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Jakob Lodwick too good for the Internet, leaves it to you animals [Exits]
It's hard out there for an Objectivist. At least, that's according to Normative founder Jakob Lodwick, who cites his mama when deciding that we're all just too negative to appreciate the risk-taking,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Live from the Girl Geek Dinner [Team Party Crash]
Our correspondent Melissa Gira and former contributor Megan McCarthy have successfully infiltrated the controversial Girl Geek Dinner, and pictures will be plentiful if this first photograph is any... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Yelpers vs. Service Industry Workers
Yelpers are unfairly critical. Or are Bay Area service industry workers notoriously rude? Really, it's the Hatfield-McCoy feud of our time. Rumors of Yelpers throwing the Y-word at servers is stuff of legend. (Not to mention reprehensible.) As is the loogie-in-your-entrée myth. Who's right?…
FriendFinder Networks IPO delayed as developers mutiny [Rumormonger]
What's going on over at FriendFinder Networks, née Penthouse Media Group? Apparently the effort to migrate into an online publishing and social networking powerhouse is being hampered by developers... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Microsoft buys Powerset search for 90 percent off Yahoo search list price [Acuisitions]
Powerset never quite managed to launch with their natural language parsing search product. But they did give everyone a glimpse with a preview of search for Wikipedia. Not quite game-changing enough... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
How do the Microsoft and Yahoo boards compare? [Stocks]
Taking the performance of other companies that Microsoft and Yahoo's outside board members direct, Portfolio's Russ Mitchell has calculated the "plus-minus" for the respective players, as a hockey... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Cylon centurion spotted at Googleplex [Caption Contest]
And I thought I was joking about Robot Steve Jobs — Google is already developing the Cylon army that eventually attempts to destroy humanity. Can you suggest a better headline? Do so in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Tilt, Where Are You?
(By Eyleen Tavy) Somebody amend the Constitution, already! Even as one right is affirmed, another is torn from our grasp -- the right to manufacture pre-mixed caffeinated energy drinks. That's right, "Anheuser-Busch said it will reformulate its popular 'Tilt' and 'Bud Extra' (oh god they…
The SocketSite Scoop On 900 Folsom/260 Fifth: Condo Idol Comes!
Avant Housing, a joint venture between AGI Capital and TMG Partners, has launched a website providing some unique insight into the development process and soliciting community feedback for a trio of interconnected buildings in the works at 900 Folsom/260...
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At long last, Yahoo reorg to put employees out of their misery [Valleyspeak]
Yahoo is about to perform that dreaded big-tech-company maneuver, the "reorg." For you young-uns who don't get why reorg is such a scary word: Think massive layoffs, lost mortgages, and people like... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Employees now getting dirty asses washed by downmarket bidets at the Googleplex [Toogle Many Googlers]
Back in 2005, when I first made inquiries into the high-tech Japanese bidets now well-known to be installed around the Googleplex, the company was using the Toto Washlet S300. Now? The E200. What's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
MUSIC: Homosexuals who play musical instruments -- i.e., Pansy Division, Winsome Griffles, and gay Christian cow-punk Glen Meadmore -- kick off Gay Pride with a most rockin' night on SOMA. Leave the ice at home, boys. 9 p.m. // Eagle Tavern (398 12th Street) // $7 READING: Amy Sedaris'…
T-Pain's Nappy Boy Digital not the online experience listeners are looking for [Music]
Trent Reznor isn't the only music celebrity getting his digital swerve on by going independent and using that data to plot likely tour stops on Google Earth. Hip-hop and R&B star T-Pain kicked off... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Amber Alert: Dublin, CA
An Amber Alert just broke in on the talking picture box. A presumably unfit father who "has a known drug history and is known to frequent the Oakland area" took off with his son today, claiming that he was taking him to McDonald's, but never returned. According to ABC 7, "Harold Bennett left…
BART expands service for Pride Celebration, A's-Giants series
BART runs more and longer trains for the San Francisco LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade, and the A's-Giants series in Oakland this weekend. Take BART there!
Atom Films swallowed up by Viacom [Acquisitions]
Atom Films, a pre-Web 2.0 aggregator of shorts from indie filmmakers that swallowed up Macromedia spinoff Shockwave, was itself been swallowed up in 2006 by old media heavy Viacom for $200. Now the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Atom Films relaunched by Viacom as Atom.com [Acquisitions]
Atom Films, a pre-Web 2.0 aggregator of shorts from indie filmmakers that swallowed up Macromedia spinoff Shockwave, was itself been swallowed up in 2006 by old media heavy Viacom for $200. Now the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Laughing Squid Comments Now Using Disqus
I’ve just installed the distributed commenting system Disqus here on the Laughing Squid blog to improve comment management and facilitate better conversations. Features include threaded comments, email & mobile posting, the ability to track and subscribe to comments, comment ratings and…
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Bell Canada's file sharing throttling data shows mixed results [Telcos]
Bell Canada, which was accused of throttling peer-to-peer file sharing traffic, was order to release details of their bandwidth management procedure by Canadian officials. Did it work? Kinda.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Frank Chu Lands Movie Deal
Well, sort of. Mentally-disabled San Francisco icon Frank Chu will appear in the upcoming flick Less -- brought to you by Gabriel Diamond, who brought you such household-name classics as Start to Finish (2007) and The Sex Movie (2006) --as "12 Galaxies Guy." Less is "an independent…
Site visits slightly down overall, but YouTube picks up market share [Online Video]
Within a group of 63 online video destination sites tracked by HitWise, YouTube increased market share to 75 percent from 59 percent from May of 2007 to May of 2008. Visits among all the sites were... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Overheard On The T Train
Boy 1: "This is the Church Street stop. Do you want to go to the Church Street stop? Hey, do you want to go to the Church?"Boy 2: "Wanna go to the Church? Are you trying to hit on her?"Boy 1: "No! If I were hitting on her I would ask if she wanted to get off at Orgasm Street."OVERHEARD BY CHANTAE
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Overheard In A Movie Theater After The First Lord Of The Rings Movie
Girl 1: "There's gonna be a sequel, right?"Girl 2: "Yeah, it's a trilogy; there's six of them."OVERHEARD BY MOLLY
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Hated new Yahoo boss totally ready to get working -- just as soon as he's back from vacation [Ash Patel]
Yahoos like Ash Patel personally. They just think he's an inept manager, uninspiring leader and kind of lazy. But good fortune and Jerry Yang's disregard for his own reputation among the troops have... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
George Reyes walks away from Google with around $300 million [Hires]
Outgoing Google CFO George Reyes might have been called an "idiot" behind his back, but in the immortal words of the Wu Tang Clan's Method Man, "Cash rules everything around me, C.R.E.A.M. get the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Pyromaniacal artist Paul Addis gets one to four years for arson [Crime]
Paul Addis, who was remembered fondly at the Mozilla 10th anniversary party, has been sentenced to serv 12-48 months in prison and pay $25,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to prematurely... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Behold the Google Office Toilet
Made by Toto (no, not this Toto, but a swank Japanese company) , Google employees at their California offices can release their urine and evacuate their bowels like space-age kings using this ultra-modern and terrible chic toilet. Not happy with merely wiping, Google employees have the option…
Web companies and their Hollywood starlet doppelgangers [Startups]
How does a headhunter explain the startups like Twitter to professionals who might know their AJAX from the elbow? With a quick and dirty analogy comparing Web companies to celebrities. The favored... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Only millenials get Random Play on Facebook [Geek Love]
If you were over 30 years old when you signed up for Facebook, you never got the option to look for "Random Play" — that's what the "kids" are calling it now. The new No Fun regime at Facebook... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Was Tatiana the Tiger Just Hungry?
Speculations are being thrown around that Tatiana the tiger was "underfed," possibly urging her to go on a fatal eating binge last Christmas. It seems that when Tatiana arrived at the SF Zoo in December 2005, she came in at a normal 292 pounds. But when she was killed by the SFPD last…
Skatebook Release Party, New SF Skate Park Grand Opening
Photo by Ando Caulfield (By Travis Jensen -- welcome hi, won't you? Jensen will be chiming in at SFist now and then, and we're elated to have him aboard.) Skatebook release party Celebrate the release of the second issue of Skatebook tonight at FTC Skate Shop in Upper Haight. Skatebook is…
ICANN haz unlimited domain suffixes? [Icann]
Soon the days of just .com and .org and .net will be replaced with .whatevs and .moar as the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers approved a proposal to allow the creation of unlimited... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFO ridership jumps 65%
Ridership surges on BART to San Francisco International Airport service.
Valleywag fetishist seeks same on Craigslist [Geek Love]
Our secret girl admirer writes, "The perfect, shared Sunday for me would consist of..." among other things, fighting over the Sunday Times and fondling iPhones. After an art flick, "[w]e could catch... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
A good way to tell RockYou you don't want to work there [Silicon Valley Users Guide]
Wantrepreneur Kyle Brady got a call from a recruiter the other day, he writes on his blog. The recruiter wanted Brady to take a job with widgetmaker RockYou. We thought the skeptics among you might... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Accident Shuts Down 880 In San Leandro, Kills Two
All but one southbound lane of Highway 880 in San Leandro has been shutdown after a big rig accident occurred around 9:30 a.m. this morning, near the Marina Blvd. exit. it seems that the big rig "crashed while attempting to avoid a vehicle fire," says CBS 5. In addition to fuel spilling across…