- Yahoo, which will be laying 1700 people off, recently spent about a million bucks to create a motivational employee handbook. This is dot com bullshit at its finest. [SFist]
- Police say there was a drive-by shooting this morning between Leavenworth and Hyde. [KRON4]
- Sacramento Girl Scout Cookies aren't the same as NorCal ones. [SF Gate]
- Can troubled health startup Thranos be saved by a writer? Speaking as a writer, I can tell you that the answer is "nope." [Wired]
- Super Bowl halftime act Coldplay clearly knows nothing about football. [SF Chronicle]
- SF Planning expects "architectural excellence" from the proposed Conservatory of Music on Van Ness. [SocketSite]
- The California College of the Arts has filed preliminary plans to build up to 600 beds for students next to its San Francisco campus. [SF Business Times]
- Stanford University has a new president: Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a neuroscientist and president of Rockefeller University. [New York Times] [Wall Street Journal]
- Shares of LinkedIn Corp. fell by a much as 35 percent in Friday following a much weaker than expected revenue and profit projection for the current quarter. Or was it because you finally hit that "unsubscribe to all emails" link? [SF Business Times]
- The [New York Times] discovers the cemeteries of Colma.
- Some iOS users say they are now able to add multiple Instagram accounts to their Instagram app, are you one of them? [Latergram]
