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Mercredi, c'est Ravioli.
How often to you walk through the crowded city, past hordes of tourists patiently lined up to board tiny trolleys, drive down a twisty street, or board a boat to visit a rocky, now-deserted island? But all the time! Every time we go to lombard street or alcatraz or take the cable car. That is,…
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Cry of the Fishmonger: Blood in the Water
(By hockey correspondent, Ian Evans) The Sharks third consecutive ouster in second round of the NHL playoffs, despite having a Stanley Cup-worthy team this season, has led to the firing of head coach Ron Wilson on Monday. This last year, the Sharks set records in wins, consecutive wins, and…
Day Around the Bay
More on Mirkarimi's Prez of BOS campaign launch. [SFBG]Hysterical Citiapartments drama needs a good slap. [Curbed]These should be mandatory by law, BTW. [SF Citizen]Kenny Wayne Bowens "shines 'em up!" [WhatImSeeing]SF Weekly shows a newfound puritanical streak. [SF Weekly]Government workers…
Viewership Booming for Brisbane's KTSF Chinese-language Quake Coverage
KTSF-TV, the multi-cultural Brisbane station with a primetime Chinese entertainment and news bloc -- is going full-tilt on coverage of the Chinese earthquake. Over at Channel 26 they realize there...
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Mayor wants Israeli electric car startup to setup shop in San Francisco [Cleantech]
On our hunky God-mayor's "Gavin Newsom for Governor" tour that included stops in donor-rich New York and Los Angeles, a stop in Israel got the excitable pol talking about Israeli startup Project... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Blackout in SOMA
...and not the good kind. According to SFist James, power is out in parts of SOMA now (poor Western SOMA!) He report that: The scene at Harrison and 8th, one block from my house. It is chaos everywhere. DPT showed up quickly at all key intersections, especially this one with the 9th St.…
Warm Weather = Best Beaches to Play Hooky
Ok, let's see. You all have a little less than an hour or so to fake early symptoms of bubonic plague, whopping cough, or fibromyalgia. See, start now so when you call in sick tomorrow or on Thursday, your story will sound seamless to your boss. What are we talking about? Why, we're talking…
How a women-on-demand website saved OKCupid [Sex Trade]
When OKCupid, the site where Internet users too cool to date online date online, faced a possible shutdown, founders Sam Yagan and Chris Coyne took a page from the sex business to stay afloat: dates... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jeopardy 1999 on Saturday Night Live (1979)
“Jeopardy 1999″, a Saturday Night Live sketch from 1979. via Paleo-Future Related Posts1979 Kirby Hunting TrophyDevo Plays Satisfaction on Saturday Night Live (1978)Justin.tv Launches New Live Channel: Hooman.tvYahoo! Live Goes LiveMaker Saturday Webcasts at The…
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Julia Allison, Star plumb depths of online-video medium [Death Of Print]
Star magazine's new Web show lets the whole Internet read gossip together! It's like commenting on a regular online video, but you have to find the host, Star editor-at-large Julia Allison, on the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Day There Was No News
This just in…absolutely nothing. Imagine, if you will, a day without news. Jason Arber created a thought provoking video of “The Day There Was No News”. Adam Buxton created a similar “No News” video in early 2007. Both of these videos do well to illustrate the old…
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Jimmy Wales denies FBI investigation of underage photos on Wikipedia [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge]
Since a controversial record cover led to charges of Wikipedia hosting child porn, Jimmy Wales, the creator of the world's most democratically assembled list of anarcho-punk bands, has kept his... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
DANCE: Stop peeling the yellow wallpaper, angst-ridden youth of suburbia! Tonight's "Swing Goth" will have you feeling better than if you were pumped full of morphine. Each Tuesday at Julie's Supper Club, rock-a-billy and Goth sounds and aesthetics come together in peanut…
From Rendering To Reality (Although Not Quite Finality): 766 Harrison
A plugged-in tipster notes that the scaffolding has been stripped from 766 Harrison and what’s rising rings true to the rendering (with the exception of that two-way street). And while our tipster also offered to send along a photo,...
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Chadrick loves Diana, and the feeling is mutual [Caption Contest]
The act that first brought Chadrick Baker, virtual-worlds advocate and lover of love, to our attention was his declaration of romantic fealty to four Valley foxes. Bad news for Sarah Meyers, Amanda... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mahalo's real talent hunt [Careers]
Jason Calacanis is, a bit pathetically, trying to find a host for videoblog Mahalo Daily after the short-lived run of Veronica Belmont. More vital to the company's future is its search for a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
HP-EDS merger to reunite Marc Andreessen's LoudCloud [Deals]
Hewlett-Packard has software to automate datacenters; EDS has datacenters which need automating. That's part of the logic behind HP's $13.9 billion acquisition of the tech-services business. The deal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Giant Pool of Money - The Hands-Down Best Explanation of the Credit Crisis
I've read more articles and descriptions of the Sub-Prime Mortgage Mess and current 'credit crisis' than I care to admit.It wasn't that I was looking for answers myself, per se. And I always felt I had a fairly good handle on what went down from having witnessed it, more or less, from my front…
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Wired has nothing against "ButtMunch" -- excuse me, TechCrunch [Great Moments In Journalism]
Reading the latest in the spat between Wired's Epicenter blog and Michael Arrington over the Washington Post's deal to syndicate TechCrunch articles and the ethical propriety of the TechCrunch... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Wikipedia lawyer backs out of ethics talk [Mike Godwin]
Mike Godwin does not practice what he preaches. The general counsel for the Wikimedia Foundation, Wikipedia's nonprofit parent, once told the New York Times that "the best answer for bad speech is... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Giant Pool of Money - Hands Down Best Explanation of the Credit Crisis
I've read more articles and descriptions of the Sub-Prime Mortgage Mess and current 'Credit Crisis' than I care to admit. It wasn't that I was looking for answers myself, per say. I always felt I had a fairly good handle on what went down from having witnessed it more or less front row and center.…
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Mark Leno Loaned His Campaign $100K On Saturday?
This is for all your political fetishists out there: why is Mark Leno donating this sum of cash to his own campaign? (Go here, type "leno" in "Name of Filer," "10000" or so in the "Contribution Amount" minimum box, and then click the search button to generate the above info.) We're dipping…
Help Us Find Ricky Reed!
OMG! Ricky Reed, of Wallpaper. fame, is missing. Gone! Completely vanished. Unfortunately, his stellar world tour has now been cancelled. Fans are riotous with the news. The far reaching world tour included stops to Tanzania, Tucson and Tokyo. We even heard Wallpaper. was venturing to…
Craigslist whines like a toddler in countersuit against eBay [Nerdfight]
Craigslist has filed suit against eBay in San Francisco County Superior Court, alleging trademark infringement, breach of fiduciary duty, anti-competitve trade practices and deceptive advertising. ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Craig Newmark angles to take Phil Bronstein's livelihood, woman [Geek Love]
At the party for Jonathan Zittrain's new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop it, Craigslist founder Craig Newmark couldn't settle for destroying San Francisco Chronicle editor-at-large... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
DJ Now, Ask Me How
Who knew that the art of listening to records in over-sized headsets while rip-roaring high at nightclubs DJing paid so well? We didn't. DJ Lamont who, with all due respect, we've never heard of before, has enough dough to buy ad space--evil Clear Channel ad space!--on a bus station at…
Carl Icahn purchases 50 million Yahoo shares, contemplates launching proxy contest [Acquisitions]
Yahoo might merge with Microsoft whether the CEOs of either company like it or not. Since the merger fell apart last week, corporate raider Carl Icahn has purchased as many as 50 million shares in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
CollegeHumor's "Truth in Website Logos" [Google]
Recently departed Google designer Jeff Veen may think the company's logo is "childish" and "ugly," but in their "Truth In Website Logos," CollegeHumor's Streeter Seidell and Amir Blumenfeld... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google and the seven dwarfs [Pop Quiz]
The correct answer below: All are described as "not material" to Google's bottom line in SEC filings. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Why online ads are getting ever cheaper [Online Advertising]
Prices in the online advertising's world bargain bin are cratering. PubMatic, a consultancy which helps website owners shop for the highest-paying ads, says that average rates for its largest... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Commercial real estate vacancies show no sign of dot-bomb 2.0 [Real Estate]
Recent reports from local real estate trackers put the amount of office space relinquished by local companies in the last quarter at the highest it has been since the third quarter of 2002 —... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Event: The Mighty Fair
Tomorrow night, Wednesday, May 14, the Performing Arts Workshop will host a swank yet accessible World's Fair themed party, celebrating their 43rd year in providing quality arts education to more than 7,000 at-risk youth throughout the Bay Area. While the first half of the fete will be for…
What will San Francisco do without some guy named Julian Brass? [Exits]
newVideoPlayer("JulianBrassDepartsSF.flv", undefined, NaN,""); Maybe you don't know who Engage.com's Julian Brass is? Odd. Because the 43 people tagged in the farewell-to-San Francisco video Brass... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mallow Pizza & Other Candy Food Made of Marshmallow
A few weeks back during Simone’s birthday party, William showed up with a bizarre confection, a giant size Mallow Pizza made by Kandy Kastle, which they advertise as a “Great Tasting Marshmallow Pizza” and an “All American ‘Fun’ Pizza”. I’m not sure…
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EarthLink tries to unwireless Philadelphia [Wi-Fi]
No one wants EarthLink's Philadelphia Wi-Fi network, first announced four years ago — not the city, not a nonprofit. EarthLink has filed a federal lawsuit to remove its equipment from street... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 123
Photo by mikedthorn/Flickr Is he, in fact, as has been rumored over the past few years, too legitimate to quit? Discuss.
While Libor Heads Up, Jumbo-Conforming Rates Head Down
While Libor has been heading up amid complaints "that financial institutions weren't telling the truth about their funding costs after rising mortgage defaults contaminated credit markets and drove up borrowing costs," jumbo-conforming rates have been heading down following Fannie Mae's...
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