- Golden Gate Ferry's M.S. San Francisco is getting a $20 million renovation. [Marin Independent Journal]
- Best Buy has a hard time keeping their shit together long enough to get a San Francisco family a working oven. [ABC7]
- SF State's Dean of Students is heading to the dark side: to UC Berkeley. [Daily Californian]
- [The Awl] brilliantly takes down those, like software developer/academic Dave Winer, who are bummed over the outcry that led to the departure of Mozilla's bigoted CEO.
- Twitter's [Vine] video sharing app, which still exists, is now allowing private messages. But, remember, they don't allow porn.
- Remember that New Republic article about how it's so sad that some guys in Silicon Valley experience ageism? (I was making fun of last week.) Craigslist founder Craig Newmark didn't like it either, but not because it seemed sexist (my complaint), but because it wasn't based on enough data. [Poynter]
- Leaving Burning Man is apparently a problem, with departing vehicles sometimes having to wait in an hours-long queue to leave. This [Slashdot] user has developed an algorithm (as Slashdot users do) to alleviate the problem.
- If you didn't already hate The Battery, here's the [Bold Italic] to fix that.
- A plan to revive the crumbling Sears Building in downtown Oakland might not come to fruition. [SF Business Times]
- Come for the big picture of a dead bird at the top of this article, stay for an interesting and thorough report on San Francisco's Yosemite Slough's cleanup. [SF Chronicle]
- The Public Defender's office says that a SF judge incarcerated a man to "punish" his lawyer. [SF Examiner]
- [Streetsblog] presents their case for extending parking meter house past 6 PM. Convinced?
