A few days ago, Pat Murphy handed the keys to the San Francisco Sentinel over to another political blogger, H Brown of the SF Bulldog. In a Week in Review type column, Brown starts giving out grades to members of the Board of Supervisors, based on his opinions and how they measured up to his progressive beliefs. He gives Sup. Gerardo Sandoval an A- and writes this as the reason why: "For taking one for the team in fighting Donald Fisher pretty much alone. I feel almost responsible because I kept writing about the Jewish cabal of Fisher & Shorenstein & Blum & Goldman & Hellman and how they're playing Sim City with San Francisco. It's true that they think they're better than all of us. It's true that a big part of why they think they're better than us is because they're Jewish. That's all true. But, you better not say it if you have any property to lose. Or, a family to raise. more ›

H. Brown is what we like to call a "San Francisco Character" -- the kind of person who makes living in San Francisco even more interesting and colorful. Love him or hate him, he won't water down his opinions or rhetoric for his sake or yours. He's run for office more often than Gavin Newsom, whom he cornered at Ross Mirkarimi's recent art fete in order to lobby him to mark the fresh-water reserves scattered across town so that people can find them in an emergency. It's the kind of thing that people take for granted, and that H. takes very, very seriously. more ›

Via the Flickr blog (disclosure: Yahoo owns Flickr, Yahoo pays some of this SFist's bills, but this isn't officially from Yahoo) we find out about an ID generator for photographers who use Flickr. Why is this cool? Because in our hyper-paranoid age, anything you've got to keep the authorities off your back for taking pictures might come in handy. more ›