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Anatomical Cross-Section Diagrams of Gamera & Godzilla
Japanese art website Little Boy has a wonderful anatomical diagram of “Flaming Monster Gamera” from the 1967 book “An Anatomical Guide to Monsters”. On a similar note, Frederick Barr has uploaded some really great anatomical cross-section diagrams of Kaiju Eiga, including…
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Octagon Global Recruiting Event in San Diego
Octagon Global Recruiting, on behalf of the Dharma Initiative, is seeking volunteers to contribute to an important new research project. Their national recruitment drive will take place in San Diego July 24-27. via Dwayne Anderson on Pownce Related PostsImprov Everywhere Global, Organizing Chaos…
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Revision3 picks up Epic Fu after departure from Next New Networks [Online Video]
Announced at the Diggnation Live event in New York City tonight is the addition of Epic Fu, previously known as Jetset, to the Revision3 lineup. The pioneering online video show, founded by Steve... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google's suburban sprawl [Toogle Many Googlers]
Google's announcement today of a massive campus expansion was inevitable. Having taken over every last scrap of office park around it not occupied by neighbor Intuit, Google is expanding the Mountain... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
VenCorps crowdsources venture capitalism with only slightly funnier money than usual [Venture Capital]
PhD candidate Sean Wise has launched an alpha version of his Spencer Trask-backed startup VenCorps, which will allow the hoi polloi to take a stab at predicting what the next hot startup will be. ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Verizon's privacy reputation is due for an update [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
In a statement last updated in 2003, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg calls the company's "Privacy Principles" the best in the industry. One of Verizon's broadband customers doesn't buy it. He's forwarded... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Greg Narain illustrates your startup's valuation [Caption Contest]
Blue Whale Labs co-founder Greg Narain not making some sort of blogger gang sign at the Under the Radar conference in San Francisco yesterday. Can you suggest a better caption? Do so in the comments.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
You're invited to Michael and Xochi Birch's Bebo farewell party [Crash This Bash]
newVideoPlayer("bebo_farewell.flv", 494, 243,""); Bebo founders Michael and Xochi Birch cashed out in the nine figures with the social network's $850 million purchase by AOL. According to the invite... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
FILM: Starting tonight, the San Francisco Black Film Festival, entering its 10th year, will be in full swing. Kicking of the week-long film fest is Ngozi Onwurah Shoot the Messenger (2006). Messenger is about "a black teacher who has to steer his careening life back on track after he is…
Pick your career poison: Microsoft customer support vs. Yahoo finance intern [Poll]
Its time for the second match in our single-elimination tournament to find the worst entry-level job in tech. In our first poll, the drudgery of working as a Google online sales and operations... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jimmy Wales vs. Barney Pell [Nerdfight]
We have a hard time picking a loser in the contest for world's worst search-engine startup: Powerset, where the founders' love triangle proved far more interesting than its technology, or Wikia... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
TechCrunch's Erick Schonfeld to unleash world's worst startup pitches on the rest of us [Bad Ideas]
When we worked together at Business 2.0, I always thought my then-colleague Erick Schonfeld was a bit of an evil genius. Now an editor at TechCrunch, Schonfeld hasn't proven me wrong. He's taking all... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Facebook's biggest threat could be visual image of retirees "poking" each other [Viral Video]
There's little in this world that turns off the hardbodied young crowd faster than the the thought of anyone over the age of 30 bumping uglies. Hence, this sketch from New York's People's Improv... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Park Chalet Host What Will Be a Depressing Cougar Singles Bash
Park Chalet -- which, it seems, provides the hungry eater or thirsty drunk an "unmatched indoor/outdoor atmosphere" -- is hosting a singles event. For cougars. You know, women of-a-certain age? Ladies 35 or older who get damp over boyish jailbait? They're having some sort of mass gathering…
Pelosi Jumps Off the Fence
While the Democratic primary raged on and on and on, something that felt as long and grueling as sitting through the latest Indiana Jones movie-- twice in a row, and almost as painful-- two of the big questions were whom homegirl Nancy Pelosi supported (supposedly she was an Obamamaniac) and…
The Early MLS Count For May: Listed Sales Down 18% Year-Over-Year
According to a plugged-in reader the early count for listed sales volume of single-family homes, condos, and TICs in San Francisco last month is currently running 18% under that of May 2007 (29% under May 2004). Expect a slight bump...
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Craigslist the "training wheels" of the online sex industry [Sex Trade]
"Free, popular and easy to use," says the Riverfront Times, Craigslist is "as close as America currently comes to the decriminalization of sex work." As part of an investigation into Internet... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Change
"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing." -Arundhati Roy
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Urbantakeover, Claim Spots In Your City & Track Them Online
urbantakeover is a virtual reality game mashup that was started by a couple of smart guys from Vienna. You play it both in the streets or in places of your ‘real’ city — and online. The task is to put stickers with your name/tag/signature or even a picture onto buildings or other…
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Photos from Randi Zuckerberg's wedding [Exclusive]
Darlings, everyone who's anyone is flying to a Caribbean island to get married. Larry Page and Lucy Southworth did the deed on some spit of sand called Necker Island. Randi Zuckerberg? The Facebooker... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Bill Gates divesting from Pacific Ethanol at a loss [Cleantech]
Cascade Investment LLC, the fund managed by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, has made good on its November promise to exit from its investment in Pacific Ethanol. What's surprising? He's doing it at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 142
Photo by Darwin Bell/Flickr Round and round they go. Arf! (To check out all of Darwin Bell's photos, which we strongly suggest doing, go here.)
Icahn: $2.5 billion Yahoo severance package a "doomsday machine" [Yahoo Raid]
\ Details of Yahoo's "poison pill" severance package, which makes sure any Yahoos laid off after an acquisition are well taken care of, have corporate raider Carl Icahn, who wants to a force the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Apparently, it IS an attitude
If you'll recall, last year, I pitched a fit because I was left off the Nob Hill Gazette 's Most Eligible List , so the fine folks at the NHG invited me to the "soiree" Celebrating the Class of...
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More Mission Bay Stripping: Arterra And Mission Creek Sports Courts
While Arterra continues to shed its protective blue skin, the fences around Mission Creek Park’s sports courts have been stripped away as well. The basketball and sand volley ball courts are officially open for play. Just don’t hit long....
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Details on Google's new campus at Nasa's Ames base [Toogle Many Googlers]
Google finally announced details of its plans to build a new campus on property owned by Nasa at the space agency's Ames Research Center. The ongoing partnership with Nasa was first announced three... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Veronica Belmont hosting new Sony PlayStation advertorial [Online Video]
The other gig Veronica Belmont alluded to after leaving Mahalo and signing up as a cohost on Revision3's Tekzilla? It's Qore, a new show for Sony's PlayStation Network that PlayStation 3 owners can... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hot Stuff Food Section Round Up
You'll need some of these if you plan on dining in Bay Area restaurants. San Francisco Chronicle: It's getting loud in here; Stacy Finz examines the cacophony and clang of fashionable food joints. Squash it: beautiful and tasty "flor de cabaza" (squash blossoms) take center plate. Stuffing…
Leo Laporte cashes $100,000 check from Stickam [Online Video]
Stickam's rumored $100,000 signing bonus to woo nodcaster Leo Laporte away from live-video broadcasting startup Ustream.tv worked, as Laporte is officially working with the site, previously best... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Around the Sports Dial
-So with the passage of Prop. G., a Proposition designed to try and keep the Niners in San Francisco, the question now is what the hell does it mean? Maybe something, maybe nothing. The whole thing has to be built and the Niners haven't made a decision as to where they're going to move. …
Hollywood power play Randi Zuckerberg struts her stuff [Show Tunes]
Meet Randi Jayne Zuckerberg Tworetzky, Facebook's rep in Tinseltown, who scored No. 45 on The Hollywood Reporter's list of digital power players. The newlywed, Mark's older sister, was a surprising... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hollywood power player Randi Zuckerberg struts her stuff [Show Tunes]
Meet Randi Jayne Zuckerberg Tworetzky, Facebook's rep in Tinseltown, who scored No. 45 on The Hollywood Reporter's list of digital power players. The newlywed, Mark's older sister, was a surprising... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The Internet according to "Vanity Fair" -- the 100-word version [History Lesson]
In a nine-chapter opus, Vanity Fair clean-up hitter Keenan "Coverline" Mayo and Peter Newcomb pitch the inevitable book deal for an oral history of the Internet. In it are all sorts of unchallenged... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Yahoo gets CBS, coveted blue hairs [Online Video]
CBS added Yahoo to its list of Web-video distribution outlets this morning. Yahoo will join the not exactly exclusive CBS Audience Network, which already includes YouTube, AOL, MSN, Joost, Veoh and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Oats Bests Cobb
During yesterday's hotly contested Muni Cable Car Bell Ringing Contest, Leonard Oats beat frontrunners Ken Lunard and Byron Cobb to snag the title of Best Bell Ringing MUNI Employee in the Universe. In the amature division, first place went to "Scottie B" of KOIT (we'd like to think Vanessa…
Tonight on FOX! SF Pride Chief to Personally Give Bill O'Reilly Award
Prime the TiVo, kids, because there is some must-see cable coming up at 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. Wednesday on Fox News Channel: Mikayla Connell, president of the Board of the San Francisco Pride will...
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And In Other Election News
Prop 98? Defeated. The eminent domain reform proposition, which would have seen rent control eliminated in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, failed to win last night. It seems that about 61 percent of voters rejected Prop. 98. Prop 99, Prop 98's counterattack? It passed. Also,…
Free soup to nuts [Valleywag Calendar]
If you're looking for something today, whether it's tacos, help with your startup or cocktails, we've got you covered — for free. Lunch 2.0 is happening over at Topix HQ today, where there will... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
VC Dennis Miller doesn't envy Ning and Brightcove's investors [Venture Capital]
NEW YORK — VCs continue to invest irrationally, Spark Capital partner Dennis Miller said at EconAds yesterday. He said too many VCs invest in "rock star" founders as though they are "a call... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]