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- One of Friday night's vegan protesters at Chez Panisse has penned an op-ed objecting to the fact that the whole thing felt like a sketch from Portlandia. [Berkeleyside]
- The TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon this year yielded a project by Castro resident John Naulty, who created an automated camera and image recognition system that alerted him to when meter maids were present on his block monitoring two-hour parking, thus helping him avoid getting tickets. And this is easier than getting a resident sticker how?? [TechCrunch]
- Yet again Yelp has triumphed in a court case relating to allegations of extortion by a small business, this time with the Ninth Circuit deciding that Yelp is not liable for the negative reviews or star ratings submitted by its users. [CBS 5]
- One Franklin, a new building in Hayes Valley, has become the first residential building on the West Coast to integrate the Hello Alfred technology platform. [The Registry]
- Stanley Roberts takes on Golden Gate Park speeders. [KRON 4]
- The large number of candidates for Barbara Boxer's Senate seat in the June primary led to confusing ballots and a quarter million votes that had to be tossed out. [CBS 5]
- A new app calculates everywhere you can go via public transit in 30 minutes or less. [Curbed]
- Marin General might be the first acute-care medical center in California to allow patients to openly consume medical marijuana in the hospital. [Chronicle]
