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Overheard Lines: The One-Act Play
Guy: "Your cottage at the lake sounds like a good time. Does it have air conditioning?"Girl: "Uh, no, it doesn't even have a shower!"Guy: "So, all those times you asked me to go up there, and you never mentioned that it didn't have a shower or AC?"Girl: "Yeah, we're like the Beverly Hillbillies of…
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Battle of the Album Covers
“Battle of the Album Covers” is an awesome animated video from 2006 directed by Ugly Pictures and animated by Man vs. Magnet. via Rockeboom Related PostsVintage Classical Music Album CoversComic Book Cover BrowserThe New Yorker Thanksgiving Covers by Chris WareThe Beatnix Cover…
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Ron Paul quits race, Valleywag endorsement up for grabs [Politics]
Yes, Valleywag's lovably insane presidential endorsement has thrown in the towel. Texas Congressman Ron Paul has chosen to solicit donations under the new moniker "Campaign for Liberty," where he can... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Is Yahoo's Jeremy Zawodny going to FriendFeed? [Rumormonger]
After Yahoo database expert Jeremy Zawodny announced he was leaving the company, a Hacker News commenter speculated that he'd go work for Twitter. "A few months ago Twitter may have been interesting,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Who will tell the Chron that 14 = 14???
Which one is bigger, fourteen, or fourteen? In this (AP) article, the Chron contends that some Dems try to keep their distance from the nominee. Woah, a radioactive nominee, that's pretty scary. For most of these fence-sitters — at least 14 [Democrats who won't endorse Obama] as of Wednesday…
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Day Around the Bay
Muni map makeover? [Curbed]Missing Yosemite man/Bible fan found. (Why the Bible angle again?) [SFGate]Perv hits Dolores Park, shakes penis vigorously at young girls. [BAR]Te-qui-la. [SFWeekly]Treasure Island to host Exotic Erotic Ball. Boobie. [SFBG]Today's fire? In the Oakland Hills. [KGO]…
IP Is Google about to swallow up Digg? [Rumormonger]
Google's cupcake princess, Marissa Mayer, and Kevin Rose, the playboy of the Webhead world, would make an awfully cute couple. Not romantically — the two are dating other people at the moment.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Is Google about to swallow up Digg? [Rumormonger]
Google's cupcake princess, Marissa Mayer, and Kevin Rose, the playboy of the Webhead world, would make an awfully cute couple. Not romantically — the two are dating other people at the moment.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Did Apple forget to pay Disney royalties for music during WWDC keynote? [IPhone]
newVideoPlayer("jobs_smallworld.flv",494, 370,""); When CEO Steve Jobs presented the list of countries where the iPhone will be available in the next few months near the close of Tuesday's keynote... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Did Apple forget to clear Disney rights for music during WWDC keynote? [Copyfight]
newVideoPlayer("jobs_smallworld.flv",494, 370,""); When CEO Steve Jobs presented the list of countries where the iPhone will be available in the next few months near the close of Tuesday's keynote... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Cradlepoint CTR500 Personal Wi-Fi Hotspot Mobile EV-DO Router
I recently bought a Cradlepoint CTR500 Personal Wi-Fi Hotspot for use with my new Sprint Compass 597 EV-DO modem. It’s a small, portable router that can be used with EV-DO and other cellular broadband devices (both USB and ExpressCard) to easily setup a secure, mobile wi-fi network. In…
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Yahoo, Google confirm search-ads deal [Deals]
Yahoo has admitted defeat, under the guise of openness. The company will start letting Google sell ads on Yahoo search results, generating as much as $800 million a year for Yahoo; the increase comes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A Safer Muni Ride: SFMTA Gets Millions
Your daily commute just got safer. Well, hopefully. The Office of Homeland Security just awarded the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) a crisp $7 million "to improve security and public safety on San Francisco's transit system," AKA Muni. Stemming from voter-approved…
Google shuttle side gig: landscaping [Caption Contest]
A tipster says this is a "Google Shuttle going green by picking up tree limbs while driving down Garcia Ave." What can't Google do? How about suggesting a better headline? Do so in the comments. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Yahoo running Google ads? There goes its 25-percent off deal [Online Advertising]
With Microsoft out of the picture, everyone's expecting Google and Yahoo to strike a deal for Google to broker the ads that appear on Yahoo's search results. If true, that's bad news for advertisers.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Twitter's San Francisco pals to help it fix broken service [Breakdowns]
Plagued by breakdowns — and by Robert Scoble — Twitter has hired Pivotal Labs to help it fix the messaging service. "Yes, we hired some smart folks from Pivotal Labs to join us in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Vandalism Report Card: Gucci Gal Gets Tagged
Photo by Super G/Flickr Mean! But also: beautiful. This (gorgeous) shot captures graffiti authentico minus any, ahem, pretense or artistic self-consciousness, yes? Pure vandalism! And maybe it's just the way the photographer snapped it up, but we love it. Even if it is kind of violent. …
Fooling the Chron
Carla Marinucci does not care about facts or truth: her job is to cherry pick information so as to shape the opinion in favor of the GOP. Now that Obama is the Democratic nominee, she has to make him look bad. So how do you do it? Take a lesson from a pro: It's a blog post titled Hillary's…
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Google's Eric Schmidt models CEO diplomacy [Nerdfight]
newVideoPlayer("schmidt_fox.flv", 494, 284,""); With the cool confidence inspired by sitting more than a little above the fray in the whole Microsoft-Yahoo fracas, Eric Schmidt sat down on Tuesday... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
THEATER: Homosexuals liven up old episodes of The Golden Girls when they reenact '80s geriatric hilarity on stage with "The Golden Girls: The Gay Episodes." Local drag luminaries Heklina, Cookie Dough, and Pollo Del Mar, and Matthew Martin take on the roles of Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and…
Netflix sells out of Roku set-top boxes, but could it have been intentional? [Online Video]
The $99 box from Roku that allows Netflix customers to watch videos on their televisions streamed over the Internet is all sold out, and there won't be any more shipped until at least July and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Singing Tesla Coils by ArcAttack
Joe DiPrima and Oliver Greaves of ArcAttack have created an amazing pair of Singing Tesla Coils that are used in conjunction with their DJ setup. Sean Savage shot a great video of them performing the 1970’s electronic hit “Popcorn” at Flipside 2008. ArcAttack employs a unique DJ…
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BART Board approves $675 million balanced budget
BART Board approves $675 million balanced budget for the next fiscal year.
Auction site eBay gets out of brokering TV and radio ads [E-commerce]
While the occassional videoblogger might put up sponsorships for sale through eBay's auction site, networks and radio stations weren't so interested, so eBay is cutting its few deals with cable... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Facebook profiles for sale on eBay [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
An eBay seller going by the handle pseudopr415 is offering 10 Facebook profiles, each with a minimum of 200 friends, for sale in an eBay auction that closes June 14. The seller writes: "I currently... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Microsoft, Yahoo confirm talks are dead [Microsoft]
Microsoft and Yahoo have released statements confirming reports that merger negotiations are off. In its statement, Microsoft leaves the door open for a partnership that would "ensure healthy... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Your Gay Marriage Update: Herrera None Too Pleased
Dennis Herrera blasted the oddly-titled Campaign for California Families today for their latest, useless court of appeal tactic to get the gays to stop all of this damn marriage nonsense. The CCF, it seems, filed with the California Court of Appeal another benign motion to stay the…
Eric Schmidt admits he was kicked out of Apple boardroom over iPhone-Android rivalry [Conflicts Of Interest]
Keep your friends close, and your enemies on your board of directors. That seems to be the rationale for Google CEO Eric Schmidt's continued presence in Apple's boardroom. Despite a promised rain of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
When all else fails, change the logo [Yahoo]
Yahoo's stock may be tanking, employees abandoning ship, Carl Icahn divesting his shareholdings, and the company relying on once-hated rival Google to better profit from the site's traffic, but... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Bleeding purple [Yahoo]
This is the week to leave Yahoo, it seems — not because something's happening. But because nothing is. Jeremy Zawodny (badge pictured here) and JR Conlin, two Yahoo veterans with 18 years of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SF Hires Someone to Take Care of Halloween Mess
What with Halloween colliding on a Friday this year -- fuuuuuck -- the city of San Francisco has wasted no time, so to speak, in attempting to look like it's trying to make the holiday a spooktacular event again. Laura Fraenza, 45, New Jersey native and ballet enthusiast who has worked with…
The Pong Song by Jonathan Mann
guest post by Johannes Grenzfurthner My good friend Jonathan Mann (aka GameJew) just published a great song about the hyper-influential godfather of computer games: Pong. Link (YouTube) Related PostsJonathan Coulton Paper Doll With Giant Squid OutfitFlickr Song & VideoJohn Maushammer’s…
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Yahoo shares plummet toward pre-Microsoft merger levels [Yahoo]
Word that merger negotiations between Microsoft and Yahoo are over and that Yahoo plans to announce a search deal with Google has Yahoo shares plummeting on Wall Street. There's no word from... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Outside It Might Be Old, But Inside It's "New Construction" (901 Bush)
In addition to 300 Grant, 901 Bush will also be in front of San Francisco's Planning Commission this afternoon seeking the establishment of the “901 Bush Street Special Use District (SUD).” From a plugged-in tipster: This is the largest...
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Report: With Microsoft talks dead, Yahoo and Google to announce search deal at 1:30 [Yahoo]
Google and Yahoo will announce "a search partnership of some sort at 1:30," TechCrunch reports. The Wall Street Journal confirms the news, reporting: Yahoo has concluded talks with Microsoft... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hot Stuff Food Blog Round Up
What foods adventures have you had lately? Or maybe you have a fave summer dish you keep eating again and again? Do tell! Zoomie Station made fruit salad including nectarines that were "dripping with flavor." Looks good, eh? If that "delicious parade" is not good enough reason to hit the…