The Hopp Stop

• Home Entertainment: Comcast Compressing HDTV Signals to Fit Three Shows into Two Shows’ Bandwidth
  Boo, hiss!
  (tags: tech)
• San Francisco’s Freeway Plan
  This page has info on the planned freeways that would have divided up SF. Killed in 1959, thank god. Reminds me of Caro’s book on Robert Moses and NY development.
  (tags: sanfran urban)
• The Freeway Revolt
  Good summary of SF’s cancelled freeway plans.
  (tags: sanfran urban)
• California Highways (www.cahighways.org): San Francisco/Bay Area Freeway Development (Part 1—The City of San Francisco)
  Better summary.
  (tags: sanfran urban)

Birthday photobooth Polaroid, originally uploaded by Hopp.

We took this at the 500 Club on Vanessa’s birthday. Pretty cool.

• Wall Street – Bear Stearns – JPMorgan Chase – Ben Bernanke – Jamie Dimon – New York Times
  Opinion piece from Times Magazine by Roger Lowenstein, a veteran financial journalist.
  (tags: economics)

• Rockstar and Amazon bring digital music distribution to GTA4
  Sounds pretty cool.
  (tags: music gaming)
• What’s New: Putting Dunkin’ Donuts coffee to the test
  “Thin, weak and lackluster,” was the way one staffer described it. Others thought it was typical office coffee – fine, but nothing distinctive.
  (tags: food)
• Readers’ Platform: Four-star differences
  Chronicle readers argue about Michael Mina review. Love the 3rd comment (“When you’re arguing with socialists, phrase things in language they can understand…”).
  (tags: food sanfran)
• The Allmusic Blog » Jack White Gets The Rich Kids Blues on The Raconteurs Consolers of the Lonely
  Good take from head guy at Allmusic on the new Raconteurs album.
  (tags: music)

• From the Mixed up Files of Benson Pebbles: What’s In a Name? (MLB)
  Pretty cool history of MLB team nicknames.
  (tags: sports)

• Bicyclists blamed twice as often as drivers
  From the Chronicle.
  (tags: sanfran)