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The largest show of its kind at a single venue in the Bay Area, the 2009 MFA Graduate Exhibition will feature work by nearly 100 artists. The result of an intense period of collaboration, investigation, and artistic development, the work on display will represent a range of interests, media, and approaches—providing patrons with an overview [...]

Magritte, originally uploaded by LEGO!.

Venue: Oddball Films, 275 Capp Street, San Francisco 94110
Admission: $10.00 RSVP
Web: http://oddballfilm.com/resources/events_parent.html
On Friday, February 27, Guest Curator Pete Gowdy and Oddball Films present an evening of rare 16mm short films illustrating our obsession with things that go, especially if it goes very fast. Cars, of course, but also bicycles and motorbikes of all shapes [...]

Rain falls hard
Burns dry
A dream
Or a song
That hits you so hard
Filling you up
And suddenly gone

[Reprinted From IHT]
By Nicholas Bakalar
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Lengthy television viewing in adolescence may raise the risk for depression in young adulthood, according to a new report.
The study, in the February issue of The Archives of General Psychiatry, published by the American Medical Association, found a rising risk of depressive symptoms with increasing hours spent watching [...]

According to its publicist, sugar is a health food. After all, it contains zero fat, provides instant energy, and makes almost any food taste better. But these attributes are all trumped by a physiological fact: Sugar makes you fat. That may seem like a given, but by understanding why, you can minimize sugar’s harmful effects [...]

Sometimes I think about things like this: Crazy that this choice, in some studies, has been proven to be affected somewhat by inheritance (nature/nurture implications).
From Wikipedia:
The ultimatum game is an experimental economics game in which two players interact to decide how to divide a sum of money that is given to them. The first player [...]

Baskin-Robbins Large Heath Bar Shake

2,310 calories
108 g fat (64 g saturated)
266 g
Let’s look at America’s Worst Drink in numbers:
73: The number of ingredients that go into this milkshake.
66: The number of teaspoons of sugar this drink contains.
11: The number of Heath Bars you would have to eat to equal the number of calories found in [...]

I read somewhere that Palin said/wrote this.
11. Are you offended by the phrase “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance? Why or why not?
JB: No.
SP: Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Print-campaign-for-International-Red-Cross/45342

i was there, i was visiting from San Francisco, my first hours in Seattle ever - out to ride and chat with some new people. What a great way to meet fun new people!
I missed the actual RUNNING OVER OF BICYCLES AND HUMANS by, i can guess, 30 seconds. I kept riding by, not [...]

Brilliant! and
in response to a good opinion article in the LAT
Pumped up over gas price
by Joel Stein
2. This is a great corollary to other recent articles on the decline of sub-urban America (www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/subprime). The educated upper-middle class is returning to the cities, displacing the lower classes out to the burbs where house prices continue to [...]

Urban planner predicts greater emphasis on walkable cities
ASCE SmartBrief | 07/11/2008
“As the era of cheap oil comes to an end, you are going to see amazing changes over the next 10 to 15 years in how we get around our cities,” predicts Jan Gehl, the “urban planning rock star” who is working on a plan [...]

Source:
World Resources Institute. 1998-99 World Resources: A Guide to the Global Environment. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998