If you live in San Francisco and you haven’t been to City Hall in a while, definitely go and check out the new statue. It is a three headed Buddha, and it is mindfully mind blowing.

Cory Doctorow posted the following picture on Boing Boing today:

For starters… Yes. What a lovely rule. It embodies a civility that we seldom see enough of.
Truly, it can’t help the state of the world to use our horns for every thing we want to say in traffic. When we blow our horns we are really [...]

BoingBoing guest blogger, Kristen Philipkoski recently blogged about Duplicious.
Today’s entry comes by way of Duplicious guest blogger, Jenna, guest blogging on the topic of guest blogging, and specifically the guest blogger who blogged about this blog.
She runs the discerningly tasteful Boneflowers here in San Francisco, designed the Duplicious Monster graphic, and is generally [...]

One of my relatives, I’ll call her Linda, recently had a very bad experience involving robotic surgery. She doesn’t want to talk about it, which is unfortunate because the problem was likely related to bad software (and could have some glaring implications). But she has, at least, given me permission to blog about it. I [...]

Went to the Maker Faire this weekend. For those who haven’t been… well what can I say? If you want to be up on the most current evolutions of art and creativity,you need to visit Burning Man, or Maker Faire. And of these two, only Maker Fairs doesn’t require that you assume the responsibility for [...]

San Francisco surreal flower shop Floreal is currently sporting birds made out of old books. As all the creations that pour forth from this Nob Hill shop, they are superb.

This weekend I took a CityCarshare car to the East Bay to drop off a sewing machine for repairs. CityCar had put a Random House audio book sampler in the glove box, so I popped it in and pulled out of the parking garage. Little did I realize the peril that lay ahead.
The CD held [...]

I am hooked on the splendiferously weird animated accomplishments of Jossie Malis, who, by the way, has a sick website called zumbakamera, that must be visited.
Here is one of his most recent works:

The Fantastic World of Fantástico Morales from Zumbakamera on Vimeo.

A Sicilian town has opted to eliminate their diesel garbage trucks in favor of…. donkeys!

The town is Castelbuono,
and the donkeys collect trash and recycling, and according to Mayor Mario Cicero,
they are cheaper and emit less greenhouse gas than trucks!

Could this be the long term  future as oil begins to run out? Time will [...]

I found this graffiti in a port-o-potty outside a San Jose new construction office park. (censorship mine)

I called the guy to see if it was legit, and guess what… he is totally serious. He is an I.T. consultant who got laid off of his full time gig over a year ago, and has gone indy. [...]

I found this little scene in China Town yesterday.
It is evident that Michelle Obama is far more important.

She costs $7 more than Jesus! Price tags don’t lie. She IS our first lady.

I recently got to tour the Daniels and Fisher Clock Tower in Denver.

It used to be the tallest building in Denver, and even the tallest building west of the Mississippi when it was built in 1910. Now it is dwarfed by the big modern skyscrapers that surround it. But it does still have one thing [...]

I was in Denver this last weekend, and was lucky enough to get an off hours tour of the restaurant Beatrice and Woodsley.
If you are a Denverite, and haven’t been here, you are missing out on an anomaly. Coming from the city of San Francisco, where I have access to such lurid novelty as Opaque [...]

In light of the numerous major earthquakes we have seen recently, scientists are looking into root causes from which patterns can be extrapolated. One of the most depressing finds we have seen come of this, is a study by the Norwegian Geological Institute that pins a big part of the problem on the Earth’s growing [...]

There has been a lot of hype over the launch of Apple’s iPad. While it is the sleekest, coolest new consumer device on the market now, I find myself wondering where it fits in my life, and how the ecological cost weighs in on an increasingly weary eco-conscience.
To be fair, Apple makes good devices. I [...]

With the passage of UK’s Digital Economy Bill, laws regulating the internet have taken another step toward protecting corporate copyright interests while squelching the free flow of information.
This comes one day after the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled against the FCC and for Comcast in a landmark case that would have helped protect net neutrality, [...]

Running around like a chicken with my head cut off.
A trip down to Santa Barbara. A dude Ranch! with our dear friend, Matt Hill. Ah, the smell of horse pee. Tri-tip for dinner, and the conversation that ensued trying to figure out what tri-tip actually is. We finally settled on the following: Tri-tip is meat [...]

April Fool’s Day is a holiday here at Duplicious.
Today we kicked off the festivities with a Chicken Threat.
My wife and I manage a respectable apartment building in Nob Hill. Our 60+ tenants are quite particular about changes to the building. We thought it would be fun to inform them of the lobby chickens we will [...]

I am a carpenter here in San Francisco. I build houses out of wood. I also care about the human future, and want something more than a bleak hot polluted nightmare for those to come.
I have trouble reconciling these opposing ideas. On the one hand, we all use wood. Even the most die hard tree [...]

I was shopping at the thrift store this weekend, when I noticed three 6 packs of Ikea wine glasses, still in their original Ikea boxes.

Ah, Ikea. That great Wallmart of the Sophisticrats. Your cheap wares have permeated our lives to the point that we buy them and never even use them. You have us under [...]