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polls
Where Is the Great American News City?
Gambling, gangsters, celebrities, creeps—Las Vegas is "journalism heaven," says this guy. OH? We know a few cities that would dispute that. Newspapers may be dying, but news is alive and well. Where are America's Best Stories? Candidates below! More »
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Comment by CapnCalamity: As usual, Los Angeles will go on allowing NYC to think it's the better city. You can have your... 8 Responses | Other threads
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gavin newsom
California's Hair Apparent Tours Facebook
Gel-coiffed San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, having made his long-expected run for governor of California official, visits Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto. (Photo by Dave Morin)
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By Owen ThomasComment by crumb-bun: A certain ego-blogger is going to be awfully disappointed that she so narrowly missed this opportunity to get a shot... 3 Responses | Other threads
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art?
The Macking On the President
It is a beautiful Spring Friday, so here is a picture of a woman pegging President James Buchanan. NSFW?? More »
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By PareeneComment by Aaron Altman: "I heard our nation's 37th president has a tricky dick." 37 Responses | Other threads
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politics
Gavin Newsom, the Unexpected Family Man
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, who's running in the 2010 California governor's race, has wasted no time in turning the unwanted revelation of his impending fatherhood to political gain. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by the lesser of two weevils: My mother is certain he's a closet ghey. 3 Responses | Other threads
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babies
San Francisco's First Lady Pregnant with Gavin Newsom's Campaign Prop
We hear Jennifer Siebel, the actress wife of San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, is pregnant — and furious with the friends who let word slip. But we bet her pro-gay marriage husband is thrilled. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Baroness: I like and admire Gavin immensely. I lived in SF for 5 years, and however much people want to carp,... 10 Responses | Other threads
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videuhoh
Bill O'Reilly Time-Travels in Search of Hippies
Bill O'Reilly, to paraphrase Jon Stewart, never gets out of his limo. The Fox News conservopundit loves to sit behind his desk and say crazy things about liberal enclaves that he never visits like Greenwich Village and San Francisco and then goes home to Manhasset on Long Island, where he lives. And, well, it's kind of hilarious! Recently Bill was on The Daily Show and warned us about all the liberal jive-talkers living in the Village, as if Bob Dylan were still roaming the streets. And then just this week he sent some "reporters" to gay, reefery San Francisco to find out what the secular, progressive city has spiraled into. And it's not pretty! More »
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Comment by PrincessKashmir: I don't know what parts of San Francisco those "reporters" were allegedly in, but when I visited for the first... 12 Responses | Other threads
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distractions
Blue Angels save San Francisco from sucky workday
Stock market be damned, it's Fleet Week. While Owen grumbles about the racket overhead that drowns out his phone calls, I'm up on the roof screaming Yeeeeeeeeeah baby YES WE CAN!! The Angels are doing practice runs for this weekend's performances, Saturday and Sunday from 3-4 pm. I feel kind of sorry for the guy flying the little red Oracle biplane. Larry Ellison clearly needs an F-18. Four of them.
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sex trade
Online escorts want to launch your startup legally
The fiercest supporters of a ballot measure to keep the cops off San Francisco prostitutes' backs are Internet-based escorts. In a Los Angeles Times interview, online sex worker Patricia West is described like any other Web-savvy entrepreneur, with an obvious law-challenging twist. More »
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Comment by Moonshine Mike: It may be a better gig than working one of those faux-unique chain restaurant where the help is beaten... more » | Other threads
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cleantech
San Francisco can't find greenbacks for Gavin Newsom's public utility palace
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission had plans to build a monument to renewable energy in a project that Gavin Newsom pitched to congress as an example of cutting-edge green building practices. But the mayor's newly appointed SFPUC director Ed Harrington, who sagely noted that The City can't balance the books and the cost of the building might spur protests from ratepayers, has nixed the $190 million proposal. Too bad — would have looked really good on Newsom's CV when he applies for the governor's job in 2010. [Curbed SF]
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By Jackson WestComment by TMonster: Thank God. I'm so sick of politicians spending our money on their stupid vanity projects. more » | Other threads
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Leave Terry Childs Alone!
Why San Francisco deserved to lose control of its network
Terry Childs is the San Francisco government systems administrator who, threatened with losing his job, took over the network. Childs finally gave in from his jail cell and handed mayor Gavin Newsom the passwords he'd changed, along with a liturgy of hate for his pointy-haired bosses. San Francisco bureaucrats make Childs out to be another Kevin Mitnick, capable of breaking into confidential data. Truth is, he's a grunt router admin who got sick of being on call 365 days a year. Here's a rundown of the exaggerated claims San Francisco officials are heaping onto Childs: More »
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Comment by mmmike: More likely Childs just forgot to save to flash. You can't be serious. This guy is a Cisco-certified... 2 Responses | Other threads
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crime
San Francisco's systems mess still unsolved
Terry Childs, the IT guy gone wild who worked for the City and County of San Francisco and effectively froze municipal systems when he went rogue, infamously stashed all sorts of backdoors around the network. Now engineers brought in to solve the mess still can't find one router, which when accessed over the network replies: "This system is the personal property of Terry S. Childs." How much will this cry for job security cost taxpayers? $197,000 has already been spent out of $1 million estimated for the repairs. Childs remains behind bars on $5 million bail and faces a maximum sentence of seven years. [Network World] (Photo by Morten Skogly)
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By Jackson WestComment by Mouser_UK: cant find a router! interesting who did they call in the Geek Squad or a moonlighting Apple genius who gest lost... more » | Other threads
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san francisco
Rogue IT guy costs city a million bucks
Remember Terry Childs, the disgruntled San Francisco IT guy who locked other admins out of the city's network, but finally surrendered the passwords only to superuser-of-love Gavin Newsom? The city's Department of Technology has set aside $1 million to pay for upgrades to the network, which require a mix of pricey consultants and overtime pay for city workers. I hate to put it this way, but by showing the pooh-bahs how easily their critical information systems could be taken over, yet not making use of his takeover to harm anything other than his bosses' egos, Childs may have done us all a white-hat favor.
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By Paul BoutinComment by macbeach: I think it fairer to say that the management that let him get that level of control over the system... 1 Responses | Other threads
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i hate it here
The east coast's love affair with Gavin Newsom
Time magazine gives renewable energy credit to hunky God-mayor Gavin Newsom. None was due. The august journal hails our fair mayor for a nonexistent wind-energy installation: More »
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By Jackson WestComment by cokeslurpee: I've lived in SF for a few years and I have been extremely unimpressed with how the city is governed.... 10 Responses | Other threads
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real estate
SF luxury homes hold value, unlike LA
It's not surprising, but the number's good to know: Stats from First Republic Bank place San Francisco luxury homes at an average $3.01 million in value. It's a new high and a slight increase from last year. By contrast, high-end homes in Los Angeles are off 3.8 percent. San Diego luxury home values dropped a full 7.8 percent. Does that mean Brentwood bulldog daddy Jason Calacanis will pay lower taxes now? That guy has an angle on everything. (Photo by Jason Calacanis) -
your privacy is an illusion
Clear exposes customer passport numbers in SFO security breach
A laptop with personal information including drivers license and passport numbers of up to 33,000 customers in the Clear airport security-pass program was discovered missing from a locked room at San Francisco International Airport. It has since mysteriously been returned, and there's no word of any security breach as of yet. Still, the laptop's data was apparently unencrypted, though Steven Brill, CEO of Verified Identity Pass, the company which runs the Clear program, said the personal information was behind "two levels of password protection." More »
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By Jackson WestComment by ghostfacekilla: Wow, these guys are f*ckin stupid. How much you wanna bet these VIP/CLEAR laptops have Wifi on, every Win32 service enabled,... more » | Other threads
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first tesla crash
World's First Tesla Roadster Crash... That's Been Caught On Camera!
Well, we knew an accident involving a Tesla Roadster was bound to happen sometime, and now the first crash has taken place in San Francisco on Friday at the corner of Geary and Gough streets at about 6 p.m. PDT. While we'd heard something about a scuff with one of the first "production" units earlier this past month — something about Tesla founding father Martin Eberhard's little two-seater rear-ending the back end of a truck — this certainly does not appear to be the same incident. [Jalopnik]
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By Ray WertComment by Pete Gaines: That's because it's based on a Lotus, you morons. [www.vxcb.com] Also, I find it totally hilarious that it got jammed... more » | Other threads
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recap
Jackson West, please come home — all is forgiven
Why did I let Jackson West take a vacation? While our associate editor was away, we actually wrote something nice about Gavin Newsom — and he only had to save San Francisco from a rogue IT guy to do it! Microsoft's Windows chief, Kevin Johnson, ended up in Sunnyvale, Calif. — but not, as he'd hoped, in the corner office at Yahoo HQ. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg flubbed more media interviews this week, prompting us to suggest he get help. Maybe he could take tips from the Internet-famous Julia Allison, who crashed his developers' conference? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by BartKela: @mrfomoco: Yes, that's what blog comments are for! more » | Other threads
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social engineering
Gavin Newsom's superpowers charm passwords from rogue IT guy
Remember Terry Childs, the guy who changed the passwords on San Francisco's government IT network the other week? The Chronicle reports that "a team of code crackers brought in from Cisco Systems had been working around the clock to try to decipher Childs' codes, but with only marginal success." Childs has finally given up the passwords — on the condition that hunky future governor (just you wait!) Gavin Newsom come down to the Hall of Justice and get them personally, and then deliver them to the Cisco consultants, not to the city's IT managers. For those of you convinced that taking back the network should've been as simple as rebooting your Mac with a paper clip, read the full anecdote: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by Drunken Economist: Oh, it gets MUCH better: Take a read:: [San Francisco DA Discloses City's Passwords] [entertainment.slashdot.org] more » | Other threads
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sex trade
Ballot measure to promote Internet over jail for San Francisco prostitutes
An addition to the Barackathon at the San Francisco ballot box this November: a measure to decriminalize prostitution among consenting adults. City officials are already complaining it will hinder their efforts to prosecute related crimes, or that its passage will be "a welcome mat for prostitutes and pimps to come and hang out in San Francisco." Such talk conjures images of throngs of pimps 'n' hos crowding SF sidewalks. But most prostitution is now hidden indoors, and marketed on the Internet, as a member of the organization sponsoring the vote, the Erotic Service Providers Union, explained to local CBS news reporters. (I don't expect anyone from Craigslist to weigh in on the topic, but the site links to ESPU atop its Erotic Services section — making Craig Newmark a very low-key sugar daddy.)
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willie brown
SF's dotcom-era mayor now black, white and read all over
Willie Brown, San Francisco's only black mayor (1996-2004) and a fixture in local politics for more than 40 years, has popped up as the Chronicle's latest columnist. Brown's first offering reads like a mix of Herb Caen and Dave Winer — short, first-person musings on current events, ending with a namedrop of Willie's rich neighbors at the St. Regis. It's pro forma to hate on Brown in San Francisco, even though he helped legalize oral sex and badgered President Clinton to leave the city's pot clubs alone. Willie's real crime? He always plays to win, and he usually does. For most politicos, a newspaper column would signal early retirement. In Brown's case, I can't wait to see how he parlays the Chron gig into his next big score. (Photo by AP/Eric Risberg)
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i hate it here
Mission hipsters choose Google as their new object of hate
Here we go again. New graffiti on the sidewalk at 18th and Dolores claims nothing short of "Mission Exploitation" by Google employees. A decade ago, the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project posted flyers urging Valencia Street's self-styled "artists" to vandalize luxury cars. Some did. In 2008, most Web 2.0 workers aren't rich enough to draw the righteous anger of their slightly-less-privileged neighbors. Except for Googlers who dare move into the city's youth-culture ghetto between Cesar Chavez and Market. More » -
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iPhone day 7: Store getting remodeled, but lines still long
A tipster snapped this late-night shot of Apple's Union Square store being overhauled. You — yes, you waiting in line with your old iPhone — send us photos of the results when the store opens at 10, willya? Separately, we've been told that Apple Store employees at the San Francisco flagship cut off would-be buyers who arrived after 5:30 p.m. Shoppers timed the morning line at 2.5 hours yesterday. That's even more time than I spend watching my BlackBerry reboot.
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By Paul BoutinComment by Conchie Birdie: For now, I think I'll just keep pretending my old iPhone is the new one. more » | Other threads
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apple
iPhone, day 6: line down to 2.5 hours
The grayhaired man in a suit and the young lady in a sweatshirt agreed: They'd queued up outside Apple's San Francisco flagship store at 10:30 this morning — 30 minutes after the store opened. At 1 p.m. they'd finally gotten to the front of the line, which still crawls because of the time it takes to activate each phone at the counter. The line today is nothing like Friday's opening-day cast. No camera hogs, no activists, no TV crews or I'm-subverting-the-MSM bloggers. Just a bunch of footsore consumers patiently proving that the force is still with Steve Jobs after all. The few people I approached didn't really want to talk — they were just there to buy a phone and waiting longer than they'd expected. Did His Steveness manufacture the shortage of phones and the long wait lines to build buzz? Here's a hint: No, that'd be stupid.
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By Paul BoutinComment by Lewis: The way to do this is to do "direct fulfillment" at an AT&T store. No lines and no instant gratification,... more » | Other threads
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san francisco
Disgruntled IT guy hacks San Francisco government's computers
A city employee, allegedly on the brink of being fired from his $126,735-plus-bonus job wrangling the network of computers that hold email, payroll, and confidential information, has been arrested and charged with four felony counts of computer tampering. City officials — don't those guys have names? — say that 43-year-old Terry Childs gave himself privileged access and locked out other system administrators. The computers are still usable by city employees. But Childs still has exclusive super-user access to many parts of the network, because he won't give up his passwords. [San Francisco Chronicle]
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By Paul BoutinComment by notyoutool: Paul -- seriously? "But Childs still has exclusive super-user access to many parts of the network, because he won't... more » | Other threads
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Totally Gay
Tech-sector sissies hide from SF Pride weekend
The most shocking sight at yesterday's SF Pride parade wasn't the contingent of marching Googlers. It wasn't the Yahoo booth handing out temporary tattoos. It was the total absence of other tech companies, small or large, from what should have been a cheap and easy opportunity to build brand goodwill among the estimated one million attendees. Hello, Microsoft? Valleywag reporter Melissa Gira Grant helped build Float 183 for two nonprofit sponsors. More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by ps2300: at the least tech companies could have given props to pride via their sites...google and yahoo both did this. google... more » | Other threads
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earthlink
Philadelphia's Wi-Fi network saved, for now, but the time for citywide wireless has past
After EarthLink abandoned a citywide Wi-Fi project for Philadelphia after only 6,000 customers signed up for the $20/mo. service. Now local investors Derek Pew of Boathouse Communications and Mark Rupp, a former Verizon executive, are planning to take over the network, which will be free and ad-supported. When first announced, the project was on of the largest Wi-Fi buildouts proposed. But after being completed, few users signed up because it was slow, didn't reach far into the city's signature row houses if at all, and was not much cheaper than adding Internet to your cable or phone connection. Earthlink had previously attempted to hand the network off an Ohio-based non-profit. But Wi-Fi was never a particularly good technology for these projects, and it's high time to abandon the pipe dream. More » -
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San Francisco to build biodiesel plant at site potentially named after George W. Bush
The California Energy Commission has granted the City of San Francisco $1 million to build a test plant for converting used grease from restaurants into biodiesel. The plant is slated to be completed by the end of 2008, according to hunky, slick-haired god-mayor Gavin Newsom, and will be located at the Oceanside sewage treatment plant — the same plant that a group of residents are hoping to have renamed after President George W. Bush. [Earth2Tech] -
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Mayor wants Israeli electric car startup to setup shop in San Francisco
On our hunky God-mayor's "Gavin Newsom for Governor" tour that included stops in donor-rich New York and Los Angeles, a stop in Israel got the excitable pol talking about Israeli startup Project Better Place. The company's plan is to build a network of charging stations for a fleet of electric vehicles in Israel. Of course, there's no actual money behind bringing the idea to our shores yet, so you can probably expect it to become a reality about the same time San Francisco turns on the free Wi-Fi network Gavvy-Gav promised. Can't get enough of the hair? Video after the jump. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by Jackson West: Ah, Fidel, have you not embraced post-modernism? Worked so well for the East German government. more » | Other threads
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events
Secret Facebook event at the Metreon tonight
While out and about, a possibly over-enthusiastic Valleywag correspondent heard rumors of a Facebook "prom" being heldat the highly anticipated, but as yet unopened, new San Francisco branch of New York's famed Tavern on the Greenwithin the Metreon in SOMA. Those lucky few on the inside remember: Pics or it didn't happen! Update: There is indeed a private Facebook party on the fourth floor of the Metreon, but of course the Tavern on the Green won't take over the space until at least next year.(Photo by Shiny Things)
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By Jackson WestComment by Fidel on the Roof: Here's a secret... The janitorial service in my building is having an employee outing at Six Flags. You didn't hear it from... more » | Other threads
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conferences
I went to San Francisco for JavaOne, and all I got was this Norovirus
Giving every junketeer who might have over-imbibed a good excuse to blow off chores and work once they get home, conference organizers at Sun's JavaOne developer fest at the Moscone Center are now warning attendees that the City has released a public health warning about a virus on the loose.Testing is still underway to identify the specific virus in question, but they believe it to be the Norovirus, a common cause of the "stomach flu", which can cause temporary flu-like symptoms for up to 48 hours.
Full alert after the jump so you can study up on symptoms if called on to fake them for getting a spouse or boss off your back. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by BobDope: I guess I'll wash my hands. Thanks, news you can use. more » | Other threads
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crash this bash
Google's fight for the right to party like sagging, middle-aged rockers
Google has asked San Francisco for permission to host a "picnic-style dinner" for 1,400 sales employees on June 11. What's really pathetic: Google wants its salespeople to boogie down after hours to the sounds of U2 and Journey. Not the actual U2 and Journey, mind you, but cover bands. Neighbors aren't charmed, and not just by having their backyards used at the set for lightly inebriated lip dubs of "Don't Stop Believing." But the people who bring in Google's billions should ask why, if Larry Page is such pals with Bono, he wasn't able to deliver the real thing for their park-wide party.
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food
Know What Else Sucks About San Francisco? The Pizza
"It costs $482.79 to get a decent pizza in San Francisco—$17 for the pie, $85 for cab fare, and $378.80 for the flight to New York. Throw in $1.99 for tinfoil." Wired's Joe Brown enlists New York chef and pizza hound Mario Batali to figure out just why pizza is one of the many, many things that San Francisco can't get right. "'Californians do a lot of great stuff with their green-market goods,' [says Batali] but 'some of it's just not pizza.' I called the Iron Chef to help me figure out why San Francisco—a formidable food town—can't birth a respectable pie. Part of the reason, of course, is that while Rice-A-Roni and zinfandel are native to Northern California, pizza is not. More »
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Comment by rainbowdancer78: First off, don't call it "Frisco"'.....only losers do. Secondly, Little Star and Pauline's make really good pizza. If you... more » | Other threads
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san francisco
Gavin Newsom complains about his Yelp rating
Yelp founder Jeremy Stoppelman and Nish Nadaraja, marketing director of the local listing site, sat down with San Francisco's preternaturally hunky god-mayor Gavin Newsom. Newsom agreed to the meeting in order to convince Yelpers he's "more hip than the 3.5 stars makes me appear." Before they lobbed him softball questions in earnest, he got to pitch his environmentalist credentials, taking credit for a greener taxi fleet — though his executive order commanding municipal agencies to convert to greener vehicles has stalled, and it was the Board of Supervisors who passed the taxi legislation. All most voters seem to care about is The Hair:The days where I had a little dollop of gel are gone. I'm using quarter of a bottle at a time and I'm not proud of it. And I know that I need help!
(Photo by AP/Eric Risberg)
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By Jackson WestComment by Troll_2.0: Say,Jer my man...I have an investment idea for you: Why don't you give ME 4 million dollars to travel around... more » | Other threads
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real estate
David Hayden's Pacific Heights manse for sale after foreclosure
Serial entrepreneurial failure David Hayden has had his home transfered to boutique bank Robertson Stephens under a Sheriff's deed — which means that the property was seized to pay debts. The transfer is so new, realtor Bernadette V. Lamothe hasn't even had time to have the place properly staged judging by interior photos. It's now for sale for a mere $14.9 million through Sotheby's. Prospective buyers won't just get an opulent home with fantastic views, but a piece of San Francisco history. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by dagard: David wasn't a bad guy when I worked for him, but, yeah. A little... naive. Let's go with... more » | Other threads
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cleantech
How to get Gavin Newsom to give you taxpayer dollars
San Francisco's evil Board of Supervisors is standing in the way of hunky god-mayor Gavin Newsom and his efforts to save the world by giving thousands of dollars to San Francisco home and business owners to install solar panels on their property, if you believe the San Francisco Chronicle. This should give Valley privateers a good idea of how to work with City Hall. Need to divert public money to the private sector, get a few laws changed, and at least win favor with our possible future governor? All it takes if five easy steps. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by jackparsons: @Rachel Marsden: Don't you have some rampaging PC professors up in Saskatchewan to worry aboot? more » | Other threads
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i hate it here
Olympic torch gets obligatory rickrolling
San Francisco city officials, hoping to avoid the hippies, began today's torch run up the Embarcadero in front of the Splunk office and its large scale sound system.
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By Paul BoutinComment by notyoutool: Duh, Paul's the not-new Splunk Correspondent. more » | Other threads
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movies
Genius of Point Break Finally Recognized By Government
Who among us could not be a changed person after seeing the 1991 beach-based thriller Point Break? Patrick Swayze as the surf gang leader Bodhi; Gary Busey as the world-weary cop Pappas; and Keanu Reeves as Johnny Utah, trying to do whatever he imagined an actor's job to be. The movie became an instant classic, of a sort, in 1991. It took 12 more years before the inevitable stage version of the show, "Point Break LIVE!," hit theatergoers like a surfboard to the face. And that show—in which an audience member is selected to play Johnny Utah each night, and "reads their entire script off cue cards in order to capture the rawness of a Keanu Reeves performance"—has put in five long years on stage before being awarded its own official day in a formal proclamation by San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom. As the immortal Bodhi said, "Goddamn! You are one radical son of a bitch [MAYOR NEWSOM]!" They should make it TWO days: More »
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real estate
Bay Area hit hard by mortgage foreclosures
While the whole country has been hit hard by the subprime mortgage crisis, with sky-high housing costs the Valley and surrounding area have also felt the pain. How bad is it? HotPad's interactive heatmap of local foreclosures show eastern counties with more than one in 150 foreclosures. Surprisingly enough, there are few in San Francisco, but that probably has to do with most of the population renting — with rents going up, how about an eviction heat map? (Via Good Morning Silicon Valley)
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By Jackson WestComment by Valleygrrl: check out www.socketsite.com for better commentary and analysis on the subject. more » | Other threads
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great moments in journalism
New York Times finally discovers Ritual Roasters, long after San Franciscans have moved on
Did you hear? Doing business in coffee shops is all the rage in San Francisco! Especially at this trendy little spot in the Mission you may not have heard of, Ritual Coffee Roasters. Seriously, if getting a table at Ritual wasn't hard enough already, you can thank the Times for making it that much harder — now every wannabe in khakis and a biz-dev-blue shirt will be jostling with the skinny greys set arriving on fixies for prime seating real estate. Since the Times seems to love reusing blog posts from 2006, I'll throw them a bone and present "The four cafes Times readers can be expected to ruin by 2009": More »
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By Jackson WestComment by eze: jackson, thanks for doing this post. i read that Times article and almost spit out the coffee i was drinking... more » | Other threads
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san francisco
Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive brings broadband to SF housing projects
Mayor Gavin Newsom's office tried to garner good press by selling his efforts to bring free Wi-Fi to San Francisco as an effort to bring broadband to the poor, under the auspices of Project Tech Connect. Commercial partners Google and EarthLink just wanted to sell location-targeted ads with a franchise agreement to shut out competitors. Now Brewster Kahle's nonprofit Internet Archive has done what Newsom, Google and EarthLink couldn't. No, not hold yet another press conference. Kahle actually brought 100-megabit-per-second broadband to low-income households. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by hpp: Owen: Why are you banning Johndmc? Kompression posted a violent threat. His second that I have seen. The other guy said... more » | Other threads
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