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Mayor Newsom Launches Formal Bid for 2010 Governor's Race
It seems Gavin took his biggest step yet away from San Francisco and toward Sacramento today. According to the Sacto Bee, San Francisco Mayor Newsom "launched an exploratory committee Tuesday to consider a 2010 run for governor." This makes San Francisco 40-year-old mayor the first Democrat to…
Google silencing Obama critics? Memo to New York Times bloggers: ur doing it rong [Great Moments In Journalism]
"Did Google use its network of online services to silence critics of Barack Obama?" asks New York Times reporter Miguel Helft today, in what reads like the Gray Lady's attempt to do Valleywag-style... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Valleywag emeritus Nick Douglas's new comedy show [Where Are They Now]
When we at Valleywag discussed writing up founding editor Nick Douglas's new comedy show, Blank White Cards, associate editor Jackson West chimed in: I'm avoiding that show with a ten foot pole. I... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Joss Whedon hopes to tease fans into buying DVDs of his musical [Online Video]
In the futuristic wild west of online video, one imagines Firefly creator Joss Whedon would be just the man to figure out a decent business model while actually putting on a good show. Whedon intends... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
CBS logo appears at CNET headquarters [Caption Contest]
With the takeover of CNET by CBS Interactive complete, the parent company's signature logo in the subsidiary's signature orange watches over employees at the San Francisco office. Have a better... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Why did Microsoft buy Powerset? Not for founder Barney Pell [Exits]
Microsoft has confirmed its $100 million purchase of Powerset, the overhyped search engine whose buzz flared and fizzled last year. Cofounder Barney Pell, whom investors pushed out of his CEO seat... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Blogfights: A 100-word history [Feuds]
Nearly ten years before Violet Blue vs. Boing Boing, the Internet's early bloggers discovered their new medium's killer application: Personal spats. Radar Online blogger Choire Sicha, angling for his... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Snarky McF*ckButtons - Wear What You’re *Really* Thinking
guest post by Simone Davalos We’ve been wearing these little ditties around for a while now, since they mysteriously turned up by the bucketful for RoboexoticUS last spring, courtesy that lovable artistic misanthrope, CTP. CTP has been making buttons for years for various reasons, and he…
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After A Near-Fatality When A Child Fell Into A Hole Dug By Geologists
"Well, if those gynecologists hadn't left that hole uncovered...."OVERHEARD BY PATRICIA
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Big Sur, Monterey Residents Evacuate
Folks in Big Sur have been asked told to evacuate due to the uncontrollable wildfire still roaring through the Basin Complex. The mandatory evacuation will go into effect at 5 p.m. today. In addition to staying safe from the blaze, firefighters need residents out in order to perform "burning…
Jason Calacanis says ex-AOL CEO Jon Miller is the man for you, Yahoos [Recommendations]
Before creating the world's most comprehensive list of videogame cheats, Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis worked at AOL under then-CEO Jon Miller. Calacanis joined AOL only after it bought Weblogs Inc.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
CNET legal objection might reveal Mark Zuckerberg's private IM transcripts [Lawsuits]
The legal case opened by ConnectU founders Cameron Winklevoss, Tyler Winklevoss and Divya Narendra against Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is closed, but the courtroom drama continues. CNET has filed an... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Apple beats Microsoft on Greenpeace environmental index [Cleantech]
The dirty little secret behind the keyboard-tapping, button-mashing, cell phone-yapping, Valley lifestyle? Electronics manufacturing and waste are incredibly toxic. The cycle of planned obsolescence... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Martha Stewart boss on online advertising: "Machines don't create art" [Online Advertising]
newVideoPlayer("/Millard.flv", 506, 423,""); Is Martha Stewart co-CEO Wenda Harris Millard, a former Yahoo executive, a bit ungrateful? In this excerpt from an interview with BoomTown's Kara Swisher,... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
SFist Tonight
MUSIC: If you dig jazz, hear why guitarist Terrence Brewer nabbed the 2007 SF Weekly Music Award for best jazz/blues artist. He throws down his groovy, guitar-y beats over in the Mission. 8 p.m. // Intersection for the Arts (446 Valencia Street) // $10 - $25 FILM: Another film festival?…
Fox Interactive's $350 million new offices [Real Estate]
Poor Yahoo can't even keep tenants at the Yahoo Center in Santa Monica — Fox Interactive Media will be moving all 2,000 of its Los Angeles-area employees to the as-yet-uncompleted Horizon at Playa... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Stinky Corpse Flower in Bloom - Berkeley Botanical Garden
It's supposed to smell like decomposing flesh and rotting fish. But during our visit with the esteemed corpse flower today, it politely refrained from pulsating and smelling up the joint....
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Engadget's top editor leaving for vague new startup [Rumormonger]
Ryan Block, the perpetually-in-hyperdrive head of consumer electronics superblog Engadget, is quitting the site after two years to launch a new site with his predecessor, blog millionaire and RCRD... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Valleywag's latest hire already making enemies [Online Advertising]
newVideoPlayer("/DexterAdCampaign.flv", 506, 423,""); Here's a newscast that has us worried about Valleywag's latest hire, Paul Boutin. Either that or it's one of the better viral online ad campaigns... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
We Know You Can Kick Akit's Ass
(By Eyleen Tavy) Akit's Complaint Department which is "dedicated to Akit's long list of really bad things he has experienced," is one of our local faves, despite that rather daunting description. Today he posted some alternatives to the local slogans listed in the Chronicle article on the…
One Ecker Place Update: The Condos Rentals Condos Get Unwrapped
The protective wrapper is on its way down over at One Ecker Place (as captured by a plugged-in tipster). And yes, after a brief 180 that quickly turned into a totally radical 360, the sales office for those 51...
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Natali Del Conte the adorable face of CBS-CNET synergy [Acquisitions]
newVideoPlayer("/del_conte_early.flv", 494, 369,""); Never mind corporate meatballs like Neil Ashe and Quincy Smith — how's perky CNET correspondent Natali Del Conte faring in the wake of CBS... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Milk Club D3 Forum Live blog
Tonight is the District 3 Supervisor forum. I'll blog it as long as I can stand it, and as long as I have an internet connection. Aaron Peskin will introduce the panel, Debra Walker will moderate. Milk Vice-president Catherine Cusic is giving the ground rules. Peskin introducing the debate…
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Digg CEO Jay Adelson a dead ringer for male model [Superficial]
News.com reporter Caroline McCarthy could have sworn she saw Digg CEO Jay Adelson at a party for RealNetworks last night. But Adelson, pictured left, was in San Francisco. So who was it? One... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Boing Boing Responds to Violet Blue Brouhaha
Impishly adding fuel to the fire, yesterday we asked about the drama surrounding the removal of Violet Blue's writing on Boing Boing. And today BB responded, saying a) the sex scribe's work can be found "indexed on the Wayback Machine," b) they weren't trying to silence her, that "there's a…
BART expands service for July 4 holiday weekend
Longer trains will accommodate fans of fireworks, baseball
Big Sur Fires Rage On
There's a new website and information hub for the Big Sur fires: SurFire2008.org. If you need housing or can offer housing -- want to make a donation, volunteer for the...
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Rocchi's Retro Rental: Super-Sized and Super-Stupid
Idiocracy (2006) Between WALL-E's mountains of trash, my just having finished reading the gruesomely compelling book Horsemen of the Esophagus: Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American...
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How Boing Boing disappeared its blog authenticity [Blogging For Dollars]
As new media gets big, it remains small at heart — and not in a good way. Boing Boing, the popular tech-culture blog, has offered a tardy defense of its mass deletion of posts mentioning a sex... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Did the Internet's free-speech guardians try to hush up a girl-on-girl love affair? [Boing Boing]
As new media gets big, it remains small at heart — and not in a good way. Boing Boing, the popular tech-culture blog, has offered a tardy defense of its mass deletion of posts mentioning a sex... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Google's Ad Planner no threat to Nielsen, ComScore [Online Advertising]
Media buyers and major publishers say that despite ComScore shareholders' worries, Google's Ad Planner, which provides Web metrics and demographic data to online advertisers, won't dislodge... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Yahoo shares drop below $20 for first time since Microsoft bid [Yahoo]
The last time Yahoo shares traded before Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced an offer to buy Yahoo, they cost $19.18. Today, for the first time since that offer, Yahoo shares sank below $20 to a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Vegas: Lotus of Siam
Lotus of Siam, a Thai restaurant in Las Vegas, has been lauded as the best Thai restaurant in the country by some of the most well-known critics around. It is known for it’s excruciating attention to detail with sauces and depth of flavor, its expansive German wine list, and its low-key,…
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Potrero del Sol Skatepark Open for Business
The new Potrero del Sol/La Raza Skatepark officially opened last Saturday in San Francisco’s Mission District. Hundreds of skateboarders came out for the occasion. Mayor Newsom and Jennifer Siebel were even in attendance. With lattes in hand, the two watched in awe as local rippers…
Mallrats are so nineties [Valleywag Calendar]
Dump your Orange Julius at the nearest Sears, The Churchill Club is hosting a panel on eCommerce. Adam Lashinsky, Senior Writer at Fortune, moderates bigwigs from Pay Pal, VeriSign, MyBuys, and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Listed Sales Activity In San Francisco: Down 25-30% In June (YOY)
As you know, San Francisco’s inventory of listed single-family homes, condos, and TICs is currently running 34% higher on a year-over-year basis. As you might not know, on a year-over-year basis sales activity of said homes is running 25-30% lower....
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Apple to sell iPhones without AT&T contracts [Apple]
US customers will be able to purchase new iPhones without locking themselves into a two-year contract with AT&T. It'll just cost an extra $400 — $599 for one with 8 gigabytes of storage, $699 for one... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!…
American Family Association Auto-Replace Follies
For reasons we still cannot comprehend, the American Family Association's OneNewsNow site started replacing the word "gay" with the word "homosexual" in any Associated Press story they run. And while many news sites have picked up on the sheer hilarity over the AFA's recent article about track…