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20 October 2011 / SF News / Andrew Dalton

Thursday Morning Roundup


  • Muammar Qaddafi was killed by Libyan rebels this morning. He was found hiding in a concrete pipe in his hometown of Sirte. Al Jazeera English has already posted an obituary. [Atlantic] [Al Jazeera]

  • If your alarm clock was blinking 12:00 when you woke up late this morning, you can blame it on another PG&E outage. About 7,000 residents in the Fillmore district lost power in the wee hours of the morning. [BCN/Appeal]

  • BART commuters forced to run a gauntlet of handshakes as candidates for public office swarm the Glen Park station. [Chron]

  • The upside to San Francisco getting those 700 prisoners from State Pens: it's creating a bunch of new jobs. Jobs that require dealing with newly released parolees. [SFEx]

  • Guess what, techie fitness geeks? Gadgets won't make you thin, but that won't stop local gadget blogger Mat Honan from trying. [Gizmodo]

  • Why isn't there a make your own burrito bar? Because us regular folkd can't be trusted to get the foil right, probably. [Mission Mission]

  • Groupon's proposed valuation: Now 60% off! [Gawker]

  • "Affordable Mexican cocktail lounge" coming to SoMa. But does the city really need another bar/lounge called "Sugar"? [LiveSOMA]

  • Inner Sunset residents want a public plaza at Irving and 10th Ave. Well, some of them do anyway. [Streetsblog]
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