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Fro-yo arrives in North Beach. (Only you can prevent the frozen yogurt trend's momentum.) [Eater] More trustifarians come down from their tree fort at UCB. [SFGate] Big Sur evacuated. [AP] Best beaches in Northern California to tan your cock or flower. [SFBG] Muni hot or not: Church…
Neil Young to fix iTunes' sucky audio quality once and for all [The Olds]
"Putting on a headphone and listening to an MP3 is like hell," 62-year-old rock eccentric Neil Young has said, while praising the sonic qualities of old vinyl records. Now, taking a clue from the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Osento to Wash Its Final Vagina
Our enablers over at Curbed have word that Osento -- the city's only hot tub and "sauna refuge" for (biological) females -- will close its doors for good. What goes on inside the sugar walls of Osento, located on Valencia Street? We can only imagine; clucking about boys, stickers, My Little…
Obama's old-media campaign [Politics]
The great myth of every presidential campaign since 1996: This is the year that the Internet changes everything. The Valley would like to take credit for Barack Obama's coronation as the Democratic... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Is the Asperger's Gambit today's Twinkie Defense? [Hans Reiser]
Attorneys for software developer and convicted murder Hans Reiser are now trying to convince a judge and jury that their client is "mentally incompetent," having portrayed what looked like attempts... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
On Facebook, nobody knows you're not a whore [Sex Trade]
The only thing worse than having potential johns ringing your mobile at all hours? Not actually working in the sex industry, but having the same call-screening woes. 23-year-old Brit Kerry Harvey... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Multi-millionaire Hotmail founder Sabeer Bhatia gets married [Caption Contest]
Sabeer Bhatia, the Hotmail founder who gleaned a cool $400 million in the email startup's sale to Microsoft, got married this year to the gorgeous Tanya Sharma, heiress to the Baidyanath Group... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
MySpace's parking hell [Cubicle Culture]
Lost amidst the hullabaloo over Fox's $350 million new LA headquarters for MySpace and its other Web properties: Just how bad the parking is at MySpace's current office. A former employees tells me... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Judicial Smackdown: Kopp Hates Harris
Just when we thought that the Violet Blue vs. Boing Boing altercation was the only good fight going, a tipster reports that in month's issue of California Lawyer, the following rant was in letters to the editor: I am accustomed to your glib political correctness, but you merit condemnation…
On the Wrong Side of the Law
We're not sure if you've noticed, but as of yesterday, the new cell phone law has gone into effect. That's right: no more talky while driving, unless you've got a hands-free device for your phone. Yesterday, while we were out, law breakers were being pulled over left and right. It's a great…
Michael Robertson's latest deal nowhere to be found on his who's-rich cheatsheet [Linspire]
When last we heard from Michael Robertson, the slick-tongued domain-name speculator who likes to pose as a businessman, he was starting Dealipedia, a website where people are meant to disclose who... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Siebel vs. Shriver
If you're anything like us, you decide who you want running your country, state, and/or city based off of their spouse. And if you're even more like us, you love pitting women against each other in order to keep the patriarchal system running smoothly. That said, who would you prefer as…
1,259 insults on one page [MetaFilter]
As a human being with a soul in there somewhere, I've avoided blogging about the Xeni-Violet scandal. But as a wannabe comedy writer, I found myself obsessively poring over the 1,200-plus Metafilter... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Mahalo now 73 percent more like Wikipedia [Search]
If, like me, you've been tricked by super-cute bulldogs into trying Jason Calacanis's Mahalo search engine, you've probably been disappointed by some of Mahalo's results pages. Calacanis has a new... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Pacific Northwest Beware of The Curse of the Goddamned Ship
guest post by mikl-em A crooked ship is sailing north from San Francisco right now, tacking its way across small stages in Oregon and Washington over the next two weeks. The Curse of the Goddamned Ship by Stars & Garters Theater Company is like Gorey and Burton shanghaied by Bukowski (got…
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Vinod Khosla bets on all the horses, but saddles up with Obama campaign [Politics]
Accel Partners' Joe Schoendorf has asserted in the past that betting against venture capitalist Vinod Khosla is a good way to lose money. One reason why is because Khosla covers his bets — in the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
City Attorney Dennis Herrera Signed on to the Boycott of the HRC Dinner
Great news! City Attorney Dennis Herrera just contacted Pride at Work to say that he will not be attending the HRC Dinner. This is particularly good news since HRC promised to award him for his work on Marriage Equality. Dennis deserves great praise for getting it. Namaste Dennis.
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'Depends What The Meaning Of "Big" Is'
"No, the 32 double-A is just too big."OVERHEARD BY PATRICIA
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Steve Jobs accused of fraud in class-action suit [Lawsuits]
Last Friday, shareholder plaintiffs filed suit against San Jose District Court against Apple CEO Steve Jobs, former CFO Fred Anderson, ex-general counsel Nancy Heinen, and members of the company's... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Facebook's F8 schedule in plain English [Developers, Developers, Developers]
Facebook released its schedule for its second annual F8 developers' conference on July 23. Facebook's servile, so-called independent developers have three tracks to choose from: "User Experience,"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Microsoft still pushing Icahn onward in proxy fight [Yahoo Raid]
After selling Yahoo entirely to Micosoft, corporate raider Carl Icahn's second choice for Yahoo was for it to outsource search advertising to Google. That happened. And since then, Icahn's been... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
The SocketSite (Reader's) Scoop: Daly's Two-Unit TIC Legislation DOA
We've fielded more than our fair share of questions and concerns over the past month regarding Supervisor Daly's proposal to require two-unit buildings to participate in San Francisco's condo-conversion lottery. And just as we were about to publish a summary,...
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Hot Stuff Food Section Round Up
Did someone say sausage? San Francisco Chronicle: Sausage fest coming soon to a Fourth of July grill near you. "Global flavors" on the handmade sausage marketplace include: lemongrass and curry, lamb with lavender, and habanero peppers. Vote in the comments for your fave grill item,…
Sometimes, flights get canceled for a reason
After spending a lovely weekend visiting my friends Kate and Jeff in our nation's capital, they very kindly woke up at 6am on Sunday and drove me all the way out to Dulles where I was to catch my...
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IBM employee directory mocks your company's lameness [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
Tech companies like to babble about openness and transparency. But try finding an engineer's phone number. Standard procedure is to hide company telephone and email directories from external... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Big Sur's Fire Devastation Is Your Gain!
Turn that frown upside-down bourgeois staycationers (oy, that word). While Big Sur sears until it's golden brown, the coastal town has turned into somewhat of a ghost town. And now, according to 71Miles' John Vlahides, some of the area's nicest hotels and R&R spots have lower their prices to…
Photo du Jour 161
Photo by exuberance/Flickr The best place to smoke a joint while you're waiting for you ecstasy to kick in before you spend the day at the Exploratorium, it seems, is undergoing some sort of face lift.
Microsoft's $240 million not enough to make Facebook Internet Explorer-compatible [Browser Wars]
Facebook's list of supported browsers does not include one that's proven relatively popular (if by hook or by crook) — Microsoft Internet Explorer. As blogger Dan Lewis points out, Microsoft may have... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!…
"She Fricken Blocked Me" [Clips]
This oustandingly well-done music video is nearly a year old. But even online-TV maven Nick Douglas says he's never seen it, so it's today's mindless lunchtime entertainment. Tip for the Olds: The... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
City Awards Muni Victim $2 Million
Remember that lady who was struck by an N-Judah on Irving Street earlier this year in January? The victim, Dina Gryn, lost part of her leg after the accident, so SF is ponying up a cool $2 million. While trying to cross Ninth Avenue on a green light, an outbound train smacked her, resulting in…
Art Adventures: Phoebe Washer
I always knew that one day I would cover Phoebe Washer 's work on my art blog. I was an instant fan from the first time I saw a piece of hers in a group show at HeeBe JeeBe's Boomerang...
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Can You Really Have Your Eco-Cake And Eat It Too?
From a reader yesterday (in response to an interesting comment from a car-less couple happily inhabiting a 470 square foot studio in the city): i'm sick of people flaunting their eco credentials when they have two Prius's (or would...
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The Valleywag-Boing Boing sex map [Full Disclosure]
"Did you sleep with Violet Blue? I can't keep track," my editor IM'd me. He's not nosy; he's just trying to stay on top of things. To help him — and you — out, I've dashed off this sex map of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Can You Really Eat Your Eco-Cake And Have It Too?
From a reader yesterday (in response to an interesting comment from a car-less couple happily inhabiting a 470 square foot studio in the city): i'm sick of people flaunting their eco credentials when they have two Prius's (or would...
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Bill Gates's relevance -- and irrelevance [100-Word Version]
The Economist tidily sums up billg's career this week, now that Microsoft's Rain Man (see video) has walked away from the company after 33 years. I've whittled the piece down to its talking points.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Googler employee info hacked [Your Privacy Is An Illusion]
Want your privacy protected? Better work for Google. Employees hired before December 31, 2005, recently learned that their personal data, including Social Security numbers and birthdates, had been... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Pigs Raid Hells Angels' SF Clubhouse
Police and FBI raided the San Francisco clubhouse of the Hells Angels (as well as their Healdsburg and Santa Rosa forts) in connection with two Petaluma felony assaults under investigation. The search of the Angels' SF branch, located at Tennessee and 23rd streets, resulted in the arrest of…
Don’t forget your glow sticks and your business cards [Valleywag Calendar]
You might not like hot pants anymore, but the club scene never gets old. Tonight you can do it your way with red-hot tech demos and free Haamonii Smooth tastings at SF New Tech’s 2008 Big Summer Geek... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more!…
9 ways foreigners are having more fun with Facebook [Social Networks]
Every morning we check Google News for Facebook-related stories and without fail, always find a news story or two illustrating how vastly more entertaining Facebook is for the rest of the world.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]