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Brother And Sister Talking About, Um....
Boy: "See, it's gonna be about this tall [holds up hands for description], and this big [pinches fingers together]."Girl: "Mhmm."Boy: "Yeah, it's gonna be just like this french fry. Gonna be this tall [holds up hands again] and this big [holds up french fry]."Girl: "Yep."*silence*Girl: "Actually,…
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Guy Making Theatre Geek Insult About Hefty Innkeeper In Ashland,OR
"Didn't you want to ask that guy if he ever played Falstaff, except that that would be rude?"OVERHEARD BY MK
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Why Rupert Murdoch should defrag Bill Gates -- and the rest of tech [D6 Live Coverage]
CARLSBAD, CA — The other night, Gizmodo editor Brian Lam and I were talking about what he'd learned about Bill Gates's brain. Our conclusion: Like an overstuffed hard drive, he needs defragging... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google I/O conference registration fails [Google]
A tipster reported from the scene — a madhouse — at Google's I/O conference for developers, held in San Francisco today and tomorrow:The Google I/O conference is off to a roaring... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mark Zuckerberg: "A technology company is a company that creates technology" [Great Moments In Pr]
CARLSBAD, CA — Mark Zuckerberg has learned nothing. Taking the stage at D6, he uttered nothing but bromides and nonsequiturs. Examples: "Facebook is a technology company ... a technology... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ejected but not dejected, Valleywag to keep blogging [D6 Live Coverage]
CARLSBAD, CA, BUT NOT AT THE FOUR SEASONS AVIARA RESORT — Was it something I wrote? I can't claim to have been minding my own business at D6, the Wall Street Journal's hoi-polloi-need-not-apply... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Link: Phoenix lander more popular than punk rock
At least on Twitter, where @MarsPhoenix has picked up more followers than @HenryRollins. It's been answering questions from Twitter users if you've got any burning questions about Mars or space probes.
Los Simpson: Creepy Live Action Spanish Version of The Simpsons
“Los Simpson” is a really creepy live action Spanish version of The Simpsons. Does anyone else have any more information on this? via Cartoon Brew Related PostsThe Simpsons Matched Up With The Movies They ReferenceLive Action Version of The Simpsons Opening SequenceCreate Your Own…
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Day Around the Bay
Violet Blue's choice rebuttal to Ben Wachs' "Prostitutes et Johns" slam. [VB]Basketball abstraction. [Curbed]Moratorium on the words "hipster" and "douchebag" for Mission dwellers/fans? Yes. [Mission Mission]Is it OK to ask friends to help with your reception? [CHOW]The California State…
Valleywag spots secret Yahoo conclave at D6 [Spy Photos]
CARLSBAD, CA — On stage at D6, Sue Decker couldn't offer any explanation why she was qualified to be president of Yahoo. But if you ask Valleywag, she's doing a bang-up job of pursuing Yahoo's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mercredi, c'est Ravioli.
Hold on one sec! There is a review today, even though it's BotB week! Meredith, Highlighter of the Obvious, we salute you: It doesn't take much to realize where the good tables are in a restaurant situated on the water's edge: They're the ones with a view... Then she bits on a cheesy gougères,…
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Yahoo's Scott Moore catches Time Warner CEO fudging numbers [D6 Live Coverage]
CARLSBAD, CA — How rarely can one give one's enemies an in-your-face comeuppance? For Yahoo's Scott Moore, the chance came during Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes's interview at D6. Bewkes claimed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Best of the Bay Ravioli.
Ok, on to the Editor's pick. We actually are only one for four in our predictions (see post below). Only Pagolac won from our list. But that's a Meredith pick for sure, which earn the Best of the Bay for Worst Writing, with this jaw dropping capsule excerpt: The myriad varieties of egg roll…
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Weekly Best Of.
Mmm... no raviolis today due to the best of the week, and it's even worst crap that anything Meredith could pull together. Let's start with the readers' pick (and to be clear, I'm not picking on the particular readers' selection, but on the shoddy fact checking and editing behind putting together…
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Displacements by Michael Naimark
Displacements, is a project by Michael Naimark where he shoots film of a living room with three people, from a camera slowly rotating in the center of the room. Once done filming, the entire room and it’s contents are painted white and the camera is replaced with a film projector in the…
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Gay Marriage: Shoved Down Your Throat?
it seems like every other hour there's a new same-sex marriage angle on the local news. Today, we have two big homosexual wedded bliss items that Gay Town is eating up. (Oh wait, our mistake -- THIS is Gay town.) First, a fresh new poll now finds that a small majority of Californians now…
Vator.tv looking to sell to CBS? [Online Video]
How did the blogs which reposted Bambi Francisco's Vator.tv interview with CBS Interactive's Mike Marquez all miss the obvious subtext? Francisco spends much of the interview asking about the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jerry Yang and Sue Decker try to evade Kara Swisher's clutches [D6 Live Coverage]
CARLSBAD, CA — For most of their D conference interviews, Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg trade off interview duties. But why was Mossberg the one to do the D6 interview with Yahoo CEO Jerry... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How Mark Zuckerberg missed his meeting with Sequoia [History Lessons]
Sequoia Capital never invested in Facebook. But Sequoia partner Mark Kvamme said at an ad conference today that the venture firm did take a meeting with founder Mark Zuckerberg early on. Problem was,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Library opens at Pittsburg/Bay Point Station
BART is the first transit system in the nation to offer automated book lending machines.
A Reader Wonders, We Respond: The Designs For 1315-27 7th Avenue
A reader wonders: “I was walking through the Inner Sunset last weekend and noticed a new building going up on 7th between Judah & Irving. Do you happen to know anything about this development? It's such a rarity to see...
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Stop poking me! I don't work at Facebook anymore [Caption Contest]
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.CARLSBAD, CA — D6 conference organizer Kara Swisher and bicoastal überflack Brooke Hammerling prepare to torment former... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
CLUB: Tonight at dorkbot-sf, catch "people doing strange things with electricity." While we can't tell you what exactly goes on here, it sure sounds exciting. Tonight's lineup includes DV Rogers ("parkfield interventional eq field work"-- i.e., earthquakes), Jeff Wishnie ("harsh computing"),…
Vancouver couple offers baby for sale on Craigslist [Crime]
A Vancouver couple listed their week-old newborn for sale on Craigslist for $10,000, prompting a horrified user to call the police. When the cops arrived, they found the tyke breastfeeding and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Netflix DVD-rental business to peak in 2013 [Online Video]
The trade in DVDs by mail that Netflix pioneered will be a business in decline within five to ten years according to CEO Reed Hastings. But he's bullish about online delivery, not surprising... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Gary Vaynerchuk’s 101 Wines & Book Tour 2008
Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV (see my previous post) has a new book out “Gary Vaynerchuk’s 101 Wines” and he is currently making his way around the country on a book tour. Tonight (Wednesday, May 28th) Gary is in San Francisco, doing a book signing at 7pm at Borders in Union…
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Facebook board member lunches with Mrs. Rupert Murdoch [D6 Live Coverage]
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser.CARLSBAD, CA — Who are those cool cats in sunglasses at D6? Why, it's Jim Breyer of Accel Partners, a board member at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Microsoft board nixes $550 million bid for Spot Runner ad agency [Rumormonger]
Having walked away from Yahoo, Microsoft is supposedly eager to buy a passel of online-advertising startups. Los Angeles-based Spot Runner is a natural target; it uses Microsoft technologies, has... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SF Zoo To Win America's Best Zoo Award of 2008?
The Intrepid Travel, some sort of online travel guide -- one that clearly has no access to the internets, TV, newspapers, phones, water coolers -- is bestowing the SF Zoo (along with 60 others) with the title of Best Zoo of 2008. Yes. Yes, they are. While the title of Most Interesting Zoo…
Microsoft, AOL talking? Our spy photo says yes [D6 Live Coverage]
CARLSBAD, CA — Here's Microsoft dealmaker Hank Vigil chatting up AOL COO Ron Grant over lunch at the D6 conference. Why is that interesting? Because we overheard Vigil gabbing away on his cell... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jim Buckmaster's curious category system [Craigslist]
It looked like an unassuming boast-post on the official Craigslist blog touting the site's fast page load times as computed by Alexa. But it's the post's category tags that caught my eye —... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
You've won the battle Siebel, but you haven't won the war
I'm sure you've heard the unsettling and highly inappropriate news that Gavin and Swiss Miss have set a date for their unholy union. July 26th. The very day the CIA was created. Who'd...
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A Refresher In Sales Office Semantics (And Esprit Occupancy Update)
A week ago we reported roughly 25% of the units at Homes at Esprit Park were in contract. Today, a few readers turned tipsters are surprised to receive an email noting “40% Sold at Home on Esprit Park Phase 1!”...
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Kill Your TV Taken Literally On Eddy Street
This morning in the Western Addition, a woman escaped the cold hands of death after a bullet went right through her window and into her TV. Yikes. Watching it around 2:30 a.m. -- and clearly a fan of either The King of Queens or San Francisco-based Half & Half -- the unidentified woman…