Results tagged “fail”

Well, well, well. It looks like some pesky reporter over at the Sacto Bee got snoopy and discovered that Former E-Bay CEO and current Republican gubernatorial candidate, Meg Whitman, somehow managed to forget to vote for like the entirety of her whole life...

Oh boy.

The failed experiment that is the CultureBus -- a very slow, yellow Muni bus that would take passengers around San Francisco (downtown to Golden Gate Park) to look at art and trees, running every hour or so -- will come to a merciful end. According to SFMTA, the CultureBus will be discontinued effective August 15.

Saturday's Great American Food and Music Festival looked like it had win written all over it: Diners, Drive-ins and Dives' Guy Fieri, alpha-male grilling fanboy Bobby Flay! A16's Nate Appleman! Boulevard's Nancy Oakes! LA's Pink’s Hot Dogs!, Tony Luke's Cheesesteaks! Booze! Jazzy tunes! Sun!

According to TMZ -- who has been on a relentless pursuit of all things anti-Prejean, ever since she slammed gay marriage on live TV -- the disgraced Miss California title winner lost her crown today because she's not doing her job."Sources connected with the pageant tell us even Donald Trump has now had it with Carrie, because she's violating her contract by not getting clearance to do her extracurricular stuff.," reports TMZ, who go on to say that Carrie "has been a no-show for appearances she was supposed to make for the pageant organization."

In a virtual allowing-newspapers-to-accumulate-at-your-front-door-like move, Arizona resident Israel Hyman (tee hee, sounds like "hymen") left twitter messages mentioning that he was out of town. Then, as fate would have it, Hyman's residence was then robbed of thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment while he was out of town. Oops. According to reports, "Hyman has a video podcasting company and says he makes his living on Twitter, but he thinks his message may have tipped off the thieves."

Here are some early images from today's tamed Bay 2 Breakers race.

Heh.

According to research done by the UC Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society, surveillance cameras installed around the city in 2005 have failed to reduce serious crimes like murder and stuff. While Dickensian crimes, like "burglary, pickpocketing and purse-snatching," have seen a drop in numbers, the big brother eyes in the sky haven't done much to curb violent crimes. (Although we still urge you all to install live cams outside your windows, if only for our amusement.) A few reasons the cameras failed? Well, according to the study, the cam program has "no dedicated manager" and the footage of the cameras was grainy and poor. Another reason is that due to privacy concerns, police aren't legally allowed to view cameras in real time. Instead, they must "order footage after a crime is reported." The report criticized surveillance cameras installed by team Newsom. It did not report on the cameras used by the San Francisco Housing Authority.

Not since these tools have we seen somebody with such an astounding lack of clarity and overwhelming sense of privilege make a statement of protest brimming with so much fail. Way to go, Israeli/swastika flag Magic Marker counterculture warrior . You're going to make it on Zombietime!

Snapped up by Flickr photog Mike G., this is the new system that replaced the "unreliable" OS/2 system.

Only a few games left of the NFL's 2008 season and as is customary, the Raiders are in full plummet. The last things that stand to be parsed out are which players are making enough of a name to picked up by other teams next year, which players are playing enough to be kept via Al's calculi for next season, and those that have given up all hope whatsoever.

"We're not close," said Oakland's best player, CB Nnamdi Asomugha, to the Merc after the last week's loss to San Diego, "and it's clear that we're not close. We don't play good football, we don't play sound football, and we have been undisciplined. We wonder why we don't get prime-time games, and this is why. We were on Monday night against Denver, we got blown out. Now, we came here and we got blown out. You just wonder how many people care and how many people are upset. You can't go out and play the way we played and expect to win or expect to do well."

Ouch.

Seriously. Or, so it looks that way. It's reading the times of both trains. Or so we you know.

OK, it has been reported by the NFL Network that the 49ers may offer a position to Secretary Of State Condoleezza Rice

One high-ranking 49ers official said last week, “If she’s interested in talking to us, I’m interested in talking to her.” Rice has told friends as recently as last week she would love to become president of an NFL team.

Should this rumor develop into an actual possibility, you'd best believe that we'll unleash a fusillade of withering criticism at the all-measurable-results-are-failure York family 49er ownership for offering a job to an all-measurable-results-are-failure war criminal. For the Yorks to make such an insane business move... the thought almost defeats all irony. This simply can't be.

Ha! It's funny because it's true. But still: Since we're Anil Dash fangirls, and after reading this, we can't stand the thought of you tossing the little gadgets aside. They need love too, you know!

Eeeps, iPhone 3G fans! According to Jordan Golson over at the Industry Standard, today's iPhone 3G has turned into a disaster. A few snafus? Well, iTunes activations are "completely offline" due to a global server crash of sorts, most Apple store workers make you activate the new phone at home (for reals? boo!), some stores allegedly have no shipments yet, and harrowing reports of lackluster customer service. (In other news, the Industry Standard is alive and kicking. Please standby for rooftop party invite info.)