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Twitter Fail Whale Makes Guest Appearance in Laugh-Out-Loud Cats
The Twitter Fail Whale makes a guest appearance as a hobo in Laugh-Out-Loud Cats #862 along with a clever reference to Ruby on Rails. illustration by Adam Koford Related Posts“The Laugh-Out-Loud Cats Sell Out” Book by Adam Koford (Ape Lad)Meet the Laugh-Out-Loud Cats, a New Book by Ape…
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Vanity Fair displays new media acumen with "Blogopticon" [Bloggers]
In a wonderful piece of linkbait, Vanity Fair produced an illustration featuring a number of popular "blogs" arranged in a cartesian graph from "Scurrolous" to "Earnest" on one axis and "Opinion" to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Day Around the Bay
Behold, your faggy Pride guide of 2008. [TheSword]Check out the Reverse Graffiti Project where some guy makes environmentally clean street-- zzzzzzz. [Laughing Squid]Remember, Gavin goes on tomorrow. [SFGate]Migden still haunts SF. [Curbed]Droll Google map humor. [Google]Tim Russert now…
Biafra 5-O, Celebrating Jello Biafra’s 50th & The Dead Kennedys 30th
Alternative Tentacles presents Biafra 5-O, celebrating the 50th birthday of Jello Biafra and the 30th anniversary of The Dead Kennedys, with two shows at the Great American Music Hall on Monday, June 16th and Tuesday, June 17th. poster by Nat Damm Related PostsNerdcore Rising The MovieJean-Jacques…
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A week in which we laid low [Recap]
We may not know who Kevin Rose is currently dating, but it isn't Marissa Mayer, who's still chaperoned by Zach Bogue — unless it's a business relationship we're discussing. And it ain't Leah... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Thanks to This Week's Advertisers
We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Coldplay, who's new album Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends comes out on Tuesday. Zipcar, cars by the hour or day, just around the corner. Sign up now and get $50 in driving credit! American Apparel, where you…
Google daycare now a luxury for Larry and Sergey's inner circle [Perks]
Life inside the Googleplex already resembles a daycare center, with its primary colors, bouncy exercise balls, and free food. But if you're a parent working at Google, daycare has become a nightmare.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Is Pheltup.com the most exclusive club on the interweb?
So, a friend of mine sent me a link to Pheltup -- a social networking site that proports to answer the question of why people go to social networking sites. (Isn't that the question, after all?)...
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Valleywag's advertisers not dating Kevin Rose, as far as we know [Sponsors]
Who's Kevin Rose dating this week? We've narrowed it down — not any of the fine, upstanding institutions who advertise with us. For their abstemiousness, we'd like to thank: AT&T, Arkadium,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Steve Jobs probably losing weight thanks to digestive track rewiring [Apple]
When Steve Jobs underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2004 (nine months after learning of the cancer and seeking "alternative treatments"), he received a "pylorus preserving... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Adaptive Path's Rachel Glaves gets Pheltup [Caption Contest]
Plurk's "overlord" may have described this startup as a hoax, but Pheltup fever continues to spread thanks to viral marketing like stickers and a a wild launch party last night. Can you suggest a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
CLUB/THEATER: San Francisco's most mentally unstable and drug-addled tranny show, "Charlie Horse," always puts on a most festive show every Friday nights. But tonight it gets better as they salute clinical obesity with "Trans Fat." Former Miss Trannyshack Anna Conda hosts phat (har har!)…
Dan Lyons going to Newsweek makes encounter with Real Steve Jobs almost inevitable [Fake Steve Jobs]
Newsweek, along with Time, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, is on the short list of publications that Apple CEO Steve Jobs will actually deign to meet and speak with. Dan Lyons, aka... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The New And Improved (And Approved) Design For 300 Grant Street
From a seriously plugged-in tipster: Per your request...the approved project elevations [for 300 Grant]. I am sure there will be much discussion about the changes! With all the back and forth on the design, and with neighbor opposition, the...
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The New And Improved (And Approved) Design For 300 Grant Avenue
From a seriously plugged-in tipster: Per your request...the approved project elevations [for 300 Grant]. I am sure there will be much discussion about the changes! With all the back and forth on the design, and with neighbor opposition, the...
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Obscenity trial judge a pervert like the rest of us [Politics]
The Los Angeles Times revealed that 9th Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski was hosting some porny images of girls done up like cows and other niceties on what he thought was a private... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Amusing Newsom Protest Signage
The formidable Jim Herd caught this sign over at the big Newsom protest -- you know, because of his new budget that will see some local do-gooderies lose lots of sweet, sweet cash? -- which went down in front of his swank Russian Hill condo on Wednesday. Granted, the progressives in this…
Rolling Stone's Mark Zuckerberg bio -- the 100-word version [Facebook]
In Rolling Stone magazine's continuing efforts to be hip and with it, Claire Hoffman was granted dozens of column inches to detail the rise of Facebook, especially including the allegations that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
San Francisco Heat Style
(By Babe Scanlon) When the heat hits San Francisco -- as it did yesterday, and how --two of our favorite street styles appear. One, the woman wearing a sun dress. She looks uncomfortable, and sort of stunned, about her unusual level of public nakedness. It makes sense. We too own sun…
Google called "Robber Baron" by National Black Chamber of Commerce [Politics]
The National Black Chamber of Commerce has weighed in against the partnership between Google and Yahoo, suggesting that by gaining control of Yahoo's search advertising inventory, it will create a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 148
Photo by SFist Leanne You know what's cuter than cats sitting in window sills? Nothing. Please send us images of cats you find peeking out windows. It tickles us. (Wow. First pigeons, now kitties in windows. Sorry to get all Peta on you. Which we're not. Really, they're one of the worst…
Draper Fisher Jurvetson's big blog mistake [Technorati]
Technorati has raised another $7.5 million from existing venture-capital backers, including Draper Fisher Jurvetson. The company has raised $30 million to date. Anyone know the valuation? Given... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Gus Van Sant at Milk Club Dinner
Gus Van Sant has always held a warm and fuzzy spot in our hearts since My Own Private Idaho (Helloooo Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix!) but Van Sant has won us all over again with the shooting of Milk, which we stalked covered while shooting was happening. Now, Van Sant is set to be speaking…
Microsoft's insulting offer for Yahoo search [Deals]
Microsoft offered $1 billion to take Yahoo's search business off its hands, along with a buyback and other details. Henry Blodget has a detailed financial analysis of why Yahoo walked. But why spend... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Hollywood writers seize the means of production -- and, more importantly, distribution [Online Video]
A group of television and film writers got together during the Writer's Guild strike looking to put on a show, and now the project has evolved into Strike.TV, scheduled to launch next month on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Pownce cofounder Leah Culver explains how to be beautiful and get taken seriously [Superficial]
Think it's hard being a woman in technology? Apparently it's even harder to be an attractive one. That's right, pretty people are rising above the prejudice that unless they look like Steve Wozniak,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Live Like A Rockstar (Just Don't Spend Like One Edition)
Third Eye Blind front man Stephen Jenkins’ successfully sold his Pacific Heights mini-manse in 2005. And if our plugged-in tipster is correct, perhaps Third Eye Blind’s ex-bassist should have followed suit as his “European Style Nob Hill Penthouse” is...
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Live Like A Rockstar (Just Don't Spend Like One)
Third Eye Blind front man Stephen Jenkins’ successfully sold his Pacific Heights mini-manse in 2005. And if our plugged-in tipster is correct, perhaps Third Eye Blind’s ex-bassist should have followed suit as his “European Style Nob Hill Penthouse” is...
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Google's prize: cheap Yahoo users who spend little online [The Chart]
New data from Hitwise plots the demographics who visit Yahoo Search against Google users. Groups in the top left are a particular strength for Yahoo; groups on the bottom right, for Google. Among... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Frameline!
It's the merry month of Pride around these parts -- which means that along with gay-themed documentaries on KQED, parties galore all over town, and the pride parade which is always on the hottest day of the year as if by magic!, it's once again time for the Frameline LGBT film festival! We…
SFist Finds: iPenis
We encountered this penis piercing an iPod at Sutter and Leavenworth on Monday. Penis drawings never get old, but we could use some more vagina to balance things out. The bottom half of the drawing looks like a fish, but the top half looks pretty impressive. We were thinking of recycling our…
Detail On The Designs For UCSF’s Parnassus Heights Stem Cell Lab
Last month the announcement. This month a bit more on Rafael Viñoly's design for UCSF’s Parnassus Heights Stem Cell Lab. ∙ Stem Cell Research Funds New UCSF Building Outside Of Mission Bay [SocketSite] ∙ California Pumps $271 Million Into...
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Mark Zuckerberg preps Steve Jobs impersonation for developers' conference [Idol Worship]
Facebook will hold its second annual F8 developers' conference on Wednesday, July 23 in San Francisco. That means we'll watch Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg take another shot at his reported goal... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Fake Steve's summer of fun -- Yang, Zuckerberg, Mossberg, and Scoble's too [Apple]
Public concern over Apple CEO Steve Jobs's health has not gone unheard. . He writes: It's been suggested to me that I might take some time off this summer and focus on myself for a change. You know... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How the New York Times missed the latest escort scandal [Sex Trade]
On Monday night at the Webby Awards, New York Times staff accepted their prize with the words, "Eliot Spitzer we thank you." Covering hooker drama went well for the paper last March, and the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Report: Yahoo cuts costs, stops hiring -- except for Valleywag editors [Great Moments In HR]
Despite local radio ads, sources tell Silicon Alley Insider Yahoo has frozen its hiring until July. Or its freezing its hiring in July. One of the two. The point is that purse strings are tight at... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Happy National Pigeon Day!
Today, June, Friday the 13, is National Pigeon Day. Yay! While some of you detest one of "nature's most successful creatures," today we stand up for the adorable little winged creatures. After all, they've done everything from helping "soldiers behind enemy lines" to providing fecal-based…
Pity the Microsoft marketers who made this video [Marketing]
Compared to say, used car dealers or ambulance chasing lawyers, pitches from Microsoft marketers come off as sophisticated and subtle. But compare to Apple's Steve Jobs, arguably one of the best... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Tales Of Mere Existence "Last Night/This Morning"
(CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE) "Tales Of Mere Existence" By Levni Yilmaz R.O.T. Buy a Comic/DVD set from Lev! http://www.ingredientx.com/buy/main.htm For more comics, animations and correspondence, kindly visit http://www.talesofmereexistence.com If you gravitate towards isolated,…