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That’s No Moon, The Death Star Over San Francisco
“That’s No Moon”, computer desktop wallpaper by Mike Horn depicting the Death Star from Star Wars looming over San Francisco. Mike is the guy behind…
Foam Coffee Cup Drawings by Boey
photos by Cheeming Boey Newport Beach artist Cheeming Boey creates beautiful drawings on foam coffee cups using a black Sharpie marker. Here’s a timelapse showing…
Foursquare Town Holler Meetup in San Francisco
photo by Scott Beale Foursquare is organizing a Town Holler meeting of the mayors this Saturday, August 22nd starting 3pm at Zeitgeist and evolving into…
Crooked Lombard Street In San Francisco Turned Into Life-Size Version of Candyland Game
photos by Steve Rhodes San Francisco’s famously crooked Lombard Street in San Francisco was converted into a life-size version of the children’s board game Candyland,…
Gavin Newsom Announces Launch of DataSF To Improve Access To City Data
Today on TechCrunch, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom announced the launch of DataSF.org, to improve and increase access to city data. DataSF is a central…
San Francisco Crimespotting, An Interactive Map of Crimes In San Francisco
Stamen Design has just launched San Francisco Crimespotting, an interactive map of crimes in San Francisco and companion to Oakland Crimespotting launched in 2007. Instead…
vb.ly, The Internet’s First & Only Sex-Positive URL Shortener
Violet Blue has just launched vb.ly, “the internet’s first and only sex-positive url shortener”, built by Ben Metcalfe and hosted on our new cloud hosting…
Total Crisis Panic Button, Creative Alterations of Crosswalk Instruction Signs
Urban Prankster directs our attention to the Total Crisis Panic Button project in Los Angeles where Jason Eppink and Tyler Menzel have been doing some…
Canon Announces PowerShot G11 Camera
Canon has just announced their new PowerShot G11 camera. It’s their successor to the G10, which I own and is a really great compact camera…
Zappos.com Ad in TSA Airport Security Tray
photo by Scott Beale In April I came across this creative advertising by Zappos.com in the form of an ad in a TSA airport security…