public safety building

A recent snap, they are making lots of progress.  Maybe I'll add a couple more similar photos soon to compare and contrast.

Sterling on the NSA, Wikileaks, Assange, Manning, Snowden. Oh my.

Bruce Sterling frequently gets to the real point very clearly, and he's outdone himself in this article posted on Medium: https://medium.com/geek-empire-1/a1ebd2b4a0e5

recently, in a city where we used to live

Boston

Earth, from Saturn

There are a lot of things to be in awe of here in the 21st century.

Image Credit: 

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/whycassini/cassini20130722.html#.Ue52GKxzf8I

Brannan Street Wharf is pretty much open.

As envisioned here: http://www.sfport.com/index.aspx?page=262

Sonoma Coast State Park

We'll go back here, for sure.

recently, locally.....

Transbay Terminal lines are a little longer during BART strike. 

 

You Are Here - Cosmography of the Local Universe

This is an awesome video.  Thanks to http://irfu.cea.fr/cosmography   Broadens the "you are here" meme more than I've seen before.

more pallets in the wild

Haven't posted one of these in a while.

Are Cable Operators non-Competitive?

Say it isn't so!

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-12/time-warner-cable-content-incentives-thwart-new-web-tv.html

I'm a believer in property rights, but not when you view the market itself as your property.