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June 6 to June 8, 2008 Bay Area Festivals: Another Hole in the Head Through June 22 - two weeks of horror, sci-fi and fantasy Haight Ashbury Street Fair June 8 from 11a to 5p...
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Day Around the Bay
Google compound grows. [Valleywag]Having fun while blowing rails at downtown nightclub Vessel. [SF Weekly]Clean up on aisle 5, Beth. [Spots]Looking like daddy's little whore while you get your gay marriage on. [SFGate]Massive shoplifting ring in SJ uncovers Zantac. Lots of Zantac. [ABC7]Big…
Carl Icahn speaks, slowly, on CNBC Fast Money [Yahoo Raid]
newVideoPlayer("icahn_fastmoney.flv", 494, 370,""); Billionaire and activist investor Carl Icahn took his Yahoo obsession to the airwaves with a phone-in interview on CNBC's Fast Money yesterday... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google's ever-shrinking 20 percent time [Cubicle Culture]
Google has introduced Gmail Labs, a digital playground for Googlers to develop new features for Gmail in their spare time. It's a well-staged PR event, a timely effort to remind the press — and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jimmy Wales reduced to couchsurfing across the globe [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge]
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales's travel budget has tightened since the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit which pays Wikipedia's and Wales's bills, cracked down on his expense account. Last year, he... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Sierra Wireless Compass 597 EV-DO USB Modem on Sprint
EV-DO has come a long way since I first started using it back in January 2006, we are now on Rev. A and the size and functionality of the EV-DO modems has improved quite a bit. I recently picked-up the tiny Sierra Wireless Compass 597 USB EV-DO modem using the Sprint network. It comes with…
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Free Makeup At Gay Weddings
If you're in a hurry to your same-sex nuptials and don't have time to get pretty, San Francisco's own Makeup Gourmet -- aka Chris Scott -- will be camped outside City Hall on June 23, brushes in...
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Michael Arrington reviews gadget without actually using it [Techcrunch]
Michael Arrington has made no secret of his ambitions to off CNET. The TechCrunch editor might want to spend some time studying the ways of his prey, though, before he moves in for the kill. For... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
THEATER: The fantastic and fantastically insightful Robert Avila at SFBG suggests checking out rock opera Exit Sign, written by "longtime Bay Area rock-guitarist" Carrie Baum and in collaboration with Seffanos X & Jamie Ben-Azay Blue Buddha & Susan Appe. The show is, ahem, "a…
Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht love this guy [Caption Contest]
Alex Albrecht and Kevin Rose play buns to this hot dog at the Diggnation Live party last night in New York. Can you suggest a better caption? Do so in the comments. The best one will become the new... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Found Footage Fest This Weekend w/Special Guest Jack Rebney on Saturday
We can't wait to meet the unintentionally hilarious (audio NSFW) "World's Angriest R.V. Salesman" Jack Rebney at the 7:15 Saturday screening of the fourth annual Found Footage Festival! We are promised answers to the following questions: "What does he think of his unintentional cult status?…
What To Do About High Gas Prices? Burn Down a Starbucks, Of Course!
Wow. We hope we're this feisty, and wildly insane, when we're sixty-four. It seems that sixty-four-years-young Diane Craig of Danville was arrested yesterday for attempting to burn down restrooms of an Arco station, a Chevron station, and... a Starbucks? Oh, and the best part: She used…
ConnectU lawyer on the IM transcripts that will totally milk more millions from Facebook [Quotable]
Mark Hornick, the lawyer representing ConnectU's Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, on the "smoking gun" chat transcripts that data forensics expert Jeff Parmet may or may not have discovered on hard... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Want Free Jonathan Richmohnd Tickets? The Head Over to Mission Mission
Jonathan Richmond, humorous, folksy crooner famous for, let's face it, scoring There's Something About Mary, has a four-night stay over at the Make-Out Room. And Mission Mission is giving away free tickets to the show. But not so fast, multi-entry form filler outers; you have to tell them…
Gilroy Cops Release Name of Man Accused of Raping Mentally Disabled Teen
All the way down in garlic country, Gilroy, a 19-year-old mentally disabled man was raped early Wednesday morning inside a bathroom near Miller Park. After "befriending" a man inside a nearby convenience store, the teen's new friend, identified as Gyasi Terran, followed him to the park and…
CNET hires (m)adman to blog about Obama's victory [Chris Matyszczyk]
They'll let just about anyone blog these days, won't they? News.com's latest addition: recovering adman Chris Matyszczyk, who writes under the rubric "Technically Incorrect," and reminds me a bit of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Is Steve Case on drugs? No, but that's the problem [Online Advertising]
Former AOL CEO Steve Case founded Revolution Health on some muddle-headed notion of using the Internet to transform healthcare. That dream has died, and what's left — an online-advertising... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Teen magazine publisher discovers Web, 13 years too late [Death Of Print]
Bauer Publishing has launched 4tnz, a website which appears to be cut-and-pasted from its teenage print titles and scanned onto the Web. "4tnz is Bauer Publishing’s first major foray into online... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
BOMB IT! Graffiti Documentary Interview With Space Invader
Here’s an BOMB IT! interview with Space Invader, the anonymous artist who as been installing Space Invader themed street art around the world since the early 1990’s, as he describes it “invading public space”. The interview is from the global graffiti documentary BOMB…
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Plurk "overlord" loses control of his own blog hype [Surly Adopter]
The best thing with which to mock a company that shouldn't exist is a company that doesn't actually exist. And San Francisco's Internet hipsters won't just snicker about your startup behind your... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Debauchery of Broadcom founder Henry Nicholas detailed in unsealed indictment [Crime]
In what may become a seminal document in the history of the dot-com era for its detailed account of excess, the recently unsealed indictment on drug charges of Broadcom founder and former CEO Henry... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
To the ex-cop offering $1000 for fetish sex on MySpace, you're doing it wrong [Sex Trade]
Not even former lawmen know that trying to score sex play for pay on MySpace is a bad idea. Going to trial this week is Michael J. Curtin, a fired cop from Pennsylvania who tried to offer $1000 each... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
And So It Begins
Photo by Katy German Aside from Juanita More's party at Bambuddha Lounge, the Frameline Film Fest, KRON4 fag hag Jan Wahl's coverage of the parade, the meth cloud that will hover above Beck's Motor Lodge, and the bittersweet tang of buried shame rising to the surface, we can't say we're…
Facebook adds Social Ads reviews, ruins all our fun [Online Advertising]
For months now, we've watched as Facebook served users pornographic ads, as well as less expertly targeted come-ons. Now, with a new feature that lets users review the ads they've been served, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Shady St. Luke's?
(By Anonymous) [No, not them, but a well-respected writer who choose SFist in which to rant about their woeful experience at St. Luke's, using a veil of anonymity. -- SFist] The billing department at St. Luke's Hospital in San Francisco is a shady operation. Last month we received two bills…
Mystery Apple boxes overflow at Quanta shipping facility [Great Moments In Shipping]
The shipments of whatever Apple intends to unleash on the world June 9th continue unabated. Electronic device manufacturer Quanta, which builds products such as the Apple iMac, has had palette after... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The story of Paid Sick Days
We've been big fans of the campaign for paid sick days from back when it was a gleam in the (metaphorical) eye of Young Workers United. We're not the only ones. The Drum Major Institute recently featured YWU cofounder Sara Flocks. Part 2
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Online-video site Heavy lays off 25 out of 105, spins off ad network [Layoffs]
Young man's video site Heavy will lay off nearly a quarter of its staff — 25 out of 105 workers — as it cuts costs and spins off its video ad network Husky Media into a separate company.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How Disney's Steve Wadsworth plays the game [Reorgs]
Is there an old-media Internet chieftain with a longer tenure than Steve Wadsworth of Disney? Just a finance guy when he first got involved in Disney's Internet projects in 1995, he survived... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Indiana Jones and the Fair-Use Ruling of Doom [Copyfight]
A guest post from commenter WagCurious: Lawrence Lessig and I have one thing in common: We both hate Yoko Ono. Not because she broke up the Beatles (debatable) but because she is the latest... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
"I'm Fucking Matt Damon" director gets picture deal [Online Video]
Wayne McClammy, a director for The Jimmy Kimmel Show and The Sarah Silverman Program, apparently didn't get on "Hollywood's radar" until two sketches for Kimmel, I'm Fucking Matt Damon and I'm... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Featuring birds
Birds were out in force at the Capsule Festival in Hayes Valley earlier this month. And not just your garden-variety birds, but also quail, roosters and hens, and owls. They've been a jewelry...
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Hole In the Wall Evacuation
Sigh. OK, it's like this: We yanked our hair out, sobbed in terror, and wrung our withered hands dry, agonizing over whether or not SFist should post these images, this following story. But, you see, it's all a wee bit graphic. (OMG, out of the blue we have an editorial filter?! Jesus…
Want to learn how lawyers bounce U.S. workers from H1-B jobs? So do the Feds [Labor]
Lori Melton is an attorney at the Fragomen Del Rey Bernsen & Loewy law firm, a specialist in "corporate immigration" — that is, obtaining H1-B visas for workers. She's scheduled to share her... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
It's Got to be the Morning After
-Mets 5 Giants 3 Hey, what's up with Matt Cain? How could one guy who was so dominant for two years slip like he's done? Were the previous few years just an illusion? Is he just having one of those years? Or did that torturous season he had last year where he pitched brilliantly and still…
We got ya cultcha right here [Valleywag Calendar]
Slow calendar days are a blessing and a curse. There's not much tech-wise to boast about, but there are still some awesome (non-industry) things to do. For those determined to make their night... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Sugar Bush Squirrel, The World’s Most Photographed Squirrel
Sugar Bush Squirrel is a patriotic little squirrel in Boca Raton, FL who’s “mom” Kelly Foxton likes to dress him up in 2,000 different outfits and poses for photographs. photos via Sugar Bush Squirrel Related PostsPhotographing One Bush StreetOne Laptop Per Child Launches Give…
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South SF Alsphalt Machine Accident Kills Worker
While an unidentified man was using an auger transporter (?) a South SF asphalt plant Graniterock on Wednesday, he somehow managed to get caught up in the presumably tricky machinery, and die. At about 7:32 p.m., firefighters responded to the plant at 1321 Lowrie Avenue. According to…