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The two Violet Blues. [SFBG]SF MOMA gets topped. [Curbed]The ladies at Second Cup in Montreal are total putains. [CL]And finally, for your enjoyment, LiveJournal meta drama! [Jameth]Smug guests who tell their dinner-party hosts about their eating habits should be buried alive. More or less.…
Scenes from San Francisco: Firefighters at Pier 7
Bob Brigham sent SFist the above image--thanks, Bob!--just taken at Pier 7. What do you think is going on? Please advise. Update: somebody's cigarette became stuck between planks in the pier. Firefighters had to cut a small hole. TV crews are there.
Bow before King Michael: Arrington explains to the peasants how to get on TechCrunch [Silicon Valley Users Guide]
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington presents "tactical-level advice on getting press for your startup" in this full-length video from Omnisio of his Stanford speech Saturday. His level of candor (or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Web 2.0 Expo Is Here; Also, WTF Is Web 2.0?
The west coast leg of the Web 2.0 Expo is here! Yay! Wait, just what is this Internet-y Web 2.0 exposition, exactly? Aside from the open-bar fetes presumably laced with cocaine parties, that is. According to their site, Web 2.0 Expo is: Co-produced by TechWeb and O'Reilly Media, [Web 2.0]…
Are VCs fleeing the Web? Yes and no [Bubble 2.0]
Most venture capitalists are adept followers of the herd. As such, their investments are best seen as trailing indicators — the financial detritus of events past, rather than predictors of what... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Craigslist CEO pretends to be British for his PR girlfriend [Great Moments In Pr]
We've heard of in-house PR, but this is ridiculous. Susan MacTavish Best, who is both the girlfriend of Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster and his company's PR rep, is also a director of Glasshouse, a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
MTA director Nat Ford is ebullient as he announces the launch of CatBus service
Source: the ever-brilliant Jim Herd at the Anime Costume Parade.
"Do you really want my opinion of your startup?" [Caption Contest]
What looks like a toy poodle-terrier mix lifts its petite haunches as it prepares to drop a deuce at the Bub.blicio.us barbecue in Redwood City last Sunday. Which serves as a reminder to watch your... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Local woman dumps newfangled RSS feeds to type in website addresses the old-fashioned way [Bloggers]
An online publishing veteran who goes by the name of Halsted has stopped drinking from the RSS firehose. She says she's not missing her feed reader's unread items folder:Nothing has changed. I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Digg Meetup San Francisco
Digg is hosting a San Francisco Meetup tomorrow, Tuesday, April 22nd at Mighty. Please join the Digg team for good conversation and tasty libations at the first official Digg Meet-up. We’ll be making a few announcements and raising a frosty pint at the first of many gatherings that…
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"Love 2.0" tonight, but not for girls who like boys who do girls like they're boys [Crash This Bash]
Engage, the latest hookup site to spin itself as a social experience, doesn't want bisexual people. New users are prompted to decide if they want to be shown the profiles of eligible men, or women,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Tracking Web 2.0 Expo Talks, Panels, Events & Parties
SCHED was an invaluable planning resource during SXSW 2008 for keeping track of talks, panels, events and parties. This week’s Web 2.0 Expo is shaping up to be quite a jam packed conferenced as well, so it’s a great to see that there is now a SCHED Web 2.0 Expo. Also Juhani’s Web…
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Felon Charges Against Tiger Mauling Victim Amritpal "Paul" Dhaliwal?
Paul Dhaliwal--Christmastime tiger attack victim, and currently in the process of trying to sue the city of San Francisco over said attack--might be looking at some time in the clink. After Dhaliwal went on a shoplifting spree last month, which included the brazen act of stuffing of two Wii…
A Plugged-In Reader Reports: Mission Valencia Reduction/Impression
Initially priced at $659,000 as part of “Valencia Triangle” (subsequently reduced to $585,000), and then initially priced at $599,000 as part of “Mission Valencia,” a plugged-in reader notes that 3184 Mission Street #302 is now on the market for...
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Google CEO backpedals on privacy promises [Eric Schmidt]
Last year, Google placated privacy-minded opponents of its DoubleClick acquisition with promises to create a new kind of Web browser "cookie," a file which keeps personally identifiable information... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Digital Be-In 16: ECOCITY
Digital Be-In 16: ECOCITY takes place this Friday, April 25th at Temple in San Francisco. Here’s more info on speakers, artists, schedule and presale tickets. The Digital Be-In returns for the third year in a row during Earth Day week in San Francisco. Once again, the Be-In will be a…
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Google orders up 1,788 Googlephone apps for just $2,800 apiece [Journalist Math]
There's no real market for applications written for Google's Android cell-phone operating system — the sad, software-only remnant of the abortive quest for a Googlephone — but Google's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SF Govt In Ur Lawz, Overlegislatin' Its Peeps
Our friends over at Eater SF pointed out this item in the New York Times: an article pointing out several of the ways in which San Francisco is making an impact on our everyday lives, from the plastic bag ban to fines for businesses who leave their lights on overnight. The laws -- both…
Apple leveraging cyberspace to reach growing meth-addict shut-in demo [Virtual Worlds]
A patent application filed last week suggests that Apple plans to sell the company's high-margin fetish objects in 3D virtual worlds. Now your avatar can put on skinny jeans and a colorfully-printed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
*FILM/OPERA: Continuing with their screenings of exquisitely filmed productions of San Francisco operas, this week the Castro Theatre presents Puccini's Madama Butterfly. You know, the opera where [SPOILER ALERT!] the fragile heroine, geisha Cio-Cio-Sa, kills herself with a dagger at the…
Guy Grabbing His Beer Belly, Shaking It At A Baseball Game Vendor Selling Light Beer
“LIGHT BEER!!? You think I got THIS by drinking LIGHT BEER?!!!”OVERHEARD BY MIKE
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Wired publishes feature-length version of Jeff Bezos's PowerPoint [Amazon.com]
Wired spent 13 columns of fine print detailing the birth of Amazon Web Services, Jeff Bezos's scheme to rent out his online store's Web infrastructure to startups. The magazine stayed carefully on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Artistic License
At Yuri’s Night Bay Area, I was talking to TradeMark G. of The Evolution Control Committee and he showed me his “Artistic License”. Yes, Mark has created a realistic looking, laminated ID card that he can now show off when he is questioned about his “art”. In fact,…
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YouTube's complicity in marketing booze to kids exposed by Valleywag mascot [Online Advertising]
You'd think that after all that time he spent at Linden Lab as the worst nightmare of virtual pedophiles in Second Life, Valleywag mascot Chadrick Baker would know to think of the children. By... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
"Enterprise 2.0" growth trend promises to turn black-rimmed-glasses wearers into corporate stiffs [Borecasts]
The good news? We might still have jobs in five years. The bad news? We'll all want to kill ourselves doing them. Forrester Research reports that by 2013 enterprise spending on "social networking,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
BART Thanks You for Riding Via Free Espresso
Amid all the Earth Day events happening tomorrow (events that will totally save the world), BART is also having their "Rider Thank You Day." What's in it for you, you ask? Free coffee--espresso, to be exact. From 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. tomorrow morning, Bay Area Fair Trade Coalition volunteers…
Charlie Rose on Charlie Rose on the Internet, by Samuel Beckett [Clips]
Over the years, Charlie Rose has hosted Silicon Valley titans like Wired editor Chris Anderson, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos, and Google cofounder Sergey Brin on his late-night public television... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How Oprah helped a startup CEO take Yahoo for $300 million [Self-demotion]
In its April 2008 issue, Entrepreneur caught the immodest-to-a-fault Gurbaksh Chahal in a self-promoting mood — not hard to do — when it asked him how he sold ad-targeting startup... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Andrew Conru denies church-lady romance, but not Adult FriendFinder exit [Corrections]
There goes a perfectly entertaining rumor: Adult FriendFinder founder Andrew Conru has written in to deny that he's involved with a woman named Lois, as commenter rumourone had claimed. Amusingly,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 107
Photo by Citizen Jim Behold the 10th Annual Anime Costume Contest. Just what is the deal with people into anime? Seriously.
Are any of the working girls on MySpace real? Yes, and here's how to hire them [Sex Trade]
Not content to pin the blame for Internet prostitution on usual suspect Craigslist, Kenneth Franzblau — New York State's director of Human Trafficking Prevention — cites MySpace as a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Discarded grocery bags give BART passengers a greener ride
Discarded grocery bags give BART passengers a greener ride.
New MySpace ad boss continues campaign to Xerox Facebook [Online Advertising]
MySpace has a new ad boss: former marketing head Jeff Berman. News Corp. CEO Rupert Murdoch canned the last one, Mike Barrett, for his inability to reach aggressive revenue targets. To avoid the same... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SWL 351 And The Proposed 8 Washington Street Project: Port Hearing
An update from Frederick Allardyce (Realtor and President of the Barbary Coast Neighborhood Association) on the proposed development of Seawall Lot 351 (and by extension, the proposed 8 Washington Street Project): This lot probably is the most valuable parcel...
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CNN's self-parodying headlines now available on T-shirts [Hacks]
Is CNN for real? The headlines on its website — "Minced onions force emergency landing" — cause some to wonder if its Atlanta-based producers aren't having a jape at the expense of news... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Annie And Her Sisters
We did not know Annie Leibovitz had a local connection! Drew Altizer, the society photographer with all the connections, passes along a picture he took of Ms. Liebovitz with her sisters after a talk that Annie gave at her alma mater, the SF Art Institute, who just named her 2008's McBean…
SFist: SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV
Quick! There are "Top Chef" try-outs going on from 10am to 2pm at Postrio today. Get down there! We want more locals next season! As for this season, well, last week saw the elimination of Zoi, which did not please her girlfriend Jen one bit. She's out for blood! The next morning Spike knew…