- Sent to me in an email subject lined "POP POP!": "Snapchat Investor Says High-Profile Failures Are Just Around the Corner." [Valleywag]
- Learn a little more about Gwynn Murrill's sculptures at the SF Zoo. [Art and Architecture - San Francisco]
- Supe Wiener wants the SFPUC to take over all the streetlights maintained by PG&E, because having the city manage their upkeep will keep them from being constantly broken. Hey, works for Muni! [KCBS]
- The average luxury home in SF (read: what a $500,000 house is like in the Midwest) hits an all-time high sale price of $3.3 million. [SF Business Times]
- Golden Gate Bridge workers are on strike as of this morning. [SF Examiner]
- Use your iPhone to check local beaches for bacteria. [KPIX]
- Live in the Castro? Then come help put these chairs away. [Hoodline]
- The [Market Street Railway] celebrates the 14 Mission.
- Are SF McDonald's restaurants participating in the small-coffee giveaway the fast-food monolith says they're running until September 29? Somebody go and report back, please. [Consumerist]
- SF-based Sidecar, which says they invented "ride-sharing" (your choice on if this means they get "credit" or "blame"), just raised $15 million. [SF Business Times]
- The District 10 Supervisor race gets interesting (using the term extremely loosely) when the challenger attacks the incumbent's appearance. [SF Chronicle]
- This [Mission Local] reader has had it with churches making SF streets into their parking lots.