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Asparagus and Sweet Valley High
Because I was such a picky eater as a kid and gagged over nearly everything, I can always recall precisely when my feelings toward certain foods took a turn for the better. Not only that, but I clearly remember how the food was prepared, and I know what it exactly was I read that piqued [...]
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Children's book explains surly IT people [Splunk]
Well, no it doesn't. But Otis and Rae and the Grumbling Splunk, available Saturday from Amazon, is a must for the black-clad Unix bigots who keep things running at your office. (Stupid... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Art Adventures: Benny Gold
I spent a recent Saturday following Travis Jensen and Benny Gold around with the old video camera. Travis was working on the reporting for a story about Benny that's in this Sunday's...
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71Miles - Northern California Travel Guide
There is some truth to the Paul Kantner quote -- that San Francisco is "49 square miles surrounded by reality." I'll expand on that to suggest that the entire Bay...
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Day Around the Bay
Photo: SF Citizen Dear God, it's hot. What are you doing reading this? Go outside. [Weather Underground]Schwarzenegger too much of a man to cut some faggy ribbon at today's Highway 80 fete. [SFCitizen]Maya Lin, one hit wonder or timeless designer? [Curbed]Goodman mentions neither this week's…
Thanks to This Week's Advertisers
We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. The 2009 Toyota Corolla, which encourages you to "Live the Dream for Less Coin." PGE's We Can do This, showing you what you can do to help fight global warming. End of the Jews, a new novel by Adam Mansbach. Busted Tees,…
A week we're glad to throw to the curb [Recap]
This week, we all got out of town — only to get 86'd from a perfectly nice party. Microsoft might want to employ the bouncers we encountered on Yahoo's Jerry Yang, who just doesn't know how to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
New Silicon Alley Reporter accuses "lovable scumbag" Jason Calacanis of spreading "baseless rumors" [Gary Sharma]
Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis made his name running Silicon Alley Reporter back in the 1990s. You'd think Calacanis would be happy to hear that some guy named Gary Sharma has brought the Silicon Alley... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Commenter of the week: Rachel Marsden [Comments]
"Could someone please go up and punch Al [Gore] in the face? Then, when he calls the cops, ask him why he didn't try the UN first." — TV pundit Rachel Marsden, Valleywag's newest bestest... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
"Come back, Mr. Arrington -- I swear I'm not going to pitch you a startup" [Caption Contest]
Valleywag's Jackson West attempts, unsuccessfully, to thank TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington for throwing a party in Los Angeles. Can you improve the headline? Try your best in the comments.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jimmy Wales's founding fib [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge]
newVideoPlayer("Wales_cofounder_check.flv", 463, 387,""); Who founded Wikipedia? Jimmy Wales likes to tell third-world denizens he did. Here's a clip from IJsbrand van Veelen's new documentary The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Greatest wire story ever shows AP embracing Web 2.0 technology, humor [Great Moments In Journalism]
WASHINGTON (AP) - Get real, people. That is not a naked woman reflected in Vice President Dick Cheney's sunglasses. Although it kind of appears to be. It you blow up the picture, you can see it is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
San Francisco-Roubaix
A Little Taste of "Hell": San Bruno Ave. and Division On Sunday the 19th, the San Francisco Bike Coalition invites cyclists to a Monster Pothole Stenciling Project, an effort "to create a visual statement of our deteriorating streets." But this Sunday, the 13th, our cycling friends across…
Conan the Provider of the West Approach
A scene from today's West Approach christening. There was barbecued ribs, a svelte Gavin Newsom, someone who like Wade Crawfoot but cruelly ignoring your SFist editor, well fed and uber-friendly homeless folks, and lots of melty cupcakes. Like clockwork, our cellphone's camera broke--see…
SFist Inverview: Dan Hunter of PlayRadioPlay!
As we walked down the steep, dungeon-like stairs at the back of the Great American Music Hall, the ceiling inched toward our heads with every step. By the end of the staircase it felt as if we were dropped off in the imaginary world of Alice and Wonderland. Instead of chasing the white…
"Kevin Rose has basically plowed through everybody" [Quotable]
newVideoPlayer("calacanisalbrecht.flv", 463, 367,""); We may have been thrown out of the TechCrunch party last night, but bulldog aficionado Jason Calacanis did our dirty work for us. Calacanis... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Robert Scoble, world's most annoying videoblogger, may not even be human [Conspiracy Theory]
The most compelling thing about Battlestar Galactica's Cylons is that some don't know they are biomechanical creations, not human beings. That makes them the perfect metaphor for sweetly unbearable... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Holy Hotness, History, And Home: Engine Company No. 44 Returns
Built by the McSheehy Brothers in 1909, 3816 22nd Street served as home to San Francisco’s Engine Company No. 44 (a.k.a “Hill Company”) for fifty years. In 1959 the firehouse was sold at auction to Mark and Beth Adams...
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Don't do the crime if you don't want to be banned from computers [Polls]
A frequent punishment for those caught committing computer-related crimes is a ban on computer use. Putting aside the legality of these bans, which may cover anything from home computers to iPhones... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
THEATER: The Keanu Reeves/Patrick Swayze xtreme-sports/surfer/heist film, Point Break, gets the stage treatment via the LA-based theatrical spectacular, Point Break Live! Yes, you read right, it has been adapted for the floorboards. What's more--in between lavishing praise on Governor…
Experts vs. amateurs -- the 90-second version [Wikipedia]
newVideoPlayer("expert_v_amateur.flv", undefined, NaN,"");Ever since Andrew Keen wrote his polemic The Cult of the Amateur, we've all had to deal with pretentious debates on Web 2.0's effects on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Michael Arrington, Pete Cashmore puff up egos, traffic [Nerdfight]
At last night's PopSugar-TechCrunch party, I hadn't hoped to become part of the story, but LA Times reporter David Sarno suggested Arrington's 86ing of my date inspired Mashable's Pete Cashmore to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Flickr Gives Us Video, Donuts
So soon after giving us Flickr Video, Flickr is giving us another gift: Scott Beale over at Laughing Squid is reporting that a web demand for Flickr to give out free donuts to Flickr users has been moved from online request to real-world donut snackage. Matthew Rothenberg, a worker at…
Here's one person AMD won't have to lay off [Exits]
Chipmaker AMD has announced several layoffs recently. This one, the company claims, has nothing to do with that. AMD's chief technology officer Phil Hester has resigned. The company will not be... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ze Frank’s ColorWars2008 Nerd Rap Battle
Ze Frank is hosting a Nerd Rap Battle judged by Jonathan Coulton and Doc Popular. This challenge is part of Ze’s ongoing ColorWars2008. Here’s the backstory. Related PostsNerd Salon PhotosFrank ChuThe Return of Nerd SalonFrank Chu on ConsumatingIllustrations Based on the Shape of…
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Gordon Crawford doubles down on Yahoo with $6 billion bet [Acquisitions]
At Capital Research & Management, an investment management firm and longtime Yahoo shareholder, media-savvy stockpicker Gordon Crawford has raised its stake in the company to more than 16 percent,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Muni's Guide to this Weekend: Cherry Blossom Festival
Spring? Is in the air. Which? Means that the two-weekend-long Cherry Blossom Festival starts this weekend over. Which also? Means that MUNI will double your frustration, double your street closing fun. Behold: The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) advises San Francisco…
Photo du Jour 100
Photo: Jameth And our 100th poorly titled photo-of-the-day post goes to? A crazy lady (or possibly Sophia Coppola's ex-husband, as fizzandpop points out) at a Walgreens checkout aisle. Perfect.
Since Yang can't decide, we'll let you: Microhoo or YahOL? [Poll]
Yesterday, at a luncheon with several dozen VP-level minions Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang hosted tried to explain the reasoning behind a potential deal with AOL and Time Warner. Didn't go over so well. But... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Wednesday Shooting on 280 from Road Rage
Wednesday night's shooting on 280 of Richmond resident Luis "Al" Solari, appears to have been shot and killed in a bout of road rage. Solari's two young sons were in the back seat when a car pulled alongside and fired several shots into the Solari's car. According to the Gate: At the family's…
Sandvine reports $7 million first quarter loss [File Sharing]
Canadian network equipment manufacturer Sandvine reported a $7 million loss for the quarter ending February 29th, the first "disappointing" quarter in the company's history according to CEO Dave... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Getting off on the economics of hooking [Sex Trade]
The continuing post-Spitzer articles about why-high end escorts make so such money are, let's admit it, porn. Wonking about the economics of high-end sex and money is a great way to pretend there's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
30th Annual St. Stupid’s Day Parade Videos
Here are some videos I shot at the 30th annual St. Stupid’s Day Parade which took place in San Francisco last week. I also shot some photos of the parade. Related Posts30th Annual Saint Stupid’s Day Parade & After PartySaint Stupid’s Day Parade 2008 PhotosThe First Annual…
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Are Bebo's European users really worth $812 million more than BlackPlanet's? [Acquisitions]
Radio One, Inc. has acquired Community Connect (CCI) and its subsidiary social network BlackPlanet.com for $38 million. That's about $812 million less than Time Warner paid to acquire Bebo, which,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Press banned from Al Gore's RSA keynote [Great Moments In Pr]
In the Moscone Center, former vice president and current Valley privateer Al Gore will be speaking at the RSA Conference 2008 today at 2:15 p.m. — but there's no press allowed. There will,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Homes On Esprit Park: A Two-Bedroom (With Timbers) "Right Pricing"
While the first round of reductions might have been limited to new construction one-bedroom units at Homes on Esprit Park, we can confirm that's no longer the case. Yesterday the list price for 900 Minnesota #S320 was officially reduced...
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Parties we won't get kicked out of, because we're out of town [Valleywag Calendar]
With the Valleywag group scattered as if on some spring break gone wrong (yes, we still work when we travel), we are finally taking a breather from our relentless Friday partying at Moose's. Instead,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
TOMEX "A methodological guide to carrying your books at school Part 1"
(CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE) "Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni Yilmaz XXX Buy a Comic/DVD set from Lev! http://www.ingredientx.com/buy/main.htm For more comics, animations and correspondence, kindly visit http://www.ingredientx.com If you gravitate towards isolated, obsessive…
Inner Sunset Pride?
Jim Herd (via his photo stream) announces that the "Inner Sunset area of San Francisco now merits its own T-shirt." Does it? Does it really?