Photographer Michael Rauner brought this photo (which he took) to our attention today, and we can't decide what's more amazing. The alignment of the photos or the eerie synergy of the text.
Note: The Guardian still sucks.
Their complaint, filed recently in San Francisco Superior Court, says that inside the glistening walls of the federal courthouse at 450 Golden Gate Avenue, all kinds of safety violations involving weapons, drugs, sex and even illegal sales of pirated DVDs have gone down.
More specifically, the three plaintiffs allege:
Journalists in search of trend stories are always waiting for that third shoe to drop -- because then you've found a three-footed man and, hey, that's a story!
The notion that the third time something happens marks a trend may well trace to "the rule of three," a longstanding quirk of Western culture. Examples of groupings of three abound (from the Holy Trinity to the Three Little Pigs to the Three Stooges) and the "rule" explains why story structures, slogans, titles, jokes, and just about any list seem to naturally "work" when divided into three parts.
In any event, our anticipation of events occurring in triplicate causes our attention to pique whenever a pair of similar events take place in a short period of time. So, after viewing the above video of a maniacal bird dive-bombing Financial District pedestrians and reading about the horse that ran wild along the Embarcadero, one must wonder: When will a third frantic creature terrorize San Francisco?
Not long ago, we wrote about San Francisco's Hearing Dog Program, a recently formed nonprofit staffed by the folks who used to run the SPCA's program (until it was essentially disbanded last year). The Hearing Dog Program recently lost its legal dogfight with the SPCA to claim a $500,000 bequest -- but, last month, still managed to graduate its first class of meticulously trained hearing dogs.
The above video demonstrates just what those dogs can do -- and is intended to raise the organization's profile and catch the attention of the hard-of-hearing that a dog may be able to assist them around the home and out of doors. So, it was a bit strange that the video was released sans captions -- so its intended audience couldn't, you know, understand what's going on.
