A film production will build a set in our very own Dogshit Duboce Park. Filming instructions include the filmmakers saying that they "respectfully request that [residents] park [their] cars in the garage". Unless I missed something major in the past six years, street parking is often the only parking in a neighbourhood of Victorian buildings. Film production in the area has waned of late; one of my favourite films (The Lineup) and many others have filmed here. I for one am excited to see a BART station built at the corner of Duboce and Steiner. Hell, if the café-formerly-known-as-Coopers ever opens again, this might infuse good business. Especially if a parking garage opened underneath the park.
I have previously made snide comments about the baggage-handling system at Denver Stapleton International, and lo! it is done, and answers Brian Aldiss's question: Who can replace a man*? Apparently not this automated monstrosity. Why didn't they use the technology Louis Borders developed for Webvan?
The New York Times' headline: Denver Airport Saw the Future. It Didn't Work.
* I must make that reference to one of my favourite short stories, a strong philosophical tale about a pack of automata roaming a world in which they have eliminated all humans.