January 15, 2005
... a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, relish
... nobody had finished the big burger in the three-hour time limit since it was introduced on Super Bowl Sunday 1998 - not even competitive eater Eric "Badlands" Booker. The 420-pound Booker - who has eaten such things as 49 glazed doughnuts in eight minutes and two pounds of chocolate bars in six minutes - tried three times to eat the burger and finally did on his third effort. But it took Booker 7 1/2 hours.The burger takes 45 minutes to cook, and those who try to meet the three-hour limit must use no utensils and eat all of these fixins: one large onion, two whole tomatoes, one half head of lettuce, 1 1/4 pounds of cheese, top and bottom buns, and a cup each of mayonnaise, ketchup, mustard, relish, banana peppers and some pickles.
I thought I had written about this earlier, because the pub's web site had a great photo of the now-vanquished burger. But a cursory examination of the archives turned up nothing.
January 14, 2005
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World City Photos
The World City Photos project has a beautiful photograph of Lisbon's rooftops (copy here. Many stunning user-contributed photographs of landmarks around the world. Add to this the amazing public-domain repository of the US Geological Survey and you're in photo heaven.
January 13, 2005
Get your freak(bike) on.
Chicagofreakbike has an amazing collection of chopper, tallbike, trashbike, and et cetera photographs. Hotcha! (and thanks, jimg, for the pointer).
This led me to thinking about the Blackstone Bicycle Coöp near my old stamping grounds in Chicago, and a link on that site led me to the Bike Furniture shop. And that reminded me of another link jimg sent: the Oklahoma Bicycle Society.
January 12, 2005
Masonic and Fell
At the Board of Supervisors' Land Use Committee meeting, the Fell St. bike lane became a fixture, and the Board now moves on to consider the long-overdue improvements to the Masonic intersection
At the Board of Supervisors' Land Use Committee on Monday, the much-loved Fell St. bike lane between Scott and Baker Streets was made permanent, a final victory for a campaign that has lasted more than 10 years. In addition, on Tuesday, the Board approved the removal of three parking spaces on Fell St. at Masonic to improve visibility between cars and bikes. This approval will allow for implementation of other Phase I improvements for the Fell/ Masonic intersection, such as ladder crosswalk striping, advanced phase for bikes/ peds, and advanced stop line, all expected in February. Stay tuned for news on our push for additional improvements down the road. If you are interested in volunteering with the SFBC's Panhandle Xing Guard effort, send an e-mail to xing-guard@sfbike.org
January 11, 2005
Make-over, ess-eff stylee
Will Sirron Norris' work be 
the new face of BART?
January 10, 2005
On the right track
Thieves steal underground track
Czech police are investigating after more than 1,000 feet of railway track was stolen from the Prague underground.Police say they suspect a group of homeless people were behind the theft of the track in the Czech capital's Prague 10 district.
They said the 12 tons of track would have been worth about £1,500 on the scrap metal market, local media reported.
Not quite reminiscent of A J Deutsch's outstanding (and under-anthologised) story "A Subway Named Möbius", but still quite an interesting problem of logistics.
January 09, 2005
A matter of public health?
An epidemic has manifested in the Lower Haight: glaucoma. I see many young men going in to noisome nearby clinics, sometimes several times each week, to receive treatment. When will our public-health officials take notice of the matter? Am I putting myself at risk to have my sight stolen?