misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Porn Tech Support See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. This video stars Kunal Nayyar of The Big Bang Theory. Courtesy of College Humor, via Laughing Squid.
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Belle & Sebastian's "I Want the World to Stop" Beloved moody crooners Belle & Sebastian are coming to the Bay this weekend for a Sunday headliner set at the Treasure Island Music Festival. This new ditty is from B&S's new
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Killing My Lobster's 'The Coffee Wars' This gem has been all over the place this week. Local comedy group Killing My Lobster poke some major fun at our fair city's artisan coffee craze with this brilliant spoof on a
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Four Kittens On a Roomba Watch as four adorable kittens take a ride around the kitchen, and slowly fall off, one by one, to the soundtrack of "The Sacrificial Dance" from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. [via BuzzFeed]
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: RuBot II, The World’s Fastest Rubik’s Cube Solving Robot Scott Beale of Laughing Squid shot this footage at the World Maker Faire in New York of Rubot II, The Cubinator by Mechatrons. The robot can solve a Rubik's Cube in a little
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'San Francisco: The Miniature City' San Francisco: The Miniature City from MINIMUS on Vimeo. It's been on Laughing Squid and Gawker already, but in case you missed it, check out "San Francisco: The Miniature City," featuring tilt-shift video
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Will Clark's 1987 On-Air Elation After last night's NL West win ended the city's collective torture, Tim Licecum uttered "Fuck yeah" during a live post-game interview. Which: swoon. Also, we think this should be the team's new slogan.
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "The Impact Bag" "You don't stuff it with the wrong material. Use soft cloth, never sand or those little little light peanuts." Also: "The only time you want to hit the bag hard is if you're
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ripley, the House Cat of Borderlands Books Ripley from jason sussberg on Vimeo. Borderlands is a fantastic science fiction and fantasy bookstore on Valencia Street. It's also the home to Ripley, a hairless sphinx cat, who, after radiation treatment to
misc Response to Dan Savage's 'It Gets Better' Astounding human being Matt Baume (freelance journalist, Stop8.org founder, and former SFIst editor) produced this film in response to Dan Savage's "It Gets Better," a project about reaching out to those young
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Tortoise's "Prepare Your Coffin" Director Andrew Paynter created this video to "Prepare Your Coffin," shot in San Francisco.
SF News Ocean Beach Dead Whale Buried Beached whale buried from k9sound on Vimeo. Either an endangered fin or endangered sei whale washed up dead on Ocean Beach this week. The whale was buried yesterday. SF Appeal reports: George Durgerian
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: How to Move an Anaconda The San Francisco Zoo's keeper staff moving their giant green anaconda to his new home in the South American Tropical Forest.
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Unseen Sea The Unseen Sea from Simon Christen on Vimeo. Check out another time lapse video of San Francisco. Very beautiful. It's called The Unseen Sea by Simon Christen, who described it as, "a collection
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Please Quiet Ourselves' Fun Just Slacking Off Fun Just Slacking Off from Allan Hough on Vimeo. Pal of SFist Allan Hough (founder/editor of Mission Mission) created this whimsical music video for "Fun Just Slacking Off" by Please Quiet Ourselves,
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Happy Birthday, 6502 Microprocessor Laughing Squid points out that today marks the 35th birthday of the 6502 microprocessor, introduced in San Francisco during the 1970s. What is the 6502 microprocessor, you ask? Sean Kelly explains: The 6502
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Climbing a Very Tall Guided Tower This faint-inducing film ("Climbing Towers," a helmet-clam view going up 1768-foot tower) uses Sutro Tower (977 feet) and the Eiffel Tower (1,063 feet) as comparisons, just before a brave worker darts up
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Massive Water Balloon Fight An estimated 4,000 people in Provo, Utah "attempting to set the world record for the largest water balloon fight, throwing a total of 120,000 water balloons," noted Laughing Squid who brought
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Robyn Covering Bjork's "Hyperballad" Can we be frank? We're not the biggest Bjork fan. (More like Byuck, eh? Eh? *crickets*) However, we do enjoy Bjork's "Hyperballad" and we enjoy chanteuse Robyn, and here they are together. Best
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mission Street's Dancing Cellphone Todd Lappin of Telestar Logistics (via Laughing Squid) posted this joy-inducing clip of a cell phone -- a Metro PCS phone, to be exact -- delivering garden fresh grooves on Mission Street. That
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: SF Timelapse SF Timelapse from 1 on Vimeo. Pretty timelapse footage from Dolores Park, Skyline, Corona Heights, and the Golden Gate Bridge. Video by Vemo user 1 (Garbage Style).
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Cee-Lo Green's "F**k You" It's already been hailed as an "instant classic," and judging from the immediate internet buzz-a-thon it received upon leaking over the weekend that's probably accurate. The song is called "Fuck You," from Goodie
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vegan Boys Are the Worst Tenderblog points us to this ukulele jam from local artist Jam Hands, and as the artist herself writes, "I'm vegan! I like vegans (mostly)!... I realize these lyrics are stereotypes, quite a few
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Math Rap! Rad, right? We're just playing this to distract all the marriage-bound gays from their impatience this afternoon. And because math is fun! [via Everything Is Terrible]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Scissor Sisters' "Skin Tight" Yes, the new Scissor Sisters album is *very* gay, as Pitchfork was quick to point out, but it's also got a few excellent pop songs on it that are sure to be crossover
