Eye on Blogs

SFist: 2012 and 2012: Real Sticker Graffiti or Clever Movie Marketing
"[I]s the movie setting up fake sites and fake graffiti with these commonly used stickers in an effort to sucker in more people?"

Walk San Francisco: Dangerous by Design: Solving the Epidemic of Preventable Pedestrian Deaths
"The report, along with some data from Walk San Francisco, has found that the pedestrian fatality rate in San Francisco is 70% higher than the national average."

SF Indie Fashion: A Chat with Colleen Mauer
"A commitment to staying small and locally-made means you won’t find Mauer’s work in more than a handful of Bay Area boutiques, but that hasn’t stopped the 30-year-old designer from garnering attention."

SFBayStyle: Union Square Ice Rink Opens Wednesday with Olympic Skaters
Most wonderful time of the year.

Spots Unknown: Penguin at SF Zoo Unimpressed with Staff Twitter Effort
SF Zoo on how they use Twitter.

Bits + Bites: Best in Show? Scream Sorbet Ups the Ante
New contender!



Kottke.org: Market Street, 1905
"This is a film of a trip down Market Street in San Francisco taken in 1905 from the front of a streetcar. The array of driving styles and vehicles on display here is dazzling."

Vegansaurus!: Drop it like it's hot! Or, how to deep-fry, VEGAN STYLE!
You can be vegan and fat. It's easy.

Athletics Nation: Scrapbook Memories: 1989 World Series, Game 3, Part 2
Memories. Aw.

Streetsblog: Will San Jose’s New Bicycle Plan Mark Shift From Years of Car Privilege?
"San Jose is on the verge of adopting its new bicycle plan at the next City Council meeting on November 17th, which, as anyone who has cycled in San Jose knows, would be a welcome change from decades of traffic engineering focused almost solely on automobility."

SF Appeal: Things San Franciscans Like: Thematic Bars
"Suspenders, VESTS!, unfinished wood paneling, lights so dim that you can't see three feet in front of you and the occasional password all perpetuate the myth that San Franciscans can only really enjoy drinking when they think it's the Prohibition, and apparently during the Prohibition it was very dark indoors, and everyone was a badass, because if they drank like a San Franciscan drinks they were pretty much breaking the law 24/7."

 [Photo by RumNose]