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weGo T-Shirt By Chop Shop Featuring 55 Famous Vehicles
The guys from Chop Shop have come out with another great t-shirt weGo featuring silhouettes of 55 famous vehicles. 55 different vehicles from film, television, children’s books, video games and two with rock credentials. Can you figure out all 55? There is even a few bikes, vans and flying…
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Breaking Sports News: Baron Davis Flakes On Us, Opts Out of Warriors Contract
Our apologies if you actually count on this site for breaking sports news, because if so it is our sad duty to inform you that Baron Davis has opted out of his contract and is probably finished as a Golden State Warrior. Yes, the same Baron Davis who has been reiterating for some time that…
Link: David Tennant is made of awesome (Bad Astronomy)
I read the Doctor Who story Human Nature back when it was a novel about the Seventh Doctor and remembered this bit about pears that was edited out of the broadcast version.
Day Around the Bay
British woman jumps off Golden Gate Bridge because of l'internet, or something like that. [Daily Mail UK]The Pagoda Theater, starring loads and loads of pigeon shit. [Curbed]Dolores Park, it seems, has lots of problems. We had no idea. [SF Weekly]Famous faces of Sunday's Pride parade.…
Would You Pay to Use Twitter?
(By Eyleen Tavy) If you're reading SFist, chances are you're familiar with local social media company Twitter (and if you're not, well, Eye on Blogs' Brittany Gilbert is more than happy to explain it to you in the video clip above.) Now, we like Twitter (maybe not as much as Brittany does…
How Jimmy Wales gets the ladies [The Sum Of All Human Knowledge]
We've always wondered how a schlubby guy like Jimmy Wales sees so much action. It can't be the I-founded-Wikipedia-can-I-edit-your-page pickup lines — for every Rachel Marsden he lands with those,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Bono agrees with U2 manager's attack on Internet service providers [Digital Music]
U2 frontman Bono disagreed with manager Paul McGuinness's judgment on the failure of Radiohead's Web busking for In Rainbows, but like McGuinness, he lays the blame for the death of the music... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
FILM: Please. Go see Encounters at the End of the World. Now. Werner Herzog directs and narrates this Antarctic documentary, and his commentary is hysterical. Just... go see for yourself. German nuttiness at its most brilliant, people. 7:00 p.m. & 9:35 // Lumiere (1572 California) //…
Arnold Schwarzenegger slashes Tesla's taxes to keep electric cars in California [Cleantech]
newVideoPlayer("/schwarzenegger_tesla.flv", 494, 178,""); Arnold Schwarzenegger dropped by a Tesla Motors workshop today to announce a tax-break deal. The exemption wooed Tesla execs to move a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Broken mug best Yahoo analogy yet? [Caption Contest]
With Jerry Yang and company trying to pick up the pieces, shattered glass might be a better analogy than "systematic rot," but it's been used before. Have a better analogy? The best one will become... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
What Craigslist can and can't do about "daughters selling their bodies" [Sex Trade]
newVideoPlayer("/buckmaster_cnn.flv", 494, 279,""); After last week's FBI sting conducted in concert with local law enforcement, in which 389 arrests netted 21 underage prostitutes, including four in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Dogs in Cafes, y/n?
With her pet pooch in tow, Kaili Oteri over at SF Metblogs had an unfortunate encounter at a local cafe over the weekend while waiting in line. It seems some "foul man-pile" verbally assaulted her because her dog was in her arms at coffee joint. Having your dog at a cafe, it seems, it against…
The Bullitt San Francisco Chase Scene Geocoded & Mapped
guest post by RICK! I know this will take all the fun out of street spotting, but “Steve McQueen“, has geocoded the famous chase scene from Bullitt. I love to see them magically teleport from Mission, to North Beach, to Marina Greens to Daly City for a fiery finish. via metafilter…
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Louis Vuitton awarded $63 million in suit against eBay [Copyfight]
Luxury goods manufacturers have been increasingly protective of brands, and Parisian courts have sided with homegrown companies against eBay twice now with a ruling against the online auction site in... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
KCBS Traffic Plane Crash Lands In Oakland
Holy smokes! A plane just crash landed in the East Bay, landing "in a rock quarry near an Interstate 80 on-ramp in Oakland." According to KCBS, "the nose of the Cessna 172 stopped near a sand pile in a vacant lot, just south of the West Grand Avenue on-ramp to westbound Interstate 80 near the…
Join SF Giants at the Annual Golf Classic
In March, I wrote about the Play Ball Lunch -- an annual fundraiser for the Junior Giants, where San Francisco Giants players, alumni, broadcasters and fans mingle for a great...
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Tech-sector sissies hide from SF Pride weekend [Totally Gay]
The image associated with this post is best viewed using a browser. The most shocking sight at yesterday's SF Pride parade wasn't the contingent of marching Googlers. It wasn't the Yahoo booth... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Yahoo CEO tries to convince shareholders Microsoft never wanted to merge [Jerry Yang]
Perhaps you remember the morning of February 1, 2008, when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made public his intentions to purchase Yahoo at $31 per share. Or maybe you recall Ballmer's angry letter on... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Internal management org chart for CBS and CNET [Acquisitions]
Quincy Smith will serve as CEO and Neil Ashe will serve as president at CBS Interactive in the wake of the now-completed acquisition of CNET by CBS. And those are just the juicy meatballs atop a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
What Happened to Violet Blue's Posts?
As former SFist editors Eve Batey and Jackson West have already asked, just what in heaven's name happened to former SFist contributor Violet Blue's posts on Boing Boing? It seems that they have deleted her ouvre from their archives. West suggest that she might have "rubbed someone at Boing…
The Animation Show Year 4
The Animation Show is back for it’s 4th year SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Animation Show Year 4", url: "http://laughingsquid.com/the-animation-show-year- 4/" });
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SF International LGBT Film Festival: The Kinsey Sicks: Almost Infamous
(By SFist MiHi Ahn) The Kinsey Sicks is one of those San Francisco acts we've been hearing about for years, but never managed to see in-person. Alas. But much to our delight, The Kinsey Sicks: Almost Infamous gave us the opportunity to see them on the big screen, and made us regret not…
Triple threat Craig Newmark auditions for role as "Obama Boy" [Politics]
newVideoPlayer("/obama_boy.flv", 494, 370,""); At the Personal Democracy Forum last week, Barely Political sent correspondent Amber Lee "Obama Girl" Ettinger to ask attendees what they though about... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Why LinkedIn's getting into the insider-trading business [Bad Ideas]
You'd think LinkedIn management, which has made no secret of its plans to take its automated schmoozefest public, would be trying to avoid trouble with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Not so.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Gunshots or Fireworks?
What with Fourth of July just around the corner, police departments all around the Bay Area tend to get flooded with calls mistaking gunfire for fireworks. How can you tell the difference? Well, Precita.org informs us that "gunshots are usually fired in closer succession, often 1-2 shots per…
How to sell your software for $20,000 a pop [Silicon Valley Users Guide]
Weary of the ad-supported world of Web 2.0? Outside the echo chamber of Silicon Valley, there are software developers who write code that won't change the world, but that customers will pay real,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
One Yahoo's rant on reorgs, outsourcing search and "Yahoo's best era ever" [100-Word Version]
After a week of more reorgs a frustrated Yahoo emailed Fortune's Adam Lashinsky. At a thousand words or so, it's the sarcastic and vitriolic rant of a madman. It dove Lashinksky to ask: "Does Yahoo’s... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!…
A Conversation with Author Craig Seymour
As a journalist, Craig Seymour has gotten superstars such as Luther Vandross, Janet Jackson, Mary J. Blige and Mariah Carey to open up about the most private aspects of their lives. In his current...
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Hands Off the Cells, Drivers
Remember, you can no longer prattle away on your phones while driving after the mandatory hands-free cell phone law goes into effect tomorrow. And while the new law will not be as enforced as, say, the Click It or Ticket seatbelt rule, which became a car-ride standard over two decades ago,…
SFist Watches: Your Locals On Reality TV
"Your Locals" took a break last week because the "Top Chef" reunion was a total let-down, aside from Jen and Zoi coyly refusing to discuss the status of their relationship, which was essentially the same as shouting at the top of their lungs that they had broken up. There was not near enough…
We are experiencing technical difficulties [Housekeeping]
Apologies, folks: In an attempt to cope with your ever-growing love for Valleywag, we've experienced a massive systems failure. And for this I came back from vacation? [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Homey Soybean Milk
My Midwestern parents live at the epicenter of the soybean industry, but tracking down whole beans still requires a 45-minute drive to the nearest Asian market. We all consume soybean in some form every day, yet few know what the bean even looks like. Tofu has come a long way in the US from its…
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Rhapsody finally jumps on board the magic MP3 music bus [Music]
RealNetworks freeing its Rhapsody music store offerings from copy-protection chains is about "going after a larger audience and making a better customer service experience available to people,"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Photos: Queer Pride Parade Party, Genitalia, Faerie Village, and More
KRON 4's two bestest fag-hags (Catherine Heenhan, Jan Wahl) and some sleep-deprived chick with a dick (Donna Sachet) inexplicably managed to do a somewhat decent job covering this year's pride parade. (Bonus points go to their field reporter, Henry Tenenbaum, who didn't know how to pronounce…
Coming Soon: A Noe Valley “Masterpiece In Progress” (625 Duncan)
According to its website, 625 Duncan is “a masterpiece in progress” and “estimated to be marketed in Fall 2008.” Four bedrooms, four and one-half baths, and a one bedroom apartment. And the anticipated asking price? $6,250,000 (only slightly below...
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Stolen Artwork
See how sad the man is? Help him find his way back home. The two pieces at right by Barry McGee and Clare Rojas were stolen from the RVCA gallery last week. (We hear this isn't the first time McGee's art has been stolen -- lame!) The two pieces are from permanent/private collections, and…