Cryptic tech billboards in San Francisco have a cultural impact : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/18/nx-s1-5746115/billboards-san-francisco-tech-ai-advertising-marketing
"The billboards here are actually something that makes me feel really pessimistic about the city," said Allie, a San Francisco resident who was among the dozen or so people to comment on current billboard trends on NPR member station KQED's Forum talk show last summer. (Forum typically doesn't give the full names of callers.) "They kind of give this feeling that like the rumors are true and tech has overrun the city, and that's the whole culture here now."
enoughalready » San Francisco Is Eating Itself
http://alexcastle.net/2014/01/17/san-francisco-is-eating-itself/#comment-432
It’s just such a bummer to see a place that I remember as openminded, laid back, creative, nonjudgmental erupting with all this anger, everyone pointing fingers, blaming people that really aren’t to blame. Come on, guys. You’re better than this.
enoughalready » San Francisco Is Eating Itself
http://alexcastle.net/2014/01/17/san-francisco-is-eating-itself#comment-432
It’s just such a bummer to see a place that I remember as openminded, laid back, creative, nonjudgmental erupting with all this anger, everyone pointing fingers, blaming people that really aren’t to blame. Come on, guys. You’re better than this.
Welcome to the Pacific Pinball Museum
http://pacificpinball.org/
Mission Statement: The Pacific Pinball Museum (PPM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching science, art and history through pinball, and to preserve and promote one of America's great pastimes.
Welcome to the Pacific Pinball Museum
http://pacificpinball.org
Mission Statement: The Pacific Pinball Museum (PPM) is a non-profit organization dedicated to teaching science, art and history through pinball, and to preserve and promote one of America's great pastimes.
Caltrain goes broke, will likely wipe out weekend, night and midday trains - San Jose Mercury News
http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_14803959?nclick_check=1
"Caltrain has gone broke and will likely need to wipe out half its service — including weekend, nighttime and midday trains — officials warned Thursday, bracing passengers for a major shake-up to the popular commuter line that links San Francisco to the South Bay.
"This is not an April Fools' joke," Caltrain CEO Mike Scanlon told the agency's board of directors. "This is real. We're at a watershed moment where there's a possibility this railroad could go away.""
Tiger bread - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_bread
Huh. I wondered why I'd never heard of it before we lived out there, or seen it since. That's some tasty stuff. "It is sold as "Dutch crunch" in delis throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, but is little known in the United States outside that region."
BlockChalk - reading a chalk
http://blockchalk.com/89369b9360fc
"Whoever supplies the pink "thank you" bags to Chinatown must do good business. How about a new color? "
emptyage : Are You Going to San Francisco
http://emptyage.honan.net/mth/2009/07/are-you-going-to-san-francisco.html
"1. Live in San Francisco. 2. Jump in the water. 3. Eat the food .4. Get a bike 5. Make real friends 6. Be real yourself"
Does A Private Company Own Your Muni Arrival Times?: News: SFAppeal
http://sfappeal.com/news/2009/06/who-owns-sfmta-arrival-data.php
"When Steven Peterson created Routesy, an iPhone app that lets riders see Muni arrival times, the last thing he expected was to hear was that Muni's real-time arrival times were actually the property of a private company located in the East Bay. But that's exactly what happened, when Alex Orloff, COO of a company calling itself NextBus Information Systems, contacted him in August, 2008, demanding a "straight revenue split" or a "data licensing agreement" from Peterson. "
SNUGGIE™ PUB CRAWL - San Francisco, CA - Date: TBD
http://www.snuggiepubcrawl.com/Locations/SF
"In response to the stunning public embrace of the warm and cuddly Snuggie™, the SnuggiePubCrawl.com Team is hosting the first-ever Snuggie™ Pub Crawl in San Francisco, CA. Even though it's just a blanket with sleeves, we're sure that you'll enjoy a winter evening spent drinking with friends and the Snuggie™."
Things to do and eat in Silicon Valley
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/things-to-do-and-eat-in-silicon-valley
Managed to do quite a few of these things while I was out in California. "Summer is the time for family and friends to come and visit, so I took a little while and tried to think about things to do and places to eat."
Skyline Drive - San Francisco Travel Story - IgoUgo
http://www.igougo.com/story-s1213784-San_Francisco-Skyline_Drive.html
California State Route 35 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_State_Route_35
Bluebottle Coffee Company
http://www.bluebottlecoffee.net
"Microroasters of organic and shade grown coffee"
Why San Francisco's network admin went rogue | InfoWorld | News | July 18, 2008 | By Paul Venezia
http://www.infoworld.com/archives/emailPrint.jsp?A=/article/08/07/18/30FE-sf-network-lockout_2.html&R=printThis
"An inside source reveals details of missteps and misunderstandings in the curious case of Terry Childs, network kidnapper"
Moving On (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought)
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/movingon
"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, business an
The $20,000 Coffee Maker, Step by Step - The New York Times Dining & Wine Slide Show Slide 1 of 11
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/01/23/dining/20080123_COFFEE_SLIDESHOW_index.html
"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."
Six Apart - News and Events: Hacking on OpenSocial
http://www.sixapart.com/about/news/2008/01/hacking_on_opensocial.html
"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."
Metroblogging San Francisco: BREAKING: Tiger dead, 1 person dead, 2 injured at SF Zoo
http://sf.metblogs.com/archives/2007/12/breaking_tiger_dead_2_people_i.phtml
"A Siberian tiger was shot dead tonight at the San Francisco Zoo after attacking at least three people."
Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen: 5 ways to break past the San Francisco echo-chamber
http://andrewchen.typepad.com/andrew_chens_blog/2007/12/youre-not-avera.html
"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."
Silicon Valley Shaped by Technology and Traffic - New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/technology/20cluster.html?_r=2&ei=5090&emc=rss&en=7e500d97dbe40606&ex=1355893200&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&partner=rssuserland
"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"
Bern Rauch
http://www.artaud.org/Member_Pages/Rauch_Bern/home.html
"Studio #302. Paintings on canvas and digital compositions as giclee prints."
Finding Nemo at a Game Studio's Steampunk Office Suite
http://www.wired.com/culture/design/multimedia/2007/06/gallery_nemo_office
"The company's loft, in the trendy South of Market district, has been painstakingly outfitted to resemble The Nautilus from Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea."
Golden Gate Renaissance Festival 2007
http://www.sffaire.com
Calif. interchange collapses after fire - Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070429/ap_on_re_us/highway_collapse
"A section of freeway that funnels traffic off the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge collapsed early Sunday after a gasoline tanker truck overturned and caught fire beneath it, authorities said."
Exploratorium: Opportunities for Artists
http://www.exploratorium.edu/about/air.html
John Manoogian III » Blog Archive » Why I Left
http://blog.jm3.net/2007/01/17/why-i-left#comments
"I felt that by living in Detroit, I was working harder than I would in other cities to connect with people who understood the sorts of projects that I love to build, and that it was really hard to find audiences and collaborators for, well, most things i
In search of the transcendent taqueria / Our critic puts 85 beloved Bay Area burrito joints to the test
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/13/FDGL8L16681.DTL
"Burritos are nationally known as the soul food of San Francisco, but how many burrito joints could there possibly be?"
LawGeek: San Francisco Dates, San Francisco Nights: Part Two
http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2006/12/san_francisco_d.html
"Alright, I got good feedback on Part One of this list, so here are ten more top SF dates"
LawGeek: San Francisco Dates, San Francisco Nights: Part One
http://lawgeek.typepad.com/lawgeek/2006/10/san_francisco_d.html
"Below are some of my favorites, but there were so many, I'm going to split them up into posts of ten, so keep watching for more ideas."
Daily Kos: San Francisco Values
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/11/28/15421/031
"Since O'Reilly boycotts everything he hates, I look forward to his boycott of all Bay Area-origin products. Same with every conservative who bashes San Francisco and the Bay Area."
Metroblogging San Francisco: Trivia Nights at SF bars
http://sf.metblogs.com/archives/2006/10/trivia_nights_at_sf_bars.phtml
"There are bars all over the city which participate in the nationally-run Brainstormer Pub Quiz trivia nights and there are also bars which forego national affiliation for creating their own quiz nights."
Techshop, The SF Bay Area's Only Open-Access Public Workshop -- Welcome
http://www.techshop.ws
"TechShop is a fully-equipped open-access workshop and creative environment that lets you drop in any time and work on your own projects at your own pace."
Sci-Fi Hi-Fi - Blog Archive - Party Time, Excellent
http://weblog.scifihifi.com/2006/07/23/party-time-excellent#comments
"Even if all of the pre-WWDC activity at work wasn’t enough to remind me that my favorite hot weather nerd confab is rapidly approaching, I would definitely not have forgotten because of the many emails and personal queries I’ve been getting from you
Are you prepared?
http://72hours.org
"In a major disaster, it might be several days before vital services are restored."
Weekly World News - SAN FRANCISCO HIRES NUDE WOMEN TO PROTECT GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/politics/61722
"Hopefully, that will keep religious radicals from coming near the structure."
:: BOUCHEE RESTAURANT :: 1+831.626.7880
http://www.boucheecarmel.com/index.htm
"The 49-seat restaurant offers a menu highly influenced by the bounty of the local land and sea."
(Sunny) California Swaps and Stores
http://www.bluefeathertech.com/technoid/calswapindex.html
"What follows are listings of electronic-specific swap meets and stores in the SF Bay Area, and a few outside of it."
Goodvibes.com
http://www.goodvibes.com/index.aspx
Welcome to the store at 826 Valencia
http://www.826valencia.org/store
Easily one of the top five pirate stores
Fabric8 - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/ioZnn1wblrFw9ynMqi6v0Q
"Fabric 8 has been selling awesome bags and t-shirts online since 1995 and they've finally opened a physical store in the Mission. "
Kinokuniya Stationery and Gift - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/oml49XIewZrlbd7srw43yA
"They have a plethora of writing utensils, cards, stationary, and Sanrio-like gifts. I adore their notebook section. It's definitely worth a look through if you're into that cutesy stuff."
Agent Provocateur - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/2GmPf7Z2669NNBSM_7ko2Q
"Ladies and gentlemen, the bar has been raised in San Francisco when it comes to sexy undergarments and the people who love them."
Coffee to the People - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/HZThElQfFLIqGc8ZVdRh7g?hrid=M2zXbZiQbpl-UbPbDF0R4w
"I really like that this place *cares* about good coffee, even if they don't always hit the mark. Caring is half the battle...My first coffee experience here was pretty good - not as good as Blue Bottle or my beloved Cafe Organica (RIP) - but pretty good
The Exploratorium - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/0RXDIJ4NhzUNMU2WpUN2XQ?hrid=lXYJQ5UyogEig_6rXoaTRA
"A hands-on museum with dozens of interactive exhibits explaining how and why things work. Even those with little or no interest in science will find themselves fascinated by a lot of the facts and figures told in simple laymen's terms."
Green Apple Books - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/ngUUOEyCHdLkGnO1I5M4Vg
"Welcome to Green Apple Books and Music. Our store on Clement Street in San Francisco has been a destination for bibliophiles for over 38 years. We buy, sell, and trade new and used books, CDs, and DVDs seven days a week."
Mariachi's Taqueria - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/ar5vGVE-EjpbbFzlX0h_mQ?hrid=76lhCZGt00IPL5dqPPQn5g
"I have a thing, a relationship you may say, with their Texas BBQ wrap- affectionately known to me as the mashed potato burrito, aka an orgasm in a tortilla, aka a disgrace to my family and friends."
Chai-Yo Sweets & Treats - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/FxKYh4Qw9f_ZZgiqanDrRg
Comix Experience - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/JATsFz_doW747XVPaUZ3oA
Giant Robot - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/6be_jje1bbq7CB3ZYxFeFA?hrid=WdJTsSIf3Gp_EQxllR_4qQ
"A small but well-chosen and obscure comix section, strange and beautiful art books, constant art exhibits, and the beautiful-and-cuddly people who shop here. More than being Asian, Giant Robot is about being awesome."
Isotope Comics - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/lpMhwPqMq493Aphf6FezUA?flow=search&src_adid=G-Q1KvqbH-tm8nw8jDBMKA
"The Isotope is the first of its kind, combining a comic store, an original comic art gallery, an active workshop/meeting place for creative individuals, and a relaxing get-away from the pressures of life."
Super Tokio - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/oRIpCqfHoNff1m3qk-mBrw
"The greatest grocery store for finding the strangest or most ridiculous asian goodies anywhere."
Ferry Building: Location & Overview
http://www.ferrybuildingmarketplace.com/visitors.php
Foreign Cinema - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/n6L5VIGunR51-D55C-eYeQ?src_adid=HU1VyFArIf7Ek7ILq02D-g
"Foreign Cinema, one of San Francisco's premier destination restaurants, is open for dinner every night from 6pm featuring California/Mediterranean and a new menu daily."
Solstice Lounge
http://www.yelp.com/biz/nwQEssXVNeWMY9rMkft87g
"I love the family style dining thing. The service has always been extremely helpful. I love their cocktails, and I love the modern spins on comfort food. My favorite dish there has got to be the gorgonzola mac and cheese."
Kidrobot San Francisco store!
http://www.kidrobot.com/kidpages/sfstore.html
"1512 Haight St.San Francisco, CA 94117"
Frascati Restaurant - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/xdAgbLBQcffIxI8mYgjT1Q
"Echoing others, the chocolate bread pudding is a little slice of heaven."
CocoaBella Chocolates - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/Gu6y9trBlNFtziiDFBD9Lg?src_adid=lYJnsyay86mPHNJErAQ9wg
XOX Truffles - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/qkHlhvv6DrCkvY54ogcPiA
Range Restaurant - San Francisco
http://www.rangesf.com
[AMASIA] HIDE'S SUSHI BAR
http://www.amasiahidesushi.com
La Piñata filled with charm
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/chronicle/archive/2006/03/22/FDGJOHQR481.DTL
"2301 Willow Pass Road (at Colfax Road), Concord"
Ritual Coffee Roasters - San Francisco - Yelp
http://www.yelp.com/biz/VOoHZDC-dgDUzTSsmgESOQ
"Great coffee. Good little pastries. Good low key ambient music. The staff are really nice in a down to earth way."
Genki Crepes & Mini Mart - contact us
http://www.genkicrepes.com/contact_us.htm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
http://www.sfmoma.org
Double Punch - Ningyoushi.com Store
http://www.ningyoushi.com/product/STORE001
"You can experience the trendiest collectibles from Japan, limited edition designer toys, art, clothing and books that you've only been able to see on the web and magazines!"
Apple Store - San Francisco
http://www.apple.com/retail/sanfrancisco/week/20060423.html
Japanese Tea Garden at Golden Gate Park
http://www.jgarden.org/gardens.asp?ID=268
Golden Gate Park Japanese Tea Garden
Palace of Fine Arts - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Fine_Arts
"The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California is a building originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition."
Super 7 Store in Japantown
http://www.super7store.com
HOTEL NIKKO San Francisco
http://hotelnikkosf.com/default.asp
Evangelical teens rally in S.F.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/03/25/MNG6OHU6RR1.DTL
"I moved here to get away from people like you."
john manoogian III: Favorite SF Places
http://jm3.net/wk/Favorite_SF_Places
"a list of favorite San Francisco spots"