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Secret Facebook event at the Metreon tonight [Events]
While out and about, a possibly over-enthusiastic Valleywag correspondent heard rumors of a Facebook "prom" being held at the highly anticipated, but as yet unopened, new San Francisco branch of New... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Day Around the Bay
Tavern on the Green comes to the Metreon. [Eater]LBAM spray town hall meeting draws biggest crowd yet. [SF Citizen]SF Weekly loses, again, in its fight with SFBG. [SFGate]SFW responds. [SF Weekly]The 10 worst workspaces in tech. [Valleywag] Altered image: Eater
Valleywag cares less about women in technology than Google engineering [Events]
Thanks to Google Calendar going down I forgot the Women 2.0 business plan challenge was happening tomorrow, Saturday, at Stanford. A competitor who'd kindly submitted the item for our calendar with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A week where we relished positive feedback [Recap]
While we don't worship with the local cult of permanent positivity, we're human, too. Thankfully, our tipsters should us love daily, and their spirit of giving warms our cold, cold hearts even more... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Scene From Last Night's SFIFF Closing Night Party
Photo by Steve Rhodes At "Gonzo - Vanity Fair's Reel Relief SFIFF51 Closing Night" festivities. (Hunter S. Thompson never meant for it to be this way!)
Last Night's Transbay Terminal Meeting Curbed
Sarah has a new whipping boy over at Curbed. Intern Andy Wang went to last night's Transbay Terminal meeting that included "a dizzying barrage of downtown skyline simulations;" tittering over the term "downtown mound," which was used to describe the tip of the downtown skyline; comparing the…
Why Sue Gardner hired a pedophilia supporter to run Wikipedia [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge]
Sue Gardner, the former pop-culture journalist now running Wikipedia, named Erik Möller as deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation for a simple reason: to get him off the nonprofit's board.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Blip.tv's Dina Kaplan saves Ryan's privates [Online Video]
New York-based online video distribution startup Blip.tv went weekend warrior on file-sharing startup Pando in a game of paintball. Pictured here are the bruises left from getting hit on the leg of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
FASHION/MUSIC: Hiya Swanhuyser has word that tonight's fashion extravaganza/concert "The Ant Show’s 4th Annual Boxer Rebellion"--featuring Murder of Lilies, the Catholic Comb, Ghost to Atom providing rock tunes--will be the thing to go to tonight. And we agree. She also reveals what it was…
Valleywag editors suggest a supercomputer made from Valleywag advertisers [Sponsors]
A supercomputer made from iPod processors? Who needs it, when we have such quantifiably intelligent advertisers this week? Thanks go to: AT&T, Chevy Fuel Solutions, Kicker, MS Office Live Small... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Muni's Guide To The Weekend: KFOG KaBoom
Oh my God. KFOG KaBoom. It is here. Well, it's almost here. It's happening this weekend. And if you've never gone to this classic-rock concert, you should. It's a locals-only kind of event, but one you should try at least once. Basically, bands play and there's a fantastic, climactic…
Don't be photographed [Caption Contest]
We'd grown so accustomed to seeing Google CEO Eric Schmidt squiring girlfriends to events that we couldn't believe our eyes. Was that attractive blonde on his arm actually his wife, Wendy? The couple... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Work unpaid for the ultrarich [Careers]
Looking for a job with a company that regularly throws money down the startup drain? Don't care if all you receive in return is college credit? This internship listing on Craigslist is right up your... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Who's going to TechTalk Menorca, the Balearic boondoggle? [Leaks]
Martin Varsavsky, the founder of Wi-Fi startup Fon, has concocted another excuse for Web 2.0's jet set to rack up frequent-flier miles and buy carbon offsets: It's called Menorca TechTalk, held on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
$8 million for blimp rides from Google HQ to Napa Valley [Airship Ventures]
With a parking space at the giant hangar on Moffett Field run by NASA, Airship Ventures plans to buy a blimp and run pleasure cruises from the Googleplex's back yard to Napa Valley's wine country. To... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Wall to Wall Supporters at Mirkarimi’s Kickoff
Supervisor Mirkarimi's kickoff for his re-election campaign has filled with constitutents, supporters and well-wishers. Supervisors Peskin and McGoldrick were attendance. School Board members Eric Mar, Jane Kim and Kim-shree Maufas were in attendance. Community College Board John Rizzo was…
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Protest Potluck A Success
PTA's Protest Potluck drew in Gwendolyn, a representative from Fiona Ma's office who gave us the numbers of Republicans on the Assembly Education Committee who needed to be convinced to "Flunk the Budget" (i.e. cuts to the state's education budget). The list of the three Republican Assemblymembers…
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Protest Potluck A Success
PTA's Protest Potluck drew in Gwendolyn, a representative from Fiona Ma's office who gave us the numbers of Republicans on the Assembly Education Committee who needed to be convinced to "Flunk the Budget" (i.e. cuts to the state's education budget). The list of the three Republican Assemblymembers…
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Republicans almost want you to have cheaper Internet porn [Sex Trade]
California's Republicans are deliberating whether or not to tax your porn downloads. State Assemblyman Charles Calderon (D.-City of Industry) first proposed a tax on all online porn, estimated to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A Few of My Early Childhood Fears by Levni Yilmaz
“A Few of My Early Childhood Fears” is a wonderful comic from “Tales Of Mere Existence” by Levni “Lev” Yilmaz. Here’s a larger version that he posted to SFist. Lev is selling several books and DVD’s of his work, including his new book/DVD “The…
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Cisco's Jayshree Ullal, head of $8 billion business, leaving today [Exits]
Jayshree Ullal, a 14-year veteran of the networking giant, is leaving the company, we hear. "Going-away party today at 3:30, Cisco Campus, Building 3," our tipster tells us. Ullal, one of a few... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Chuck Todd, Slaughtering The Very Thing He's Talking About
"There is reasons to use language the way we use it."OVERHEARD BY MK
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Scientology critics say Google banned them to win Scientology's advertising business [Don't Be Evil]
Google's video-sharing site YouTube began hosting a channel for The Church of Scientology last month. It's a "sponsored" channel, so Scientology pays for the privilege as well as for the Scientology... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Steve Jobs's jet-setting an indicator of Apple dealmaking? [Journalist Math]
Analysts say the craziest things when trying to guess what the supersecretive Steve Jobs is up to at Apple. Last quarter, Jobs has only billed the company for $30,000 in business-related travel... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 119
Photo by jen_maiser Let's push down the hipsters, the poop virus outbreaks, the Newsoms, and the suicides with a gosh darn stubborn but adorable pup, shall we?
Facebook making sure there's nowhere on the Web to hide [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
Facebook's formal announcement of Facebook Connect is at once a transparently timed response to MySpace's announcement of partnerships with eBay and Twitter yesterday and the culmination of things... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
F is for Fitzpatrick, and "hookers and blow" [Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good]
LiveJournal founder Brad Fitzpatrick is a prankster, as evidenced by his Halloween costume last year, when the new Googler dressed up as Facebook to mock his coworkers' fears of the social network.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A MySpace advertiser responds to News Corp.'s excuses [Online Advertising]
When News Corp. announced its Fox Interactive division — the unit built around MySpace — would miss its targets, COO Peter Chernin offered three excuses reasons why. Since we noted them... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Norovirus Virus Outbreak In San Francisco?
Not to be an alarmist, but we just received the following info about a possible virus outbreak in San Francisco. Thankfully, the JavaOne conference team at Moscone Center was notified before any citizens were. Check it: The JavaOne conference team has been notified by the San Francisco…
Kate Smith’s Favorite Recipes
Well, God Bless America, it’s Kate Smith! I’ve recently been given a book of her favorite recipes called, of all things, Kate Smith’s Favorite Recipes. If you know anything at all about me, or even care to, you know that I am fascinated with celebrities. Not the new ones so…
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Why Google should hurry up and buy Blinkx [Video Search]
Blinkx founder Suranga Chandratillake has always wanted his video search engine to be to online video what Google is to the Web. Here comes his chance. On May 24, a clause in Blinkx's IPO filings... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Make-Me-Governor Tour: Another Cigarette Ban
Little ol' San Francisco made ink in USA Today as part of Mayor Gavin Newsom's clever plan to rule to the state of California. What pressing issue is he tackling this time? Tobacco in drug stores. Specifically, he wants to ban harmful cigs from places like our beloved Walgreens. Newsom,…
The Chron Hates Public Transportation.
And "Hate" here is their word, not mine. The question at the "News" front page as we speak (emphasis ours): Which of these transit ideas do you hate the most? $7 peak Golden Gate bridge toll; Fewer seats, more standees on BART Pushing cars off Market Street; So just to be clear: the Chron…
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Scandal-ridden Brit Rachel Whetstone to run Google PR [Scoop]
We hear that Rachel Whetstone, Google's European communications director, will replace Elliot Schrage as the company's top flack after Schrage left for Facebook. Her background may make her a perfect... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mark Zuckerberg on "vision quest" in India [Nerdspotting]
"According to sources, Zuckerberg is in India and, in fact, all over the world, on a trip that is mostly for pleasure and contemplation, but also mixing in with some business." — Kara Swisher... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Tales Of Mere Existence "A few of my early childhood fears"
(CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE) "Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni Yilmaz Z.O.G. Buy a Comic/DVD set from Lev! http://www.ingredientx.com/buy/main.htm For more comics, animations and correspondence, kindly visit http://www.ingredientx.com If you gravitate towards isolated,…