By Benjamin Wachs
If you ever wondered who was going to be the Ed Wood of YouTube, San Francisco has an answer.
Gavin Newsom added a new video to his YouTube channel yesterday - a one-and-a-half minute introduction to 311's new online service. The video itself is not worth commenting on...the production values are significantly better, but it's still just Gavin talking about 311. But the fact that he did it means that we haven't seen the last of Gavin Newsom: internet personality.
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Bradley Woehl and his progeny on the goGary Fisher, the local mountain bike luminary whose name is plastered on hundreds of thousands of bicycles worldwide, has endowed a San Francisco chair in kid fun, reports local bike shop owner Bradley Woehl.Well, it's not exactly a chair, as the accompanying photo demonstrates, but rather an enclosed bench seat at the front of a special Bakfiets brand Dutch-made bicycle. Fisher, whose enthusiasms have lately encompassed urban as well as wilderness cycling,
Daniel Greene/FlickrYou could make someone's '83 Volvo very happy with this.You can now repurpose used cooking oil in the greenest of ways, even if you haven't converted your own car to drive on biofuels. If you live in San Francisco, you can now get rid of that dodgy fry oil left from cooking chicken wings or lumpia at a handful of drop-off spots.
In 2007, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission launched SFGreasecycle, a program for restaurants and food service businesses to recyc
