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Jeff Hunt of Muni Diaries forwarded us this beautiful map adorned with literary quotes that have shaped our beloved San Francisco, which was created by Ian Huebert. We love the whimsical typography and colors almost more than the quotes themselves. See a larger version.

We randomly came across this little tidbit yesterday while searching for kid band The She's, who are performing at the Rock Make Street Festival on Sunday. The disgruntled revenge-seeker/Walnut Creek resident must have taken the time to register their gripe as a business on Google Maps, which curiously shows up at the top of the aforementioned search list, alongside various local salons and restaurants. Strange. Here's a transcript:

Stamen Design, the folks behind Oakland Crimespotting, have just launched a companion site, San Francisco Crimespotting, which is a sleek, user-friendly interface that blows SFPD's clunky Crime Maps out of the water. Users can easily identify which types of crimes have taken place in their area, including the date and time of day they occurred. (We were quite relieved to see the absence of any murders or aggravated assaults in our vicinity.)

Apparently, most of 11th Street (between Mission and Bryant Streets) was deleted from Google's Street View a few months ago, which was not fixed in yesterday's update. It also appears in the above graphic that 16th Street, between Folsom and Harrison, is not available either. Here's evidence from 2007 that Street View was in fact once available on 11th Street.

Yesterday, Gavin Newsom announced Google maps favorites, a feature that allows you, well, to list your favorite places, which then show up on Google Maps. Ta-da. A few celebrity favorite places of note? Maya Lin likes to see fine art and Dede's crispy hair at the de Young Museum, Tony Hawk likes a magical land called Alyeska, Yo-Yo Ma enjoys dining in Beverly Hills, and one of Mayor Gavinn Newsom's favorite spots is SF General Hospital (which seems to be a very strange fetish, but to each his own.) Anyway, be sure to check out Google's new feature. It's actually loads of fun.

This goes out to all the commenters who get up-in-arms about copyedit errors: Burrito Justice & Mission Mission point us to the fact that the folks at the helm over at Google Maps clearly don't spend enough time in Dolores Park. While the name "Mission Dolores Park" is spelled correctly on the main park label, it is spelled "Mission Delores Park" elsewhere on the same map. For shame.

Real estate agents have always reveled in transforming a neighborhood, or a sub-section of a shitty neighborhood, through the kind of re-branding that turns a place like Hell's Kitchen in NYC into Midtown West. Well, the San Francisco Association of Realtors are releasing their latest map, which is going to affect the official listing location of every property in town, and it includes such creative renamings as Barbary Coast for the Financial District, and NoPa for that section of the Western Addition that's home to a certain popular restaurant. Apparently the realtors stopped short of including TenderNob, because we all know that's kind of bullshit (and there's so few for-sale properties there that the real estate people don't give a shit). Says Matthew Borland, the agent leading the remapping, "the changes had to reflect a true change and feel of the fabric of a neighborhood."

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Some pig-- you heard us, ! -- had the unmitigated gall to go against the express wishes of Google. The nerve! Driving a Prius (oh, of course it was a Prius), some poor Google Street View recording sap was busted by the fuzz for doing some illegal, doing something evil over in the Presidio. Wonder what it was?

There's something new on your Google Map: Muni! We're so happy about this, we don't even want to ask why it took so damn long (BART's been on Google Transit since forever). Now at last you can toggle trips from Driving Directions to Transit Directions, and it's smart enough to understand transfers -- for example, here's a trip from Berkeley to Ocean Beach via BART and Muni.

LA-based comedy troupe The Vacationeers fears Google Maps Street View Big Brother-ness. And ever since we saw a shot of our bedroom window on it, featuring our awful interior decor, so do we.

As usual, Google's come up with a way to make everyone's lives easier. The details of Google Transit Feed Specification are a bit technical and engineer-y, but the upshot for transit riders is this: you can plan your trips with Google Transit on more agencies than before, and with even better results. BART's participating in the project, which is good news for BART riders. Muni is not, which is bad news; but Muni riders are used to that.

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Yikes. Not to drizzle gasoline on a fire again, but this alarming note was found at Drumm & Jackson (sent to us via Lady_K.)

Aaron Axelsen has been a major force in promoting local independent music with San Francisco's indie-dance party, Popscene and his Sunday night radio show on Live 105. (You can listen from 7-10pm. Check out what he plays, here.) We wanted to feature his top ten albums of the year to find out what he thinks rocked 2007. Here's the list:

We came back from taking down the recycling yesterday evening to find we had locked ourselves out of our apartment. "Noooo!!" [Insert Emo Darth Vader ballad here. Warning -- audio.] We dialed the apartment manager on the call-box but got his voice mail. Lucky for us, the manager, who wouldn't be back until 10:00, called our s.o., who wouldn't be back until 8:00, and our s.o. called our friend who lives a few blocks away. So, instead of being forced to sit on our lobby stairs all night, uncomfortably greeting all of our neighbors, we were soon whisked away and served pasta, wine, and a couple of episodes of the BBC version of "Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares."

We were doing a little stumbling the other night and came across this curious flyer that was photographed at 18th and Capp, by Chris Brennan: "Lose a Small Furry Animal? Not a Dog or Cat. Call Scott: 415_______." Here's what Chris had to say about it: Funny thing is we knew the animal in question who was indeed not a dog or a cat, but a lost ferret. I think the ambiguity was twofold -...

According to SF Crime, the No. 1 source for all San Francisco criminality and deadly shenanigans, a drive-by took palce this past Wednesday. Seems to have slipped our mind, folks. Anyway: On Wednesday night a drive-by happened in the Silver Terrace neighborhood of San Francisco. Two men were injured just before 10 p.m., close to the intersection of Silver and Quesada avenues. "A 34-year-old man was shot once in his leg and an 18-year-old...

In order to prevent witnessing further gas station signage hilarity, MapQuest (remember them?) has a nifty cheap station location feature. Basically, it maps out gas stations in your neighborhood/city by price. In San Francisco there's a scant difference between the highest and lowest ranked stations. Whatever. But SFist readers way out in Whereverville -- i.e., cities where automotive discussions aren't whispered in hushed tones -- might appreciate the service. Especially if money is tight...

Submit your Bay Area finds to found [at] sfist [dot] com, or tag them sfist and found on Flickr! Let us know where and when you found the item and any other helpful info. We found this lost item a couple of years ago in the alleyway near Albion and 16th St, the same block as Lady K's "Loving Neighbor" find from a couple of months back. We were interested to see that "toothbrush" is...

Every year at Thanksgiving, you're bound to forget one or two critical items. A shallot, cooking twine, mushrooms, Ketel One -- something will slip your mind and you run the risk of having your Thanksgiving dinner collapse in on itself. And then you've ruined everything. Everything! But who can we prevent such yellow wallpapered hysteria? This is where you come in: do you know of any grocery stores that stay open late on Thanksgiving...

While walking around our neighborhood the other day, we noticed a couple of cop cars outside a residence, with the fuzz scurrying about. Being the nosy, concerned citizens that we are, we immediately went back to our apartment, glanced out the window a couple of times, and scoured the internets for any new news. (Last time we didn't bother to figure out why there were cops around, live grenades were found in a closet of a house three blocks away. Yikes.)

Photo of a daylight graffiti artist on Haight Street

Photos of the doggies and kitties in the windows of Macy's Union Square

Photos of our new public plaza

The kind folks over at Doc's Clock are hosting a fundraiser tomorrow night from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. to benefit Baykeeper. One hundred percent of the sales of Radeberger, Chimay Blue, Anchor Liberty (and more to be announced) will go to oil spill clean-up efforts. What a great excuse to down a couple (few) Chimays while playing a little shuffleboard.

Mission hipster haven, Ritual Roasters, is hosting a stellar art event organized by curator/painter/illustrator extraordinaire, Sacha Eckes. The show runs through December 2nd and features artists Timothy Buckwalter, Bill Dunlap, Sacha Eckes, Nancy Mizuno Elliott, Christopher Jernberg, Alexis Mackenzie, Paul Madonna (whom we interviewed in May), Mike Monteiro, Fred Rinne, Brion Nudah Rosch & Ifton Schlinger and Micke Tong.

A 3.7 aftershock in San Jose just shook the ground of Silicon Valley. According to our own Spencer Williams, it happened a little before 4 p.m. and It "only lasted a couple of seconds." So there you have it.

So much to do, so much not to do. What's a girl to do? Well, here is just a smattering of what's going on tonight. (An aside, is there any reason to buy bags of fun-size candy anymore to hand out to costumed tykes? We haven't seen a trick-or-treater in ages. Sob.) -- Hellgate Halloween: Vice magazine (SF's no. 1 fan) is throwing a bash with a complimentary bar (!) and tunes by Chromeo...