Taking a cue from America, the bastion of democracy, Mexico is going to have the most revered of all electoral processes, the court mandated recount. That’s right, leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is expected to file election fraud charges to force a recount. Who knows, the Mexican court could just appoint the next president of Mexico, just like here in the United States! Isn’t that sweet? Ah, they want to be just like us.

When Italy beat France earlier today, fans took to the streets to celebrate in droves. And of course, no place was wilder than North Beach. This article has great photos of fans celebrating all over the city. I’d like to say that Melissa and I were out there partying, but instead we chose to go to the gym and later to the park to relax. Still, the energy could be felt even South of Market at Yerba Buena Gardens.

All over San Francisco, and in other urban centers, the yuppies have morphed into gruppies (aka grups). A recent article in New York magazine explains this new phenomenon and the end of the generation gap as we know it. As a whole, urban dwellers are refusing to turn into their parents and redefining adulthood.

Well, I’ve finally stepped into the “future of web publishing” and setup a moblog on the Nug. I’ve been ironing out the kinks in the last couple of days and I think it’s now ready for prime time. Moblogs have been around in full force since about mid-2000 and the term was officially coined in 2002 when the first moblogging conference was held. The moblog will allow me to document events very quickly using one of my two mobile devices: a Motorola RAZR V3 and a Palm Treo 650.

Technically, what I’ve created here is combination moblog and photoblog, since I expect that all of my moblog entries will have at least one photo. Hey, a picture says a thousand words and I suck at typing text messages on phones, so there. Please visit the moblog by clicking the photos at the top of the home page and let me know what you think. Enjoy.

Members of Tonga’s royal family were killed in a car crash in Menlo Park yesterday. They were killed when a teenager racing her car crashed into their vehicle at high speeds. And of course, as luck would have it, the reckless teenager was not seriously injured.

Ken Lay suffered a massive heart attack in his Aspen home early this morning and died. He survived the trial that found him guilty of one of the biggest corporate frauds in history, but he died before his scheduled September sentencing date. No justice here. Justice would have been for him to die in prison. Ken Lay died in debt due to his conviction but still lived as a very wealthy man, as evidenced by his death in one of his luxurious homes in Aspen. In sentencing, many speculated that it was likely that he was not going to Club Fed, but to a real federal pound-you-in-the-ass prison. Surely the thought of being a prison bitch was just too much for him to bear. Adios Kenny Boy, no presidential pardon for you.

Some analysts now predict that the PS3 will be unable to overcome its $600 price and may be in last place for market share, behind Microsoft and Nintendo, in the next generation console wars.

San Francisco’s skyline has been dominated by the Transamerica Pyramid and the BofA Center for decades. However, new SoMa construction and a proposed new project may change the city’s skyline forever. As we speak, construction of the One Rincon development is well underway. It is a huge $290 million two-tower complex right at the foot of the Bay Bridge that will transform the neighborhood and bring more clientele to the existing restaurants and shops in the SoMa area.

As if this weren’t exciting enough, there is talk of a 100+ story building going up a few blocks away above the new Transbay Terminal. San Francisco planners want to make a new center for downtown at the Transbay Terminal with a 1000+ foot tower that will become the tallest buiding west of Chicago, taller than even the U.S. Bank Tower in Los Angeles. At this time, nobody has bid to make the new buildings, but the discussions are underway.

I personally think that the Transamerica Pyramid has enjoyed a 35 year run as the center of the San Francisco skyline and it’s time to pass the torch. Chicago has a beautiful and tall downtown area and San Francisco is ripe for expansion. It hasn’t had a 50+ story development for over two decades and now has the opportunity to make a statement with these new towers. The city is progressive and ready for change–let the change begin.