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Bonus Infographic of the Week: The Bush tax plan vs. the Obama tax plan in one chart

Via https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/20986092590 

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Infographic of the Week: Charlatan, Martyr, Hustler

via kottke, click for full size This sweet infographic is available as a handsome letterpress poster. I love the visuals, the message, and the execution. Also, it was cool how it made me self-reflect. Which one are you?

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sunday night music blog

   (4423 KB) Listen on posterous Another Lonely Day – Ben Harper

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On the Street: 1963 Studebaker Lark Cruiser

See the full gallery on posterous This is a car that I can honestly say I’ve have never seen before. When I stumbled across this mid-60s Studebaker the other day, I had absolutely no clue what make or model it was. The chrome ‘Studebaker’ on the trunk gave the marque away, but it was only [...]

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Urban farming on Cathedral Hill

Walking home yesterday, I took a route I’d never followed before. This part of the city, below Geary between Octavia and Van Ness, can be very ramshackle in places, and is very car-oriented. As I was meandering, I ran across this public garden. It’s not the most refined space in SF, but I found it [...]

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Quintron

These little sculptures are crafted in metal using 3-D printing of mathematical models by crafting and math genius Bathsheba. My colleague and friend Lauren likes to bring neat little artifacts into work, and when she started talking these up a month or two ago, I was intrigued. I didn’t quite grok the magical quality of [...]

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Goodbye Transbay Terminal, hello Transit Center

With the impending demoltion of the Transbay Terminal making the news recently, I thought it would be good time to look at the vision of the new Transbay Transit Center. The scale of the new vision is undeniably massive. It starts with the Transit Center itself, but also includes a redevelopment plan that envelopes much of [...]

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