Posts Tagged ‘san-francisco’

by max on September 30th, 2008
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Well, there’s a missing girl who’s now considered a runaway: A 12-year-old girl missing from her home in San Francisco since Saturday has contacted police and appears to be fine, police said Monday. Dyhemia Young, nicknamed Malaysia, contacted a police inspector Sunday night and is now c ...
by max on September 16th, 2008
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Meraki has been working on setting up repeaters all over San Francisco to setup free wifi for everyone. Of course, the project seems to be centered around the Mission district as of now and there’s pretty much none near Sunset and Richmond areas. You can help spread the free SF Wifi by applyi ...
by max on September 16th, 2008
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Check out Better Streets, which focuses on building better streets for San Francisco.  Above is what Folsom Street would look like trees.  (Take a look at the Street View of current Folsom Street on GoogleMaps here) As you can see, there’s still a lot of room for improvement for the 2nd gre ...
by max on September 16th, 2008
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Check out EveryBlock San Francisco where it tells you nearby crimes, restaurants, inspections, media coverage, and more when you type in a street address. I would say this is really useful for finding out how safe your neighborhood is but as for restaurants, you might as well just use Yelp. ...
by max on September 16th, 2008
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The SF Solar Map shows you solar installations in San Francisco plus the ability to calculate energy savings if you did install solar panels on your roof.  We don’t get much sun here but still, there’s enough sun to save most houses power. What a great selling tool for people intereste ...
by max on September 15th, 2008
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Zombie Walk in San Francisco! Download latest version of Flash to view video!. Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode Well, it looks like I did miss the Zombie Walk this year but here’s some footage to keep you all zombied out today. A “zombie walk” also known as a “zombie m ...
by max on September 10th, 2008
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The Stinking Rose may be the best Italian restaurant in San Francisco! As a long-time visitor to various different clubs in the North Beach area in San Francisco, I would have to say that The Stinking Rose is one of the best Italian restaurants I have tried. Regardless of the fact that some of the h ...
by max on September 10th, 2008
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Roz Savage on her way to rowing the entire Pacific Ocean. Roz Savage is a British woman who has “rowed” her way all the way from San Francisco to Hawaii.  Her next step will be rowing to Australia?  Oh gawd, please be safe. Roz Savage’s rowing site Roz Savage, the Brit who aims t ...
by max on September 7th, 2008
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Here’s an interesting site in San Francisco called Wave Organ near Marina. If you want an unusual escape from the hubbub at San Francisco’s pier attractions, head out to the mysterious Wave Organ. It’s past the St. Francis Yacht Club, at the end of a jetty. Usually no one is out there, and th ...
by max on September 7th, 2008
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Here’s 10 reasons why San Francisco is better than New York City: 1. There’s really no place in SF where you have to worry about getting shot or run over by trucks. 2. San Francisco is surrounded by water including the Pacific Ocean.  There’s always fresh ocean air wind. 3. San Francisco is a ...