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Gas station explosion at 16th. and Guerrero
The noxious odor of burning gasoline filled the cold winter air tonight in the area around 16th. and Guerrero streets in San Francisco’s Mission District in the aftermath of the explosion of a gas station’s underground tank. According to Mission Local the explosion occurred just after 4:30 PM. The Shell gas station had been closed…
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Fire in the Inner Sunset
Alexia Anthem sent me this video of an apartment fire in the Inner Sunset. You can see fire fighters are on the roof already, but the fire seems to be on two stories of the building, which is not a good sign. N-Judah service in the area is temporarily stopped.
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Newspaper industry: Part 2
In a previous post, I had some very negative remarks about the news media. In this rant, I went over some serious problems in today’s news reporting that I don’t feel are being addressed. Despite some semi-constructive criticism at the end, I think it comes off as both weak and harsh at the same time. …
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Newspaper industry
There’s a lot of talk about how the newspaper industry is dying. And there’s some truth to this — NY Times is in debt, Seattle PI went out of business, etc. etc. And yet we have more sources for our news than ever before: 24 hour news networks, blogs, Twitter… Has our attention has shifted…
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Bookmark: Auto-Tune the News
Auto-tune is the latest pop music novelty. Thanks to auto-tune, singers like T-Pain sound like a robot designed to output R&B hits. Michael Gregory (no relation, afaik) has taken auto-tune to a new extreme: singing along with the news. And it’s amazing. But you don’t have to take my word for it. I’ll stop typing…
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