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      Tibet Protestors Climb Golden Gate Bridge

      Posted by Jeff from Huffington Post

      * * * Three people protesting China's human rights record and the impending arrival of the Olympic torch climbed up the Golden Gate Bridge on Monday and tied the Tibetan flag and two banners to its cables. The banners read "One World One Dream. Free Tibet" and "Free Tibet 08."

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      S.F. leaders OK plastic grocery bag ban

      Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      Paper or paper? San Francisco supervisors and supporters said that by banning the petroleum-based sacks, blamed for littering streets and choking marine life, the measure would go a long way toward helping the city earn its green stripes. "Hopefully, other cities and states will follow suit,"

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    • Scanning license plates to identify delinquent parking violators

      Posted by Jeff from BoingBoing

      I have friends who pay their parking tickets because it's cheaper than monthly pking: "San Francisco's Department of Parking and Traffic are testing a mounted camera that scans the license plates of parked cars and searches a database to identify vehicles with lots of unpaid tickets. When a match is made, the parking ticket crew locks on the boot."

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