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Check out the Burning Man Webcast, which, while entertaining you with aural niceties care of 94.5 BMIR, will broadcast the entire festival live 24/7 from the Playa. Whether pro or con Burning Man, you should watch it. The webcast will show you how the entire city comes together in just one week. Fascinating stuff, actually.

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As you can see, not much is going on. Rapid low and high tide fluctuations, but that's about it for San Francisco.

For more information, check back at SFist's continuing Japan quake/tsunami coverage.

Below: video of huge tsunami hitting Japan's coast shortly after the 8.9 earthquake.

We've all been bummed out here over the sudden demise of Adam's Block. It was fun, legal, and helpful. And now? Well, this happened.

Here's the thing about Adam's Block recent drama. A group of posters on an "art" site called 12 oz Prophet (the size of a standard spray paint can, get it?) allegedly forced him to apologize for his site by threatening someone close to him.

Not cool. And illegal.

Adam, it seems, printed out the entire thread about him last night and then scanned it to make pdfs, which are available here. The comments -- which SFist will pore through today and this weekend, because there are many of them -- show some of the people that went after him. If they're smart, which we assume they are, they won't. These threats, while unacceptable, seem empty.

Does this all boil down to a group of graffiti fetishists who want their art production done off-camera? Perhaps. Some anti-big brother statement? Not likely.

Update: Another piece to the story: It all started off with the idea in the first page of the Prophet thread that it would be cool to go to the intersection and get some 12oz Prophet sign in camera view -- which C.W. Nevius sort of mentioned after he took the raw material he got from sites like this and SF Citizen and riffed on it -- somebody spray painted and then got caught a few days ago within the AB periphery. Then, Adam took down the clips showing the 12oz message and then they cried "free speech," or whatever.

After the jump is one of the, well, nicer comments thrown Adam's way.

Well, this not very nice.

Adam Jackson, founder of the addictive Tenderloin webcam AdamsBlock.com, has received his very first death threat today. (Congratulations, Adam. You're growing up so fast. Sob.)

Jackson's noted 24-hour camera, set up at his Taylor and Eddy Ellis apartment, simply shows the street action going on down below. And even though your editor cannot find a reasonably-priced studio apartment on that block, the area is touted as "the worst neighborhood in San Francisco." Which is what makes AdamsBlock.com so intriguing.

But just a few hours ago, Jackson sent out this urgent tweet. Ahem:

"Just received my first death threat. Time to start rethinking my privacy. Fame sucks” about 4 hours ago from Tweetie

Note to Adam: don't stress it. At least not too much. This happens. A lot. Believe us. Also, your live-cam is golden. Loads of fun to watch. In a perfect world, every dodgy street corner would have a live stream going for our personal enjoyment. But, yeah, nothing for which you should risk your life.