Mission Mission

So was this the result of some kind of emergency? Or did somebody just forget to do their job?

Also… dibs!

Photo by Dylan Bigby.

This man’s insane hella-strings guitar was brought to you by MOViN 99.7. Don’t miss Fernando & Greg in the mornings and tune in tonight for your chance for free tickets to this year’s Triple Ho Show!

How do you say “Viral Marketing” in Spanish, anyway? The answer may shock and educate you:

Jane over at Janebook was the victim of a legit sex crime the other night, but at least she managed to pull a great blog entry out of the ordeal. It starts with this screen shot of a Facebook conversation:

And after that, she charts “types of dick exposure from least classy to classiest.” Read on if you’re dying to know where N-Judah dick ranks. (No Greg Dewar jokes, please.)

Global X tried this experiment. It didn’t go well:

I waved my Palm Pré close to the RFID reader, even touching it at several angles –it didn’t work. The conductor asked me what I was doing. Rather than get into a technical explanation, I just gave him $2 in cash. EPIC FAIL!

I tried this with a key card once. Worked fine.

Read on if you want.

Whoops.

This is news to me, but MUNI buses are equipped with front-facing cameras that have been used to spot parking violations since 2008. Due to a software glitch involving daylight savings time, the city issued 4 months of bad parking tickets. Either that, or MUNI buses are equipped with hidden flux capacitors.

ABC has the scoop:

Through a California Public Records Act request, the I-Team has confirmed the cameras on 17 buses failed to switch over to Daylight Saving Time in March, and that technicians didn’t catch the problem until the end of June.  The time was off by one hour, so the city issued 510 bad tickets during those months.

So if you’ve been ticketed recently, you might be entitled to a refund. Check the full list of affected tickets or give the SFMTA a call on your cell phone, which contains a clock that is far more advanced than that of a MUNI bus.

[via Dan Noyes at abc7news.com]

I mean, probably not, but Inhabitat has a cool bunch of concept art up right here. Can you imagine trying to navigate under one of these things on a ten-speed? Or a Suburban?

I just hope they hurry up and build these things so Jackie Chan will be inspired to get off his ass and do one last epic stunt before he really retires.

Oh, so this is your perpetually late, underfunded, mismanaged, stinky and universally despised municipal railway? Cool.

Photo by rulenumberone2.

Photographer and bike advocate Sean this morning snapped this shot of a platoon of buses in one of the newish protected bike lanes on Market. Hopefully this is just a good-natured case of a gang of Muni officials getting blitzed on the Fourth and deciding to prank the cycling community — and not something more sinister.

Of course, just four days ago we saw a federal official wedge a motor vehicle in there. And there are always plenty of charter buses clogging the lane.

Anyway, happy Monday!

(Sean hipped us to this item via our Facebook page btw. Thanks, Sean!)

Our very best friend in the world Caroline McCormick delivered some great news earlier today via Facebook update:

[J]ust heard a man on the F Market line refer to it as a “funny-ass bus.”

Perfecto. Now we know what the F stands for!

Photo by tweetsweet.

Previously:

Who Knew You Could Charter An F-Market for Less Than $500?

Apparently people that ride buses into the Financial District are less friendly than people that ride buses elsewhere. See how stuff like that affects your Muni driver’s day in this new movie by Sara Biegelsen.