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It's happening. First, take a look at a map of the Tenderloin, from "Areas to Avoid, San Francisco." Twitter HQ is in that area, between 9th and 10th on Market, and the long-standing "mid-Market area" around there is rapidly being rebuilt. In fact, just about everything south of McAlliister has been gentrified, except for parts of 6th St and a small section around 7th and the north side of Market. Rebuilding is underway along the Van Ness corridor too, and has more or less chopped a block off the Tenderloin on the west side. That's the old "Polk Gulch" area, once a gay rent-boy hangout.

So the SF Tenderloin is about half the size it was a few years ago. Progress continues.

>While there are any number of support teams down there along with the formal researchers, both on the ice and in the water, there aren't any gift shops.

You would be wrong about this too.

http://www.ukaht.org/peninsula/port-lockroy

"The buildings were renovated in 1996 by a team from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and since then opened to visitors during the Antarctic summer. See more about the restoration. This is made possible only by the proceeds of the small gift shop which all go towards renovation of historic sites in Antarctica. "

http://www.yogoyo.com/antarctica-travel-guide/palmer-station-photos/gift-shop-palmer-station-antarctica.htm

A photo of a Ukrainian gift shop in Antarctica:

http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/p/m/1f4d46/

There are other links, but those were some of the top few.

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In singles it is a giant rotating cube of cash while in 20's it would fit in a big backpack.

I've seen these for sale in large quantities in Venice.

Posting from the UK. What the heck is a drive thru restaurant?

It's like a drive thru liquor store but it sells food. Yeah, not as much fun, I agree...

Meeh, both where lame :(

The Dracula castle in Romania:
http://www.wayfaring.info/images/castel_bran_aka_dracula_castle.jpg

Malbork castle in Poland:
http://pictures.polandforall.com/images/malbork-castle-bridge-towers-dansker-high-castle.jpg

Bastille, France:
http://www.napoleonguide.com/images/pixs_bastille.jpg

Svartsjö slott here in Sweden, was wasted being used as a prison :(
http://www.ekero.se/imagemod/AvanEvents/16f73101-570f-4eb5-a4de-084ce249efa2/svartsjo_____resize_s_460_230.gif
http://www.slottsguiden.info/slott/17_2.jpg

The castle here in my home town, Örebro:
http://www.paranormal.nu/orebro-01-high.jpg
http://www.lst.se/NR/rdonlyres/FDD91C98-E374-485B-BBBD-EB1100972407/0/slottet3RogerLundberg.jpg
http://img.geocaching.com/cache/1971731f-90fc-4780-aa67-8f13a6dc24e4.jpg
http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1163049.jpg
http://www.thegogglesdonothing.com/photos/d/415-4/IMG_2550.jpg
http://www.remains.se/gallery/photo458dba988b2e5.jpg

Kalmar slott, also Sweden:
http://www.svd.se/multimedia/dynamic/00280/kalmarslott_280791b.jpg
http://www.malinken.com/wedding/bilder/kalmarslott.jpg
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1563728-KALMAR_SLOTT_KALMAR-Kalmar.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Kalmar_slott.jpg

The city wall of Visby, also Sweden:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZARBRqLx-r4/SKmM6KTCgTI/AAAAAAAAC3g/gPpbJrmhVxs/s400/Stadsmuren+i+Visby+på+Gotland.jpg
http://www.hagen.web.surftown.se/Visby%20torn%20med%20fanan.jpg
http://www.topcastles.com/images/large/visby.jpg
All: http://www.slottsguiden.info/slott/163_4.jpg
http://www.guteinfo.com/scripts/bilder/info/1248.jpg

Not that Scottish tribe shit ;)

Castles are cool :)

Helsingborg:
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/2110709-Travel_Picture-Helsingborg.jpg

Meeh, both where lame :(

The Dracula castle in Romania:
http://www.wayfaring.info/images/castel_bran_aka_dracula_castle.jpg

Malbork castle in Poland:
http://pictures.polandforall.com/images/malbork-castle-bridge-towers-dansker-high-castle.jpg

Bastille, France:
http://www.napoleonguide.com/images/pixs_bastille.jpg

Svartsjö slott here in Sweden, was wasted being used as a prison :(
http://www.ekero.se/imagemod/AvanEvents/16f73101-570f-4eb5-a4de-084ce249efa2/svartsjo_____resize_s_460_230.gif
http://www.slottsguiden.info/slott/17_2.jpg

The castle here in my home town, Örebro:
http://www.paranormal.nu/orebro-01-high.jpg
http://www.lst.se/NR/rdonlyres/FDD91C98-E374-485B-BBBD-EB1100972407/0/slottet3RogerLundberg.jpg
http://img.geocaching.com/cache/1971731f-90fc-4780-aa67-8f13a6dc24e4.jpg
http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1163049.jpg
http://www.thegogglesdonothing.com/photos/d/415-4/IMG_2550.jpg
http://www.remains.se/gallery/photo458dba988b2e5.jpg

Kalmar slott, also Sweden:
http://www.svd.se/multimedia/dynamic/00280/kalmarslott_280791b.jpg
http://www.malinken.com/wedding/bilder/kalmarslott.jpg
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1563728-KALMAR_SLOTT_KALMAR-Kalmar.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Kalmar_slott.jpg

The city wall of Visby, also Sweden:
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ZARBRqLx-r4/SKmM6KTCgTI/AAAAAAAAC3g/gPpbJrmhVxs/s400/Stadsmuren+i+Visby+på+Gotland.jpg
http://www.hagen.web.surftown.se/Visby%20torn%20med%20fanan.jpg
http://www.topcastles.com/images/large/visby.jpg
All: http://www.slottsguiden.info/slott/163_4.jpg
http://www.guteinfo.com/scripts/bilder/info/1248.jpg

Not that Scottish tribe shit ;)

Castles are cool :)

Helsingborg:
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/2110709-Travel_Picture-Helsingborg.jpg

Here in Sweden a lot of mining is done in Kiruna:
City(?):
http://www.strangeharvest.com/mt/archive/kiruna3.jpg
http://www.mynewsdesk.com/files/e1ec5f78a79c345d4a3fcf3c86177f0f/resources/ResourceWebImage/thumbnails/flygbild_kiruna_november_2007_large.jpg?1238409989

They are even moving the whole city afaik because they have mined so much underneath it or if it's that they want to mine underneath it so it has to be moved.

The ice hotel (Jukkasjärvi):
http://www.qedata.se/bilder/gallerier/ishotellet/ishotell-ingang-natt.jpg
http://www.qedata.se/bilder/gallerier/ishotellet/ishotell-rum-japan.jpg
http://www.qedata.se/bilder/gallerier/ishotellet/ishotell-ingang2-natt.jpg
http://www.qedata.se/bilder/gallerier/ishotellet/ishotell-ute-hjerta.jpg
http://www.kirunabuss.se/taxibestallning-ishotellet/282FCFC53F4D46B483E98F34D627F045
http://fjellfotografen.se/albums/uta/sverige/lappland/Miniatyr_Iskyrka%20och%20Ishotell,%20Jukkasj%E4rvi%20%A9%20uta-bg1044.jpg
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1323606-A_reindeer_fur_covered_bed_in_the_Ice_Hotel-Kiruna.jpg

Aurora:
http://www.ltu.se/polopoly_fs/1.36982!terassen_kiruna_aurora.jpg
http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/autopia/images/2008/04/24/kiruna.jpg

http://www.wintercities.kiruna.se/nytt/kiruna6.gif

Kiruna on a map: http://homepage.swissonline.ch/Christener/Kiruna/Bilder/Kiruna.jpg

Esrange space center is close by to.

Kiruna location: 675118N, 201331O
Alaska: 5440'N - 7150'N, 130W - 173E

I don't know how much the gulf stream (eventually quite a bit?) help but if people can mine there I assume they can mine in Alaska to, why shouldn't they be able to? Heck I live in Örebro at around the same latitude as Stockholm and the location of this city is 5916N 1513O, so even that is more north than the southern parts of Alaska.

Arctic circle:
World: http://www.athropolis.com/map2.htm
Alaska: http://www.studentsoftheworld.info/sites/country/img/15000_AlaskaMap.jpg

Understood. My apologies. Here are my sources:

The costs of certain elements vary greatly, so I went by this site, which adds the fees/costs using averages.

The quality of a nations public transportation system is, of course, a matter of opinion. But here are several sites that put German cities in the 'one of the best in the world' (or as the the best in Europe) category:

TravelPod.com: Hamberg listed as having ..."one of the best public transportation systems in the world..."
The book Germany: Unraveling an Enigma (Greg Ness - copyright 2000) list Germany as having "...one of the worlds's best public transportation systems..."
AskMen.com: rates the U-Bahn as #9 in the world
HelpGlobe.com: rates the U-Bahn as #11 in the world
USA Today: "Munich has Europe's best public transportation
VirtualTourist.com: "Munich has one of the best...public transport systems in Europe"
Plus countless Germany sites saying how superior it is (not exactly non-bias, so I didn't list them).

we can change the climate to make things better

There. That. Textbook example of famous last words. ;-)

Image: Southern California in 2050, mid-summer, after attempts to "fix" the climate: Clicky

Your premise is wrong. South America has many, many computer savvy people all over the place. Just like in the USA, you never know who you'll run into out in the boonies. You'd be surprised.

Use ssh or a vpn, but encrypt all your traffic.

I traveled for a month in Central and South America in 2008 with just a Nokia N800 Internet Tablet and bluetooth keyboard. I used an ssh tunnel back to my web server for blog updates and used scp to transmit photos overnight. I was able to take about 300 photos a day of my experiences. Obviously, email was IMAPS and SMTPS with a local client too. It is important to be able to write email, blog posts, and anything else while off line. You'll be paying by either the hour or the MB, unless your hotel has internet.

Monteverde, Costa Rica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monteverde has extremely limited connectivity. My language school had just a single 56Kbps ISDN internet connection shared by 100 students and staff.

The netbook idea proposed is excellent. I was unhappy with the screen space on the N800, but the light-weight was fantastic when living out of a backpack for a few days at a time and hiking all over Iguazu Falls http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/South_America/Argentina/Provincia_de_Misiones/Parque_Nacional_del_Iguazu-1539388/TravelGuide-Parque_Nacional_del_Iguazu.html and Volcanos. The trade off for a netbook is battery life. The N800 can do email-only for hours and hours over a week without a recharge. If you bring a spare battery or two, you can easily go for a week+. The batteries in the bluetooth keyboard lasted all almost a year.

Test that all your photo equipment connects with your computer and the uploads work too BEFORE you leave. I ended up writing an rsync-over-ssh script just to make uploads trivial. Go to a friends home or public WiFi in your town for the test. For snapshot photos, you don't have to use the high resolution of your camera - 3Mpix is still very clear and the files are smaller. Definitely take a few hi-resolution photos for important landmarks, but not by default.

Meant as a joke but it will sadly happen like this. It is incredible that we can have this level of clear investigation into evolution. And it is something that people have innately known since early agriculture (replanting grain using the best seeds, genetic engineering). Yet in the US:
51% of people believe god created man as he is.
30% said god created us and we can evolve
15% say humans evolved with out god.

These figures are a terrifying example of humans ability to deny what should be blatantly obvious. If we can do this imagine how many things people must get completely wrong no matter the level of obviousness.

These figures are incredible examples of how much money you can make on peoples stupidity.

Well, that is an incredible piece of art though.

I think it's only fair you die for the sake of art. No really, you seem to be perfectly fine with others doing so. Idiot.

Meant as a joke but it will sadly happen like this. It is incredible that we can have this level of clear investigation into evolution. And it is something that people have innately known since early agriculture (replanting grain using the best seeds, genetic engineering). Yet in the US:
51% of people believe god created man as he is.
30% said god created us and we can evolve
15% say humans evolved with out god.

These figures are a terrifying example of humans ability to deny what should be blatantly obvious. If we can do this imagine how many things people must get completely wrong no matter the level of obviousness.

These figures are incredible examples of how much money you can make on peoples stupidity.

Well, that is an incredible piece of art though.

Meant as a joke but it will sadly happen like this. It is incredible that we can have this level of clear investigation into evolution. And it is something that people have innately known since early agriculture (replanting grain using the best seeds, genetic engineering). Yet in the US:
51% of people believe god created man as he is.
30% said god created us and we can evolve
15% say humans evolved with out god.

These figures are a terrifying example of humans ability to deny what should be blatantly obvious. If we can do this imagine how many things people must get completely wrong no matter the level of obviousness.

These figures are incredible examples of how much money you can make on peoples stupidity.

do you really believe that opposition is based on poor aesthetics?

I'm sure oil spills are the big concern, yet here is a picture of a beautiful, Californian-syle oil rig off of Long Beach that is producing today...evidently if you make them look nicer, they are more allowable.

And google (+firefox search) is your friend, somebody seemed to like it:

The Tyrannosaurus Rat was an unbelieveable blend of hefe and Belgian Ale. One of the most delicious beers in the world.

http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/c1c37/b7cfa/2/

Since you think you're so awesome as to *know* the man but don't want to let the cat out of the bag I WILL!!

He's in Ensenada Mexico. You can't get a list of all the fancy schmancy restaurants here: http://www.ensenada-tourism.com/

HOW DID I KNOW THAT?? Did I hax0r your computer? Nope 'fraid not. Contrary to Google's mantra, Do no Evil, You can in fact do plenty of evil by simply googling your username. And geez to put up so much personal info about yourself. If you want to know more about Juan you can check that out here: http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/79de2/

It's seems he's an artsy type of guy who apparently loves cats.

Waving tidbits around like you're an ubergeek sucks and then not even sharing? But SERIOUSLY, you shouldn't be posting all that personal info about yourself on the web. I've known way too many people who've gotten ID thefted or just plain agrravated by script kiddies by the stuff they've put up on Yahoo and Myspace.

To quote a classic movie, MESS WITH THE BULL, GET THE HORNS! Wave stuff around like that and SOMEBODY'S gonna call ya on it ;)

And that's just in outlying areas. Near the Tropical Isle, home of the Hand Grenade drink, conditions are quite good as the water there has a high enough grain to sanitize and neutralize bacteria.

Yes, I was a regular customer there on my trips to the Big Easy. For the intrepid, the Dungeon is next door. $10 cover and you'll definitely need scuba now. I also miss Cafe Du Monde. Thank God, I perfected my beignet recipe in time!

Two questions, really. Is Tokyo's Akihabara as geeky as Singapore's Sim Lim Square? More importantly, I suppose, is it safer for my wallet? Sim Lim Square, at the corner of Bencoolen St. and Rochor Canal Rd., just next door to the Little India district, is seven floors of IT hagglers' paradise.

Link, Link, Search.

DeCSS => Norway
cp4hack => Sweden
Linus T => Finland

Check them out once, they are different countries after all.

Do the US's laws apply over there? I don't think so.

Neither do I. And that's a Good Thing (tm).

-AC Suomesta