2007
ClienteleI 1: Coachella
Security is silky here, when it’s noticeable at all.
There’s not much to secure. This is an indie-rock
festival — a gathering of property-owners,
memoir-writers, biochem majors, workshop-takers, etc.
-- Coachella 2007.
October 16, 2006
kizmeet, a slick 'missed connections'
kizmeet: example:
September 25, 2006
Ani Phyo
Raw like sushi: Ani Phyo.
June 21, 2006
sf metblogs
sf.metblogs, the thinking man's sFist.
Example: film fest.
June 10, 2006
Silicon Valley is grown, not built. By Paul Graham
Shorter Silicon Valley.
Need nerds (smart creative fanoys, not computer operators)
and rich people (investors and mentors within an hour's drive),
nice place to live (San Fanciscso, Boston, Seattle, Buffalo, Pittsburgh)
Need free thinking ofbeat (Portland, Boulder, New York, ) not stodgy (
Los Angeles, Las VegasSaint Louis, Detroit) bureaucrats.
Silicon Valley is grown, not built (comments).
-- Paul Graham
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May 31, 2006
April 05, 2006
Sand Hill Slave
Sand Hill Slave is not a blackberry fan.
The interview.
March 27, 2006
Undocumented physician
Undocumented physician, Stephen Brian Turner, doctors immigrants in California.
March 03, 2006
CA Quake mapped
Earthquakes: CA quake map.
December 25, 2005
Tax for subway to the sea
Los Angeles Councilman Bill Rosendahl is making waves
with his proposal to raise Los Angeles County’s sales tax
in order to fund a subway to the County’s beach.
Of course, if you look at the ballot measures from the
last two times L.A. approved a sales tax to fund general
transit projects, you would see that we already have a
world-class transit system with subways from Sylmar
to Seal Beach, paralleling the 405, and down the length
of Wilshire Boulevard.
Of course 2/3 of the projects promised in 1980 and 1990
have never been built, yet we continue to pay the taxes!
October 30, 2005
Who needs Prop 79 for drugs in California ?
Proposition 79 would use the purchasing power of the State of
California to negotiate the best price for up to ten million
Californians, who now pay more than anybody else in the world
for prescription drugs.
* Prop. 78 is completely voluntary for drug companies: they
are free to choose whether or not to offer discounts.
* Prop. 79 has an enforcement mechanism. If a drug company
refuses to provide discounts, the state can shift business away
from that company and buy more from other drug companies that
offer discounts.
Above is from the so-called Better California campaign site for
Prop 79 *.
Klingian Question of the Day:
What is preventing buyers from comparison shopping
between drug companies, either now or under Prop 78 ?
October 13, 2005
Toll road to Silicon Valley ?
As part of a long-term plan to improve traffic flow on I-680, the
Alameda County Congestion Management Agency has concluded that it is
feasible to convert of a section of the southbound carpool lane to a
Smart Carpool Lane or High Occupancy Toll (HOT) Lane.
Carpools would continue to use the lane for free while solo drivers
could use the lane for a fee that would vary depending on the level
of congestion in the Smart Lane. The fee is intended to make excess
capacity available to paying motorists while guaranteeing a
reasonable travel time for all users of the lane.
September 14, 2005
Altamont Press' RailRoad News
Altamont Press' RailRoad News and foamers' discussion.
History and trainspotting, mainline freight and commuter trains.
August 31, 2005
Party Car on CalTrain
August 30, 2005
Enoch Choi
Enoch Choi thoughts and many many links.
Nicely designed personal log.
And more links.
August 06, 2005
Dan Gillmor
Formerly one of the MSM popular press's better technology writers,
bayosphere's Dan Gillmor didn't stay solo for long.
July 04, 2005
lancemannion
Orson Scott Card: Science Fiction writer or
wholly derivative polemicist ? At Lance Mannion.
June 24, 2005
Riander, reDUX
Riander, travails of a user experience and user-centred desisgn
consultant. Who better to run DUX, aka Design for User Experience ?
May 24, 2005
Union City intermodal station
Union City, CA intermodal station will connect BART, Dumbarton Rail,
Capitol Corridor, and ACE Rail.
May 14, 2005
A bear in the city
A bear in the city, artful San Francisco-based culture snippets.
April 10, 2005
Craig's List and Google Maps
Craig's List and Google Maps merge, and the result is good.
See for rent and for sale listings plotted on a map,
pins colourized to show availability of pictures,
drill down the matches to a feature set or price band.
April 06, 2005
Housing Bubble Bust
Housing Bubble Bust is San Francisco-centric and frequently updates
its headlines.
Also a good list of links (at page bottom).