Facebook just doesn't know how to get over you, it seems. Three years after tech sites called out the social network for keeping copies of deleted photos on their servers, Facebook is still having a hard time permanently deleting all the old photos its users trashed in the sober light of day. Facebook originally claimed that an old photo management system wasn't properly clearing out the deleted photography, and that they've been working to improve it, but according to Ars Technica's follow-up report today photos deleted as many as three years ago could still be floating around the back corners of the Internet.
Those Drunk Photos You Deleted From The Internet? Facebook Still Has Them
Folsom Street Fair 2010 Photos (NSFW)
Folsom Street Fair brought out the sun and sleaze in grand form this year. Fleshy bits and pieces were out in full force at yesterday's annual ode leather and sexual fetish in SoMa. Here are some scenes from yesterday's bash. (It should go without say, but these images are NSFW. Please be cautious, curious ones.)
Schwarzenegger Visits China, Looks at Bridge Section, Sells Pistachios
Where has Gov. Schwarzenegger been during the San Bruno fire disaster, you ask? In China! The former movie star cum California politico headed East to sign part of the East Span of the Bay Bridge, check out the high-speed rail train in Shanghai, hawk California pistachios and wine, and meet with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan...
Safe for Work Dore Alley Pics
Local activist Michael Petrelis attended Sunday's Dore Alley (rechristened Up Your Alley) Street Fair. What is that, you ask? Well, it's like the Folsom Street Fair, but for adults. Did we go? Heck no. Are you kidding? We were wearing deodorant and Paul Smith shoes on Sunday. Petrelis, however, did attend the festivities and has a batch of SFW photos for you to enjoy at your leisure at the workplace. Later in the day, we'll have more racy pics to share from yesterday's slap-and-tickle bash.
S.F. Gay Pride Parade 2010 Photos
Check out these pics of the San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade 2010.
How Weird Street Fair Photos
On Sunday, the annual How Weird Street Fair took place on Howard Street (get it?), with many residents showing up for the organized fun festivities wearing very bright colors. Described as a way to "rewire our way of thinking towards peace, by rebooting the motherboard," the zany fair was filled with Burners, furries, transgressive types, self-described weirdos, and other people who had bad experiences with "organized religion" and/or mean parents who believed in some sort of structure.
Dalai Lama Visits SF Soup Kitchen
After speaking in Berkeley on Saturday, His Holiness the Dalai Lama visited Martin's Soup Kitchen, which primarily serves food to the homeless. Protected by heavy security and traveling in a long armored motorcade, the Dalai Lama served pasta and spoke to some of the less fortunate locals.
Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence: San Francisco Bus Tour, 4/11
The Sisters of Perpetual (over 200 of them!) are all over town this weekend. Thank God. On Friday, the nuns had a 30th birthday party at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Images: St. Stupid's Day Parade
Here are some images of people acting stupid. ("Stupid," it seems, equals "wearing loud colors.") Check back here for updated images of today's alleged inanity at today's St. Stupid's Day Parade.
Send Us Your Pics: Butterfly Swarm
Did you know the Bay Area is under siege right now? It's true. The invader? Thousands and thousands of pudy butterflies. Why, just today we received an urgent message from SFist Deborah N about hundreds of colorful, frolicking butterflies swarming up Lapu Lapu. We've also heard reports of butterfly sightings from the Sunnyside neighborhood to Crissy Field.
Images: Oakland Police Department Funeral
As of 11:30 a.m., bagpipes play as the caskets carrying the bodies of Sgt. Mark Dunakin, Sgt, Ervin Romans, Sgt. Daniel Sakai, and Officer John Heg enter Oracle Arena. Gavin Newsom, Barbara Boxer, and Jerry Brown are in attendance, as are thousands of Oakland officers.
1 Photo. 3 Words. 365 Days...
A refreshingly original new photo site has developed on the interwebs, and it's actually a good one. Created by Peter Bruce, 1 Photo. 3 Words. 365 Days's mission statement is clean and simple. Bruce finds a person on the street that he doesn't know, snaps their photo, and asks them for three words that describe how they are feeling at that moment.
Porta-Potty Blaze Caught on Film
Flickr photog Erik Gibb managed to snap these super pics of Sunday's Portreo Hill porta-potty immolation, which brought the number of blazes to 23 since November. If we're not mistaken, these are the first images of the Toilet Torcher's criminal activity in progress. Fortunately, the rain prevented the fire from igniting the trees along the sidewalk. this could have been much worse.
Frank Chu Extra
A lot of you have sent SFist photos of this "Adios Douche Bag(s)" poster with former President George W. Bush. A lot. And we relent. So here's the most interesting one we've received thus far. It features colorful town crier Frank Chu. (Chu, we should point out, will not be adding Barack to his lawsuit from outer space.)
Photos: Rally to Save Market & Octavia Bike Lane, 1/16
Today's rally to keep the MTA from removing a bike lane on San Francisco's main strip went well this morning. Leno, Ammiano, Dufty, Mirkarimi, Campos -- the usual suspects were in attendance. Loads of cyclists too.
Photos from BART Police Shooting Riot in Downtown Oakland, 1/7
Scenes from last night's BART shooting protest turned riot in Downtown Oakland.
Photos: Flora Grubb Gardens
Flora Grubb Gardens, a wonderfully green (the old use of word) place to get a gift, will be open until 8 p.m. tonight and tomorrow night for those of you interested in giving the gift of beauty, oxygen production. Check them out over at 1634 Jerrold Avenue, right off of 280 in San Francisco.
Scene from a Bird Flight
Really, how can you hate them after seeing this? They're gorgeous in "Pigeons on a Mission," above, shot by Flickr photog captin_nod.
Fell Street Free Fall
Trey Blog came across the scene of a failed suicide attempt, which happened a few weeks ago. The images are sad yet fascinating. Someone, it seems, jumped from the top of a Fell Street apartment building in a suicide attempt and smashed into a car windshield. A small note was left behind detailing the events. We hope the victim is alive and well.
ALL OF THEM: West Portal Ave & Ulloa
ALL OF THEM: West Portal Ave & Ulloa
This one's from inside the venerable Eezy Freezy Market along West Portal.
They also have a somehow inexhaustible supply of nice folks behind the counter wearing hoodies, along with stacks of British tabloids.
Photos: Folsom Street Fair (NSFW)
Photog extraordinaire Darwin Bell (for The Sword) managed to make it to yesterday's sex-and-fetish gala, the annual Folsom Street Fair. Lucky You. But let's skip the innuendos, explanation, and body-odor hate, and just get to the good stuff: fellatio, fisty sex acts, Sarah Palin drag, mommy parts, butts, boobs, bits, beer, same-sex sex, porta-potties, leather, and family fun. (Need some more Folsom Street Fair imagery burned into your brain?
Hyde Street Shooting
A reader sends us info (and several images) on a shooting that occurred early this morning in front of an apartment on Hyde between O"Farrell and Geary streets. Here's all we know so far.
Anonymous Protesters Meet Zombie Flash Mob
This weekend's Anti-Scientology protest, held by the brave kids at Anonymous, encountered some equally scary enemies: zombies. Check out some scene's of the protest in action, actual Scientologists, fake blood, amusing signage, and meeting and eating of the minds. Looks like the best protest yet!
Dore Alley Fair Photos -- Uhh, Yeah... They're, Like, COMPLETELY Safe For Work
Yesterday's Up Your Alley Fair is what the Folsom Street Fair used to be before all the tourists pushing baby strollers started showing up. More than 8,000 leather daddies -- and as many as perhaps a dozen biological women -- braved the cold fog wearing little more than a gimp mask and a smile to benefit PAWS, the AIDS Emergency Fund, and others. We tried to limit the amount of naked penis visible in these shots, but in that kind of environment there's only so much a photographer can do. The fully-lubed, unexpurgated photoset can be can be found at DJTennessee's flickr page, as well as a few over at Nature abhors a vacuum.
Protest Pics: Bank of America Coal Rally Thingy
While not nearly as exciting as Anonymous' cheeky Scientology protests, this little BofA rally managed to voice its distress with the banking company's lack of environmental consciousness. It seems BofA is, like, using coal to run their ATM machines. Or something like that. Who knows. But you can go here and here to find out more about yesterday's skirmish in front of a downtown SF Bank of America.
Photos: Crucible's 8th Annual Fire Arts Festival
Oh wow. You've got to check out some of these photos from the Crucible's 8th Annual Fire Arts Festival, which sparked up in fine fiery glory earlier this month. These shots were snapped up by getinet (Flickr). And the ones involving Bay Area Rapid Transit train are priceless. While the adult in us worries about the Bart train and its riders catching fire, the kid in us wants to see the thing catch fire and blow to bits. (Of course, no one was injured, hurt, singed, etc.)

