The Second Annual San Diego Indie Music Fest is this Saturday -- www.sdindiemusicfest.com: Saturday, November 5 Noon to Midnight 6 stages! over 50 artists! at The Historic Abbey & Kung Food on 5th Ave.,between Olive & Quince. Pretty cool lineup -- check it out.

Just in time -- Brown Tide

San Diego is perhaps the most haunted city in the United States. Grab your GPS receiver and download an eXchange (.gpx) file format GPS Map to a haunted Halloween. It contains some haunted waypoints from the ghosts and gravestones tour of Old Town San Diego.

A silly meme... My blog is worth $31,049.70.How much is your blog worth?

Bomb components found at San Diego airport: Baggage screeners found bomb components in a carry-on piece of luggage at San Diego International Airport on Tuesday and cleared the area to investigate, Department of Homeland Security spokesmen said. A department spokesman said the screeners found "all components of an IED" (improvised explosive ...

Via Ethan Zuckerman (site unfortunately down), blogging from Pop!Tech... The Gigapxl Project, with head Graham Flint, has several ultra-high-resolution photos of San Diego in their gallery. If you look closer, as this page doess, you see the amazing level of detail: San Diego Night, you can ...

DVD Jon has taken a job with Michael Robertson: Jon Lech Johansen, the 21-year-old Norwegian media hacker nicknamed DVD Jon, is moving to San Diego to work for maverick tech entrepreneur Michael Robertson in what can only be described as the most portentous team-up since Butch met Sundance. DVD Jon ...

Cheap eats and frugal fun? America's Finest City certainly isn't America's cheapest. If you live in San Diego with unpaid student debt, you've probably had to choose between spending money on a night out with friends or coughing up overdue rent. It's not an easy decision, but with a few pointers ...

Check WORD San Diego for news of a new anti-social to help support WORD. More at the site, here's the event announcement: Come to the 3rd Annual WORD Anti-Social Writers Party in Celebration of Take Back Your Time Day! 6pm–10pm | Saturday October 22nd 2005 Join your fellow San Diego writers & readers in the big ...

TBudd sent us: Benefit Ride and After Party October 22nd *There is a KEY RIDE motorcycle poker run starting at San Diego Harley Davidson at 5500 Kearny Mesa Road, (sign up is from 9am until 10:30) prior to the celebration after party at Tio Leo's on Napa street. The San Diego Chapter of ...

Is it me or did we just have a slight earthquake at 2:12 p.m.? I haven't been able to get any news on it.

Mickele Hughes sent us: Temple Bhajan Band in Encinitas Yemaya Productions Presents Temple Bhajan Band To Listen Click Here Saturday, October 15, 2005, 7:30 p.m. Shanti Yoga Center 897 South Coast Highway 101 Encinitas, California 92024 Buy Tickets $15 Free to Kids 13 and Under! The Temple Bhajan Band is a group of devotional chanters that tours Southern California's Yoga Studios, Yoga Retreats, and various social events. They have been together for 4 years. The heart of the band is Sura whose voice is legendary among practitioners of Yoga and Interfaith followers. While Sura sings to the accompaniment of the harmonium he leads the rest of the members on instruments such as the esaraja, tamboura, kartals, flute, violin, and mrdunga drum in a dynamic symphony that is timeless. The Temple Bhajan Band plays ancient Vedic bhajans, which include mantras and chants from spiritual India. Many of the chants are done in a responsive fashion where the audience can participate and experience the purifying pleasure of the chanting.

Mack Reed of the estimable LA Voice sent me this the other day, and I'm just now getting up to speed: I stumbled across this in today's L.A. Times and thought of you. ... the Navy's opening up a section of the waterfront to development. I transcribed a bit of this tiny display ad from the Times: "The Navy has issued an RFP for the lease of approximately 14 acres known as the "Navy Broadway Complex" located on North Harbor Drive facing the downtown San Diego waterfront. Through special legislation, the Navy intends to offer this premiere, downtown land for long-term lease to a qualified developer or development team (yadda yadda yadda) Proposals will be due Jan. 4, 2006. It then claims the solicitation (the specific RFP, I'm guessing) is available here as Solicitation # N6247306RP06X01: http://esol.navfac.navy.mil/ Thanks Mack! I and San Diego appreciate it big time! I found it at http://esol.navfac.navy.mil/CookieCode/SolCookiePub.cfm?Sol_Num=N62473-06-RP-06X01: Full solicitation after the jump:

Some nifty imagery in the 360 degree panoramas. Require Quicktime. Robert Burns sent us: Around and About San Diego Guide to San Diego area featuring 360 degree virtual photography. Including beaches, attractions, events, hotels, wineries and restaurants.

I just got an e-mail from the Kidrobot store (a GREAT source for unique figures, toys, and cool stuff) telling me about a promotion (happening on Saturday Oct 8 ONLY) where select ice cream shops are giving way Ice-Bots to the first 50 customers that ask ...

What is Video Games Live? The first major U.S. video game music concert tour is finally here! Think music concert, theatrical stage show, and interactive video game all wrapped into one!

We've noted browntide here before. Well, Brown Tide has a new issue up. One bit of silliness is the Michael Aguirre mp3 parody. Warning: It's supposed to be funny.

A San Diego Classic. try the Buñuelos! Posted to Flickr, by So Cal Metro

We've linked to this site before, usually when it's time for OTL, but it's worth a post. Sean Callahan sent us: Pacific Beach Online.com This site is a "photo blog" website with information about just about everything going on in the Pacific Beach area. Included are super cool boutiques, restaurants, ...

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