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San Francisco famous is not New York famous [Old Money]
Vanity Fair PR reps hassled Billy Getty, the oil heir, and wife Vanessa, for tickets at the premiere of Gonzo, even though the two were on the publicity email. Billy is the partner of San Francisco... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Old media figure Graydon Carter spotted at San Francisco premiere of old media [Nerdspotting]
Vanity Fair, which is a New York-based operation distributing expert-written content on biodegradable media — a "magazine" — via premium subscriptions and bricks-and-mortar partners known... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
This American Life Segment Animated by Chris Ware
Chris Ware has created another wonderful animation for the television version of “This American Life”. The animation is featured in episode 6 of the second season, “Every Marriage Is a Courtroom”, which debuts on June 1st. Last year his animation appeared in the episode…
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The 10 worst workspaces in tech [Cubicle Culture]
We've toured the top 10 workspaces in tech. Now, we've gone back to Office Snapshots to find the 10 worst. What makes them so bad? Some offend with exposed fluorescent lights, gray cubicles and a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Day Around the Bay
Facebook tries to save the children from sexual predators. [Valleywag]The return of Chad Fox. [Stop Touching My Food]"“I engaged in exchanging an image of a minor engaging in sexually explicit activity,” says Ward. [Noyes]Also, Bernie as a priest. [Noyes]SF milks building owner for $50K…
Quote of the Day: Skull Smoking Teens
As always, Texans = fucking frightening. How so? Because of this: According to documents filed in the case, Gonzalez, Jones and an unnamed juvenile on March 15 went to an Humble cemetery, dug up a man's grave, left with the head and turned it into a "bong." Thanks, Frances Reade, for…
KGO Greenlights Talking On-Air About Bernie Ward
One of the more conspicuous silences during the whole Bernie Ward saga has been coming from KGO-Radio (810 AM), his longtime employer. Long the Bay Area's ratings king, the news-talk station has --...
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Guys Jumping & Doing Backflips Into Their Jeans
Unlike most people, these guys do not put their pants on one leg at a time. Related PostsJumping Fabric Photography by William HundleyMade From Scrap Has Opened, Workshops Now AvailableShaolin Vacuum by Danny NganBehind the Scenes of Steve Job’s Macworld KeynoteJohn Hodgman Becomes Steve…
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Why Google's drowning in talent [Toogle Many Googlers]
Looking at the departure of top Google flack Elliot Schrage for Facebook and concluding that the search engine is suffering a "brain drain" is the laziest journalism on the subject I could imagine.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Breaking News: Suicide In Union Square
We just received the following, rather tragic alert from a reader: Suicide in Union Square, jumped off building, blocks closed off, assorted people freaking out...super fucked. My guy was walking down to that area and saw some block(s) around O'Farrell and Powell closed off and cops…
Valleywag mascot touts computerized beaver at Maker Faire [Chadrick Baker]
Chadrick Baker, Valleywag's mascot, has been suspiciously silent lately. I'd just started to worry that he'd disappeared into a virtual world once and for all when he popped up to let me know he and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Now that the book is done, time for some booze [Caption Contest]
An impromptu "Tweetup" at Medjool from the online shoe salesfolk at Zappos lured reporter Sarah Lacy out to Medjool. The promise: free booze if you promoted the website with a backhanded mention. Can... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
DJ: Over at Beauty Bar DJ Katie, who might or might not be on of SFist's favorite and brutally honest commenters, spins over at Beauty Bar. For reals, she's reason enough to head over to the bar and give it a second chance. For more info, go here. 7 p.m. // Beauty Bar (2299 Mission) //…
B is for Botha, who sold YouTube big [Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good]
Few people outside Silicon Valley have heard of Roelof Botha. But the former CFO of PayPal is famous here. His two claims to fame: negotiating that company's $1.5 billion sale to eBay, and later, as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Threadless gets a new CEO, users react: "^5!" [Hires]
Virgin Mobile and EMI veteran Tom Ryan, most recently kept on the entepreneurial dole by Bessemer Venture Partners, will join Chicago-based SkinnyCorp, the parent of online T-shirt company... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
It Really Makes You Think: UCB Celerates Nakba
In a continued effort to fetishize the "game of chess" that is Palestinian/Israeli relations, UC Berkeley students staged a harrowing--harrowing!--border checkpoint commemorating the anniversary of the Nakba (i.e., "Arabic for "Catastrophe," the Palestinian name for the founding of Israel in…
Snuzzy, A Pet Humor Blog Where Cute & Fuzzy Collide
Our friends over at Dogster & Catster have just launched the pet humor blog Snuzzy, where they are posting entertaining photos and videos of cute and fuzzy animals, like this “Kitten Surprise” video. In a world of animal memes, super fuzzy images and ROFL pet videos, it’s just…
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Janitors picket Cisco in hopes of raises and healthcare [Labor]
SEIU Local 1877, which represents area janitors, was out in force at Cisco today. The union's contract expired at the end of April, and it looks like the threatened strike has materialized here, as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
RealNetworks to spin off its games business [Ipo]
RealNetworks' games business grew revenues 33 percent since the first quarter of 2007. CEO Rob Glaser thinks it could grow even faster on its own. RealNetworks announced today it plans to spin off... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Helio, Virgin Mobile in merger talks [Rumormonger]
SK Telecom, the backer of money-losing wireless startup Helio, could buy out Virgin Mobile USA and combine it with Helio. [MocoNews.net] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Fashion Focus: Bluetooth Technology
Photo by Jeremy Brooks So, dear readers, where do we stand on Bluetooth ear pieces? Sure, the Summer's Eve set is prone to wearing them now--which at least prevents them from doing that annoying constant ear-to-mouth cell phone shifting--but we think they have a future of being chic-ish. …
Microsoft officially hiring "Google killers" [Antitrust]
After more than a decade of trans-Atlantic antitrust scrutiny, one would think Microsoft would be, oh, I don't know, subtle about its ambitions to destroy a competitor. Someone in Microsoft's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Protest Potluck on Budget Cuts on Friday, May 9 from 5-7 p.m.
FLUNK THE BUDGET - Protest Potluck Sponsored by the 2nd District PTA Date: Friday May 9, 2008 Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Where: McAllister Conference Room at 555 Franklin Street Grab a potluck dish and your cellphone and head on down to 555 Franklin on Friday, May 9 to remind our…
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With Wi-Fi network, Cablevision aims for world domination of Long Island [Wi-Fi]
Cablevision, the dominant cable provider on New York's Long Island, now wnats to build a municipal Wi-Fi network for the area. Along with its bid for Newsday, the local newspaper, this completes its... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ask Aida...Please
We're a sucker for any cooking show that's procedural and not competitive, so we're kowtowing PR's bidding here. Food expert Aida Mollenkamp is having a Q&A show on the Food Network where she will answer viewers' most pressing questions about the culinary arts. And since the questions will…
MySpace to eBay, Twitter, and Yahoo: Thanks for the add! [Data Portability]
Who are these people? That's the problem I've long had with sites like Twitter and eBay, which offer anonymous user names and little else to go by. And that's been the charm of Facebook, which aims... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Internet Archive refuses to secretly hand over user info to FBI [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
With the help of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union, Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle successfully challenged an FBI request to secretly hand over... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Let's Hear It For Newsom's Make-Me-Governor Tour
It's been an incredible success, yes? He's gone to Israel in order to (allegedly) build a bridge between the Bay Area and Israeli business leaders. (See what you've wrought, Rainbow Groceries?) And according to his schedule, Newsom started out in NYC today, but will be in WeHo later this…
Bad iPod batteries could cost Apple $3.6 million loonies [Lawsuits]
Apple has settled a class-action suit in Canadian courts over first, second and third-generation iPod batteries that fell well short of claimed battery life. Up to 80,000 Canadians are eligible for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Turner shuts down comedy site SuperDeluxe.com, and "no one could deny they were crying their asses off" [Online Video]
Turner will shutter comedy site SuperDeluxe.com and roll its content into AdultSwim.com, paidContent reports. In an internal memo, Turner Animation exec Paul Condolora writes that "in SuperDeluxe.com... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 119
Photo by Steve Rhodes Google transit really, really wants your business. (Although we wish they had route overlay info and NextBus data, still: a decent service.)
To save "the children," Facebook tries press releases [Politics]
At the direction of 49 state attorneys general, Facebook has adopted even more provisions to restrict interactions between adults and teenagers. Along the changes are automatic reviews of any... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
AMD CEO Hector Ruiz promises profitability, but reveals no concrete plan [Amd]
In today's scheduled conference with analysts in Austin, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz didn't make any rumored announcements about splitting the company into multiple divisions or contracting out the business... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How Jeff Bezos makes ends meet on an $82,000 salary [Jackpot]
Less than a week after Forbes sang the praises of his "modest $82,000 annual base salary," Jeff Bezos cashed in another 2.15 million shares of his Amazon.com stock, adding another $168 million to an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Seizures Caused By Hackers' Posts On Epilepsy Forum
Hackers aren't just money-grubbing and annoying. They're also just plain funny evil. Take, for example, the hackers who recently loaded the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site with hundreds of pictures and links to with rapidly flashing images. The images, it seems, "triggered severe migraines…
Music, photos and Facebook apps, oh my [Valleywag Calendar]
The JavaOne developers conference continues at the Moscone center, but if Neil Young is still in town he'd probably ditch shilling for Sun to drop by the SanFran MusicTech Summit, running until 5pm... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Bay Area Myanmar Cyclone Disaster Efforts
Hey, you! Looking to help people ravaged by the Myanmar cyclone? The twister that struck the country has claimed over 100,000 live so far. And the Foundation for the People of Burma, a nonprofit group right over on Bush Street, just launched a funding drive for disaster relief. You can check…
Six-Year-Old Girl Run Over By Mom
A young girl riding her tricycle in her Pittsburg neighborhood on the 1000 block of Muir Creek Drive was inadvertently run over by her own mother yesterday afternoon. According to the Gate, Rachel Lopez was struck by her mom's car at 4:30 p.m.. It seems her mother "realized she had run over…