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From Anarchists & Hell’s Angles To Exquisite And No Arguments Here
Rumor has it that the grand Queen Anne at 719 Ashbury was once home to anarchists and Hell’s Angles (although not at the same time). Today it’s described as exceptional, exquisite, and impeccable (three words that shouldn’t be thrown...
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Sue Decker's idiotic Yahoo reorg [Disasters]
No tech executive draws more bile and disdain than Ash Patel. So why is Yahoo president Sue Decker promoting him to fill the place of several departing executives? Let me keep it short and sweet:... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
David Sze's unsubtle dinner companion [Qi Lu]
Kara Swisher's camera briefly caught departing Yahoo executive Qi Lu Tuesday night smiling next to a laughing David Sze, the Greylock Partners venture capitalist who loves to talk up his seat as a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mars Phoenix Lander Finds Water Ice
Our sister site LAist informs us, via the Mars Phoenix Lander's Twitter, that water ice has been found on the planet Mars today. At around 5:15 p.m., NASA folks exclaimed, "Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!" …
Phoenix Lander Announces Discovery of Ice on Mars via Twitter
The Phoenix Mars Lander mission announced the discovery of water ice on Mars via their Twitter account. NASA has more info on this amazing discovery. See Previously: Twitter Updates of NASA Phoenix Spacecraft Landing on Mars Related PostsTwitter Updates of NASA Phoenix Spacecraft Landing on…
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Day Around the Bay
Sigh: "Dumpster Muffin" [Daily Clog]Your Black Muslim Bakery hoods, not the sharpest tools. Or are they? [CBS5]Et tu, Ghirardelli? Famous Square goes VIP. [Eater]Chez Panisse mafia don Alice Waters, hard to crack. [Oakland Tribune]KQED's Michael Krasny confuses SF Weekly with BeyondChron…
What's Going On Here?
Photo by bikelikeme/Flickr This here is just a bike storage locker outside of SF General Hospital. Cute. By why the multiple bike signage on it?
Light Brown Apple Moth (LBAM) Spraying Off
Today, the California Department of Food and Agriculture announced plans to stop light brown apple moth spraying altogether. While the spray was temporarily halted in April, it now looks like the use of the pesticide is officially off. Yay! The light brown apple moth, which feasts on crops,…
A company coming apart at the seams [Yahoo]
Does Yahoo have a hiring freeze? Even Yahoo's own HotJobs site isn't clear on the matter, as this screenshot shows But really, who cares? With its easy-come, easy-go severance package, Yahoo is all... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
State Drops Plans to Aerial Spray the Bay Area
If you stop in at this blog, you've undoubtedly seen the many posts about the Light Brown Apple Moth issue, and the state's plans to aerially spray the Bay Area...
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If Brad Garlinghouse goes, where will TechCrunch get its Yahoo scoops? [Exits]
It's not clear whether Brad Garlinghouse, the Yahoo executive who famously called for Yahoo to focus on doing fewer things well in his "Peanut Butter Memo," is out the door. AllThingsD says no, or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Zivity sparks Girl Geek porn panic [Nerdfight]
Cyan Banister's Zivity seemed a natural choice to participate at the second Bay Area Girl Geek dinner, a networking event celebrating women in tech. At the last one in January, over 600 guests... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Natali Del Conte preps for "Loaded" [Caption Contest]
A reader who watched a recent episode of Cranky Geeks thought the ring on Natali Del Conte's finger meant she got hitched. An instant message to the perky, petite host of CNET TV's Loaded, shown here... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Microsoft's HR department asks, "How do I Facebook?" [Recruiting]
Facebook now allows advertisers to target users based on their workplace, major, and keywords — which can include a job title. Smart. What's odd is that Microsoft bought a full-page ad in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Is former Powerset CEO Barney Pell the douchebag with these hot chicks? [Superficial]
One of the most important and profound visual chronicles of our times, Hot Chicks with Douchebags, may have found a photo of former Powerset CEO Barney Pell with a bunch of hot chicks. This character... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Capsized Mariners Rescued By Coast Guard in SF Bay
Four commercial fishermen were rescued today after their 35-foot commercial fishing boat, christened "Reward," capsized 50 yards off of Pier 45 today. Fortunately, as a response boat from the Coast Guard Station was performing "training evolutions" in the Bay, they noticed the boat sinking,…
American teenagers spend more time online than watching television [Death Of Print]
While the amount of time American teenagers spent online and watching television both increased year-over-year, average time online increased from 10.7 hours last year to 12.5 hours this year,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Lebowski Fest Hits San Francisco In September
Get ready to bowl, swill buckets of white Russians (shudder), and sport your best Jeff Bridges-ish costumery. This September, you see, the Lebowski Fest will roll into SF. Nice. Conceived by Will Russell, 31, and Scott Shuffitt, 34, in their hometown of Louisville, Kentucky in 2002, the…
Carl Icahn finally updates The Icahn Report -- powered by Google [Blogging For Dollars]
No wonder Carl Icahn thinks that Yahoo's search advertising deal with Google has merit — turns out that his blog, The Icahn Report, uses Google to help readers search. Not that there's much... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Our favorite homeschooled Facebook user [Clips]
Facebook now welcomes home-schooled teenagers. In honor of the occasion, we'd like you to meet our favorite home-schooled celebrity, 2007 National Spelling Bee Champion Evan O'Dorney. He's already a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Will Flickr cofounders make a run for the border, or head for the Big Apple? [Rumormonger]
Now that Caterina Fake has left Yahoo and Stewart Butterfield has tendered his abstract resignation letter, what will the widely beloved Flickr cofounders do? And where will they go? Brendon Wilson,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Spore 404 Error Page
The Spore website has one of the best 404 error pages I’ve seen in a while. Related PostsSpore Creature Creator & Spore Vote ContestSpore Creature Creator Test Drive VideoSpore Creature Creator & Sporelebrity ContestTwitter Cat Error Messages Have ReturnedTechnorati…
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SFist Tonight
FILM FEST: The Frameline Film Festival (AKA, the queer one) kicks off tonight, and we couldn't be more thrilled. Over at the Castro Theatre, be sure to check out this evening's lesbian drama mystery Affinity (2008) -- which tells classic women-in-prison tale but with a Gothic, Victorian era…
Jeremy Zawodny left Yahoo for Craigslist [Hires]
While former Yahoo database engineer Jeremy Zawodny might prefer FriendFeed to Twitter, he'll be commuting to the offices of Craigslist from his home in San Jose. He was recruited via email by CTO... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Film du Jour: Boiler Implosion in Hunters Point
There just isn't enough footage of things in San Francisco blowing up. This saddens us. Luckily, YouTube user Indiabasin filmed yesterday's boiler ka-boom at the Hunters Point power plant to whet our appetites. Sure, it's not as grand or comprehensively destructive as we all would've liked…
The 50 worst Twitters ever [We Read Twitter So You Don't Have To]
A compilation of the most impressively bad brain farts, misguided social-media outreach efforts, user-generated meltdowns, and episodes of Twittering-under-the-influence. [Inside CRM] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Interviews Magnus Lindberg
Tonight, the SF Symphony presents the one thing we'r emost looking forward to this season: the West Coast premiere of Seht die Sonne by Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg. Co-commissioned by the symphony and the Berlin philharmonic (which created the world premiere with Sir Simon Rattle last…
Trophy Home Watch On Vallejo Times Two: 2950 And 2960
Another trophy home on Vallejo is on the market (but not the MLS). “Built in 1928 for the Gilmore steel family and designed by John H. Powers,” 2950 Vallejo has only had three owners (perhaps you can be the...
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Fretful developers aside, the competition knows Facebook is the widget platform that matters [Developers, Developers, Developers]
Developers upset with Facebook's antiviral measures tell us enthusiasm for Facebook's platform is waning. Nonsense, says Steve Cohen, the head of platform engineering at Facebook rival Bebo. Earlier... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Trophy Home Watch On Vallejo Times Two (2950/2960 Vallejo)
Another trophy home on Vallejo is on the market (but not the MLS). “Built in 1928 for the Gilmore steel family and designed by John H. Powers,” 2950 Vallejo has only had three owners (perhaps you can be the...
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Trophy Home Watch On Vallejo Times Two: 2950/2960 Vallejo
Another trophy home on Vallejo is on the market (but not the MLS). “Built in 1928 for the Gilmore steel family and designed by John H. Powers,” 2950 Vallejo has only had three owners (perhaps you can be the...
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Trophy Home Watch On Vallejo: Next Door Neighbors Edition
Another trophy home on Vallejo is on the market (but not the MLS). “Built in 1928 for the Gilmore steel family and designed by John H. Powers,” 2950 Vallejo has only had three owners (perhaps you can be the...
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Firefox 3 Robot Themed Easter Egg
Firefox 3, which was released on Tuesday, has a really cool Easter Egg. Just type “about:robots” in the address bar and nice tribute to the Firefox 3 robot mascot appears. via Lifehacker Related PostsFirefox 50 MillionFirefox, Happy 20,000,000!Firefox: Gimme All Your CacheFirefox…
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Tesla Motors crashes roadster earmarked for disgruntled former CEO [Martin Eberhard]
Former Tesla Motors CEO Martin Eberhard, who was ousted along with over two dozen other employees after the company failed to meet an expected shipping deadline, will have to wait a bit longer for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Salute the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien Today
Today marks the 65th anniversary of the launch of World War II liberty ship, the S.S. Jeremiah O'Brien, which is now docked at Pier 45 and houses the National Liberty Ship Memorial. The ship was constructed in 52 days in Portland, Maine, as part of a fleet of 2700 liberty ships built to carry…
Wantrepreneur no more [Deathwatch]
BricaBox founder Nate Westheimer didn't like it when we called him a "wantrepreneur" in our posts about his various publicity stunts. With BricaBox closing, Westheimer won't have to worry about that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
No priority shipping for escorts, not yet, anyway [Sex Trade]
If TheEroticReview.com is "Amazon.com for prostitutes" (as dubbed by Matt Richtel in the New York Times), do customers get "free delivery for orders over $100", asks Salon.com's Broadsheet. We agree... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 151
Photo by khoalaMA/Flickr Sean Penn, the gingerphobic Gus Van Sant, and some tranny. What's going on here?
Requiem For A Day Off
BENJI Films presents “Requiem For A Day Off”, a wonderful mashup of “Requiem for a Dream” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”. via Transbuddha Related PostsNo related postsSHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Requiem For A Day Off", url:…
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