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Draw Yourself As A Teenager Meme
Dave Valeza has started a interesting meme where he is challenging people to draw the teenage version of themselves. Here’s a great submission from John Martz. via Robot Johnny illustration by John Martz (Robot Johnny) Related PostsStuff On My CatLolgeeks: I Can Has Fun At…
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Jim Henson Explores the Process of Visual Thinking
On an episode of “Sam & Friends”, Jim Henson’s first television series, Harry the Hipster gives an early version of Kermit the Frog a lesson in visual thinking. Jim Henson did a remake in 1966 on The Ed Sullivan Show, transforming Kermit from square to hipster, where he…
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Day Around the Bay
Hey, Fayes Video & Espresso Bar offered free tequila to customers for Cinco de Mayo. Nice! Smear the queer? [SFGate] Culling eggs: worse than you thought. [Noyes] More Medjool hate. [Mission Mission] Potrero Hill fire caught on film. [WhatImSeeing] Freaking out over the new Transbay…
Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg dithers on Elliot Schrage hire [Hires]
That was fast. Not only has BoomTown confirmed our earlier report that Elliot Schrage, Google's top flack, had interviewed at Facebook; he's been hired, too, according to an internal memo sent by CEO... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Richmond Hazardous Toluene Spill Update
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water: Initial reports indicated that a very minimal amount of the substance, now confirmed to be Toluene, was able to reach the San Pablo Bay. However, upon further investigation workers discovered that an unknown quantity of the…
SFIFF: Up The Yangtze and Faubourg Treme
Over the weekend, we saw two documentaries about displacement of communities by rising water at the SFIFF: Up The Yangtze and Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. Up The Yangtze focuses on the cruise ships that take Western tourists to see the sights of the Yantgze river…
New Nine Inch Nails Album Distributed As Free Download
Trent Reznor is distributing the new Nine Inch Nails full-length album “The Slip” as a free download via Creative Commons. It’s really great how Trent has been taking on the music industry lately. See Previously: - Nine Inch Nails Becomes a Free Agent With No Record Label -…
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How Do You "Shelter in Place"?
Today's toluene spill in Richmond (Contra Costa County) gave residents a legitimate scare -- with official instructions to "shelter in place." Let's hope the "there's nothing to see here folks" comments...
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Hazardous Spill In Richmond Prompts Shelter-In-Place Advisory
After someone supposedly stole brass fittings from a chemical company, toluenediamine, a flammable substance that causes irritation by inhalation, was released. Oops. Contra Costa County authorities have asked residents of over 1,500 homes in Richmond "to stay indoors while authorities…
Merlin megalabel to represent indies in licensing negotiations [Digital Music]
The music snobbery is going to get a whole lot thicker on MySpace now that thousands of independent labels have signed on for "virtual major" Merlin.While most indie albums sell in small numbers,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Why Google TV ads are doomed to failure [Online Advertising]
Google's top executives desperately want to convince Wall Street that it's on the verge of cracking the $70 billion television-advertising business — automating it, rationalizing it, and ruling... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFIFF: Standard Operating Procedure
Every time we see an Errol Morris film, we're always astonished by his subjects' self-incrimination and displays of delusion. We had suspected that Morris is drawn to delusional people as subjects, or at least, the unusually obsessed. With Standard Operating Procedure, screened at the SFIFF…
Facebook can have him [Elliot Schrage]
Commenter Facebookcanhavehim shares this thought on Google überflack Elliot Schrage's prospective departure for Facebook:It has nothing to do with Eric's philandering. It has everything to do... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hallelujah! GodTube gets $30 million investment [Online Video]
Online video site and social network GodTube landed $30 million from private equity firm GLG Partners in the company's collection plate, which values the startup at $150 million. The company sells... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
FIESTA, FOREVER: Cinco de Mayo is a holiday honoring "an initial victory of Mexican forces led by General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín over French forces in the Battle of Puebla," according to Wikipedia. And on that night way back in May 5, 1862, said forces celebrated this win with chips,…
Tweaked Anti-Meth Campaign Posters
Gay men and uppers go together like peanut butter and chocolate. It's just the way God wanted it. But that hasn't stopped Joel Schumacher's "I Lost Me to Meth" campaign from saturating San Francisco, even though meth use is down as of last year, before the campaign began. Reactions to the…
Ticket Giveaway: Win a Pair of Tickets to See Joe Jackson
The following is a contest from our sponsor, Joe Jackson's Rain. Recorded with the rhythm section that accompanied him on the classics Look Sharp and I’m the Man, Joe Jackson returns with Rain. In classic Jackson style, Rain is full of humor, swing, sophistication, barbed social…
Those aren't summer campers, they're Facebook Bee-otches [Caption Contest]
Facebook Games Day 2008 is over and by the looks of these uniforms, our guess is that everyone on the "Bee-otches" team was a very "special" winner. Write a better caption below and we'll rename the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Thinking Within The Box Envelope: Plans To Add Another Bathroom
It’s a Mill Building (720 York) brick and timber loft with 15-foot ceilings; a 1,749 square foot floor plan; and plan by the current architect-owner to add a second bathroom on the mezzanine level where the walk-in closet "with...
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Digital made Madison Avenue's year [Online Advertising]
2007 was supposed to be the start of an advertising-industry downturn. But growth in agency revenues slowed from 8.8 percent in 2006 to 8.6 percent growth in 2007, according to AdAge's annual... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ex-MySpace boss Brad Greenspan possibly robbed by Hollywood Hills cat burglar [Crime]
MySpace quasi-cofounder and acquisitive LiveUniverse CEO Brad Greenspan had his Hollywood Hills home broken into over the weekend, and authorities think it could be the work of a cat burglar that has... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
LinkedIn board raising more cash [Rumormonger]
At careerist social network LinkedIn, a marathon board meeting has sparked speculation about a new financing round. LinkedIn, often mentioned as an IPO candidate, has raised $27.5 million to date.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google doesn't care about Mexican people [Don't Be Latino]
Ask.com bungled the spelling of Cinco de Mayo, but at least they made an effort. Pictured here are Yahoo's animated mariachis and dancers. But Google, the company well known for its holiday flights... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Shareholder wants Yahoo to put $2.3 billion where Yang's mouth is [Stocks]
Yahoo has $2.3 billion in cash. Employees have told us they're begging management for some of that stash to buy more machines and hire more engineers. But Legg Mason fund manager Bill Miller —... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mortgage Rate/Spread Update: Are You Feeling Stimulated Yet?
According to Julian Hebron at RPM Mortgage, local 30-year jumbo-conforming mortgages are currently being offered for around 6.625%. That’s a 0.25% (25 bps) discount to jumbo rates (6.875%) but a 0.625% (62.5 bps) premium over conforming (6.0%). ∙ If Lowering...
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Spectrum winner Verizon not concerned with letter of the law adherence to Google's "open rules" [Google]
The members of Google's team for its multibillion-dollar wireless-spectrum bid worked themselves to exhaustion and sickness. That was all in an effort to force the contest's eventual winner to abide... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Just What Is Twitter, Anyway?
People always asks us this. Old people ask us this, we should say. And usually it comes off more like a statement than a question, so we rarely bite. But when we do, here is our sad explanation: "It's, like, short emails. Or Facebook's "is" blurbs without the annoying profile, or...people…
IAB formalizes rules for online video advertising [Online Advertising]
The bad news? The Interactive Advertising Bureau has officially endorsed "preroll" ads, which play before a video. The good news? They're limited to 30 seconds. [Beet.tv] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Erik Möller, No. 2 at Wikipedia, a defender of pedophilia [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge]
Erik Möller is the deputy director at Wikipedia's nonprofit parent, the Wikimedia Foundation. As such, he oversees tech and editorial operations at the world's most comprehensive history of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mario Batali and His Crocs at Book Passage Today
OK, we're cutting it close here, time-wise. But since it's happening at 4 p.m., it feels inappropriate to stick this SFist Tonight. You see, Mario Batali is appearing at Book Passage in the Ferry Building this afternoon. While he's no Joanne Weir--who can do no wrong-- he is one of the few…
Tom Waits Press Conference Announcing Summer Tour
Tom Waits announces his summer “Gitter and Doom Tour” across the US with a surreal press conference and the cryptic acronym PEHDSTCKJMBA. Related PostsCyclecide Bike Rodeo Tour de FatGnomedex 6.0Dilettante by Summer BurkesSPX 2007 (Small Press Expo), Cartoon & Comics…
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Private equity fees up 83 percent since 2003 [Venture Capital]
Private equity management fees, the percentage these fancy financiers charge merely to hold onto the riches' money, reached $33 billion in 2007, up 83 percent from $18 billion in 2003. Venture funds... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
InfoWorld making 37 percent profit margin one year after ditching print [Death Of Print]
International Data Group, the tech publisher, was losing money every time it printed signature title InfoWorld. After kicking the paper habit, the title is now making $1.6 million per month in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Facebook posts more driver's licenses from advertisers [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
The employee at Ping Pong Music who had his drivers' license inadvertently published by Facebook for all the world to see tells us he's discovered at least two more licenses exposed by the site. He... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Twitter Follow Break by Someecards
The latest Twitter themed ecard by someecards. via Twitter Related PostsSomeecards, When You Care Enough To Hit SendTwitter at Burning Man 2007ProBlogger on How Twitter Helps BloggersSanta Claus on TwitterQuotably, Following Conversations on TwitterSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Twitter Follow Break…
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Food Hacks
Although I couldn’t attend this past weekend’s Maker Faire, with its inaugural section dedicated to food, I did have a chance to learn a few new tricks for the kitchen. It’s not a recent phenomenon for cooks to hack their utensils and ingredients—Homo “Handy Man”…
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Datacenters not the gold mine rural towns thought they'd be [Microsoft]
Because of the cheap electricity that flows alongside the Columbia River, server farms starting popping up next to actual farms in the agricultural regions of eastern Washington and Oregon back in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 116
This is all kinds of genus, here. Why don't we have bicycle lifts installed on every hill in San Francisco? Oh right, because we live in a dangerously litigious city. But still: wow. Check out more shots of the lift in use here.
SFIFF: Nao Por Acaso (Not By Chance)
SFist Wendy thinks actor Rodrigo Santoro is cute! If you see Not by Chance with several friends, like we did, it is very likely that everyone is going to walk away with a very different take on the film. Maybe that’s in part because some of us are more smitten with Rodrigo Santoro than…