• Ten Super Bowl 50 statues are being placed around San Francisco. The 1,600-pound signs are self powered, and light up. One of them was installed in Alamo Square Park, and was vandalized shortly thereafter. [Hoodline]
  • Twitter is developing an ad product that would put tweets from everyday users into brands’ campaigns on the platform. All that ironic retweeting may now come back to bite you. [Digiday]
  • A baggage theft at San Jose International Airport caught on video has risen tensions just ahead of the arrival of Super Bowl 50 tourists. [ABC 7]
  • A fire-destroyed home in the Sunset is on the market for $600,000. [Chronicle]
  • A KTVU anchor is not ashamed of his hair transplant, and seems genuinely upset that someone called him "pompous." [Chronicle]
  • The Planning Department held a hearing to explain why rent controlled building are ineligible for a density bonus. [Hoodline]
  • Two Marin parents are suing the county, saying officials withheld vital information about a boy they adopted when he was 8 years old. The boy's violent past was apparently never fully communicated to the prospective parents, and the boy now requires 24-hour supervision. [Chronicle]
  • A man details his experience cruising around in one of those Google self-driving cars. He made sure to answer in the affirmative when asked by a Google representative “Uh, you are a good driver, right?” [Medium]
  • Building new housing in the Mission may be getting even trickier, as new interim controls being debated would require projects to be evaluated as to what impact they'd have on the neighborhood's character. [Chronicle]