Dan Markham

It’s for the discerning, on-the-go defecator who is brave enough to use a public bathroom, but still demands a hygienic and private bathroom experience. It is also a community authored database of San Francisco toilets.

– the Diaroogle team

No, seriously. Started in New York, Diaroogle now covers San Francisco and London as well. C’mon San Francisco, let’s build that database!

This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus.

– Christopher Hitchens

From Mr. Hitchens’ article, on slate, “Sarah Palin’s War on Science - The GOP ticket’s appalling contempt for knowledge and learning”

Call me an elitist or a sell-out, but I’ve come to love life’s little luxuries like chairs, tables and bathrooms [...]

– manseekingcoffee

From the mysterious “manseekingcoffee”, on his excellent blog of name same, from his review of the (fairly) recently de-funkified (no more alley location!) Four Barrel Coffee in The Mission in San Francisco.

Of note: Four Barrel is owned and operated by a Ritual alum and, like Ritual’s early days, serves Stumptown coffee. That, my friends, is going to save me an untold amount of shipping costs (and/or airfare, for that matter) in my continuing quest to fill out this blog’s “What I’m Drinking Now” section. Amen to that.

Facts continue to hold a liberal bias.

– John Gruber, “Bulls, Bears, Donkeys and Elephants”

9. Turn TV to wherever Law & Order is playing (somewhere, Law & Order is always playing)

– Merlin Mann

From Merlin Mann’s somewhat sad “HOWTO process your new hotel room”

From the start, there have always been two separate but equal questions about race in this election. Is there still enough racism in America to prevent a black man from being elected president no matter what? And, will Republicans play the race card? The jury is out on the first question until Nov. 4. But we now have the unambiguous answer to the second: Yes.

– Frank Rich, from the op-ed “The Terrorist Barack Hussein Obama”

The Obama campaign has been the anti–O.J. trial, a 24-hour ongoing drama about a black man cast not as a problem but, potentially, as the solution

– Ta-Nehisi Coates, “What if he Loses?”

Chances are Jobs will be fine, and will remain as cantankerous, arrogant, dictatorial, and wildly visionary as ever for many years to come

– Orac

From the blog post entitled “What’s wrong with Steve Jobs?”. Orac is “the nom de blog of a humble pseudonymous surgeon/scientist …”.

You think I’m an arrogant [expletive] who thinks he’s above the law, and I think you’re a slime bucket who gets most of his facts wrong

– Steve Jobs

I’ve been consciously attempting to curtail my gratuitous and overabundant siphoning of John Gruber’s Daring Fireball content but this one was too good to pass up.

This little gem of a quote was the opening line (I dare not call it a “greeting”) of a phone call from Steve Jobs to a New York Times reporter in response to said reporters coverage of the nagging question of Mr. Job’s health.

That Steve Jobs, he really does have a bit of a potty mouth, no?

For a company that’s so brilliant at marketing, it seems to have absolutely no clue about crisis management

– David Pogue of The New York Times

MobileMe sounds like a major failure. Apple gets a lot of things right. This is not one of them.

From scream-worthy carnival rides to deep-fried Twinkies on a stick, the fun starts Tuesday at the Sonoma County Fair

Ahhhh … Sometimes I miss the County. (Emphasis mine)

Tattoos are even more complicated for my people. I have family members who had tattoos forced upon them. Their signs were a row of numbers on a forearm.

Derek Powazek

From his post entitled On Permanence and Scars of Choice

My feeling is, there are already enough places where you can get a cinnamon latte and a muffin wrapped in plastic. Why would I want to build another one of those?

James Freeman

From an article in San Francisco Magazine entitled A new buzz.

Mr. Freeman is the owner of Blue Bottle Coffee out of Oakland, CA. He recently opened a new café — to add to the kiosk in Hayes Valley — off of Market street in San Francisco.

I just spent the first three years of my sons life trying to get him not to eat blocks, and now youre telling him they taste like fucking strawberries

– Gabe (last name?)

Kellogs has introduced a new fruit candy for kids called “Lego Fun Snacks”.

Another blatant siphon off of John Gruber’s Daring Fireball.

If sales drop because potential iPod Touch buyers opt for a $199 iPhone 3G instead, don’t expect many tears from Apple executives.

– John Gruber

From “WWDC 2008 Miscellany” on Daring Fireball

Could it be that the aspiration of this candidate is to make of his White House a platform for community involvement?

– lonelysandwhich

In “Obama Open-house” lonelysandwhich ponders the significance of an excerpt of a speech Barack Obama gave to his staff.

And most important, is the presidential election hype going to trick Americans into believing candidates are social movements, rather than one of many vehicles for them?

–– David Sirota

In a stroke of serendipity, Barack Obama gave his own response to Mr. Sirota’s question five days ago.

The above quote is from an article entitled “The Populist Uprising” that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle. David Sirota is an author who’s book, The Uprising, comes out in June.