• 85-year-old Rogelio Barajas Martinez was  arrested in connection with the double-stabbing of a couple in Bay Point and is being held in lieu of $1 million bail at the Martinez Detention Facility. [KRON4]
• The family of 4-year-old Ayden Fang, who was fatally struck by a 19-year-old driver in Burlingame in August, are filing a civil lawsuit against the city as well as the driver after the city declined to press charges. [KGO]
• A sea otter and sea lion were found dead from avian influenza at San Mateo’s Año Nuevo State Park, and 14 elephant seals also died from the virus on the California coast. [Bay Area News Group]

National:

• NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test mission successfully disrupted the orbit of a pair of asteroids, Didymos and Dimorphos, around the sun. Researchers say this confirms the ability of NASA to intercept hazardous objects that could hypothetically be a threat to Earth in the future. [Mashable]
• A red fox from Southampton, England made its way all the way to New York after slipping onto a cargo ship, and it’s now living at the Bronx Zoo. [NBC News]
• BuzzFeed is on the verge of calling it quits after switching much of its workforce over to AI three years ago. [Boing Boing]

Video of the Day:

Enjoy this thrilling scene from Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine featuring Vincent Price driving a cable car across the Golden Gate Bridge.

Image: Leanne Maxwell/SFist

It's both a lesson in wildlife trapping and rescue and a lesson in how not to recycle your peanut butter jars!

Mill Valley resident Jenny Adleman noticed that among a new family of foxes who had taken up residence under her deck, one of the kits had gotten himself stuck in a peanut butter jar. The jar was fully covering the baby fox's head, and Adleman knew it was likely a matter of days before the fox died of dehydration or hunger — even though the fox was still cavorting around with his siblings and able to get around because he could see through the plastic jar.

Laughing Squid picked up the story, and Adleman had been documenting the litter of foxes and the mom for a couple of weeks on her Instagram account, even capturing the mother nursing the kits on video.

"The fox den is under my deck so the kits are hanging out and playing on the deck every day," Adleman wrote. "I’m trying not to fall too much in love because I know they will inevitably leave the nest."

But then she saw the one kit get his head stuck in the jar, and days of back-and-forth ensued with Marin Humane, who came out to her house at one point but the baby fox had disappeared that day. Experts said the mother would probably get the jar off the baby's head, but days went by and the little guy was still stuck — so Adleman got a borrowed fishing net was finally able to catch the wily fox, pull the jar off, and get him fed and hydrated before releasing him a few hours later. His favorite food: chicken livers.

The reel below sums up the story, but the full saga can be found here as an archived story.

h/t: Laughing Squid

"The Real Teens of Silicon Valley," a magazine profile from June of "the almost-adult lives of the [technology] industry’s newest recruits," took some cues from television, as acknowledged in its title.

But now the article, written by Nellie Bowles for California Sunday Magazine, will be giving television the cues. Deadline reports that a dramatization/adaptation of the piece is in the works from Matt Reeves, who along with J.J. Abrams served as the co-creator of the classic college TV drama Felicity.

A show about the lives of teens working in tech is a far cry from Reeves' recent work writing and directing the latest Planet Of The Apes feature. But for the drama, to be called In the Wild, he'll have help in writing from Natalie Krinsky. Krinsky has written for Gossip Girl and Grey's Anatomy and was most recently steeped in the YA genre, adapting popular coming of age novel I'll Give You the Sun for the screen according to the Hollywood Reporter.

"In the Wild" is likely a riff on the slang for seeing a product or service used on the street. For example: How many Apple Watches have you seen in the wild by now? Like a million? Me too.

Anyway, all the talent attached to this is no doubt promising, but it's worth registering a note of skepticism. Considering the short-lived Amazon show Betas and the third season of Silicon Valley on HBO in progress, do we really need another TV show about teenagers in tech?

McCovey Cove outside AT&T Park is full of seagulls flying high above. Seagulls with full bellies waiting to take acrobatic craps. However, FOX40 Sacramento anchor Paul Robins might not have been aware of that before one of them pooped on him during a live World Series report. Now he knows.

The avian fecal matter seems to have landed on his head and jacket. But Robins took the scat-uation in stride, saying, "I have to tell you Bethany, one of my goals in life is to make it on YouTube and I think I just did."

Behold:

[OldervsYounger/YouTube, via SFGate]

Everyone knows conservatives hate art. They especially hate contemporary art that was funded by any source other than one's parents' old money, especially if that source is the NEA. Well, a couple of Oakland-based artist-architects, Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello are catching heat from conservative windbags across the land because they just created an environmental installation at the UC Berkeley Botanical Garden using 1,368 glass tubes that were salvaged from the former Solyndra plant, and conservatives also will every chance they can get before November to remind everyone about the Solyndra mess. The artwork, called SOL Grotto, is being dubbed by Fox News "the world’s most expensive work of art."

What they're referring to is of course not the actual, market value of the glass tubes, but the fact that the Obama Administration giving a $527 million loan to Solyndra in 2009 which will never get paid back because the Fremont-based company was woefully mismanaged and went out of business last year.

Anyway, SOL Grotto looks lovely, and you should all go see it. In the video above, artist Rael talks about the work and gives a swell tour. And in true Berkeley fashion, Botanical Garden director Paul Licht hopes the controversy will bring more people to look at the plants. Because he says the garden has "the leading collection in the country."

[Berkeleyside]
[Fox News]

Media rascal and likely criminal Rupert Murdoch will be in town on Friday, kicking it at the Palace Hotel (2 New Montgomery) while "addressing the National Summit on Education Reform at the invitation of a nonprofit run by presidential brother and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush," reports SF Examiner's Amy Crawford.

While the exact topic of his speech hasn't been made public, he plans to be part of stratergizing issues around "failing schools, learning through technology, and overcoming obstacles to publicly funded tuition vouchers." And possibly the best way to rid the world of gays, unwed black mothers, and anchor babies. Something horrific like that, presumably.

Friday's conference at the Palace will happen mere blocks from where Occupy SF encampment in front of the Federal Reserve Building on Market Street. "One session, called “Don’t Let a Financial Crisis Go To Waste,' may raise their ire," Crawford deftly goes on to point out.

UGO Entertainment reports that J.J. Abrams' San Francisco-set (obviously) time-traveling (also kind of obvious) crime drama Alcatraz has been picked up by Fox. You'll remember crews were around town filming the pilot episode back in February and they must have captured some particularly compelling footage because rumor has it Fox was ready to pass on the series.

Back in January, io9 put together a comprehensive preview of the show, but the gist of it is: a group of guards and prisoners disappeared from the prison during it's 1960's heyday, only to reappear in the present. (Mystery!) Anyway, those of you still reeling from the loss of Lost might need to brace yourselves for another show about a time-traveling island, but at least you get Jorge Garcia as a "hippy geek" Alcatraz history expert.

[UGO Entertainment]
[io9]
Hat tip: TheAwl

4chan's /b/ board, the tasty bowels of the interwebs, are claiming credit for this morning's Twitter account hackings of two of the most importance forces in the universe: Britney Spears and Fox News.

Fun!

Sir Owen Thomas has more on the technical aspects of how hilarity unfolded (phishing, test tubes, dry ice, etc.), but if you know of any other notable Twitter accounts that get hacked, do send them Vallwywag's way.

*FILM: The 5th Annual San Francisco Irish Film Festival kicks things off with by director Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O’Halloran. This is followed by a reception with the Consul General of Ireland, Emer Deane. According to LS, "other highlights include Speed Dating, a romantic comedy about a lovelorn amnesiac; the award winning Irish-language feature film Kings, and finally The Undertaking, a documentary about Irish American undertaker and poet Thomas Lynch, who is famed as the inspiration for hit HBO series Six Feet Under. Thomas Lynch and film director Cathal Black will be at the screening for a Q &A. Plus, the ever popular, Magners n’ Shorts Program (Magners Irish Cider is served for free during the film program) and Irish TV Night will also return to this year’s festival."

LECTURE: Yeah, yeah, you can go listen to Greil Marcus prattle on endlessly about the Magnetic Fields and the outback, or whatever, later this month at teh JCCSF. Or better yet, you can hear Family Ties creator Gary Goldberg talk about what it was like working with Michale J. Fox (his second choice to play Alex P. Keaton), Stephen Spielberg (who Goldberg tried to talk out of doing E.T.), on the set of Spin City, and more. He speaks tonight at the Jewish Community center of San Francisco. (Also, according to IMDB, he doesn't own a computer. The hell?)

DANCE: While the members of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater probably can't bust out "Turkey Lurkey Time" to save their lives, they're still not half bad. Check out the famed dance troupe across the bridge over UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall.

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What useful information could these cellies contain? Contact numbers and pictures, maybe? It seems like a fair idea that representatives from the office of Mark Geragos (a Fox News Loser of the Week!) and the City Attorney's Office take a gander at these things at the same time. That's the proposal. How will Geragos reply? Tune in next week.

(In other news, Michael Jackson is not a freak, in any sense of the word.)

First, this a phenomenal shot, found in balmes' Flickr page. He or she managed to make crack towers look almost aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Really, a great picture.

Second, "crack towers." As someone already mentioned in the comment section here, "some of those people up there must be clinically brain dead already to actually decide to live there." Close. replace "clinically" with "chemically" and you're in the right track. Or so we've heard. Total rumor, you know. Don't believe it. But if somebody cares to wax poetic on this building's, um, personality and recent history, we won't stop you.