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Still limping around
I had an MRI on my foot this morning. Everyone in Doctor Sander's office has been fantastic trying to get me back on my bike, but it's still going to take up to 48 hours for them to get the results. I'm probably not going to be able to ride again this weekend and I'm getting really worried about…
Take Meredith Home with you.
Here's your chance to have her in your living room! Well, we don't know if it's the SF Weekly's Meredith Brody, but here is an homonymous portrait on sale at ebay. Learned yet witty fireplace conversation full of delightful anecdotes and literary references not provided with the painting. Come…
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Expanded service for Bay to Breakers and baseball
Expanded service for Bay to Breakers and Giants baseball.
Website & Corporate Logo Mashups
Streeter Seidell and Amir Blumenfeld recently created a series amusing Truth In Website Logos for College Humor. Mario Amaya created some interesting corporate logo mashups “Just For Fun”. images via College Humor & Mario Amaya Related PostsHelp Promote Webzine…
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Is Jimmy Wales getting Wikipedia in legal trouble? [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge]
Jimmy Wales's clandestine editing of a girlfriend's Wikipedia entry has done more than just bring the online encyclopedia into disrepute. It may well put the site's nonprofit parent, the Wikimedia... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Top 5 unintended uses for Microsoft's tactile interfaces [Surface Computing]
"Every surface will be a computer." So spake Bill Gates at the annual CEO Summit, sounding much like himself a few decades ago when he promised a computer on every desk. Since then we've collectively... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Walking Beast, A Giant Robot Spider
MoltenSteelMan created “The Walking Beast”, an amazing giant robot spider that walks around on eight legs. Here’s a video of it in action at Burning Man 2007. The machine is powered by a 454 cubic inch chevy V-8 married to a modified TH400 trans coupled to two klune extreme under…
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Spare the Air Day Tomorrow, But No Free Rides
In addition to Ride Your Big Wheel to Work Day, tomorrow, May 15, is also Spare the Air Day. But here's the nasty rub: there will be no free transit. Pft. How dare Bay Area citizens not receive a free ride tomorrow. The nerve. This makes little sense. Especially since we are asked to…
Subprime And Alt-A Statistics By County: The Feds Mortgage Map
Well, while a plugged-in tipster directed us to the site last week (cheers), another plugged-in reader steals a bit of our thunder (and forces our pre-analysis publication) by pointing it out this afternoon (cheers as well). Yes, it’s the...
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George Bush to terrorize world with emails [Politics]
The president of the United States, George W. Bush, has been banned from sending emails during his term in office, with officials citing security concerns. That's all about to change once he's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
World of Warcraft Video of The Beatles’ “I’m Only Sleeping”
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Comcast acquires Plaxo, after unbearably long courtship [Acquisitions]
Months after rumors of its interest first surfaced, Comcast has officially bought Plaxo. Terms weren't disclosed, but we last heard that the price was rumored to be around $175 million. For now,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Gavin Newsom, Edward Norton shake hands [Caption Contest]
Hollywood star Edward Norton gleefully shakes hands with San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom at a hearing on green building practices today before the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
THEATER: Remember how , was the single most boring and excruciating piece of English language literature you were ever forced to read in high school? How it should be banned? Because it's will crush your soul? Well, the Shotgun Players and Banana Bag and Bodice ensemble have…
The Making of the Logo For Phil Bronstein’s New Blog
Don Asmussen, who draws the “Bad Reporter” comic for the San Francisco Chronicle, explains in great detail his process for creating a blog logo for “Bronstein At Large”, the new blog of the Chronicle’s former editor Phil Bronstein. Here’s the final product: …
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Intel Atom to be used in new, larger iPhone [Apple]
At a birthday party for chipmaker Intel held in Munich, Hannes Schwaderer, CEO of Intel Germany, confirmed that Apple will be using the company's new Atom processor in a future version of the iPhone.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Reuters: Icahn will announce 12 candidates to replace Yahoo's board [Yahoo Raid]
After acquiring 3.5 percent of Yahoo in the week after merger negotiations fell through with Microsoft, corporate raider Carl Icahn will move forward with a plan to replace the company's board with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Chadrick loves Hillary Clinton, but not as president [Politics]
Valleywag mascot Chadrick Baker, the virtual-worlds impresario who recently found love in the arms of fellow geek Diana Furka, wants everyone to know that he doesn't hate Hillary Clinton. He merely... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Comic Book & Cartoon Characters as Senior Citizens
Donald Soffritti has a great series of illustrations showing what some superheroes and supervillains might look like in their old age. Along these same lines, Spirit Magazine, the inflight magazine for Southwest Airlines, recently published an article on Nickelodeon which includes a wonderful…
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Robotic voices to express HP's disgust with customers [Bad Ideas]
Its pretexting heyday may be over, but HP is apparently still not adverse to a little telephone trickery, as its pending patent for Text-to-Speech Conversion with Associated Mood Tag shows. In it, HP... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Slide exec on widgets: Fun is where the money is [Keith Rabois]
This decade's greatest Internet hits — Google and PayPal — make so much money because they help money change hands more efficiently. The next great wave of moneymakers on the Web won't be... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
General Motors technology chief plans to skip Windows Vista [Microsoft]
"We're considering bypassing Vista and going straight to Windows 7," GM technology chief Fred Killeen told BusinessWeek. He said that replacing Windows XP with Vista would require the company to buy... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
And So It Begins
Photo by Dave Schumaker/Flickr Until they open up a Four Seasons on the Playa, or move the journey to Yerba Buena Park, we won't be going anytime soon. But for those of you rapscallions who are? More power to you. And if you haven't purchased your tickets yet, do it now.
Facebook ad revenue projections revised down to $265 million [Online Advertising]
Due to a souring economy and a shift in spending from Facebook itself to third-party developers who place widgets on the social network's site, market research firm eMarketer lowered its projections... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
San Francisco Proposal For George W. Bush Sewage Plant Gets the FOX Treatment
As most of you know by now, the George W Bush Sewage Plant proposal--news that SFist broke way back in March (yay, us!)--is making the rounds all across this great country of ours. And after landing on FOX News last week, the steady stream of hate mail makes for a fantastic read. Here are…
How YouTube's sucking up to Modest Mouse (and other giants of media) [Copyfight]
An eagle-eyed Valleywag tipster with a taste for Modest Mouse spotted an interesting new feature on YouTube. Uploads of music videos from the band by non-official sources now carry a link reading... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Stephen Colbert Makes Fun of Bill O’Reilly Outburst
A video of a younger Bill O’Reilly freaking out off camera on Inside Edition in the early 1990’s has been making its way around the internets this week. Last night on The Colbert Report, Stephen had a hilarious tribute to Bill’s outburst. Related PostsStephen Colbert Portrait by…
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Following bloggers, musicians are the latest group to whore themselves to Apple [Digital Music]
Bloggers know that a good Apple story is a sure-fire way to precious pageviews and ultimately, cash. Music groups are figuring out how to capitalize on the cult of Steve Jobs, too. Silicon Alley... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Will Carl Icahn crash Yahoo? [Yahoo Raid]
In explaining Carl Icahn's raid on Yahoo, pundits bring up his efforts to shake up tech and media giants like Motorola and Time Warner. But I think there's a better analogy in Icahn's past: TWA.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Make-Me-Governor Tour: More Green Nonsense
When he's not gracing photo exhibits at Valencia Street art gallery parties with Todd Oldam and John Waters (the latter, we hear, now lives in Nob Hill now. Who knew?) with his stellar bone structure, he's off in D.C. lecturing East Coasters about (alleged) global warming. According to his…
Can mamby-pamby HP handle its new Texan? [Ronald Rittenmeyer]
The culture at Hewlett-Packard, according to the Wall Street Journal, "is considered more of a consensus-building style." You know — lots of meetings and executives who give time and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Feds Make Opium Bust...In 1929
We love exotic tales of ye old San Francisco--especially when rich, smooth opium, not meth, was the preferred drug of choice. We came across this ancient news story of a San Francisco opium bust on the wonderfully titled blog If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead…
Blocker: 100 Serrano
Exploring San Francisco through the lens of city blocks, Blocker is a regular series by Charles Hodgkins. Look for it on SFist every other Wednesday, before the lunching hour. View the map of all published Blocker episodes. Blocker, No. 37: Serrano Dr. in Parkmerced Every now and again,…
Meet Margo Evashevski, VC PI [Crime]
Though there's a lot more that can sour a startup than employing closet drinkers, gamblers, and perverts, for venture capital firms, ferreting them out prior to offering up their cash is just part of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Kid Who Needs To Work On His Poker Face
Kid: "Who would throw chess pieces out a window?!?"Teacher: "You!"Kid: "Heh heh...Yeah..."OVERHEARD BY TOBYLURIO
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