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Gonzo, The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
“Gonzo, The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson” is a new documentary by Alex Gibney about Hunter S. Thompson that premiered at Sundance and opens in theaters on July 4th. Here’s the trailer. From Oscar-wining director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter comes a probing…
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Lloyd Braun returns to Yahoo, extends reign of terror to Microsoft [Online Video]
Hollywood's savvy hustlers have struck again, with Lloyd Braun and Gail Berman convincing Yahoo and Microsoft to hire BraunBerman to produce a content portal for MSN and a contentpole for Yahoo... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Plurk, Microblogging On a Moving Timeline
Plurk, is the latest microblogging service, where your posts show up on a moving timeline and you can earn karma points for various activities. Here’s my Plurk account. Related PostsApple Timeline T-Shirt by Insanely Great TeesExtinction Timeline 1950-2050Twitxr, Location Based Microblogging…
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Day Around the Bay
No. 25 is alive. Again. [WhatImSeeing]"OMGROFL" [Jameth]Breaking news: Danielle Steel's "glazed" Stinson Beach home for sale. [Curbed]Anti-gay marriage measure qualifies for November ballot. How creepy. [Sacbee]Perfect for all you purgers out there: French fry coated bacon on a stick. [CHOW,…
Look Out Steampunk, Frypunk Has Arrived!
Look out Steampunk, Fry Punk has arrived! Yet another great t-shirt by Mule Design Studio. Available mid-June, pre-order yours from The Feed Store. Hey, you handlebar moustachioed, brass goggle wearing, Jules Verne reading, more irritating than goth, 80lb. weak ass; get outta my way. I got shit to…
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Superhero Fashion Emergency
Related PostsBrooklyn Superhero Supply Co.Jacob Appelbaum at The AstrodomeThe Superest, Who Is The Superest Hero of Them All?Antonio Riello’s Ladies WeaponsThe Boring StoreSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Superhero Fashion Emergency", url: "http://laughingsquid.com/superhero-fashion-emerge ncy/"…
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Best Comment Arguement Ever Over At SFBG
Oh man. Like... wow. This is entertaining, exciting stuff. Let's back up a bit: It all started last Friday after a not-so-innocent yet fraudulent slate card endorsing Migden and boasting the SFBG logo (something SFist knows a little something about) showed up on doorknobs across the city.…
Whose Car Is This?
Citizen SF snapped up this bit of automotive gold. And holy smokes! You'll never guess who was driving this, "The first Lexus LS 460h L hybrid luxury sedan to arrive in San Francisco." We'll give you a hint: she looks like Jennifer Siebel only less smarmy yet a bit more shiny. And she's…
Facebook's new profile: "Orwellian" [Facebook Platform]
Welcome to the Silicon Valley hype cycle: One year, and you're over. That seems to be the consensus on Facebook's vaunted platform, whose one-year anniversary went largely unremarked. The company... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
San Francisco to build biodiesel plant at site potentially named after George W. Bush [Cleantech]
The California Energy Commission has granted the the City of San Francisco $1 million to build a test plant for converting used grease from restaurants into biodiesel. The plant is slated to be... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Fighting Mad, California Bloodless Bullfights
Our latest guest blogger is my old pal Stuart Mangrum, here to tell you about his experience attending California Bloodless Bullfights. -Scott If you think you have to go to Mexico to see a bullfight, guess again – there’s a circuit right here in California. And if you’re worried that your…
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Google caught selling ads on illegally streamed content [Copyfight]
Google won't serve ads on top of some YouTube videos for fear of copyright infringement. Google's advertising partner Mogulus, a live-streaming video site, shares no such concerns. Mogulus overlays... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The SocketSite Scoop On The Eight Semi-Solar TICs Of 2828 Greenwich
Readers keep asking, and we finally have all (okay, so more like most) of the answers with regard to 2828 Greenwich Street. Eight TIC units (six two-bedroom/one-bath, two three-bedroom/two-bath); built in 1960, extensively renovated in 2008, no evictions, individual...
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SFist Tonight
MUSIC I: The Godfather of Goth, Peter Murphy, brings his very special brand of glam, gloom, rock, and overzealous use of eyeliner to SF. And he's playing all of his old stuff to boot! Ali Eskandarian opens the show. 8 p.m. // The Regency Center (1290 Sutter) // $32.50 FILM: Huh. Who knew…
Frank Chu at Laughing Squid's Lucky 13 party [Caption Contest]
Ubiquitous San Francisco icon Frank Chu cagess a smoke from a fellow party-goer at last weekend's 13th anniversary party for artsy ISP Laughing Squid. Can you suggest a more kryxocryogenical caption?... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Vallejo Would Like to Use Alcohol as a Lifeline
Our bankrupt neighbors to our north (northeast?), Vallejo, are looking to add in some revenue to the city. How? Well, after the neighborhood ousted mega-chain Wal-Mart, Vallejo is looking into luring other grocer businesses to town. While Vallejo isn't allowed to tax foodstuffs, they can tax…
Obama Lincoln by Ron English
Ron English just sent us this amazing image of his latest painting featuring Barack Obama combined with Abraham Lincoln. painting by Ron English Related PostsVote! & Obama Prints by Shepard Fairey of Obey Giant“POPE” a Parody of the Popular “HOPE” Obama PosterRefaced…
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Twitter lets us stalk Facebook's Dave Morin through New York like we're Google's Brittany Bohnet [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To]
The rift between Google and Facebook has been dug deep by Facebook's executive poachings, ultimate frisbee triumphs and partnership with Microsoft. But across that chasm reaches the love between... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
YouTube star Jill Hanner on hawking Coors Light [Exclusive]
Everyone from the New York Times to Silicon Alley Insider, even our older sister Gawker, were in a tizzy last week over a series of ads for Coors Light produced for the world's best platform for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Twitter outages inspire truly awful videos [Clips]
Twitter's outages are becoming more and more painful for us. Not because we're addicted to the service, but because Twitter outages seem to bring out the worst in people. Take Allen Stern of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Gurbaksh "G" Chalal, the millionaire Yahoo sellout, on "confidence vs. arrogance" [Gurbaksh Chalal]
"Many try to exude confidence through arrogance," BlueLithium founder Gurbaksh Chahal — known as "G" in his press kit — writes on his blog. "I consider myself very confident but at the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Carlos Sousa Jr.'s, Tatiana the Tiger's Autopsies Revealed
Carlos Sousa Jr.'s autopsy report has just been released to the public. According to ABC 7's Dan Noyes, the San Francisco Medical Examiner’s Office's report details the massive (and pretty graphic) injures Sousa suffered from Tatiana the tiger on Christmas Day 2007 at the San Francisco Zoo…
Caterina Fake crashes ladyblogs' "digital slumber party" [Blogging For Pink Collars]
Women do rule the web, Flickr cofounder Caterina Fake told the New York Times, but with a "crushing sameness." Loads of blogs aimed at the moneyed portion of the lady demographic are launching,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 140
Photo by Jim Herd We are, at last, in love. But we hope she uses a clear gel, you know? Oy.
The Problem With Being Both Hard Of Hearing And Dirty Of Mind
Man: "Aha! I finally found the seam in the plastic!"Woman: "Semen plastic??? I don't want any of that cheese!"OVERHEARD BY TASNICKER
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Blaine Cook still working at Twitter, according to Twitter jobs page [Nerdfight]
Since leaving Twitter, former chief architect Blaine Cook has been sparring with his former employers over the cause of Twitter's outages. It's a peculiar battle of words, with Cook never mentioning... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Wu Tang Clan producer launches pay-to-play chess, and Michael Arrington can't get money off his mind [Startups]
WuChess, a site where you can hone your knowledge of the mysteries of chessboxing chess against other players, has launched. On the site, a partnership between RZA, the producer behind hip-hop... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Show Us Your Pink Slips: Newsom To Eliminate 450 City Employees From the Payrolll
While he wouldn't say whether or not Cynthia Thompson will receive a much deserved ax, today Mayor Gavin Newsom did announce that he will hack away at some 1,000 city jobs as well as "limiting overtime costs and raising some city fees." Overall, 450 workers stand to lose their jobs. (And…
Reddit cofounder blabs about Y Combinator founders' secret wedding [Geek Love]
We'd heard in April that Paul Graham and Jessica Livingston, the pair behind startup factory Y Combinator, were partners in love as well as life. The two tied the knot over the weekend, Twittered... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Plurk, yet another microblogging platform, hailed by The 250 [Web Apps]
Not happy with updating your friends publicly via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Pownce and Jaiku (and feeding all those updates into FriendFeed)? Then, um, try Plurk, a startup which declares, "We've... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Speaking Of Downtown Views, Quick Sales, And Apples: 712 Wisconsin
Speaking of Downtown San Francisco views (not to mention quick sales), a plugged-in tipster notices that 712 Wisconsin in Potrero Hill is once again on the market. We went to the open house last year when it was on...
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TechCrunch server out -- will Evan Williams have a breakdown? [Breakdowns]
TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington has been publicly losing his mind over Twitter's outages. Now it's his turn to have a server outage. Which makes us wonder: Will losing his TechCrunch fix drive... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Calas: Creole Rice Fritters
You know you’re in a food town when the postcard racks stock recipe cards to mail back to your friends. It’s been a long, hot, humid and delicious weekend in New Orleans. Pacing has been key, of course, from judging just how many blocks a human can walk under intense sun to learning how…
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Apple created temporary store on Warner Bros. lot [Rumormonger]
A tipster reports that Apple admen at TBWA/Chiat/Day built a full-size replica of an Apple Store on the Warner Bros. lot, in total secrecy, over the Memorial Day weekend to film a commercial that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mid-Century Modern That’s Been Remodeled: 2209 9th Avenue
It’s a mid-century modern home by Henry Hill that’s been remodeled. And according to the listing, the design “maintains [the] architect's vision.” We’ll let the plugged-in Hill (or at least mid-century) enthusiasts make the call. ∙ Listing: 2209 9th...
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What happens when Sarah Lacy interviews Kara Swisher? One long interruption [Clips]
Tech Ticker's Sarah Lacy and BoomTown's Kara Swisher share a particular interviewing style: Badgering their subject into submission through interruptions, personal anecdotes, and swift corrections.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo: Dude, Did You Go To the Save Rent Control Party?
While we were out perusing second home possibilities in Rincon Hill all weekend long (exhausting!), a smattering of predominately white liberal arts majors had a kick-ass party on Valencia Street this past weekend. Fun! Check it: There was ice cream, jump roping, rave couture, masks, finger…
Laughing Squid Lucky 13 Wrap-Up
Thanks to everyone who came out to Laughing Squid Lucky 13, I can’t think of a better way to have celebrated my birthday and 13 great years of Laughing Squid. photos by Lane Hartwell photos by Mitch Aidelbaum photos by Steve Rhodes Here are a few photos I shot during the setup of…
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Twitter's existential crisis a masterwork of fingerpointing [Nerdfight]
Twitter's founders are waging a behind-the-scenes war with Blaine Cook, the blogging service's former chief architect. The subject: Who's responsible for the service's perpetual outages. TechCrunch's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Inside Google's mysterious money machine, the 100-word version [AdWords]
In a nearly 1,500-word piece on Google, "The Humans Behind the Google Money Machine," the New York Times didn't say much about said humans except that one of the people who interpret the sea of data... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Is Google helping Apple launch Me.com? [Rumormonger]
Apple and Google are already quite cozy — but could they be getting even closer over Apple's rumored Me.com Web services? A source close to Google says the company is about to make a big... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]