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This Week in Le Rock: April 14 - 20
Photo credit: Rilo Kiley's Website We have some exciting news! We're offering two free tickets to Rilo Kiley's Thursday night performance at Concourse at SF Design Center. Now, here's some even more exciting news: Kanye West and Rihanna will be performing at the HP Pavilion on Saturday night.…
Day Around the Bay
Badly beaten rich kids, Bakers Dozen, head to court today. [ABC7]Supperclub's to celebrate Hitler's birthday in an unusual way. [Eater]Gridskipper, Wonkette, and Idolator leave Gawker. [Valleywag]J.K. Rowling's greedy. Quite right. [The Snitch]Would an In-n-Out burger taste better with…
Iron Main Trailer To Be Made Into Feature Length Film
The Onion is reporting that the popular trailer for “Iron Man” will be made into a feature length film. Fans are concerned that it may not live up to the 90 second original. Related PostsIron Man, The Movie (May 2008)Four Eyed Monsters, First Feature Length Film on YouTubeWe Are The…
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Gridskipper launch editor chimes in on site's sale to Curbed [Quotable]
Andrew Krucoff, the first editor for Gawker Media's Gridskipper travel blog who left after two weeks (and one pissed-off sponsor): "I'm just happy I got out before Denton had a chance to sell me to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
An Engineer’s Guide to Cats, A Feline Instructional Video
Two professional engineers, Paul Klusman and TJ Wingard, have produced the highly informative instructional video “An Engineer’s Guide to Cats”. via Mental Floss Related PostsCats That Look Like HitlerHow To Get Laid, An Instructional Video by HowcastIka Zaru on CatsterJustin.tv…
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Another Admittedly Incomplete Update For A Few Featured Properties
While 1230 Sacramento, 73 Miguel, 545 Sanchez, and 1944-48 Buchanan all entered into (or firmed up) escrow over the past couple of days (last listed at $7,500,000, $2,875,000, $1,795,000 and $1,695,000 respectively), and 2311 Scott St #1 quickly closed...
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Valleywag emeritus offers unsolicited advice for Michael Arrington [Nerdfight]
Newly softhearted Gawker Media head Nick Denton offers some kindly advice for TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington: "@Michael Arrington: Hey, everybody has been expecting the grand roll-up ever since... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Examiner Gets Its Hair Did
SF Examiner received a makeover today. (Just a few month's after the Gate went under the knife.) It's much more dark and emo than before, appearance-wise, and their journos get nifty little images next to their featured articles. Also, news bits from other local Important News services are…
John Martz’s Cartoon Drawings of His Mom’s 1968 Yearbook
John Martz (aka Robot Johnny) drew cartoon illustrations of every single person in his Mom’s 1968 Toronto High School yearbook (over 1,000 in all), for his project “Excelsior 1968″. Here are all of John’s yearbook illustrations on Flickr. He even created a book of the…
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"I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again" [The 250]
Jason Calacanis makes a list of ways to relieve stress with friends. Our favorite? "g) next time you go to a conference fly there with someone. Mike Arrington, Om Malik and I were all on the same... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Tully's, BART thank you day April 22
Tully's Coffee wants to help you celebrate Earth Day with a BART Rider Thank You Day Tuesday, April 22 from 6 to 9 a.m. Ride BART and receive a coupon for a free Fair Trade Certified™ espresso.
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Nick "The Slasher" Denton cuts loose three blogs: Gridskipper, Idolator, and Wonkette (5,916 views, 38 comments) Jimmy Wales edited Julia Allison's Wikipedia entry (3,419 views, 45... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How to be a public figure the Hollywood way [Silicon Valley Users Guide]
Mark Zuckerberg dodged a bullet. His his mug got featured on TMZ next to a picture of his secret mistress, but she happened to be his actual girlfriend. Michael Arrington kicks Valleywag out of a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barry Diller is paying Jakob Lodwick more than $100,000 a year to stay away from IAC employees [Exits]
We heard Jakob Lodwick may have broken his severance agreement with IAC's Connected Ventures when he poached Vimeo Web designer Justin Ouellette to help him start Muxtape, an online mix-tapes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
CreateDebate launches to add yet more argument to the Internet [Deathwatch]
I ignore most startup pitches. It's a truism that 9 out of 10 startups fail; relentlessly covering every one of them is mathematically a fool's game. But on occasion, I get one so bad that I feel... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Did you mean: Google? [Caption Contest]
Spotted somewhere in Los Angeles: A profane imprecation against Google, framed with a "Do you Yahoo?" license-plate holder. We're curious if anyone knows more about the owner — a bitter Yahoo... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 & Web2Open
Web 2.0 Expo returns to San Francisco next week, April 22nd-25th at Moscone West. The organizers of the conference are offering Laughing Squid readers a $100 discount or a free expo pass, just use code “websf08bl12″ when you register. The second Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco takes the…
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Fred Wilson breaks up Yahoo [Venture Capital]
newVideoPlayer("Wilson_breaks_up_Yahoo.flv", 463, 387,"");While Yahoo's board dithers over whom to sell the company's soul to, VC blogger Fred Wilson has a different plan in mind. "Yahoo should... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Woman Crushed by Falling Tree at Stern Grove
Well, this is some sad news. An unidentified woman was sent to the hospital today with life-threatening injuries after part of a redwood tree fell and smashed her at Stern Grove today. It seems, according to KCBS, that the woman had just walked her dog, who was not hurt, and as she was…
YouTube's U.S. video share now bigger than Google's search share, but profit eludes it [Online Video]
The latest data from Hitwise shows YouTube claiming over 73 percent of the online video market in the United States — a larger share in its home market than even its parent compan, Google,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
COMEDY/CABARET: Beth Lisick and Arline Klatte invite a few chosen ones--NPR commentator Dayvid Figler, filmmaker and Webbies founder Tiffany Shlain, Rabbi Alan Lew, Emily Richmond, Nomy Lamm, and Lawrence Bogad--to their monthly storytelling series, Porchlight to tell hilarious,…
"She's got legs, she knows how to use them" [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To]
BusinessWeek columnist Sarah Lacy, in Israel for a conference, is feeling the heat, and this time not from a conference audience. Tipsters, don't fail us now: pics or it didn't happen! [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Meat Cookies
Breaking two cardinal rules in my kitchen–versatility and real-world functionality–my favorite new toy is silly, beautiful, and fun. It can only do one thing: make cookies in the shape of an obscure cut of lamb. A while back, while checking out the display cases at the excellent…
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Sharper Image chairman quits but wants to buy bankrupt company [Deathwatch]
Sharper Image chairman and former CEO Jerry Levin resigned today, just short of two months after the company declared bankruptcy. Not satisfied with just how far he's helped run the icon of '80s... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Breaking News: Danielle Steel Does Not Spend Millions on Footwear
Remember when we posted on a recent LA Times article, claiming that Danielle Steel--that's "Ms. Steel" to you--spends $4 to $5 million a year at Barneys on shoes for herself and her children? At least, so says Barneys shoe sales associate John Rutenberg. Well, according to Danni--via a…
Apple hires HP's top acquisitions lawyer [Hires]
Could Apple be preparing to spend its $18 billion cash hoard on acquisitions? Apple has hired Charles Charnas, an 18-year HP veteran who oversaw the $25 billion merger between Compaq and HP, to run... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
First they take our land, now they take our Internet [Politics]
Internet access to chapter houses across the Navajo Nation has been disconnected. Access won't be restored for at least a couple weeks to the 27,000 square-mile reservation in northern Arizona.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Federated Media to raise as much as $50 million in VC round [Venture Capital]
Federated Media is close to announcing it has won between $40 and $50 million in funding from Oak Investment Partners and others, including Omidyar Network, the investment vehicle of eBay founder... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Life Size Mousetrap Video From Maker Faire Austin 2007
Speaking of the Life Size Mousetrap, here’s my video of its first run at Maker Faire Austin 2007. The Mousetrap is a wonderful thing to behold and is both a great tribute to the board game “Mouse Trap” as well as to inventor/cartoonist Rube Goldberg. It’s a fantastically…
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Andrew Baron accelerates Twitter's descent into spam platform [Self-demotion]
Twitter has won kudos for being relatively resistant to spam. That may change. Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron, not pleased with the level of interaction his account has generated, has put it up for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ticketmaster creates fake Facebook profiles to boost fake popularity [Great Moments In Pr]
Ticketmaster, the event-ticket retailer whose monopolies on venues and exorbitant fees are legendarily evil, has somehow garnered nearly 157,000 fans on Facebook. And by "somehow" I mean "created... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Tiki Bar TV Meetup with Dr. Tiki at Forbidden Island
Jeff Macpherson (aka Dr. Tiki) of Tiki Bar TV will be in town this week for special keynote at ad:tech San Francisco and while here he’s planning a Dr. Tiki Meetup at 8pm on Wednesday, April 16th at the Forbidden Island Tiki Lounge in Alameda. Check out “Conspiracy”, the latest…
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Urban Fighting Scalpers Meet Suburban Mom
While capturing some delicious footage of two ticket scalpers having a heated discussion about overlapping sales territories, Flickr's peephole also caught a woman's soci-breakdown of the profanity-laced dispute. Ticket scalpers, always going on and on about race. In related news:…
Yahoo millionaire Paul Graham secretly engaged to Jessica Livingston [Geek Love]
Commenters on Hacker News, a Web discussion board, got their panties in a bunch over the weekend over whether to ban stories from Valleywag from the site. The move netted the otherwise obscure site,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
AOL lands Verizon's 94 million monthly pageviews -- but will splashy deal make money? [Online Advertising]
AOL moved into its new New York headquarters today, and new ad boss Lynda Clarizio has roped Verizon into paying a portion of the lease. The companies announced a deal today that will make AOL's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Barely In The Shadow Of A Baron/Magnate’s Manse: 1407 Golden Gate
Designed by William Armitage, 1407 Golden Gate was constructed in 1892 along with three adjacent buildings (including The Chateau Tivoli) for a lumber baron and shipping magnate. This TIC unit features high ceilings, a double parlor, a fair amount...
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Microsoft to open retail stores? [Rumormonger]
The list of computer companies with failed retail initiatives includes a lot of big names: Sony, Dell, and Gateway, for starters. Only one company, Apple, has beaten the odds. Now Microsoft, which... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV
Previously on "Top Chef" our remaining trio of local chefs remained in the running to become America's Next Top Chef, but how long will that last? Zoi was still pissed about getting placed in the bottom at the last challenge, and Jen thought it was bogus as well. Of course. But to their…