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Carolyn Lochhead: Dumb as a Stick.
Carolyn Lochhead hints at Democrats incarnating, somehow, a contradiction: Two multi-millionaires will be hammering each other at 5 p.m. Pacific time over who is the greater friend of the working class. Carolyn Lochhead is essentially saying: fuck you, working class people! Because she knows…
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Mercredi, c'est Ravioli.
In an otherwise decent review, dully titled Chow in Dogpatch, Meredith writes: The prosaically named fish stew, freighted with cod, clams in the shell, and diced potato and A massive portion of baked pasta...seduces with its rich freight of braised Berkshire pork shoulder, mustard greens,…
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Social Work Professor To Classroom
"If you need all of your clients to like you, you should be a bartender."OVERHEARD BY LOREN
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Day Around the Bay
High School Musical (the stage-itization of the twee movie musical) receives decent review from the Gate. [SFGate]The California Academy of Science's LEED loss. [Curbed]SFPD didn't take Bakers Dozen attack seriously, charges dropped. What? [ABC 7]Food that takes the shape of its container.…
Your loss is eBay's gain [Quotable]
In today's quarterly earnings call, when asked how eBay's business would fare in the oncoming recession, CEO John Donahoe remarked that the company is "a place where you can turn assets into cash in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Fake-money widgeteer Buddy Media rakes in more real money [Social Networks]
Buddy Media, the company that developed widget Acebucks which allows Facebook users to hand out fake money as part of a "loyalty program," has received a $6.5 million second round of funding,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google indexing "child porn" so the feds don't have to [Politics]
Manually indexing 5 million child porn images a year is hard work, says the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. So Google has stepped in to customize image-search software originally... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hollywood talent leary of stock-option deals, but agencies enthusiastic [Online Video]
Cash money, not equity, is what powers the entertainment industry. Especially when it comes to talent. In a possibly apocryphal but illustrative anecdote, legendary bluesman Albert King reportedly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hollywood talent leery of stock-option deals, but agencies enthusiastic [Online Video]
Cash money, not equity, is what powers the entertainment industry. Especially when it comes to talent. In a possibly apocryphal but illustrative anecdote, legendary bluesman Albert King reportedly... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Facebook's new Lexicon feature lays site demographic bare [Social Networks]
To track the frequency of words in Facebook Wall posts, the social network has created a Lexicon feature. Programmer-gadfly Ted Dziuba suggests this search: "pregnant, tequila." [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Comcast chickens out of FCC hearings at Stanford [Politics]
Superlawyer Lawrence Lessig won't have Comcast to kick around at the FCC hearing on network neutrality — the principle that broadband providers can't discriminate against certain kinds of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Food That Takes the Shape of Its Container
Zach Kowalczyk has uploaded a wonderful photo gallery of food that takes the shape of its container. photo by Zach Kowalczyk Related PostsAtomic Food Containers by ThinkGeekFood Court Musical, A Spontaneous Musical In A MallFood Fight, An Edible History of Modern WarfareBag Embossed With Gun Shape…
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"Which one is the puppet?" [Caption Contest]
Chief Mahalo Jason Calacanis, interviewed in his Brentwood hot tub by a puppet. Got a better caption? Leave it in the comments. Bonus points if you're familiar enough with The 250 to identify both... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Architecture Voyeurs Take Note: Arterra (300 Berry) Sheds A Little More
∙ Arterra (300 Berry) Selectively Starts To Shed Its Bovis Blue Wrapper [SocketSite]...
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Arterra (300 Berry) Sheds A Little More (In More Ways Than One)
The latest Arterra incentive: 4.875% 5-year fixed rate (i.e., 5/1 ARM) financing plus a $20,000 flex incentive on two-bedroom units. And a bit of the fine print: "Based on loan amount of $417,000 and $700,000 purchase price." ∙ Arterra...
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SFist Tonight
*BAR/EARTH: Throw a few back for a good cause at this pre-Earth Day party: Friends of the Urban Forest Fundraiser. Come learn about pretty trees, talk to other like-minded souls about being green, order a few rounds of booze, and feel free to donate to this most worthy foundation. FUF asks…
Where Facebook's features came from -- not the mind of Mark Zuckerberg, says Harvard classmate [Aaron Greenspan]
In this excerpt from Harvard alumnus Aaron Greenspan's book, Authoritas: One Student's Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the Facebook Era, Greenspan gives an example of Facebook founder Mark... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Twee hipsters can now download Juno from iTunes [Online Video]
Everyone's favorite over-allusive Indiewood hit Juno is now available for download at the iTunes Music Store for $14.99. The move marks Fox's first foray into offering new DVD releases as paid... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How Mark Zuckerberg allegedly nicked the idea of an online facebook [Mark Zuckerberg]
Aaron Greenspan's Authoritas, a self-published history of his time at Harvard with Mark Zuckerberg, is full of passages the Facebook founder would rather you not read. In this excerpt, Greenspan... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ex-journalist Sue Gardner tries to silence Wikipedia board [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge]
Last year, Wikipedia hired an executive-search firm to find someone to run its nonprofit parent, the Wikimedia Foundation. Thousands of dollars later, it concluded that Wikipedia was "too immature"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Harvard classmate claims Zuckerberg stole Facebook's name [Aaron Greenspan]
Facebook lawyers want to bar Aaron Greenspan, a Harvard chum of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, from marketing his new book, Authoritas: One Student's Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hot Stuff Food Blog Round Up
Our latest fave blog is Greg's World on a Plate. He's a Marin based chef who has great pics and interesting write ups. Looking for "the perfect pantry"?; get your Salt-nPepas (here!, and we're in effect!) at All the Marmalade. Hot wok time! Try some Ma Po Tofu, with a recipe courtesy…
Everything but auctions boosts eBay's bottom line [Earnings]
Recently anointed eBay CEO John Donahoe thumped his chest over the auction giant's first-quarter earnings. He praised a "diverse portfolio of businesses" as revenues jumped 24 percent to $2.19... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
American journalism student Twitters from Egyptian jail [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To]
After Egyptian police arrested UC Berkeley graduate student James Karl Buck for photographing a demonstration, he alerted his friends around the world with a Twitter message from his phone:... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
24-Year-Old, In Response To Her High Score On An IQ Test
"This will show those people who think I'm more stupider than I really am!"OVERHEARD BY WALT
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Please Don't Beat The Parking Officers
Because our name is Rita, we've always been interested in the woes of beleaguered meter maids everywhere -- so let's hope that the fears of the DPW workers interviewed in today's Chron article about the effects of the parking enforcement penalty hikes don't come to pass: are people really…
U.S. imperialism can now run on biodiesel [Cleantech]
San Francisco cleantech startup Solazyme, which manufactures "Soladiesel" from genetically engineered algae grown in tanks warmed by solar heat, recently completed a successful test running... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A capellagate, Chapter 538
I was trying to figure out what to write for today, thinking something along the lines of, "Big deal. It's a torch . What are we? Villagers in Frankenstein?" And then I read that we're...
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Valleywag editor spins firing as great leap forward [Too Insidery]
Sweater-bear editor Owen Thomas just sent the following email to staff here. It's so obviously designed to be leaked that my only reaction is: Owen, can you please not use the little asterisks for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
mobygratis.com, Moby’s Free Film Music Website
Last November Moby launched mobygratis.com, where he offers some of his music for free to be used by non-profit flimmakers and film students. Here’s a Sundance Channel interview with Moby about the service. hi, i’ll keep this brief. this portion of moby.com, ‘film music’,…
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Pope Benedict XVI's D.C. Popemobile Ride in Photos
Pope Benedict XVI took to his popemobile after meeting with President Bush at the White House this morning. The pontiff, who is celebrating his 81st birthday today, rode west beginning around noon on Pennsylvania Ave. through Washington Circle before heading north on Rock Creek Parkway before…
TechCrunch editor flubs story but "can't go back on it now" [Too Insidery]
I'm on IM with Jordan Golson, and he's on the phone with TechCrunch editor Mike Arrington. You see, Valleywag sort of, um, fired Jordan this morning, and Mike got a bogus version of the story... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Debating The Funny Pages
Every now and then, we get this sinking sense that we do not understand the mindset of people different from ourselves. And for once, we're not talking about the presidential primary! We're completely mystified today by the Chronicle Datebook's reporting that readers don't like their new…
A message from Valleywag to new Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: Don't shoot! [Mark Zuckerberg]
Sheryl, Sheryl, Sheryl. Was it something we said? Come on — Valleywag adores you! Remember how we recommended Mark Zuckerberg hire you away from your job as Google's top advertising-operations... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Arguello and California - Don't Walk Here
This morning we ran north on Arguello to the Presidio. When we reached California Street, it struck us that there were no pedestrian signals at that intersection, which is rife with pedestrians, on a crowded bus line, and right near a couple of schools and a huge synagogue. Thinking back,…
Beige Book Results For The Twelfth District (San Francisco): Flat
According to the latest Federal Reserve regional business survey (a.k.a. The Beige Book), economic growth has slowed in nine of its twelve districts. And the Twelfth District of San Francisco isn’t one of the three, but rather one of the...
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San Francisco's escorts a relative bargain [Sex Trade]
Nobody loves a good bit of numberporn like "hobbyists," the industry term for the most avid whore obsessives. Some anonymous clients have created Sexec, a site to track the prices of male and female... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 103, 104
credit: Jameth and Octoferret (respectively) Both of these photos were snapped up somewhere in poor, put-upon San Francisco. Sheesh. Why so disillusioned and pissy, SF residents? Relax.
The Pirate Bay's new blog platform inspired by WordPress.com censorship [Copyfight]
BayWords is the new blog host from those lovable Swedish outlaws at The Pirate Bay. The blogging platform is built atop open-source WordPress code. Which is a little ironic, since TorrentFreak... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The 10th Anniversary Final SubGenius Devival
The 10th Anniversary Final SubGenius Devival, featuring Dr. Hal Robins, takes place this Saturday, April 19th at in Transcendent Church of Bass in Seattle. Seattle SubGenius Union of Clenches & Crackpots In Conjunction With Clench ChickenHed Presents The 10th Anniversary Final SubGenius…
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Twitter is Finally Useful for Something
The ubiquitously annoying program, Twitter, finally has bragging rights to being useful: UC Berkeley graduate student, James Karl Buck, alerted his Twitter network to his arrest in Egypt, sparking an international campaign for his release. Buck was in Egypt doing a project on Egyptian…
Another Harvard student files suit over Facebook's founding [Aaron Greenspan]
Facebook lawyers won't let Think Computers founder Aaron Greenspan use the company's name to market his new self-pubished book, Authoritas: One Student's Harvard Admissions and the Founding of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Carolyn Lochhead: Two Weights, Two Measures.
Carolyn Lochhead called Bill Clinton a ho for giving speeches for money. I just wanted to add one more bit of perspective. She writes: Seven years of Bill's speeches produced more than $51 million. That's a lot of money. But we also know one other thing: Rudy Giuliani earned $11 million in one…
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