Many users of Chatroulette have taken creative approaches to using the site that connects you with a random stranger (see previous post: Chatroulette Game, If You Turn Your Head I Win). However Kale Stedman has taken it to a new level of meta when interacting with strangers. Rather than sending…
Noisebridge Has A Space Program
Noisebridge, the San Francisco hackerspace, has a space program now. This past weekend was Spacebridge‘s highly successful first launch. With only a few meetings and a hurried week of building, they sent a weather balloon to almost 70,000ft and successfully retrieved the craft. Their balloon had an attached payload fitted…
San Francisco’s Answer to Westboro Baptist Church
photo by EDW Lynch Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest in front of Twitter’s San Francisco office on Thursday, but found themselves severely outnumbered by a crowd of absurdist pranksters, including guest blogger EDW Lynch above. photo by Rubin Starset WBC’s hate-promoting signs were answered by multiple signs of…
StreetWars San Francisco: Watergun Assassination Tournament
StreetWars is a 3 week long, 24/7 game of assassin played out with squirt guns and other water weapons. It’s been held in New York, Vancouver, Vienna, Los Angeles, London, Chicago, Paris, and San Francisco previously. This year it’s returning to San Francisco for the third time, running April 5th…
No Pants Subway Ride 2010: SF Photos & Videos
San Francisco celebrated the 9th Annual No Pants Subway Ride again this year as hundreds of people dropped trou and boarded BART. The train cars were packed to the brim with record numbers of underwear-clad commuters jockeying for a place to stand on Sunday afternoon. After a crowded ride, the…
21st Annual Post Yule Pyre: Photos and Videos
photo by Seth Rosenblatt The Post Yule Pyre is an annual tradition put on by the Friends of the Rootless Forest. After logging the sidewalks of San Francisco for the crop of evergreens that regularly appear this time of year, people gathered on Ocean Beach to give these trees the…
Looking Into The Past, Old Photos Superimposed on Present Day Scenes
photo by Thomas Kelley Inspired by Michael Hughes’ Souvenir project, Jason Powell started Looking Into The Past, a Flickr pool devoted to combining old photos of locations, buildings, and people with the present day scene. The ones with the most impact have the photographer holding an old photo in front…