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Henry Nicholas pleads not guilty on fraud and drug charges [Crime]
Nevermind the multiple witnesses to Broadcom co-founder Henry Nicholas' drug and prostitute habit. Nevermind the $2 billion restatement of earnings by Broadcom over backdated stock options. Dr. Henry... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Link: Same-sex weddings begin
At 5:01pm tonight gay couples started marrying throughout California.
SFist Interviews Pastor Fred Phelps, Gets His Take on Same-Sex Marriage
In town to protest marriage, he seems a lot more sane in text than on television.
Photos: Gay Marriage Begins at SF City Hall, June 16
Exciting stuff, folks. Here are some images recently taken late this afternoon at and around San Francisco City Hall as Mayor Gavin Newsom officiates Phyllis Lyon and Del Martin's marriage just inside. (Congratulations, ladies. Sob!) Needless to say, people are flipping their lids: Pastor…
Wired relaunching HotWired as a social network? [Rumormonger]
Chris Anderson, Wired's waggle-eared rock-star editor, has been dropping hints left and right about the relaunch of HotWired, a faded Web property Conde Nast picked up along with Webmonkey last... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Day Around the Bay
Something or other about same-sex weddings starting today. [Jameth] Oprah does not hand out free cars to Standford grads. Because their parents already did. [SFGate] Budweiser might be sold off to the makers of Stella Artois. [SFBG] Microsoft-Yahoo merger failure explained. [Valleywag] …
Ghirardelli Square & Fairmont Heritage Place: Update And A "Peek"
Re-Construction is moving right along at Ghirardelli Square and Fairmont Heritage Place with a VIP unveiling of the property and model units this week (public opening this weekend), a Temporary Certificate of Occupancy (TCO) expected to be secured by...
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Google's daycare debacle: the Kinderplex memos [Leaks]
Google no longer advertises subsidized daycare as a benefit to its employees. So why is the company building luxuriously unaffordable child-care centers at the behest of Susan Wojcicki, the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
"Fight for Mike" moves to YouTube [YouTube]
Mike Homer, the former Netscape executive suffering from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, has inspired a YouTube channel for the "Defeat Dementia" campaign, an effort to educate the public about... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Esther Dyson: Online advertising will "turn good people into prostitutes" [Quotable]
Esther Dyson, one of the 28 women counted at today's Supernova conference, responding to Bob Iannucci of Nokia in a conversation on the challenges of making money off of emerging networks of users,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photos: Anonymous' Pirate Scientology Protest
Aargh. Even pirates -- noted rapists and murderers! -- are none too keen on the Scientology movement. And while most you were at the farmer's market this weekend checking out the latest heirlooms tomatoes sans salmonella, Anonymous held their weekly protest over at Xenu's Montgomery Street…
Google Street View car cited by park police [Caption Contest]
A Google Street View driver ran afoul of the Presidio's park police at this popular view spot overlooking the Golden Gate — plenty more pictures where that came from. Can you suggest a better... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Literary pick of the week
My old friend and literary rock star Andrew Sean Greer reads from his new book, The Story of a Marriage, this Thursday at the Main Library at 6:30. His previous novel, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, was one of the first books chosen as part of the SF Reads program. Worth going to.
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ABC swapping broadcast ad buys into digital streams [Online Advertising]
"Makegoods," where a television network fulfills its inventory obligations for ads that were purchased but not aired, are of particular interest this year in the wake of last fall's WGA strike... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV
First off: Lisa lost "Top Chef." Stephanie won. All is right with the reality TV world. The reunion show is this Wednesday, and we can't wait to see what the other chefs have to say about Lisa making it to the final three. And we'll see if Lisa continues to badmouth the stupid, poor bloggers…
Microsoft Vista ranks well behind XP, Linux in application developers' hearts [Developers, Developers, Developers]
The operating system from Redmond that was going to blow developers away, Windows Vista, is being used as an application platform by only eight percent of software developers surveyed by Evans Data.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Intel flips the switch on solar-cell startup SpectraWatt [Cleantech]
With $50 million from Intel Capital, giant chipmaker Intel has created SpectraWatt, a startup which plans to mass-manufacture solar cells. Solar cells are based on the same semiconductor technology... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
MUSIC: Quebecoise indie-rock darlings Islands perform over in North Beach tonight. SF Weekly describes them, or one of them, as "neo-vaudevillian." To which we say, we just don't get music writing anymore. (Our fault entirely!) But this is how we shall describe them: if you love Arcade Fire,…
YouTube engineer gets haircut, saves relationship [Geek Love]
Since we know you were all worried about the fate of YouTube Flash engineer Geoff Stearns and his girlfriend's public appeal to save their romance by getting his hair did and shutting up about... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jeff Weiner to two-time VCs [Yahoo]
As expected, Yahoo content chief Jeff Weiner has left the troubled firm to serve as an "entrepreneur-in-residence" — read: wannabe CEO of an as-yet-undisclosed startup — at Accel Partners... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Public Marching Band in San Francisco This Sunday
The Cacophony Society and Transtagonist present Public Marching Band this Sunday, June 22nd in San Francisco. Meet at 2:02pm in front of the Ferry Building, bring an instrument and wear a hat. via Urban Prankster poster by Star Related PostsPublic Marching Band in San FranciscoExtra Action…
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Drug-linked Broadcom cofounder Henry Nicholas's hypocrisy detailed, making for an even better screenplay [Broadcom]
Henry Nicholas, the cofounder and former CEO of telecom chipmaker Broadcom, gave $2.5 million to a crime-victims charity, and $3.5 million to defeat a 2004 bill that would have weakened California's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
There's Just No Way of Getting Around Gay Marriage Posts Today
Same-sex wedding sympathizers SF Weekly points out this ad many of you have seen around town as of late. They also point out that gay marriage in San Francisco = cash, serious coinage, and treasure chests full of diamonds, pearls, and rubies for each and every citizen! We couldn't be…
Homebuilder Confidence Falls: From The Fringes To San Francisco?
A plugged-in reader reports (and posits): I was on a conference call today with the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) CEO Jerry Howard and Chief Economist David Seiders where they were presenting the June Housing Market Index (HMI). It...
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There's no such thing as bad publicity, but over such a boring blog post? [Web Worker Daily]
Jason Harris, a freelancer for GigaOm's Web Worker Daily site, was caught plagiarizing an article about Gmail. The truly sad part: This is the first time we've heard someone mention Web Worker Daily... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Michael Arrington drops the banhammer on the Associated Press [Copyfight]
A couple of bloggers have gotten their panties in a bunch because the Associated Press, a coop that offers original reporting to its 1,500 member newspapers and syndicates to other outlets, is asking... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Frameline 32: International LGBT Film Festival
If you're heading to Frameline -- San Francisco's International LGBT Film Festival -- you'll be in great company. With annual attendance of 60,000 to 80,000 people, Frameline is the longest...
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SFist Blotter
In the city of Richmond this weekend, a woman was "brutally raped" on the Richmond High School campus while walking home from the grocery store at around 11 p.m. The suspect was identified (though his name is secret from the press as of now) and arrested immediately after the attack.Carlos…
Art Adventures: Ferris Plock and Kelly Tunstall
Last month I stopped by the studio of San Francisco painters Kelly Tunstall and Ferris Plock . They were working on a series of circus inspired pieces for a show at 111 Minna gallery , their...
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Madison Avenue on Google-Yahoo: huh? [Online Advertising]
Why did Yahoo turn down Microsoft's offer and — to the disappointment of shareholders, employees and board members — go for Google's instead? Because Google will allow Yahoo to continue... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Speaking of God Hating Fags...
As we already mentioned, the curmudgeon-y Fred Phelps will be over at City Hall this afternoon, doing some sort of performance art piece or something. Needless to say, we're very excited. What we didn't mention were the many people contacting SFist to let us know if his arrival have also …
To end online prostitution, Chicago cops call for Craigslist boycott [Sex Trade]
newVideoPlayer("craigslist_chicago.flv", 494, 391,""); In the biggest sting of its kind, Cook County police have made 76 Chicago-area arrests using Craigslist's Erotic Services section as their... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Libertarian utopianist Patri Friedman wants to be your baby's daddy [Hot Dude Alert]
Google engineer, grandson of economist Milton Friedman and "seasteader" Patri Friedman likes "brains, muscled backs, blinking lights, health, competence," and dislikes "beer, cigarettes, people who... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
BassPro Shops: Shop, Hunt, & Eat Local
I make it back to the Midwest two, maybe three times a year. Since I gave up my home address in Independence, Missouri, twenty years ago, I’ve seen the area’s fields and grasslands transformed into bustling Walmarts and Home Depots. The surrounding green has turned into asphalt as…
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Photo du Jour 149
Photo by dspain/Flickr Some pig-- you heard us, pig! -- had the unmitigated gall to go against the express wishes of Google. The nerve! Driving a Prius (oh, of course it was a Prius), some poor Google Street View recording sap was busted by the fuzz for doing some illegal, doing something…
Save The Date (Wednesday, June 25) And Details This Afternoon
Details this afternoon and signups tomorrow morning. For now, just save the date: Wednesday, June 25 at 6:00 p.m....
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Very special correspondent Paul Boutin even more special now [Housekeeping]
The big tech pubs have been shuffling their A-team players lately. Steven Levy jumped from Newsweek to Wired. Dan Lyons left Forbes to replace Levy at Newsweek. Forbes is now doing some high-end... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Burning Man Presents Precompression 2008: Dreams & Delusions
Burning Man presents Precompression 2008: Dreams & Delusions this Friday, June 20th from 9pm-4am at 1015 Folsom in San Francisco. Live out your American DREAMS & DELUSIONS! American Dream-inspired attire encouraged — from Wild West to repossessed … from Liberty’s torch…
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