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PG&E Vault Explosion In Downtown SF
Oh my, word. Did you hear it? We received a few emails mentioning it, but NBC 11 confirms: "As of 4:10 p.m., PG & E activity in the vicinity of California and Drumm streets is disrupting regular cable car service on the California line," read a Muni alert. "Service will be provided by…
Day Around the Bay
Is SOMA the loudest 'hood of them all? Well, is it? [Curbed]Right-wing new media convention happens in Mountain View tomorrow. Be there, or be a commie pinko tool. [Melanie Morgan]Check out the school that didn't accept you. [WhatImSeeing]Smash and grab live! [SFGate]Jerry Yang's private jet…
Take BART to the SF Pride Celebration
Take BART to the 38th annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade, June 28th and 29th Civic Center BART Station in San Francisco.
If Second Life throws a fifth anniversary party and no avatars are there to hear it, does it make that annoying typing sound? [Virtual Worlds]
Second Life, the 3D virtual world favored by furries and the digital departments of ad agencies desperate to convince clients how cutting-edge they are, is celebrating its fifth anniversary this... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Is Google AdPlanner using Google Toolbar to track users? Of course it is! [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
Nobody seems to have much of a problem with Amazon's Alexa service tracking Internet browsing habits to produce its notoriously inaccurate site traffic graphs, nor the software installed by the likes... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Fortune ranks Steve Jobs replacement candidates, but we know who it will be already [Apple]
Apple COO Timothy Cook is the man most likely to replace co-founder and current CEO Steve Jobs according to Fortune. Cook’s deep knowledge of Apple’s operations and ready command of detail has won... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and…
Sandra Lee Fewer Kicks Off Her Candidacy
FYI: From the Sandra Fewer Campaign On Wednesday, June 25, Sandra Lee Fewer kicks off her campaign for school board at the historic Cathay House Restaurant, 718 California Street (at Grant), in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The event begins at 6:00 p.m. with elected officials scheduled to…
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Good Idea, Bad Idea
Sometimes you read news items, and it reminds you of the old cartoon feature, "Good Idea, Bad Idea." Remember those? Well, our friends in Sacramento have their own version of what qualifies as a bad idea: a 26-year-old man, his girlfriend, and his brother decided (read: drunkenly agreed) to…
Dennis Crowley celebrates birthday with family [Caption Contest]
Dodgeball founder and departed Googler Dennis Crowley celebrates his 32nd birthday by embracing his sister. Can you suggest a better headline? Do so in the comments. The best one will become the new... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
What would Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan's love child look like? [Superficial]
One in a while a Web application comes along that's so damn useful, even we'd invest in it. Facebook? Meh. MakeMeBabies, the site that lets you create ruddy-cheeked mashups from any two photos? Its... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Wimbledon Under Fire for Pigeon Murder
Wimbledon, that top-drawer tennis championship played on grass on the other side of the pond, is currently underway. What's more, it's coming under fire for "using marksmen to shoot down dive-bombing pigeons" interfering with the matches on Centre Court. Mean! Typically, Wimbledon…
The Website is Down: Sales Guy vs Web Dude
guest post by RICK! The Website is Down: Sales Guy vs. Web Dude is a hilarious look at the life of a tech support person versus the evil Sales Guy, presented in the same vain as You Suck at Photoshop, except voiced by chipmunks. Laughing Squid Hosting would like stress this video is not an…
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All quiet on the Twitter front [Twitter]
A serene photo essay captures the Twitter office in tiny Tweetable moments: "listening to cat power, coding your scoble." [MIT Technology Review] [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
FILM: The San Francisco International Queer Film Festival continues with a Spanish bisexual (MFF) love romp XXY (dir. Lucia Puenzo) and the Israeli, coming-of-age story Japan Japan (dir. Lior Shamriz). The latter film, we're told, is heavy on the nudity, so... there you have it. 7 p.m.…
Ashley Alexandra Dupré approves your friend request! [Ashley Dupre]
The internet's favorite escort, Ashley Alexandra Dupré, wants to apologize for taking so long to approve your Friend Request on MySpace. "All of my pending friend requests from 3/12 through now were... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Is Duncan Riley getting the silent treatment from Michael Arrington? [Nerdfight]
We figured something was up when former TechCruncher Duncan Riley created his own tech news spinoff, the Inquisitr. We figured there was probably even more backstory when he suddenly became one of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Apologizes: Too Much Skin?
We've received a few curt emails this afternoon, upset over our use of the image in "Strip Club Etiquette: De-tipping?" Sexy, no? But It seems if we post a female form that's neither a tweaked out, Nair-estranged Burning Man girl, nor a zaftig, of-a-certain age Codepink protester, many of…
Bill Gates looks back at the competition Microsoft annihalated [Quotable]
Putting media naysayers in their place, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates continued his farewell tour by pointing to old press accounts of companies like Ashton Tate and Lotus as worthy competitors... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Bill Gates looks back at the competition Microsoft annihilated [Quotable]
Putting media naysayers in their place, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates continued his farewell tour by pointing to old press accounts of companies like Ashton Tate and Lotus as worthy competitors... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Yvesdroppings Are Silent But Deadly
(By Babe Scanlon) Holy crud! Yvesdroppings, they're back! Yay! As always, aubmissions go to editor - at - gmail - dot - com (put "Yvesdroppings" in the subject line!) Don't forget to keep your ears to the ground at summer BBQs and Pride parties; they're fertile ground for this stuff.…
Advertisers fighting with your friends and neighbors' sex lives for attention on Facebook [Social Networks]
It's not Ning's porn-sharing communities, Facebook's co-ed antics, and MySpace's ninja sex angel users that prevent these social networking sites from making as much money off ads as hoped. It's the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Jeff Bezos invests undisclosed amount in Twitter [Venture Capital]
The favorite downtime-riddled platform for sharing the lumps life gives you in 140 characters or less, Twitter, has received a hot investment infusion of an undisclosed amount from Amazon founder and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SF Opera's Ariodante
How is that for nice planning: Gay marriage becomes legal on June 16th, the day after the SF Opera premiered Handel's Ariodante for the first time. Ever. Check this out: Ginevra and Ariodante love each other, plan on gettingmarried, but Ginevra is also courted by the evil scheming Polinesso,…
Index adjustment to bring boon, bust to Valley companies [Stocks]
The Russell 3000, a stock index from Tacoma-based Russell Investments, will be making an annual adjustment to listed companies Friday, and the Valley is a net gainer, with ten companies removed and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google's long-awaited agency-killer arrives in sheep's clothing [Online Advertising]
Google exec Wayne Lin will today announce Google AdPlanner, a tool to help online media buyers target certain demographics. For example, advertisers pleased with their demographic mix on one site... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
FriendFeed Comments on Laughing Squid
Yesterday I installed the excellent FriendFeed Comments WordPress Plugin on this blog, which adds an expandable section just above the comments showing all the Likes and Comments from FriendFeed that are associated with a blog post. Big thanks to Sydney developer Glenn Slaven, author of the…
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Apple hires former Google food director as cafeteria wars escalate [Hires]
You have to hand it to Google, because thanks to them the food is only getting better for hungry cube-dwellers trapped on expansive campuses. Former Google food director John Dickman has been hired... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Strip Club Etiquette: De-tipping?
Oh my, today's Police Blotter in the Examiner is satisfying. First off, some family in the Inner Richmond Outer Sunset got into a huge, bloody fight over rice preparation, wherein the father was arrested for domestic violence. That alone is priceless. (Note to wife: rent The Burning Bed, the…
Avril Lavigne fans gunning for top spot on YouTube [Online Video]
The microfamous are set to lose one of their own to the squealing hordes who follow the macrofamous when sk8r pop sensation Avril Lavigne's Girlfriend becomes the most viewed video on YouTube,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Cody's Out/Ferrari Store In
As most of you know by now, Cody's Books -- famous for its unyielding love by the literati, being fire-bombed in the 1980s for displaying Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses in its window, and for selling glued paper with printed text -- is done. Is this yet another echo of print…
Rocchi's Retro Rental: Look On My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
Silent Running (1972) Pixar's new film WALL-E opens this week, starring a lonely robot left cubing trash on an abandoned Earth in the future. Plenty of internet observers have noted the...
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Google breeds fear and loathing at Cannes [Online Advertising]
Sir Martin Sorrell of WPP calls Google a "frenemy" because his industry depends on the search engine giant but also fears it wants create technology to cut out it's profitible place as middleman. The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
George Carlin Showing Children How To Be a Class Clown
Here’s a wonderful video from a 1980 television special that features George Carlin showing an audience of children how to be a class clown. See Previously: George Carlin 1937-2008, Farewell to the Class Clown via Cynical-C Blog Related PostsGeorge Carlin 1937-2008, Farewell to the Class…
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Kathy Griffin denies having bumped uglies with Steve Wozniak [Geek Love]
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak never rounded third with former girlfriend and D-list celebrity Kathy Griffin. "We were dating, but were just friendly," Griffin told US Magazine. "I never fucked him or... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The New York Times sells Digg to Google [Google]
We've heard Google's Marissa Mayer is pushing hard for the company to acquire Digg. Without mentioning the social news site once, a Google News takedown in the New York Times neatly makes her case.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Dirty Jock Strap Sale, June 25
Well, this is disgusting. It seems Chaps II (a SOMA bar sequel of sorts where they serve cheap, strong drinks as well as Chex Mix in doggie dishes) is having some sort of sale. A sale of dirty underwear, that is, to help Stop AIDS Project. How lovely. And while we won't be able to stomach…