July 2008
15 posts
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Setting Our Data Free with Web (Government?) 2.0? →
Super interesting post about streamlining government data with 2.0 ideals. Mama like!
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"...many consumers are rethinking their... →
Transit infrastructure only emerges as a priority when the luxury of the individual automobile becomes prohibitively expensive. Boo motherfucking hoo, you lazy fucks. If I hear one more person complaining about overcrowding or unreliability on Muni or BART, I will vomit.
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For all my fourth grade homies, now and in the...
The U.S. Wants to “Borrow” From Transit to Pay for... →
This is supremely annoying, not least because funding for transit is typically derided as socialistic, when highways and automobile infrastructure suckle equally at the government teat, if not more. I’m ready for a sea-change, aren’t you?
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Save the Historic Heart of the Presidio →
The Fisher family proposal for a contemporary art museum on the Main Post of the Presidio is so grotesquely out of character as to be an insulting project of pure vanity. If they could possibly refrain from desecrating our National Historic Landmark public park and the birthplace of San Francisco, that would be great. Kthx. (I’m not opposed to the cultural value of such a museum, even in...
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Flattery of the day?
I just noticed that this person is following me on Twitter.
Save Harding Theater! →
This was one of my pet interests when I was all up in DMV Heights neighborhood organizing. It’s dropped off my map a little since 2005, so I’m happy to see it’s limping along toward resolution. Important implications for Divisadero and the neighborhood, to be sure. (The proposed development similar to the Walgreens on Clement would be pukeworthy.)
