We had dinner at one of our favorite Bernal Heights restaurants a couple weeks ago… can you guess where?

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Wiley is my friend Gretchen’s pup that I’m dog-sitting. Wiley likes sitting in laps, eating toast, and running around in circles. Good thing Wiley doesn’t like barking or I’d be in big trouble with my landlord.

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I can’t tell you how excited I am by this little gizmo! I was really close to buying a megaphone last week so I could build this nutty contraption and attach it to the back of my bike, but I think this iPod speaker might do the trick a lot better.

On the ride down to LA earlier this month, one of the riders (i don’t know her name and have only heard people refer to her as the-megaphone-girl) would take out a megaphone attached to her ipod at the top of every big hill and blast out the theme song from Rocky (or something in that vein) to cheer us on. It made me so happy everytime I saw her!!! Ever since then, I’ve been looking for something to put on my bike so that I can play music out loud on long rides (since it’s unsafe to use headphones or earbuds while riding).

The main drawbacks of this particular speaker though are that it’s sort of pricy ($99) and it sits in my water bottle cage (where I generally put my water bottle). Still, I think I may get it…unless one of you guys knows of a better solution!

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SourceForge is great for project hosting, but let’s face it.. their bug tracker is slow, clunky, and barely usable. Same for the SF.net support forums. Today I found LaunchPad. It’s a project by Canonical, the people behind Ubuntu.

LaunchPad has a bug tracker, support forums, project planning, and a translation wiki for your open source project, all free.

They also do code hosting, but they also let you link your LaunchPad project to your SourceForge project. Hooray open source collaboration! LaunchPad code hosting requires that you use Bazaar, but offers svn/cvs import.

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E2-E4 is an experimental piece written by Manuel Göttsching in 1981, commerically released in 1984, remixed into a hugely
successful club track in 1989, and re-released last year. I hadn’t heard this groundbreaking electronic album until I stumbled upon this AskMe!

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Bob was thinking about an urban hike in LA to break in his new hiking boots. My suggestion was to do what this guy guy did: walking the entire 16 miles of Wilshire Boulevard, from downtown to the Santa Monica beach, and taking a photo every 10 steps.

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TwoStick is a interesting text entry method for game controllers. The learning curve seems a bit high for the slight speed gain over a standard video game selection keyboard.

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At the Can’t Fail Cafe in Emeryville there’s a super yummy milkshake made with guinness stout, chocolate ice cream, and espresso. I think they gave it the perfect name.

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A couple people have asked me where I got the cupcake caddy that I brought to brunch yesterday, so here it is. The Oneida 24-count Cupcake Carrying Case.

I got it because I wanted a way to transport cupcakes on my bike rack and with this, I can cart up to 24

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Here’s an interview with Craig Newmark from earlier this month. Some interesting things about craigslist (according to their CEO Jim Buckmaster)

1. The site is serving up seven billion pageviews a month from 200 servers
2. All 24 employees work at a Victorian house in San Francisco
3. The company has never had a tech quit in 12 years
4. Craigslist never holds meetings.

(via svn)

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Conceived by Brian Eno as “visual music”, his latest artwork, 77 Million Paintings is a constantly evolving sound and imagescape which continues his exploration into light as an artist’s medium and the aesthetic possibilities of “generative software”.

This exhibition is happening next weekend at the Yerba Buena Center and it’s only going to be up for 3 nights (actually only 2 nights for the general public). Let’s go! I loved reading his published journal A Year of Swollen Appendices so I’m curious. (I posted some snippets from the book last year over here).

More info and tickets over here.

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via mefi

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why is an interesting animal. He’s a hacker who works on open source projects, including the amazing Hackety Hack, a tool for teaching programming to kids. He wrote the Poignant Guide to Ruby, he draws comics, he plays in a band, he posts funny pictures. He can make code look pretty, even javascript. Just who is this why? He’s got his own wiki page, which provides no answers.

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What’s summer without a summer read and a little armchair travel. Apparently, this book has it all. Via Drawn…

James Teitelbaum and Santa Monica Press are pleased to announce the June, 2007 release of Tiki Road Trip 2, the follow-up to James Teitelbaum’s hugely successful book, Tiki Road Trip (Santa Monica Press, 2003).

Tiki Road Trip is your best – and only – comprehensive travel guide for those seeking a south seas adventure in the big city, an island escape from the urban jungle, or the location of the nearest metropolitan luau. At 360 pages (compared to 280 in the old edition) and packed with new images, this edition of Tiki Road Trip is a huge leap forward from the previous edition, and is absolutely mandatory summer reading.

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For the last 10 years, Lawrence Lessig has been at the forefront of the Free Culture movement. At the iCommons summit, Lessig announced that he will stop working on Free Culture issues, and shift his work to fighting corruption:

I don’t want to be a part of that business. And more importantly, I don’t want this kind of business to be a part of public policy making. We’ve all been whining about the “corruption” of government forever. We all should be whining about the corruption of professions too. But rather than whining, I want to work on this problem that I’ve come to believe is the most important problem in making government work.

Best of luck, Professor Lessig! You make the world a better place, and we are all thankful! (via brewster)

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My friend Mark’s boyfriend is starring in a musical called Colma and it opens at the Embarcadero on the 22nd! (yep that would be Colma right off the 280, home of the Serramonte Target, among other fine establishments). He also wrote the score and screenplay.

To be honest, Colma in real life scares me…so I can only imagine the musical to be utterly terrifying. here are some glowing reviews and a link to the trailer!

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This sad news was in sfgate today. I remember climbing down Half Dome a couple years ago thinking how dangerous it was to have SO MANY people using the same set of cables to ascend and descend what is basically a 400ft vertical wall. It made no sense to me. Given the number of people who do that climb every year (a 30% increase since the mid-90s), that’s a one lane freeway for traffic in both directions. At the very least, there should be separate cablesfor ascending and descending. I’m glad the park rangers are finally going to take a look at making it safer.

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I’m afraid these images speak for themselves … gotta love Vegas.

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This story has a bit of everything I love about the Internet: craigslist, blogs, YouTube, LiveJournal, MetaFilter, Canada, and of course AccordianGuy!

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The Times is running a story of a guy was toturtured and held without charge for 5.5 years in Guantanamo after he was sold to the US for a $5000 bounty:

He was freed after the sole allegation against him – that he had been a senior figure at an al-Qaeda training camp in Afghanistan in July 2001 – fell apart. The claim came from an unidentified source and was proved false by lawyers from the London-based charity Reprieve.

Pakistani police passed him to American agents in return for a $5,000 bounty and he was taken to Bagram, then to a prison camp at Kandahar.

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Linky, via MeFi:

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A BIG hug and THANK YOU for the support and encouragement! The ride raised a record-breaking $11 million for AIDS education and prevention programs and I had an awesome time. There were definitely days I thought I would keel over (mainly because I was still sick!) but thankfully made it through without any serious mishap. In the past two days, really simple things like waking up in a warm dry bed, resting my head on a pillow, taking a hot bath, using a flush toilet, and wearing clean clothes feel *500 TIMES* better than they ever have! it’s amazing. also, I now know that certain padded shorts are definitely better than others (even though they all look the same) and can *literally* save your ass.

More pics of the ride over here!

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I forgot to post about the mystery package that I got labeled FRAGILE LIKE EGGS…

A lifetime supply of biscotti… each one broken into at least two pieces!

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They say a picture is worth a thousand words … it’s closer to a million for this map I made illustrating where my college friends live:






I’ve known forever that I’m somewhat bicoastal, but I’ve been lazy about flying and I hate airports. But looking at this map a few times reveals the undeniable truth: I’m bicoastal forever and there is no way for me to be happy without traveling a lot. In terms of center-of-social-gravity, it looks like NYC is the place to be. Luck you New York friends! That’s where we’re gonna party ….

Link to Friends map on google maps

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Peliom made me sign up for FaceBook. I have no idea why.

Snooping around, the first thing that really stood out was the number of people on FaceBook. I’m more used to Tribe, which has like 120 members, all of whom I know personally and live in my neighborhood.

Well, if we take the 2006 census numbers, assume that no one in the suburbs is on FaceBook and that the college students that make up the bulk of the FaceBook membership are all registered as local city residents, then you get these crazy numbers:

Toronto       24.8% (622034/2503281)
Pittsburgh    16.2% (51416/316718)
Santa Barbara 9.0% (8022/89548)
San Francisco 7.8% (57919/744041)
Los Angeles   3.2% (123510/3844829)
New York City 2.9% (240375/8143198)

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