- This afternoon, a big-rig fire on I-80 in Berkeley caused a traffic nightmare. [Berkeleyside]
- Condoms: best practices, they're great, just don't put them on in too much of a hurry. [HuffPo]
- One store in San Francisco is asking Black Friday shoppers to strip down before they shop [SF Business Times]
- This weather, which is actual nonsense, will include something called waterspouts. [Chron]
- No, whatever waterspouts are, they are not the end of the drought. Okay fine here is what waterspouts are, they sound like sharknados without sharks. [HuffPo]
- At 13-story and 260-units, this posh condo project just broke ground at Pine and Van Ness. [Curbed SF]
- Daniel Handler (a.k.a Lemony Snicket) is a local author who hosted the National Book Awards and made a weird joke he apologized for, because maybe it was racist. [Examiner]