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Man Babies, Swapping Father’s & Baby’s Heads
Man Babies is a bizarre blog that collects photos where the father’s and baby’s heads are swapped between their bodies. via Gawker photo via Man Babies Related PostsSci-Fi Baby Names Book by Robert SchnakenbergVisual Baby Instructions For New ParentsSafe Baby Pregnancy Tips, Visual…
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Facebook investor Peter Thiel No. 10 in Out's list of powerful gays [Internet Famous]
Peter Thiel, the famed venture capitalist who cofounded PayPal and funded Facebook, has not spoken about his private life since Valleywag broke the curious silence about the gay entrepreneur's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The First Ever Million Pirate March
Well, it's the first meeting of a million pirates, as far as I know. No barques, schooners or Doubloons required if you want to participate. But you must somehow identify...
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Day Around the Bay
Newsom wants to close down some SF streets on Sundays, mass choreographed dancing to follow. [Curbed]Three bitches to go. [Culture Blog]Wireless l'internet scam in SF? [Sam Spade]9/11 Truth Or Now people (are crazy.) [SF Citizen]Craig Newmark to deliver UBC commencement speech tomorrow,…
High schooler warns of transhuman dystopia [Google]
Ignoring Google's seeming endorsement of IM speak, or tweener, invading the English language by titling the company's logo art contest "Doodle 4 Google," the entries present a striking glimpse into... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Clearwire stock, revenue -- and operating losses -- all up, up, up [Earnings]
Clearwire and new parent company Sprint Nextel certainly share one thing in common — operating losses. In an earnings announcement today, Clearwire posted a 76 percent increase in revenue... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Former HP CEO on offshoring profits [Politics]
newVideoPlayer("Carly_Fiorina_this_week.flv", 463, 387,""); American corporations that keep profits earned overseas can indefinitely keep that money out of the country in order to avoid paying... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Toogle many Googlers -- at Facebook [Hires]
Despite her protestations of innocence, it's pretty obvious that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg had a hand in getting top Google flack Elliot Schrage to follow her to her new employer. She's not alone.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jeff Raikes named new CEO of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation [Charity]
Jeff Raikes, a Microsoft employee since 1981 and current head of the Office Business Division, will be replacing Patty Stonesifer as the CEO of the $37.3 billion Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
RIM seeds new $150 million venture fund for BlackBerry software [Venture Capital]
Canadian smartphone maker Research in Motion (RIM) announced a new $150 million Blackberry Partners Fund which includes private Canadian investors, RBC and Thomson Reuters. The fund will focus on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Check out NPR for Reporting Near China Quake Epicenter
NPR's foresight in covering the Summer Olympics is paying off in a big, if unexpected way. Instead of sending reporters to Beijing, they had just dispatched the crew from its flagship afternoon show,...
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Jimmy Wales, new girlfriend show up at Time 100 party [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge]
Despite not making the cut for this year's Time 100, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales showed up at the magazine's party anyway. (Past honorees are reinvited to the party automatically.) Even more... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Quote of the Day: Examiner's Quote of the Day
We suspect this might be yet another ploy to get on SFist. Failing that: what? Image credit: the formidable Jim Herd
Never mind the thousands dead, will China quake delay iPhone shipments? [Great Moments In Journalism]
A News.com reporter covered the death toll in 28 words before spending the next 613 trying to figure out if the recent earthquake in China near the manufacturing hub of Chengdu would hurt... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Historic Blockbuster Store Re-Creates Movie Rental Process
The Onion News Network is reporting on a historic Blockbuster store that re-creates the process of “renting” movies in the pre-internet era. via Baratunde Thurston Related PostsMichel Gondry Re-creates His Own Trailer For “Be Kind Rewind”The Boring StoreThe Shipyard’s…
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L is for Levchin, who never goes slow [Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good]
Max Levchin, the cofounder of PayPal and the CEO of Slide, measures nearly everything, down to the optimum price to pay for an engagement ring. If he needs a metric for self-importance, Once You're... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Scenes From An Anonymous Scientology Protest
While most of you were in bed watching America's Test Kitchen or having a light brunch at Dottie's on Saturday, the tenacious Anonomyous clan were out in full force doing what they do best: protesting Scientology, amusingly. And it looked like fun: Twister was played, gorgeous protest posters…
Italians mistake Google Street View car for prowling Gestapo [Don't Be Evil]
A former neo-Facist, Gianni Alemanno, is the new mayor of Rome. He got the job promising to bulldoze homeless encampments, deport foreign criminals and install surveillance cameras, all in an effort... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Yes, ex-Twitter CTO Blaine Cook knows what scalability means [100-word Version]
Before he left, former Twitter CTO Blaine Cook's job was to assure the service's scalability," or the ability to expand to meet growing user demand. Didn't happen. Instead, Twitter leads all social... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google's Friend Connect bad news for Marc Andreessen [Social Networks]
By offering a suite of tools for websites to add a social network layer, Google isn't challenging established players like Facebook and MySpace, but instead sites offering customizable, turnkey... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
READING: Head over to the Castro tonight to catch brilliant humor writer Augusten Burroughs reading from his latest piece of non(?)fiction, A Wolf at the Table. This latest effort is about his daddy. (Most notably, he wrote Running With Scissors and Dry.) Also, we dare you to ask him if he's…
Smoothies: Youth-Powered Sweetness
Teaching kids to eat and drink healthfully requires much more than admonitions. After carting away the vending machines and abolishing the Big Gulps, we can’t leave the kids empty-handed. Rachelle Boucher from Generation Chefs is working hard to fill the void. From the popular Pizza…
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Harry McCracken leaving PC World to go startup [Media]
PC World editor-in-chief Harry McCracken is leaving the magazine next month to work on his own technology website which, to our relief, he does not describe as a "blog." [Folio] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Alright, Alright: We're Bored
When it's a slow local news day, it's a slow local news day; and that's when the fun begins! These are the days when you get to see the true colors of your local news source at work. So, forgive us when we yawned at the cheap ploy of discussing marijuana on the Gate. For instance, did you…
Sprint's Clearwire investment hits a snag as company reports $505 million in losses [Lawsuits]
Illinois-based iPCS, a wireless affiliate of Sprint Nextel, has sued the number-three wireless carrier in Illinois Superior Court. Its claim that the new company Clearwire, with a majority stake held... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Collection of 1950’s Road Maps
Jon Hicks has been collecting wonderful 1950’s road maps, which he as been posting to a gallery on Flickr. images via Jon Hicks Related PostsGoogle MapsAdd Google Maps to Websites With New Embed FeatureGoogle Satellite MapsDriving Directions Using Google Maps Street ViewYard Dogs Road…
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The future of Jonathan Zittrain (and how to stop it) [Party Report]
Really, I wasn't trying to be posh for the book party Arianna Huffington threw Saturday for Oxford scholar Jonathan Zittrain and his new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It." I pulled... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Procter & Gamble slices, dices advertising budget [Online Advertising]
Procter & Gamble, which can spend upwards of $300 million on advertising a month, is considering cutting its overall ad spending by 10 percent. Meanwhile, it plans to continue "aggressively moving ad... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and…
Mission Mission's "I Lost Me To Meth" Coaster Contest
Oh wow. Mission Mission is offering a free pack of "I Lost Me to Meth" coasters to one lucky reader who can come up with the niftiest meth-related anecdote. So, tweakers of San Francisco, now it is your turn to shine as bright as your foreheads. Send Mission Mission your choicest…
HP moving to acquire EDS in $12 billion-plus deal [Acquisitions]
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Hewlett-Packard is nearing a deal to buy EDS for $12 billion to $13 billion. Having set Dell back on its heels in PC sales, HP is now moving to challenge... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The X-Files: I Want to Believe (Trailer)
Here’s the trailer for “The X-Files: I Want to Believe”, the second film based on the popular sci-fi television series The X-Files, which due theaters on July 25th. via Fimoculous image via The X-Files Related PostsIron Main Trailer To Be Made Into Feature Length FilmFatal…
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The $179 billion worth of free advice Larry Page got from his Stanford advisor [Google]
When Fortune magazine asked Google cofounder Larry Page what was the best advice he ever got, Page said that while at Stanford he couldn't decide which of his 10 projects to focus on until his... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Minor service adjustments as BART repairs damaged facility
Minor service adjustments at Hayward, South Hayward, Union City and Fremont as BART repairs damaged maintenance facility.
829 Folsom Street: New Details, Online Registration, And Timing
The full site and floor plans are still “coming soon,” but a few new details about (and registration for) the sixty-nine new condos of (and at) 829 Folsom are now online. Units range from alcove studios to three-bedrooms (priced...
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Online critics accuse TheEroticReview.com CEO Dave Elms of rape [Sex Trade]
There are two ways to get sex for free from an escort. You could try your hand at dating her as a civilian boyfriend, or you could start a lucrative escort review site and bribe her with good reviews... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
PMOG, A Browser-Based Passively Multiplayer Online Game
Our friends at Game Layers have just officially launched PMOG, a passively multiplayer online game that you play using your browser (Firefox with a special extension) by earning points surfing the web. For more info, watch the PMOG screencast and take the PMOG tour. PMOG is an infinite game built…
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America's Next Top Model, Season 10, Episode 12
The only thing that's gone longer than the Democratic primary has been this season of America's Next Top Model . Please, ANTM superdelegates, save us! ...
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Apple adds HBO to iTunes, but only by caving on pricing [Online Video]
As a a part of a deal to bring HBO shows to the iTunes store, Apple will allow a content producer to break its $1.99-per-show price structure for the first time, HBO employees involved in the deal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Bike to Work Day 2008
Happens on Thursday, May 15, 2008 We all know that global change happens on local, incremental levels -- especially in the face of sluggish systematic change. Which is why Bike to...
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SF Weekly vs. SF Bay Guardian: Act XIV
Well, this is all too exciting. And just when things were starting to get dull in the local media arena. You see: last Friday Judge Marla Miller "said...she's inclined to boost a jury's damages award against the SF Weekly to $15.6 million" and order them to knock it off with the below-cost…
Facebook CTO Adam D'Angelo's next move [Hires]
Adam D'Angelo's departure "broke my heart," one Facebook insider told us. But Facebook's backers are shedding no tears. We hear that both Peter Thiel's Founders Fund and Accel Partners are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]