Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A Japanese Thumb-Extender For Your Too-Big Phone For those of you whose iPhone 6 Pluses haven't bent like soda-fountain straws, or those of you own Galaxy Notes but whose hands remain dainty and tiny, you may want to consider this.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 24 Hours Of The Transamerica Pyramid In 23 Seconds You may have noticed Jeremy Brooks' photos of the Transamerica Pyramid in SFist or on his flickr account, where he posts a nearly daily image of the building from the view of his
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dachshund Plays Fetch, With Himself Please enjoy watching dachshund play with an iFetch, a device that apparently was made for smarter canines who would like an electronic hand to throw a ball for them all day long. You
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Turkey, The Kitten Who Gobbles And now, a tiny kitten named Turkey, found in an animal shelter in Florida, so named because she makes adorable "gobble gobble" sounds when she eats. This should take your mind off your
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: A 23-Pound Cat Hits The Treadmill Hate dieting and exercising? Me too. But this cat King Leo may inspire you. Watch in the above Barcroft TV segment as the 23-pound rescue Maine Coon is shaved, which automatically makes him
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Instagram Intervention We all know someone like this. Someone who has bought in so fully to our social media-driven world that they're barely even alive anymore, unless they're documenting and posting it. Not enough likes
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Things That Will Kill You, After Edward Gorey Remember Edward Gorey, the illustrator and goth-kid hero behind macabre children's books like The Gashlycrumb Tinies in which an entire alphabet of children's names is paired with untimely demises. Well, here's a video
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Joan Rivers and Louis C.K. Have Sex RIP, Joan. You were the most biting of all biting comedians, and as the New York Times put it in their just-published obit, you "evolved from a sassy, self-deprecating performer early in [your]
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Drone Footage of Apple's 'Spaceship Doughnut' Campus Under Construction This video came out about a week ago, but for those like us who missed it in the crush of Labor Day escape plans, please enjoy. It's very recent footage, shot by a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Sorry Griswolds, Burning Man Is Closed Sorry - Burning Man is CLOSED Leave it to Funny or Die to quickly jump on the news that Burning Man has shut its gate and come up with a clever way to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pit Bull Grooms His Baby Bunny Friend We're not sure what goes on in the house of YouTuber TexasGirly1979, but apparently her pets are allowed to bring home pets. Regarding the above video, she writes that her pit bull Sharky
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Ted Danson Dresses Like Prince In 'Purple Rain' In the new Funny or Die video above, Ted Danson and Mark Duplass play a gay couple in need of therapy and turn to Elisabeth Moss for help. Danson's character is intent on
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Amy Poehler As Art Snob Some of you who watch a lot of TV have likely seen this already, but in her series of funny spots for Old Navy, this has to be Amy Poehler's best. Watch in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Howling Dog Hates Waking Up To Alarm This dog named Oscar may have had a Monday morning like your Monday morning. I'm not sure I've ever seen a dog howl out of what seems like genuine sadness over having to
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Dragonette and Mike Mago's 'Outlines' Please enjoy this great little video for the new Dragonette/Mike Mago release "Outlines," just out today. It kind of redefines dancing by yourself. Download the single here.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Full Moon And Fog Above S.F. From the same filmmaker that brought us Sausalito To SF At 300 Miles An Hour, we have a new timelapse video that shows last Saturday's full moon amid rolling, dense fog above a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Rapping SFUSD Principal Assistant Principal by day, rapper by night, Joe Truss might be the coolest adult in the entire San Francisco Unified School District. Watch in the above video as Truss raps with his former
SF News Afternoon Palate Cleaner: Allegedly Drunk Lady Plows Into Oakland Fire Hydrant What's that about the drought? An allegedly drunk woman piloting a vintage Mercedes crashed into a fire hydrant in Oakland a few days ago, and we have some citizen-uploaded video footage. It was
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: San Francisco Circa 1986 Though uploaded in 2011, we've never seen this vintage footage of San Francisco in 1986. Enjoy a tourist's view of our classic city as a 16mm camera cruises through downtown, chases cable cars,
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Christina Hendricks in 'Modern Office' Modern Office with Christina Hendricks from Funny Or Die Someone over at Funny or Die, or at least some of their contributors, are dead set on using viral videos to fight for the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Whysk, A Transportation Startup Please enjoy this bit of humor from ClickHole, the Onion's brilliant sendup of all things viral and BuzzFeed-esque. It's all about an app, well, sort of... a company called Whysk that "gets people
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Creepy New App and Robotic Feeder For Crazy Cat Owners Are you the kind of person who worries obsessively whether you little tiger-striped tabby Muffinhead has had a change in appetite while you're at work? Would you love it if there was an
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Wolverines Roll Around In Ice, Frolic At SF Zoo We warned you not to hug and kiss the two new wolverines at the San Francisco Zoo, but after watching this ridiculously adorable video, you'll be tempted. These feisty, ferocious hunters look like
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Apple's 1986 Clothing Line, and Siskel & Ebert Reviewing 1986 Apple Ads The Apple corporation was just coming into its own in 1986, and visionary co-founder Steve Jobs had already begun putting out the sort of cinematic commercials that movie critics like Roger Ebert and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Chinchilla Eats Apple, Takes Dust Bath It's been ages since we had some chinchilla-related palate cleansing, so please enjoy these two videos of a chinchilla named Pusch enjoying a piece of dried apple, and then taking a brief dust
