IKEA Catalog Covers, 1951-2009 (via mattcrest)
IKEA Catalog Covers, 1951-2009 (via mattcrest)
Inhabitat » Russia Tower, Foster + Partners
It’s like Transamerica Building v2012. All the NIMBYs should be glad it’s not gonna be in San Francisco.
Probably Not Possible (via RumNose)
Out Of The Shadow And Into The Spotlight: 555 Washington Designs at SocketSite™
The developers behind a proposed 38-story and 248-unit condo tower in the shadow of the Transamerica Pyramid are pushing forward. From the Draft Environmental Impact Report:
The proposed new 336,585 gross square-foot 38-story, 390-foot-high project building plus 35-foot mechanical penthouse would contain about 248 residential units (133 one-bedroom units and 115 two-bedroom units) and amenities in about 331,640 square feet; 6,780 square feet of retail space; over 7,000 square feet of common and private open space plus additional open areas/public park space on Mark Twain Alley and Redwood Park in excess of 26,000; and 230 parking spaces in four subsurface levels.
From J.K. Dineen with respect to the “preferred” residential design:
In the revised design by San Francisco-based HellerManus, 555 Washington St. would start with a rectangular base and twist a quarter-turn as it rises, morphing into a circle at the top. The design, with a footprint that is 30 percent less that the zoning allows, enables the developer to expand Redwood Park, the half-acre cluster of soaring redwoods at the northern edge of the financial district.
Under the proposed project, which requires a variance for height, the redwood grove would be expanded and ownership of the park would be transferred to the city. In addition, Mark Twain Alley, a dead-end that cuts from Sansome Street into the park, would be converted into a pedestrian piazza, with ground floor restaurants spilling out from the new condo tower and other buildings along the alley.
Wow, I hope this gets built! This is the kind of architecture that we need more of in San Francisco.
(via wecanbuildyou)
As Republicans, we ask ‘Who says our healthcare system doesn’t work?’ The CEO of AETNA made $24 million last year.It certainly works for him. Sure there’s 47 million Americans who don’t have health insurance, but we’re more concerned about making sure those CEO’s don’t get a salary cut. That’s why we hate the idea of a public option. By increasing competition and lowering costs, the CEO of AETNA might have to settle for only $12 million a year. Who can live on that? And if the insurance companies make less money, that means they’ll contribute less money to our reelection campaigns
Scott Blakeman,Political Comedian from » The Lighter Side: What Do Republicans Really Want? Team Washington « FOXNews.com
I can’t believe this was on FOXNews.com!
I mentioned in a previous post that I was a fan of finding Stevie Nicks’ vocals used in electronica/house music. This clip is from Ben Watt’s July 27, 2006 DJ set at the DNA Lounge in San Francisco, roughly 1:12 am to 2:21 am.
from Medical Marijuana Doctors Ad (MMEC) (WARNING: I wouldn’t send my worst enemy to the “doctors” running the script-mill operation linked to from the image and link above!)
It’s unfortunate that so many doctors think that this is all that’s necessary in order to write a physician’s statement recommending medical marijuana in California.
Unfortunately, this is what will happen to the doctor, and the patients will find themselves without a valid recommendation (which, if not done properly, was likely never legally valid anyway).
The legal requirements for doing a Medical Marijuana Recommendation in California are basic, yet many doctors continue to say, “it’s just pot…” and offer their patients a dubious-at-best recommendation that might get them into a pot club (to buy overpriced weed!) but, like toilet paper, will fall apart when wet.
The Case for Bigger Government - TIME
“A big difference between the U.S. and the rest of the rich world is that for the past 30 years or so, Americans consistently rejected “government solutions” to the problems of health, poverty, education and the environment. We’ve kept our taxes as a share of national income lower than Europe’s by focusing on the private sector. But we’re getting much less for our money. Markets are great at providing consumer goods and services. We don’t want the government running our restaurants, movie houses, bookstores and manufacturers. Markets are not so good, though, at some very important things. A pressing example: our mostly private health system, at $8,000 per American, is twice the cost of Europe’s mostly public system, yet with worse outcomes. And nearly 50 million Americans lack health insurance.”
America: we spend more; we get less.
Government ≠ Failure. No matter what Sarah Palin says. (or the innumerable Republican stooges who echo this falsehood so often that nearly everyone assumes it’s truth). If unbridled free-market capitalism is so great, why does government have to continually step in to save so many of these businesses from not only their imminent failure but the subsequent world-destabilizing accomplishments of their exalted leaders?
I’m on the record having said this is unlike other crises, and it’s the most serious crisis we’ve faced and it will have long-term repercussions. It’s the end of an era, and there will have to be major adjustments. Those who expect that we will return to business as usual don’t understand what’s happening.
George Soros, when asked by TIME magazine the question: “Are you optimistic at all about how this financial crisis is going to play out?”
Sidewalk Flowers (via dustinblake)
The differential between capital gains tax rates and the tax rate on regular income also explains why those making more than $110.6 million a year pay taxes at a lower rate than those making $300,000 or $400,000 a year—because the really rich get a much higher percentage of their income from capital gains than the HENRYs do.
Don’t talk to me about death panels, Sarah Palin. You, who so carelessly bolstered a lie about healthcare reform to score a cheap political point; you, the most craven of political opportunists, who fearmongers about some dystopian socialist/fascist fantasyland; you, who earlier this year were only too happy to accept free medical, dental and veterinary care from the U.S. military for Alaska’s remote villages; you, dear lady, are an idiot.
“In your free market wonderland everyone somehow manages to get healthcare, even those who are poor or live in isolated areas, though the poor and isolated in your own state required assistance from the federal government.
And despite all of this, you appear blithely unaware that the free market healthcare system we have now does, indeed, have “death panels.” I’ve been part of a death panel conversation. I know about death panels.
You have no idea what it’s like to be called into a sterile conference room with a hospital administrator you’ve never met before and be told that your mother’s insurance policy will only pay for 30 days in ICU. You can’t imagine what it’s like to be advised that you need to “make some decisions,” like whether your mother should be released “HTD” which is hospital parlance for “home to die,” or if you want to pay out of pocket to keep her in the ICU another week. And when you ask how much that would cost you are given a number so impossibly large that you realize there really are no decisions to make. The decision has been made for you. “Living will” or no, it doesn’t matter. The bank account and the insurance policy have trumped any legal document.
If this isn’t a “death panel” I don’t know what is.
So don’t talk to me about “death panels” you heartless, cruel, greedy sons of bitches, who are only too happy to keep the profits rolling in to the big insurance companies while you spout your mealy-mouthed bumper sticker slogans about the evils of socialism. You don’t even know what socialism is. You don’t know what government healthcare is. You have no fucking clue about anything except that you lost the last election and you’re pissed off.
You are young. Your parents are still alive. You don’t know enough to take any of this seriously. It’s all an exercise in political theater for you. But that will change. We all get older. The time will arrive, someday, when you are tasked with caring for someone you love who is seriously ill. You will be ushered in to that sterile hospital conference room with an administrator you do not know, where you are told to “make plans” for a day you never hoped to see. And then you will get your education.
If on that day you still think the healthcare system we have now is fabulous and worth lying, cheating and threatening people to maintain, I can only conclude that you lack even the tiniest grain of a soul.”
Southern Beale: Don’t Talk To Me About Death Panels
Well said.
FLEETWOOD MAC – DREAMS (MINGUS RUDE EDIT)
I’ve been listening to this track all evening since coming across it on one of my favorite digital artists’ blogs - ISO50.
The free EP includes this track plus 3 other remixes, all hot and fresh for those upcoming San Francisco Summer events…
And friends that know me well enough to know my musical tastes know that I love hearing a certain Fleetwood Mac singer’s vocals on just about anything—especially well-done electronica/house. Maybe I’ll go grab that little section of Ben Watt’s 2006 SF set and post it tomorrow…
