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Dungeons & Dragons Beholder Monster Photoshop Contest
Worth 1000 recently ran a Photoshop contest for Dungeons & Dragons and one of the rules was that the image had to include a classic Beholder monster. My favorite was the Tarot card themed entry “Tyrant of Eyes” by EotBeholder. See Also: - 10 Awesome Things About Dungeons &…
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Mercredi, c'est ravioli.
Why is it that Meredith Brody only write good (as in: readable) reviews for restaurants which serve lobster?
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Link: Hitler Plans Burning Man (Majordojo)
Seriously funny video via Byrne via Cynthia.
Tech's 10 worst entry-level jobs [10 Worst Jobs]
Soon America's most bright-eyed graduates will enter the workforce and make their workaday homes in cubes at Google, MySpace, or Amazon.com. And they will suffer not just the indignity of having to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Day Around the Bay
Dennis Richmond's last day is tomorrow. We don't like this. Not one bit. [KTVU]Gordon Ramsey to buy Myth Space? Get out! [Tablehopper]The Paris and Nicole of SF neighborhoods, Rincon Hill and Telegraph Hill get into slapfight over views. [Curbed]What do you think of Omer, Valencia Street's…
What's a Googler doing at Benchmark? Solving the VC talent crisis [Jonathan Teo]
Venture capital has a talent problem. (Some wags might say the problem is a complete lack of talent, but not this one.) The difficulty: Potential hires are either too junior, and hence useless as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Executive administrative assistant to Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore [10 Worst Jobs]
Executive admin to Mashable CEO Pete Cashmore Key responsibilities: You will process large volumes of email, forwarding them to appropriate department or translating them into action items and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Support professional, product: Windows, Microsoft [10 Worst Jobs]
Support professional, product: Windows, Microsoft Key responsibilities: Represent Microsoft and communicate with Microsoft's Strategic OEM partners via telephone, written correspondence, or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Database administrator (temporary), Google [10 Worst Jobs]
Database administrator (temporary), Google, contracted through WorkforceLogic Key responsibilities: General administration on database systems which includes maintaining data stores, schema objects,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Customer support specialist, Fox Interactive, MySpace division [10 Worst Jobs]
Customer support specialist, Fox Interactive, MySpace division Key responsibilities:Moderate or review content (images, video, user postings, and other user generated content) to ensure content... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Content acquisition intern, IODA [10 Worst Jobs]
Content acquisition intern, IODA Key responsibilities: The Content Acquisition Team are the people responsible for reaching out to independent record labels and signing them to IODA so they can... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Support engineer, Amazon.com [10 Worst Jobs]
Support engineer, Washington-Seattle, Amazon.com Key responsibilities: Supporting platform infrastructure and systems architecture, including operating systems, hardware/storage configurations, and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Online sales and operations account manager, Google [10 Worst Jobs]
Online sales and operations account manager — Mountain View, Google Key responsibilities: Provide outstanding customer service and sales support to Google's advertisers, publishers and/or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Analyst, user operations, Facebook [10 Worst Jobs]
Analyst, user operations, Facebook Key responsibilities:Respond to contacts from users regarding a variety of site issues Enforce our Terms of Use by carefully monitoring reports of abuse on the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Operations finance, analyst intern, Yahoo [10 Worst Jobs]
Operations finance, analyst intern, Yahoo Key responsibilities: This employee will be a member of the Global Project Management Organization focused on supporting Projects and documentation of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Part-time guide, Mahalo [10 Worst Jobs]
Part-time guide, Mahalo Key responsibility: "Help our users by handcrafting and curating search results." Why so bad? It's not, really. Wikipedia contributors, for example, have to do the same job... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
But Baby Think of Me Once in a While (Or Just Buy Me A Trash Can)
By Eyleen Tavy The Chronicle's Inside Scoop is reporting that newlywed Loni Anderson -- she of the tight sweaters and even tighter, um, shoes -- is registered at locally-based company Williams Sonoma. Oh, how we love famous folks' registrys, and before you say it, Loni (holy crap, YOB 1945?…
Carnival Cruises and other reasons why Yahoo should sell now [Yahoo]
Doddering General Electric and water-logged Carnival Cruises both outgrew Yahoo last year. GE did it despite selling "23 times as much stuff" as Yahoo last year, according to the Wall Street... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
RedLasso finally owns up to legal issues [Copyfight]
RedLasso, a Philadelphia-based startup which serves as kind of a universal TiVo for embeddable clips, was issued a cease and desist letter by multiple networks today. The company, which has been... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Sneak Peek
We're still making it pretty and there's lots more writing on cocktails to come, but you're welcome to step on up to the bar at bibulo.us, the new site Joe & I are making together. New link in the sidebar...
Ducky Doolittle, Traveling Sex Educator
Esther Bell created a really great video for Current about our good friend Ducky Doolittle, a celebrated sex educator who travels the US talking about human sexuality. You can keep up on the latest with Ducky on her blog and on Twitter. Related PostsDopplr, Tracking Your Fellow Travellers’…
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Microsoft bought Yahoo, according to new Microsoft book [Predictions]
Remember that brief moment this spring when everyone was saying Microsoft-Yahoo was a sure thing? That was when ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley must have put the finishing touches on her new book,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Film du Jour: Sam Graves Ends His Career With Pelosi Gay Ad
Republican Missouri Rep. Sam Graves attacks his Democratic opponent Kay Barnes, who is somehow tied to the loverly Nancy Pelosi. Check out his whimsical attack ad. We especially love the (interracial!) gay bar patrons. Nice.
Sheriff's deputies evict Red Herring from Belmont office [Deathwatch]
Red Herring, the once-storied, now marginal tech publisher, was evicted from its Belmont office at 19 Davis Drive at 3:04 p.m. today, a spokesman for the San Mateo County Sheriff's office confirmed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Zulu Tattoo
On a recent trip to Los Angeles, I spoke with famed tattoo artist Zulu , whose celebrity clientele include newlyweds Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon, Janet Jackson (who will begin her "Discipline"...
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The Unkindest Cut of All
By Eyleen Tavy It's not like we're short (ha! You'll see why that's funny in a minute) on Bay to Breakers coverage -- in fact, we've spent most of the last few days hunched over our laptops comparing various runners' physiques to our own. Shut up. it is SO a competition. Anyway, as we…
Screenshots of Facebook's new design and all the old ones too [Design]
Facebook released screenshots of its soon-to-be updated redesign today. Of note: The social network's designers moved the applications menu and search bar to the top of the screen. Banner ads will... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Vintage Classical Music Album Covers
jl.incrowd has a uploaded wonderful gallery of vintage classical music album covers. See Also: Jim Flora Art Show at Fantagraphics in Seattle via Boing Boing image via jl.incrowd Related PostsComic Book Cover BrowserJim Flora Art Show at Fantagraphics in SeattleVintage Advertisements Featuring…
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SFist Tonight
RENT CONTROL: Save Rent Control! Please! Proposition 98 looms overhead and threatens all of us renters with possible Bakersfield relocations, and no one wants that. Anyway, la Swanhuyser has more in-depth on the prop here, but tonight you can help fight the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers…
Startup founders get all the girls [Caption Contest]
Spotted at the MashBash in New York City on Saturday, CNET reporter Caroline McCarthy with Tumblr founder David Karp and Michelle DeForest of NextNewNetorks. Karp and McCarthy are officially an item... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photos: Bay To Breakers
Here they are: images fro this past weekend's Bay To Breakers--the race the SFPD doesn't want you to know about! Also, there are a few NSFW images in here, so... you've been warned. There is an image gallery to this entry which you can view at SFist
Sergey Brin wants to milk Mother Russia [Search]
One place Google is losing the battle for Web search market share is in Russia, the ancestral homeland of Google founder Sergey Brin. The company has developed better Russian word and language... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
"Facebook Gangster" confirms Facebook has displaced MySpace [Viral Video]
"Facebook Gangsta" is a transparent exercise in white guys parodying white guys parodying black guys. But note that there are no inside jokes about Beacon or shout-outs to Mark Zuckerberg. Just as... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Dell, far too late, trims ad-agency roster down to one [Wpp]
Why is Dell taking a beating from HP? One reason may be that it didn't apply its vaunted supply-chain techniques to its marketing. Before asking WPP to create a single-client ad agency just for Dell,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google at the center of international and domestic Internet censorship [Politics]
On Capitol Hill today, Google officials presented suggestions on how American lawmakers can make the Internet more free. The solution to get regimes that censor information and, more importantly,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
More raiders at Yahoo's gates [Yahoo Raid]
Carl Icahn's allies now control 31 percent of Yahoo. The latest to pile on: Dan Loeb of hedge fund Third Point LLC who plans to purchase 10 million Yahoo shares. [SAI] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
PCs, not printers, boost HP results [Earnings]
Sales at Hewlett-Packard grew 11 percent, year-over-year in the second quarter, to $28.26 billion. Notebook sales jumped 31 percent, while earnings in its cash-cow printer unit were flat. [WSJ] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Moonves declares CNET new CBS Interactive headquarters [Acquisitions]
In an address to employees after a tour of the CNET building in SoMa, CBS chairman Leslie Moonves proclaimed, "CNET is CBS Interactive's worldwide headquarters." It might have been meant to stoke... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Bay To Breakers To Go the Way Of Halloween in the Castro?
SFist intercepted this email sent out today by SFPD Park Station Captain Teri Barrett. Teri, it seems, has an estranged relationship with the merriment for which San Francisco is/used to be famous. Leisure World we are not. Check it: Teresa Barrett/SFPD/SFGO To: Park Station…