Posts tagged san francisco

thedeadline | I got yelled at while taking this picture, and it was worth it.

thedeadline | I got yelled at while taking this picture, and it was worth it.

noodlesandbeef | Typical day walking around San Francisco.

noodlesandbeef | Typical day walking around San Francisco.

deYoung Museum | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Installing an icon

deYoung Museum | Girl with a Pearl Earring | Installing an icon

PHOTO of the day | September 28, 2012 | Presidio Promenade

PHOTO of the day | September 28, 2012 | Presidio Promenade

1906 San Francisco Earthquake: Then & Now | Shawn Clover

1906 San Francisco Earthquake: Then & Now | Shawn Clover

PHOTO of the day | May 28, 2012 | Bay Bridge

PHOTO of the day | May 28, 2012 | Bay Bridge

HIGH-SPEED RAIL | California compared to TGV | 

Proposed California high-speed rail line compared to an existing line in France. This graphic ran alongside an editorial in Sunday’s Sacramento Bee. The sublimely-named blog Burrito Justice made the below graphic in response, also comparing the geographic size of Spain and France to California. The size of the bubbles roughly estimates connected metro areas’ population.

HIGH-SPEED RAIL | California compared to TGV | 

Proposed California high-speed rail line compared to an existing line in France. This graphic ran alongside an editorial in Sunday’s Sacramento Bee. The sublimely-named blog Burrito Justice made the below graphic in response, also comparing the geographic size of Spain and France to California. The size of the bubbles roughly estimates connected metro areas’ population.

BROKEBACK FESTIVAL | how financial mismanagement marched SF Pride to brink of disaster


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While San Francisco Pride grapples with a system that lends itself to a glacial pace and empowers its most fractious members, another major city festival has created a remarkably efficient organizational structure.

When ambling down Folsom Street and presented with the odd spanking, flogging, or perhaps even a gentleman ejaculating out of a second-story window onto the crowd below, your first thought probably isn’t, “Now there’s a well-run nonprofit.”

But it should be. Folsom Street Events is run tighter than a size-L pair of chaps on a XXL derriere. One intriguing indicator of the esteem in which the city holds Folsom is that the Department of the Environment tapped the leather festival to pen the official city best practices guide on large-event recycling. It’s safe to say this is an “only in San Francisco” circumstance.

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motherjones:

Tsunami makes it to our back yard…San Francisco Bay, moving toward Emeryville on the Bay’s east side. The Bay Bridge and San Fran are visible in the background.
(via Berkeleyside.com)

motherjones:

Tsunami makes it to our back yard…San Francisco Bay, moving toward Emeryville on the Bay’s east side. The Bay Bridge and San Fran are visible in the background.

(via Berkeleyside.com)