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San Francisco Out-Perfoms the Bay Area
According to DataQuick as reported in the SF Examiner, comparing October year over year sales (2007 to 2006), every other county in the Bay Area saw declines in volume of home sales between 28% and 54%.SF County saw a decline of only 8.2% in volume of home sales, with an increase in median home…
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Day Around the Bay
Disney Store to close? How evil. [Curbed]Philip and Arnold. [SFGate]19-year-old Daniel Bateman is a hero, hot. [CBS5]Inane James Frey protest. [The Snitch]Remembering Robert Mondavi. [Eater]Jameth goes shooting. [Jameth]
Bizarre Bazaar
(By Katy G) Curiosity and a unique line-up of craftspeople, performers, and artists drew folks to Mission Bazaar, the Armory's first public event in 30 years. For those who haven't heard, the San Francisco Armory, a 200,000-square-foot reproduction of a Moorish Castle right in the heart of…
The Power Of Twos (Plus One) In Noe Valley: 334 28th Street
334 28th offers two bedrooms, baths, parking spaces, and decks. And one sweeping view. And while it doesn't offer the largest of footprints (1,150 square feet), we do like the layout and use of space. ∙ Listing: 334 28th...
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The flying penis menace moves offline in Russia [Virtual Worlds]
newVideoPlayer("kasparov_penis.flv", 494, 373,""); In a stunt reminiscent of something from Second Life, an unknown perpetrator let loose a remote-controlled flying dildo at a speech yesterday by... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The party photos Googlers don't want you to see [Geeks Gone Wild]
Was it something we said? On Friday, we featured a snapshot of Googler Orkut Buyukkokten — yes, that Orkut. The photo appeared in Google engineering manager Niniane Wang's Smugmug gallery of a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
JustQuotes: Another Shot At Housing Legislation To Stem Foreclosures
“The leaders of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee announced agreement on housing legislation that creates a voluntary program to stem foreclosures, ending a standoff over whether taxpayer funds should be used. Senators Christopher Dodd, the panel's chairman, and Richard Shelby,...
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JustQuotes: Another Shot At Legislation To Stem Foreclosures
“The leaders of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee announced agreement on housing legislation that creates a voluntary program to stem foreclosures, ending a standoff over whether taxpayer funds should be used. Senators Christopher Dodd, the panel's chairman, and Richard Shelby,...
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New Laughing Squid Stickers in Blue, Pink & Orange!
StickerGiant.com has printed up some special new Laughing Squid stickers in blue, pink and orange. These stickers will be making their debut at Laughing Squid Lucky 13, delivered to the event personally by StickerGiant.com founder John Fischer. photo by StickerGiant.com Related PostsLaughing Squid…
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Leo LaPorte, "drunk and out of control," calls for Kevin Rose boycott [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To]
Why is tech podcaster Leo LaPorte picking a fight with Digg's Kevin Rose? He's jealous of Rose's Twitter following, and is making it a requirement that his Twit.tv listeners drop Rose and add him on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
"We're ditching our wives and getting married" [Caption Contest]
Proud Google CEO and father figure Eric Schmidt looks on as Sergey Brin and Larry Page announce their undying love for each other in the wake of the California Supreme Court decision legalizing gay... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Microsoft confirms company abides by imaginary broadcast-flag law [Copyfight]
Users of Microsoft's Windows Media Center began having trouble using the software to copy NBC shows for later viewing like any DVR would. The reason? The network had marked copying the show as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Wall, A Kinetic Sculpture Project To Benefit Todd Blair
Last September our friend and Survival Research Labs crew member Todd Blair was severely injured following the SRL Robodock show in Amsterdam. Todd suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and his recovery time is going to be long and unpredictable. To help the financial burden of his recovery, SRL…
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Google Health may prove dangerous to your privacy [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
A group of Googlers, including ubiquitous trend-upsetter SVP Marissa Mayer, did their song and dance for the press at a "factory tour" on the Google campus in Mountain View today. The big news? The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Lady At Children's Play Place Holding Teething Infant
"That was a really long drawn out story, with lots of drooling and biting involved."OVERHEARD BY APRIL
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Former AOL hardballers take it on the chin [Crime]
AOL's dirty dealings are all in the past, right? With the SEC filing charges against eight former AOL Time Warner execs for their roles in inflating AOL's online ad revenue between 2000 and 2002,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Facebook-Microsoft? No deal [Rumormonger]
A Facebook sale to Microsoft is practically taken for granted by whipped-up bloggers, wishful thinkers, and tech pundits. By everyone, in short, except for those who would actually decide such... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Joost hires creative directors away from Dailymotion [Hires]
Joost, the once wired, now tired Internet-TV revolutionary, has hired away Danny Passman and John Schultz from Dailymotion where they were both creative directors. Schultz will be director and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jimmy Wales welcomes "ordinary" Arabs to the Internet [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge]
Jimmy Wales, the so-called founder of Wikipedia, is in Egypt's Red Sea resort hobnobbing with heads of state as chairman of the World Economic Forum's Middle East summit, popularly known as "Davos in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Gurbaksh Chahal's swingin' bachelor pad in the sky [Money Can't Buy You Taste]
When we heard that BlueLithium founder Gurbaksh Chahal bought a $6.9 million penthouse, we figured he'd go with something tastefully modern to match the building and his taste in slim suits and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Sxip mauling investors in Vancouver's Silicon Forest [Lawsuits]
Sxip Identity, a Vancouver-based startup that's built a tool for porting your Web identity across sites, may have hustled investors out of $370,000 by misrepresenting acquisition efforts by tech... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
FILM: Nick Broomfield--famous for such jarring documentaries as Aileen: Life and Death of a Serial Killer, Kurt & Courtney , and the insanely wonderful Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam--offers up a rare dramatic film this time around. His latest effort, Battle for Haditha, is about one of…
Fry’s Palo Alto, The Western Theme
Fry’s is a unique Silicon Valley computer and electronics chain that opened in 1972 with a converted grocery store in Sunnyvale, CA. There are now more than 30 locations across the country, many with unique themes. Yesterday I shot a few photos of the Palo Alto Fry’s which as a Western…
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Thyme Shortbread
Refreshing smoothies one day…hot tea the next. It’s San Francisco, after all, so sundresses and icy drinks enjoy but brief moments of glory. As much as I reveled in salads last week, I’m baking this week to keep our kitchen warm. All that exuberant sunshine encouraged my little pot…
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Sprint charging 300 percent premium on T1 lines [Telecom]
Troubled telco Sprint charged a customer nearly $2,000 for a T1 line that only cost them $500 to provide, and then didn't even deliver the promised three megabits of bandwidth, inspiring GigaOm's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Pink Bags One Step Closer To Losing Their Prominence on the 45-Stockton
Honestly, we don't know if we really want to live in a San Francisco without pink plastic bags. While they still live on, today they moved closer to obseletion. Today plastic bags were outlawed in chain drug stores and pharmacies. Nice. (Although we buy some embarrassing items at Walgreens…
Zuckerberg to Google: Let's connect, friend [Friend Connect]
Facebook launched its Japanese-language version today and vision-questing, globe-trotting CEO Mark Zuckerberg magically appeared in the land of the rising sun to take reporters' questions. Among the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Paul Cesewski, Artist in Residence at the San Francisco Dump
San Francisco kinetic sculpture artist Paul Cesewski, who has created many amazing pedal powered rides for Cyclecide, is currently the Artist In Residence at SF Recycling & Disposal, Inc. (aka the San Francisco Dump). He has been working on several interesting projects from materials that…
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Tech's worst workspace: Mozilla [10 Worst Workspaces]
What's so bad about Mozilla's Toronto workspace? Besides the fluorescent lighting, the colorless white walls and the folding tables, the worst thing about Mozilla's Toronto workspace is how we're... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 128
Photo by Troy McClure SF LOLcatz on yr wallz, etcetera, etcetera, and so forth.
Craigslist safest place for teen prostitutes [Sex Trade]
British Columbia's child-welfare services have identified five women between the ages of 15 and 17 who used Craigslist to work as prostitutes. "There's an argument that [Craigslist is] really sort of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Rocky the Orangutan Goes on a Hollywood Audition
Benzo Theodore directed a great little video of Rocky the Orangutan trying to get his Hollywood break by going on an audition. This a second in a series of viral videos created by unbuttonedfilms to promote Levi’s jeans. A couple of weeks ago their video of Guys Jumping & Doing…
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New York Times lays off local tech reporter [Katie Hafner]
We won't have Katie Hafner (pictured here in a 2000 appearance on PBS's News Hour with Jim Lehrer) to kick around anymore. Her former colleague Sharon Waxman, who left the paper in January, mentioned... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
310 Townsend: Three Remaining New Homes, Reductions Up To 23%
While originally priced from $869,000 to $975,000 fifteen months ago, the three “remaining new homes” at 310 Townsend were recently listed from $750,000 to $775,000 (representing reductions of between fourteen and twenty-three percent). All three listings are also advertising...
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310 Townsend Update: 93% "Sold" (And Reductions Of Up To 23%)
While originally priced from $869,000 to $975,000 fifteen months ago, the three “remaining new homes” at 310 Townsend were recently listed from $750,000 to $775,000 (representing reductions of between fourteen and twenty-three percent). All three listings are also advertising...
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As AOL-Bebo closes, Yahoo loses its answer to Google-MySpace, Microsoft-Facebook ad deals [Online Advertising]
As AOL closes its $850 million Bebo acquisition today, the biggest loser in the deal — other than the many Time Warner execs who hate the acquisition — has to be Yahoo, which is losing... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
OLPC Laptop Signed by ROFLCon Geeks Up For Auction
Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit and bass player for Breadpig, went around ROFLCon asking various people to sign an OLPC laptop (myself included), which he has put up for auction on eBay, with 100% of the proceeds going to OLPC. The auction ends on May 23rd. Here’s a video of this…
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SFist: Vandalism Report Card: Cloud Correction at Ritual Roasters
Photo by TheJosephBoys This is all kinds of awesome. Seriously. And we hope Ritual Roasters doesn't 409 this choice bit of vandalism. Grade: A-.
Foodie and East Bay lovin' [Valleywag Calendar]
Today, we're showing love for the East Bay: In Emeryville, WebDev/Web 2.0 SIG is hosting a talk on web form design with Luke Wroblewski, senior principal designer at Yahoo Startup SIG who wants to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Public Transportation Responds to Scheduled Disruptions with Same Disarray We've Come to Expect
There sure were a lot of passengers along the 21 route yesterday -- right next to the race, boy, it sure was busy. Think of how many fares they must've collected! Or would have, if they weren't sending out broken fare boxes along one of the busiest routes of the day. Whoops. Bus 5528 was a…
When Scientologists (Allegedly) Attack
Anonymous' protests just get more and more exciting. So much so that SFist will start every Monday morning with a weekend protest review. Mind-numbingly brilliant title TK. Anyway, according to the lads trying to bring down the Church of Scientology with funny masks and regular weekend…