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Red dawn. [CBS 5] Your 2008 Mission Creek Music Festival lineup. [MCMF] Queers can no longer afford to live in the Castro, Supervisor Bevan Dufty pretends to care. [BAR] Headcheese hate. [Nature abhors a vacuum] Bill Gates last day at Microsoft. Sob! [Valleywag] Ballot measures assigned…
A week in which spellcheck failed us [Recap]
I have to say, after a week spent putting up with everyone clamoring for our fearless leader Owen Thomas to return from a well-deserved vacation, no one will give him a warmer welcome back than I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Artists Toured 10′ Headless Chicken Carcass Around Milwaukee
In 2006 artists Nicolas Lampert and Micaela O’Herlihy created a gigantic Attention Chicken! which they toured around Milwaukee generating mixed reactions. Nicolas Lampert and Micaela O’Herlihy created a ten-foot rotisserie chicken out of polystyrene foam, hard coated, and then painted with…
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Queer Pride Stuff to Do This Weekend
(Image at right goes out to all of the female-loving ladies and real men out there. You're welcome.) What with Pride Weekend flouncing around the corner, here a few things to do this weekend. Have fun, gays! TONIGHT -- Charlie Horse: No Pride No Shame, tonight, 10 p.m., The Cinch…
Bill Gates third act a story of redemption for the fallen geek hero? [Exits]
Microsoft co-founder, former CEO and executive chairman Bill Gates should be just about wrapping up his last day as a full-time employee of Microsoft and moving on to head up the Bill and Melinda... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Carl Icahn says he'll blog-troll Yahoo soon, promise! [Blogging For Dollars]
Carl Icahn has finally gotten his online soapbox working so that he can start talking candidly about his proxy battle with Yahoo board, but posts so far have been few and far between. Some are noting... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Is It the '70s All Over Again?
We snapped the above photo at everyone's favorite traffic mess - the Arco station on Fell and Divisadero. The sign on the fence reminded me of photos we'd seen of gas shortages back before we were sentient, but happily for drivers, this isn't the harbinger of shortages or rationing. The…
Obama campaign wunderkinds Blue State Digital could use new names [Politics]
Visiting Barack Obama's social network is like taking home the nice, all-natural hippie deodorant you know is better for you. Only it's on the internet, and they want you to invite your friends, and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photo du Jour 157
Photo by (the phenomenal) Darwin Bell "I never will forget Jeanette MacDonald..."
Thanks to This Week's Advertisers
We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist. Zipcar, cars by the hour or day, just around the corner. Sign up now and get $50 in driving credit! MATCHA at the Asian Art Museum, with the Sound of the Sages on July 3rd. American Apparel, where you can buy everything…
Firefox fans celebrate latest launch by buidling robot [Caption Contest]
Spotted in Dolores Park, a group of Firefox 3 fans building a robot from household items. Can you suggest a better headline? Do so in the comments. The best one will become the new headline.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Firefox fans celebrate latest launch by building robot [Caption Contest]
Spotted in Dolores Park, a group of Firefox 3 fans building a robot from household items. Can you suggest a better headline? Do so in the comments. The best one will become the new headline.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Only our sponsors get Random Play on Facebook [Sponsors]
Who keeps us over-thirties in skin cream, health club membership fees and fresh produce bursting with age-defying anti-oxidants from the farmer's market so that we can look young enough to pass on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Napster shareholders demand $280 million valuation [Startups]
Napster is still trying to prove that it can sell MP3s, but for some Napster shareholders fighting a proxy battle to get representation on the board, they'd prefer the company was for sale, and at a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SF Crime Cameras Suck
Ever since those shiny yet useless crime cameras were installed around the city's areas of concern back in '05, there has "only been one arrest attributed to the $900,000 spy system since they were put up." What's more, they scare no one, it seems, so the "scarecrow strategy," sucks. Awesome.…
Special girl-run Internet will be porn-free, but still quite pink [Collegehumor]
CollegeHumor, the Internet's most unlikely feminist website? They've originated the homosocially delicious Jake and Amir Show, had a breakaway hit with the sex worker rights' paean "Moments Before 2... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Why outsource when you can replace humans entirely? [E-commerce]
When online shoe retailer Zappos isn't paying newly trained employees to leave the company, it's replacing them entirely. Robots developed by Kiva Systems zip around a Zappos warehouse picking up... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
FILM: The SF International LGBT Film Festival continues its week-long swish, so if you haven't seen one of their fine flicks yet, then consider yourself an upside-down pink square. Tonight's features being Butch Jamie (about something gay) and the joyous punctuated Otto; or, Up with Dead…
Harvard Business Review pins The Long Tail on the donkey [The Wrong Tail]
Harvard associate professor Anita Elberse has penned a long article for the Harvard Business Review that used data from Rhapsody and Australian DVD-by-mail distributor Quickflix to demonstrate that... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Fail Whale Ate My Balls, Celebrate Twitter Downtime With Style
“Fail Whale Ate My Balls”, featuring the legendary Twitter Fail Whale, is the latest in the wonderful line of t-shirts available through Mule Design Studio’s Feed Store. The Fail Whale shirts will ship mid-July. Can’t get enough of the ubiquitous Fail Whale? Then join The…
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Link: 1972 Life story about BART (photos)
Our transit system is not quite as futuristic as it was in the 1970's.
SF Muder Toll Hits 53
While the fuzz protects the gays and their wallets during Pride season, SF ticked another notch on its murder board. A neighborhood car mechanic, William Amrull, 50, was found shot to death near his Bernel Heights home, on the sidewalk near Holly Park Circle and Newman Street. "This had to…
They're Not Building Any More Land Condos Across The Bay
"Oakland's condo building boom has ground to a near halt. While construction has continued on existing projects, Patton said no new projects have broken ground during the first half of 2008. A June report on the East Bay condo market...
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Verizon CEO thinks iPhone hype is a "conspiracy" [Quotable]
Obviously tired of being pestered with questions about iPhone this and Steve Jobs that, Verizon CEO Ivan Seidenberg put on a tinfoil hat and sat down for an interview with the Financial Times: He... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
They're Not Building Any More Land New Condos Across The Bay
"Oakland's condo building boom has ground to a near halt. While construction has continued on existing projects, Patton said no new projects have broken ground during the first half of 2008. A June report on the East Bay condo market...
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Yahoo plagued by "systematic rot" says Om Malik []
While almost every technology and business publication, including Valleywag, has been all Yahoo, all the time. Between the Microsoft merger talks, proxy board battle with Carl Icahn and employees... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Judge rules that Valleywag can't be held responsible for our commenters [Lawsuits]
Okay, it wasn't a case actually involving Valleywag, but ConsumerAffairs.com. Virgina judge Gerald Bruce Lee cited the Communications Decency Act in absolving the Web site and company of any... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Soma Grand (1160 Mission) BMR Applications Are Now Available
Applications are now available for the 29 Below Market Rate (BMR) condos at Soma Grand. Seventeen one-bedrooms ($217,868 - $221,698), eleven two-bedrooms ($240,266 - $246,664), and one three-bedroom ($275,739). All prices exclude parking (spaces available for an additional $45,000). These...
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Gates gives Yahoo deal the nay-no [Exits]
The Bill Gates media express rolls on as Gates powers down his infernally unusable computer at Redmond today, but he's leaving as a prophet. In an interview with Tom Brokaw, he notes that any Yahoo... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Soundwave>Series 3: EnviroSonic Tonight
Tonight at The Lab, audience-interactive EnviroSonic kicks off season three of the critically acclaimed Soundwave>Series, a two-month long exploration of sonic art. Homeland Security put a little wrinkle in tonight's event by not letting Canadian artists Sam McKinlay and Christian Nicolay…
Happy Transgender Pride from Facebook! [Facebook]
Facebook announced today that even though users are now required to specify their gender on the site, it is still possible to "remove gender entirely from your account." The impulse behind the change... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Intuit gives 575 employees permanent, unpaid vacations [Layoffs]
In a press release yesterday, financial software company Intuit announced a realignment, and by realignment, they mean laying off seven percent of the company's workforce — mostly in finance,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Scores and Highlights: Shaq Is the New Peaches
(By Joe Kukura) You've seen that filthy online “Shaquille O’Neal rapping” video? The one so obscene that even Biggie Smalls would have told him to tone it down?. [TMZ.com] Spain against Germany Sunday for the Euro 2008 championship. And, yes, this is what the foreign people in your…
Behold Dimitri the Stud/Stalker
Sent to some bodyshot-partying Marina chick, Dimitri's desperate voicemails had us at "Greek," and "maybe you were abused in childhood." Swoon. Thank you, Mr. West, for sending this our way.
San Francisco Magazine Is Plugged-In (Not That They Weren’t Before)
Our thanks to San Francisco Magazine for identifying SocketSite as one of the 217 best things about the Bay Area in 2008 (“Best Source For Real Estate Info”). And while we’re officially biased, great party last night (and even...
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In the "Wild West" of Erotic Services, does community policing prevail? [Sex Trade]
On the sex worker message board mypinkbook, escorts are working their nerves over some messy moderation on the Craigslist help forums. Like when one woman's ad got flagged for being "a little... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
JumpTV rejects MySpace creator Brad Greenspan's takeover bid [Brad Greenspan]
Brad Greenspan swears he was the guy who actually created MySpace. Chris DeWolfe and everybody's friend Tom Anderson? They stole the idea from him! (After he stole it from Friendster!) Anyway, you'd... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Zombies creator OK with being "the jackass" on Facebook [Widgets]
Blake Commagere created the all the widgets you hate most on Facebook — the Zombies, Werewolves, Vampires and Slayers. The ones that spam you with bites and inspired knockoffs like Pirates and Ninjas... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!…