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TypePad on the iPhone
We were part of Apple's big WWDC keynote yesterday. Sippey gave a demo of the TypePad app for the iPhone. The app will be available for free at the launch of the App Store. Read or post comments
Cavallo Point - A Fort Baker Makeover
How you feel about the changes at Fort Baker may depend on your relationship to that treasured and sometimes secluded cove below the north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. Fort...
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Day Around the Bay
-Fire in Stockton destroys 50 homes [Chronicle] -Gay marriage in California could mean cha-ching for the state [Examiner] -Why do kids in Redding hate America? [KPIX] -Think again next time you get a txt message from somebody [Examiner] -Metallica still doesn't get this internet thingie [
The Track Bike Enters Its Ironic Phase
Recently spotted on BART was this track bike with an ersatz disc rear wheel. Mismatched wheels have long been a staple of fixie style, particularly when one of the wheels is an expensive piece of racing hardware (extra points for juxtaposing the expensive and the cheap). Yet this track star…
Spore Creature Creator & Sporelebrity Contest
Electronic Arts sent me an advance preview of the Spore Creature Creator which is part of the highly anticipated new game Spore, a “massively single-player” game being developed by Maxis based on the evolution of species. It is was designed by Will Wright, the legendary game designer…
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The incredible shrinking Apple CEO [Steve Jobs]
Apple PR has finally come up with an unconvincing explanation for Apple CEO Steve Jobs's all-too-evident skinniness: Jobs was suffering from a "common bug" when he spoke at Apple's WWDC event, a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
BMW GINA Light Visionary Model, Featuring A Flexible Exterior
Today The BMW Group Design unveiled their GINA Light Visionary Model concept car, which features a innovative flexible, fabric-like exterior skin. via 37signals photo via BMW Related Posts1982 San Diego Comic Con Photos by Alan LightTimbuk2 Blogger BagAll In This Tea, A Documentary By Les Blank…
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John McCain using Google to background-check potential vice presidents [Politics]
At a fundraising lunch in Richmond, Virginia yesterday, John McCain joked, "Basically, I did a Google" when researching possible vice presidential candidates. One would hope a campaign with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Pick your career poison: temporary Google database admin vs. IODA intern [Poll]
The last matchup in this round of our worst-job tournament: temporary database administrator for Google, contracted through WorkforceLogic, vs. content acquisition intern, IODA. Given the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Car Crash Acrobatics On Duboce
Greg Dewar of NJudahChronicles seems to be everywhere lately. Check out the latest gem he snapped up today over on Duboce and Church. This car flipped over while attempting a left turn...according to eyewitnesses it seems the driver may have had a seizure during the turn, and it careened…
Money Can't Buy You Love, But It'll Buy a Museum
The fight over the Presidio may come down to fisticuffs: Gap founder Don Fisher is trying to build a museum near the main post of the Presidio, while many San Franciscans aren't too happy about that. According to the Chron, besides the museum, a "119-room hotel, which also will include meeting…
Andrew Cuomo pulls the plug on Usenet over "child porn" [Crime]
By law, only lawmakers are allowed to look at child porn, but that's not enough for New York State's Net-crusading attorney general, Andrew Cuomo. He's demanded that Internet service providers Time... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
THEATER: Gays from other states are always so charmingly angry and amusing once they land in the California Republic. Take, for example, noted San Francisco homosexual, Kirk Read. His latest theatrical show, starting tonight and running through Saturday, creates "an evening of stories about…
Google exec phones home from WWDC [Caption Contest]
Google engineering VP Vic Gundotra, right, presumably sending reports back to the Android team from just before yesterday's announcement of the latest iPhone version by Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Can you... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
First Class Remodel, But Not Finished: Short Sale Cause Or Effect?
The words you might expect to see in the listing for a Monterey Heights house: “Over 4500 sf, Overlooking St. Francis Wood, Ocean Views from 2 Floors.” A few words that you might not: “SHORT SALE subject to lenders...
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Do I Hear $6?: Gallon of Gas Reaches New Heights
Photo by terraplanner/Flickr We're a penny away from $5 a gallon for REGULAR gas, y'all. Very exciting. In related news, things are getting heated in SoCal. At an Orange County Costco, a La Palma doctor freaked out while waiting in line to buy gas in Cypress. Someone, it seems, tried to…
Local scribe discovers citizen journalism at cupcake event [I Hate It Here]
The San Francisco Bay Guardian's Susie Cagle went in search of that most elusive of user-generated content — actual good times at a Web 2.0 event. Her target: CupcakeCamp, a "crowd-sourced"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
"Goob" does a better job at answering Facebook customers' emails than the real thing [Great Moments In Customer Service]
Ryan Shyzer runs a blog called FacebookTalk.com. It's the seventh result for a Google search on "contact Facebook," and Shyzer gets a lot of emails meant for Facebook customer service. Shyzer, who... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Twitter's real problem: explaining itself to clueless business reporters [Biz Stone]
You know Twitter cofounder Biz Stone didn't do a very good job explaining what he's created to Fox Business reporter Liz Claman when, after Stone was finished Claman asked, "So, it just pops up on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google forcing App Engine developers to use Checkout? [Nerdfight]
Developers who jumped on the Google App Engine bandwagon have gotten an unpleasant surprise. Those who create Web applications using Google's computing infrastructure have found that the Mountain... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Meet the man who has to save cable [David Verklin]
Ad money is flying onto the Web. While it hasn't hurt cable TV yet — that business is still seeing a migration of ad dollars from the broadcast networks — Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Cox,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
iPhone 3G's true cost is $1,237 [IPhone 3G]
Everywhere you look, a new iPhone price hike turns up. At $199, the phones themselves may be cheaper — but Apple and AT&T, the phone's exclusive carrier in the U.S., are charging users by other... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Michael Arrington's sleepovers [Mysteries]
Does anyone else think it's the slightest bit odd that TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington so regularly offers sleeping quarters to young male entrepreneurs? Not that there's anything wrong with that. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Ask SFist: Calling In Sick?
First, it's gorgeous outside today. If you're stuck at work today, then, well, we feel your pain. Second, we received this pressing question in our inbox today: Help! How do i call in sick even though i'm not? i'm bad at lying. Well, we cannot condone readers leaving work for reason of…
Weebly, the worst Web 2.0 app to make an escort site with ever [Sex Trade]
If there's a legitimate use for Weebly, it has been seared from my brain by the one-two assault of Pierce89's escort site, which is also one of the webpage-building service's most-trafficked... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
BART adjusts service during repair of damaged facility
BART adjusts service at Hayward, South Hayward, Union City and Fremont during repair of damaged maintenance facility.
Marissa Mayer's new Google logo bears striking similarity to Garth Brooks album cover [Search]
While Google's Marissa Mayer's instructions were for a new, tiny logo that would work well on cell phones, could there have been a subtle, even sub-conscious appeal to the many, many fans of Garth... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Fine, the New 3G iPhone Commercial
iPhone 3G from Dylan Staley on Vimeo. God. We really don't want to post a commercial -- especially one espousing the alleged virtues of the iPhone, Apple, and Jobian theory -- but we're going to relent. Here, for you fine folks, is the brand-spanking new 3G iPhone commercial. Speaking…
Highway 101 Shuts Down After Big Rig Melee
A jackknifed big rig (do they ever do anything but jackknife?) carrying tons of diesel fuel on (the) 101 has shutdown the highway in both direction in Menlo Park. The accident happened just after 10 p.m. According to the Gate, "[t]hree northbound lanes and two southbound lanes are closed…
Sarah Lacy to tour middle America [Books]
Book tours? So old media — or rather, not profitable enough for book publishers to conduct except for celebrity writers. Sarah Lacy, the author of Web 2.0 nonfiction chronicle Once You're... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Evan Williams's well-timed vacation [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To]
When his service is struggling with uptime at a high-profile event like Apple's WWDC, what does Twitter cofounder Evan Williams do? Take some personal downtime. He and wife Sara Morishige are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
RoboGames 2008 Ticket Giveaway
We have some tickets to give away for RoboGames which takes place this weekend, June 13-15 at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. I will be updating this post with information on the ticket giveaway. If you weren’t a recipient of one of the free tickets, you can always buy your tickets online in…
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Rocchi's Retro Rental: Cops and Cars and Crooks and Crime
The Seven-Ups (1973) We live in exciting times, to be sure, and there's plenty of great art and high entertainment at the theaters right now. There's also Adam Sandler's woman-hating phony...
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Gurbaksh "G" Chahal spotted with blonde on arm, fooling no one [Nerdspotting]
Spotted at the opening of overpriced-denim boutique Duke et Duchess in San Francisco's Hayes Valley neighborhood: Gurbaksh "G" Chahal, the megalomaniacal playboy founder of BlueLithium, who's been... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Lesbians to Kickoff Same-Sex Weddings
The Sapphic set will be the first to get legally married (and, believe us, the first to get legal divorce after divorce after divorce) in San Francisco. Longtime queer activists Del Martin (87) and Phyllis Lyon (84), who were first wed in San Francisco in 2004, will re-enact their ceremony…