• SJ Mercury News, on its deathbed. (Warning: graphic and disturbing photos after link.) [Gawker]
• The Google Web 2.0 booth you're not supposed to see! [Jeremy Johnstone]
• Alice Waters on Chez Pannise's kitchen design. [Metropolis]
• Supes block Newsom's $3 million plan to subsidize solar installation. [Curbed]
• Newsom turns down WhatImSeeing's wedding invite. (Maybe if you promised him a dry reception...?) [WhatImSeeing]
• How Tumbl(e)r's will pay its bills. [Valleywag]
• Eater heads to Oakland. Crazy! [Eater]

At left, Marce Proust on his way out.