Cityfeeds San Francisco
Latest Entries
Teach The Controversy T-Shirts by Amorphia Apparel
Amorphia Apparel has a wonderful new line of Teach The Controversy t-shirts. They have a really cool series of Science! t-shirts, along with some other great designs. ‘Big Science’ is always suppressing The Truth with their blatant pro-evolution anti-wacko agenda: from the fact that…
Via Laughing Squid (RSS)
American Guy Apparently On His Way To Meet An Irish Stereotype
Guy: "She's Irish, so I really hope at some point she says, 'Shut yer piehole!'"Girl: "I could pay her ten bucks to say it, unless that would violate the Piehole Code."Guy: "First rule of piehole: There is no Piehole Code."OVERHEARD BY TIM
Via Overheard Lines (RSS)
Supernova conference interrupted by burger disaster [Party Report]
Catering to the whims of the Web 2.0 crowd is tricky — but it usually doesn't bring in firetrucks. The Supernova conference, which wraps up tomorrow, served freshly made sliders, White... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter to Yahoo [Exits]
Stewart Butterfield, the cantankerous cofounder of Flickr, has, as we've noted, tendered his resignation to Yahoo, as has wife and cofounder Caterina Fake. The two recently celebrated, along with... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Link: Team TypePad and AIDS/LifeCycle 7
Great post about Alex and I, and our 545 mile ride, on the official TypePad blog.
LinkedIn spends some of its new $53 million on a VC infomercial [Venture Capital]
LinkedIn has announced its new $53 million funding round in a bizarre way: by posting a video on YouTube in which its investors try to cast its $1 billion valuation as low, low, low — instead... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Day Around the Bay
Photo by orangeexposure/Flickr Holy smokes! Queer are getting married! [SFBG, SF Weekly, LS] Worst table in SF? [Eater] Ivory-white trustifarians misuse the term "hate crime." [Oakland Tribune, SF Metblogs] Top Chef's Lisa Fernandes: a total tool. [Aviator Ear] Did you download Firefox…
In a week of gay weddings, where are Derek and Orkut, Marissa Mayer's best boyfriends? [Geek Love]
Google engineer Orkut Buyukkokten, the one behind the eponymous social network, has gotten engaged to boyfriend Derek Holbrook, Valleywag's youngest-ever tipster tells us. The two are shown here, in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Link: New Sigur Rós album available online for a listen
It won't come out until next week, but you can listen to the new album með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust online. I haven't finished it, but I love it so far.
Muni Drvier May Have Felt the Need, the Need for Speed
Last Saturday's T-Third meets N-Judah collision might be, according to to investigators, might have been the result of a speeding Muni driver and/or someone chatting on their cell phone. KCBS reports: Investigators say one of the MUNI rail cars involved in a crash Saturday afternoon was…
Philadelphia's mesh network saved, for now, but the time for citywide wireless has past [Wi-Fi]
After Earthlink abandoned a citywide Wi-Fi project for Philadelphia after only 6,000 customers signed up for the $20 a month service. Now a local investors Derek Pew of Boathouse Communications and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Philadelphia's Wi-Fi network saved, for now, but the time for citywide wireless has past [Wi-Fi]
After EarthLink abandoned a citywide Wi-Fi project for Philadelphia after only 6,000 customers signed up for the $20/mo. service. Now local investors Derek Pew of Boathouse Communications and Mark... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Random startup creator makes more sense than most business plans [Social Networks]
We would have warned UK-based Web developer Jeremy Keith that Supernova is full of Valley types spewing meaningless neologisms and pitching pointless startups, but we see that he's already quite well... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Flickr founders Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake abandon the good ship Yahoo [Exits]
When Ludicorp co-founders Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake sold Flickr to Yahoo, they also moved from their Vancouver headquarters to the Bay Area to take up jobs at the Sunnyvale campus of the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Paul Boutin doesn't think Robert Scoble is funny [Caption Contest]
Valleywag's very special correspondent Paul Boutin is back, but could a meeting with Robert Scoble at Supernova presage Scoble's return as our mascot as well? Nah. Can you suggest a better headline?... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jane Kim and Norman Yee Does a Switcheroo to Get JROTC Back at SFUSD
Today, Commissioner Jane Kim and Commissioner Norman Yee engineered a special meeting to vote to adopt JROTC with the condition that students could not use the credits for JROTC for their physical education requirements tonight after the community meeting on the budget. The Board voted to…
Via Left in SF (RSS)
The Great Office War, An Epic Battle Between Sales & IT
Run Away Box presents” “The Great Office War”, featuring an epic battle between Sales and IT. via Neatorama Related PostsCute Puppy vs. Roboquad RobotDept. of Applied Office ArtsMassive Blacklight Star Wars Lightsaber Battle in TorontoLego Diorama of a Kraken Defending a Dwarf…
Via Laughing Squid (RSS)
A Wonderful Day in History
Today is the first full day that same sex marriages can occur throughout California. It was a happy, joyeous day in City Hall. One couple, David and Doug got married surrounded by a sister, a daughter, a granddaughter and their church family from San Francisco Unitarian Church. The…
Via Left in SF (RSS)
Scene from Marissa Mayer's birthday party [Superficial]
newVideoPlayer("mayer_bday.flv", 494, 370,""); What does privilege look like? This year, it was renting out an entire movie theater for your friends. But two years ago, it was a cleancut white guys... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
CLUB: This evening's club night over at Pink (oh, by the way, do hit Bar Bambino before going over! It's just next-door and the area's best new restaurant, in our opinion) called "Buffet" should be re-titled "Buffet of Vagina." Why? Because they're serving up a night of all-female DJs. Kate…
Blake Commagere, RockYou ready to start biting over Vampires, Zombies, and Werewolves [Rumormonger]
Who owns the most annoying applications on Facebook? It seems incredible that anyone would want to take credit for Vampires, Zombies, and Werewolves, three of the most useless and yet most used... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
535 Mission Update: Parking Lot Closed And About To Break Ground?
From a plugged-in reader: I was reading the forum over at skyscraperpage.com and it seems that 535 Mission is preparing to break ground. The parking lot is now closed and a few workers were on site. Can anyone confirm?...
Via SocketSite (RSS)
eBay demolishes "level playing field" for Buy.com [EBay]
newVideoPlayer("omidyar_donahoe.flv", 506, 423,""); On eBay, some merchants are now more equal than others. eBay signed up Buy.com to sell on the site with a special deal: no listing fees, a perk... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Kongregate's Jim Greer, on how to get a girl-crazy VC to commit [Conferences]
In this morning's otherwise sleepy session the "brave new world" of entrepreneurship at Supernova, Vipin Jain of Retrevo offered the analogy first — that for startups, attracting venture... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Scene from a Same-Sex Wedding Ceremony
This has to be the most adorable image we've seen thus far during today's queer marriage melee. Really, how can you hate these people? Oh, you think you have cuter, do you? Well, send it to us here.
Why Yahoo has no CEO in sight [Jerry Yang]
The latest Valley guessing game: Who will be Yahoo's next CEO? Jerry Yang's days seem numbered; if he does not win reelection to the board at Yahoo's annual shareholder meeting, now pushed back to... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Same-Sex Marriage 2.0 in San Francisco
guest post by mikl-em JUST MARRIED FINALLY …and… NO STOPPING. I like that. Four years ago the first same-sex marriage in California history was successfully conducted. That same couple had another wedding ceremony in San Francisco yesterday. This followed a reboot of the legal…
Via Laughing Squid (RSS)
How To Nap, In Case You Were Wondering
While we totally think Self-Help/How-To's are getting out of hand (Hello. We've run out of shelf space here), when we were perusing our RSS feeds -- also known as blogger crack -- we ran into this little gem from The Boston Globe, via Gawker. A picture/article on how to figure out whether…
23andMe told to cease and desist by California Department of Public Health [Biotech]
Not a good week for the Wojcicki family. Googler Susan Wojcicki has been caught making expensive demands on Google's daycare facilities. Meanwhile, her sister Anne, wife of Google cofounder Sergey... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Online video views drop in April [Stats]
U.S. Internet viewers watched 11.5 billion videos in March and then only 11 billion in April, according to comScore. Not surprising. How many times can you watch Gene Simmons doing it in a T-shirt?... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Tumblr, The Documentary by David Seger
“Tumblr, The Documentary” by David Seger. Related PostsTumblr, Making Blogging EasyInstapaper, An Easy Way To Save Web Content For LaterMy Life In A Cube by Shane JohnsonAll In This Tea, A Documentary By Les Blank & Gina LeibrechtGarfield Comics With Garfield…
Via Laughing Squid (RSS)
Reason Why the Homeless Totally Rule
We like the homeless, and we loathe talking too much shit about folks without homes because (arguably) it's like kicking a dog while it's down. Homeless people not only fill out the other end of the bell curve of living the capitalist lifestyle (thanks, guys!), but they're also the eyes and…
The Internet's role in contemporary philosophy [Quotable]
Yesterday Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures quoted extensively from "The Death of Postmodernism and Beyond," a 2006 article in Philosophy Now by Alan Kirby. Kirby's piece does much to sum up the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Firefox 3 Released & Download Day 2008
Firefox 3, the latest version of the popular open source browser, has been officially released today. To help spread the word Mozilla has declared today Download Day 2008 where they are attempting break the Guinness World Record for the most software downloaded in a single day. Firefox 3 can be…
Via Laughing Squid (RSS)
Christmas Ruined for Literate Christian Kids Traveling Along I-80
Freeway Blogger brought these sings to our attention, placed on the overpass above (the) eastbound I-80. A great message about global warming. Good job. Also: how mean! Christmas is canceled!
TheFunded hopes the bridges aren't burned [TheFunded]
Adeo Ressi hates venture capitalists. His disdain has always showed on his site, TheFunded.com, where wantrepreneurs slam VCs with anonymous posts. Now Ressi hopes the sides can make amends on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Put On Your Sunday Best, San Francisco
(By Babe Scanlon) San Francisco, we need to talk. Why is it that we have to go to a crap movie like Sex and The City to see decently dressed people? People who love dressing so much that they put effort and thought into their outfits and are not afraid to be daring? San Francisco is a…
Play the iPhone party game [Geeks Gone Wild]
Google and Apple employees, seeking to entertain themselves at a party, stack their iPhones 13 high. That, my friends, is at least $3,887 of fun. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]