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Periodic Table Menu at Miracle of Science in Cambridge
After last night’s Pre-ROFLCon Drinkup in Cambridge, some of us went across the street to Miracle of Science which has a wonderful menu in the form of a periodic table. photo by Scott Beale Related PostsLaughing Squid’s Pre-ROFLCon Drinkup, April 24th in CambridgeScience Foo Camp 2007…
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Day Around the Bay
Valencia Street and cyclist safety, or lack thereof. [Mission Mission]Chiropractor/alleged rapist threatens victims post-attack, surrenders. [SFGate]New Oakland highrises: put 'em on the glass. [Curbed]Are you checking out concerts at the Cadillac in the TL? [BC]Did you know some Google…
PA Semi customers asking Department of Defense to intervene in Apple sale [Acquisitions]
Apple has long served as a haven in the Valley for engineers with a taste for hallucinogens and pacifism. The same can not be said of PA Semi, which Apple recently acquired. The PWRficient... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
New Food: Anchor and Hope Fish House
You know the tired adage about never being rich enough or thin enough. In my world view, you can never have enough seafood and chowder. So, along comes Anchor and...
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The trouble with CNET [Online Advertising]
Myopic Wall Street often uses a microscope when it should use a telescope. The rot at Web publisher CNET goes far beyond the particulars of one quarter. Forget the question of by how many cents per... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Schwaggin' Wagon donating tech tees [Failanthropy]
After years of going to tech networking events and trade shows, you end up with logo shirts and crappy hats. Unless you have the fashion sense of Robert Scoble, you wouldn't actually want to be seen... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
New Food: Anchor and Hope Fish House
You know the tired adage about never being rich enough or thin enough. In my world view, you can never have enough seafood and chowder. So, along comes Anchor and...
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Light Brown Apple Moth Spray Off
Today a major setback struck the final solution, if you will, against the light brown apple moth. Superior Court Judge Paul Burdick ruled that "aerial pesticide sprays must halt over Santa Cruz County until agricultural officials do a full environmental review of their anti-pest program."…
SFist Tonight
EXHIBIT OPENING: Fecal Face Dot Gallery opens its doors tonight with Kottie Paloma's work. According to SFBG, the show features "over 250 5-by-7-foot graphite portraits that San Francisco artist Kottie Paloma produced over the last 2 years (each titled A Daily Stranger), the work forms a…
Google misses $200 million a year on image search [Online Advertising]
newVideoPlayer("Google_image_search_revenues.flv", 463, 387,""); Google doesn't serve advertisements against image searches, as it does with normal search results. This costs the company as much as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
"Okay, you win. Best two out of three? C'mon, bring it!" [Caption Contest]
TechConfidential's Joshua Jaffe intensely awaits a serve at Yahoo's Brickhouse party for Web 2.0 last night. Suggest your own in the comments. Yesterday's winner: BartKela. (Photo by Brian Solis) [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google works really hard at making sure 25 percent of its engineers are women [Great Moments In HR]
newVideoPlayer("women_of_google.flv", 463, 387,"");Google's business goal is to organize the world's information. Ambitious. Google's goal for hiring women engineers? "We're very focused on having... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Interviews Leif-Ove Andsnes
Leif-Ove Andsnes should just stop traveling and move here. Looking back only a few years, we see a 2004 performance here with Ian Bostridge, a 2005 concert of a Rachmaninoff piano concerto with MTT/SFS, a solo recital in 2006. He'll be here on Sunday for a recital at Davies and again for the…
Clinton site made Obama-friendly by Finnish hacker [Politics]
Hillary Clinton campaign site VoteHillary.org is vulnerable to a common exploit known as cross-site scripting (XSS), as demonstrated by Finnish security specialist Harry Sintonen. He says he's not... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Marissa Mayer: "I've never been in the cupcake business; I just like to bake them" [Googirl]
newVideoPlayer("Mayer_cupcake_business.flv", 463, 387,""); Google VP Marissa Mayer likes cupcakes, we learned in Julian Guthrie's profile of her for San Francisco magazine. Mayer likes them so much... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Wear Pink On Friday, Or Be Branded a Homophobe
In addition to National Step-Kick-Step-Kick-Pivot-Step-Walk-Walk-Walk Day happening on Friday, tomorrow is also National Day of Silence, a day bringing attention to all of the anti-queer name-calling, bullying, and crap-kicking that takes place throughout schools across the world. (Remember…
Can Ari Balogh "rewire" Yahoo? Probably not, but it will be fun to watch [Makeover]
Check out Ari Balogh's geek makeover! In jumping from stiffly corporate VeriSign to stiffly corporate-but-trying-pretend-otherwise Yahoo, the CTO ditched the '70s mustache and switched to an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Microsoft's piddling Web division loses more money [Earnings]
Microsoft's earnings in a nutshell: Sales of Vista were down quite a bit, while Office was slightly up. But Microsoft's also-ran online properties, the root of Steve Ballmer's Yahoo obsession,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jeff Pulver resigns from eponymous tradeshow producer Pulvermedia [Exits]
Jumping ship from a company that had already lost the confidence of its investors, Jeff Pulver, the pioneering VOIP promoter, has left Pulvermedia, the company he founded to put on tech tradeshows... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Israeli military imprisons soldier who posted photos to Facebook [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
A soldier from an elite unit of the Israel Defense Force will be spending 19 days behind bars after posting photos of his base to Facebook, reports Ha'aretz. Those photos have presumably been taken... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Scores and Highlights, April Edition
Please welcome Joe K (AKA DJTennessee) who has made the leap from commenter to contributor. He'll be writing about sporting events that many of you seem to enjoy. Yay, Joe K! What's more, please welcome his new bi-weekly sports brief. It's like Day Around the Bay, but with ball throwing,…
FreeBSD developer Kip Macy arrested for tormenting tenants [Crime]
Kip Macy, a software developer well-known in FreeBSD circles, purchased 744-746 Clementina in San Francisco's SoMa neighborhood with his wife Nicole for $995,000 in 2005. The couple then moved to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
EarthLink's choice: just fade away [Rolla Huff]
Rolla Huff, the CEO of Internet service provider EarthLink, has made a choice many in Silicon Valley find incomprehensible: He's no longer bothering to get new customers. Here, the moment you stop... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Steve Ballmer's world tour: If it's Thursday, this must be Belgium [Nerdspotting]
Sweatily peripatetic Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been on the run lately. He's been launching salvos in his takeover battle with Yahoo from the unlikeliest of locations: First Morocco; then Milan,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Widgetmakers successfully gut Zuckerberg's Facebook redesign [Developers, Developers, Developers]
When we ran screenshots of Facebook's new profile pages back in late February, what you saw was a classic Mark Zuckerberg production. A source close to Facebook tells us the profile redesign was... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Try Legal Weed! --What? You're Talking About Beer?
Federal alcohol regulators are asking Vaune Dillmann of Mount Shasta Brewing Company to stop producing bottle caps for his beer with the slogan "Try Legal Weed." See, apparently these alcohol regulators think that Dillmann is referencing the illegal marijuana (technically, it's still illegal,…
Worker-hating college site Uloop paid $50,000 to settle Jewish employee's lawsuit [Exits]
College classifieds site Uloop, the subject of a labor complaint filed by fired employees, previously had to settle a wrongful termination suit, according to a tipster. A marketer and founding... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Get That KGB Impant Out, Ask Me How
Tired of having your thoughts transmitted to Moscow? Exhausted with having yet another threat of rape hurled against loved ones? Have you just had enough of Cold War paranoia? If you have, like Nickolay here, and want your radio implant removed, AgentAkit sent us this handy flyer to tell you…
Meg Whitman cleans house, but not at eBay [Exits]
Meg Whitman isn't losing any sleep over eBay's role in prepping Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui for his rampage that left 33 dead. Asked what was her worst moment at eBay, Meg confides to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Flash Mob/Improv Dance Type Thingy Tomorrow at SF MOMA
We just got word that maybe, perhaps, probably a flash mob-ish type of event is happening at SF MOMA tomorrow at noon. Check it: hey I wanted to let you know that my friend [name removed to protect dancer] is doing a modern ballet duet on friday at noon in the lobby of MOMA. It is kind of a…
Ousted Yahoo exec completes Scripps Interactive turnaround [Profits Are The Best Revenge]
Earnings season can bore, but behind some numbers, there's very human drama. Scripps, the home-and-garden media mini-empire, saw profits rise 22.8 percent to $84.1 million in the first quarter,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 109
Photo by Cynner_SF We'll let you in on a little secret: we love the Embarcadero Center. It reminds us a little of South Coast Plaza a bit, but a bit smaller, not as chic, and with unnatural natural light coming through. Here's a dizzying shot one of their many spiral staircases. …
No on 98 action in Oakland
The Tenants Unions sends us this alert: No on 98! Yes on 99! Help Save Rent Control April 25th! The Apartment Owners Association (AOA) has contributed over $200,000 to pass Proposition 98 in California. If Proposition 98 passes, members of the AOA will profit from the loss of Rent Control…
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SPF7 Sketch Comedy at The Dark Room This Weekend
A funny thing happened on the way to our last improv class taught by SPF7's Sammy Wegent (with SPF7's Bob Brindley filling in) last December. We fell flat on our face and had an epiphany: Comedy--and dare we say life--is all about falling on your face and turning your misery into…
Last dance for Web 2.0 [Valleywag Calendar]
It's your last chance to join in the partying for the Web 2.0 Expo because as soon as this circus is over the nerds have to get back to work. Web2Ireland will bring their brogues to the W Hotel while... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Officially "Coming Soon" (As In This Afternoon): 1226 2nd Avenue
Alternative (but rejected) headline: “Interactive Floor Plan Porn, Simple But Not Plain.” ∙ Listing: 1226 2nd Avenue - $1,879,000 [1226-2ndavenue.com] [Interactive Floor Plans]...
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Arts-and-crafts startup Etsy humiliates new COO with cutesy video [Hires]
Meet Maria Thomas, arts and crafts auction site Etsy's new COO. "Why the heck am I COO?" Thomas asks in a video (embedded below). Her answer: She ran Amazon.com's camera business, back when the site... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Past Post And Property Update: Listing For 270 Castenada Withdrawn
The listing for 270 Castenada was withdrawn from the MLS yesterday. Perhaps it wasn’t only “too beautiful to describe,” but “too beautiful to price” (or with which to part) as well. ∙ A Peek Inside 270 Castenada (And Now...
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