Colin Kaepernick reportedly just signed a huge 6-year, $110 million extension with the Niners, which would make it a record-breakign contract. [CBS5][Chron] Bizarre concrete creatures are emerging from Cortland Street sidewalks. [Bernalwood]

UCSF is getting even larger, plans a 2.4 million square-foot expansion by 2035. [SFBiz] Mission Bay residents discover there's nowhere to shop in their neighborhood. [Chron] Two tiny earthquakes rattled Northern California

Mid-Market nonprofits say tech firms aren't doing enough with their charity programs, but they're afraid to speak out for fear of losing cash donations. [Chron] Muni kept the 83x-Mid-Market Express (a.k.a.

Not content with taking out the cab industry, Uber and Lyft are trying to kill each other. [Forbes] Mystery man who returned Hunter Pence's stolen scooter collects reward, refuses to answer questions. [BCN/

Your local branch of Philz Coffee is tracking you via your smartphone, even if you're only walking by. [SFAppeal] 7x7's Chloe Harris intends to dominate the San Francisco publishing scene. [Racked] San Francisco

Lite Gov. Gavin Newsom is now accepting political contributions in the form of Bitcoin. [Chron] Here are 18 homes with the highest property taxes in the Bay Area. [CurbedSF] Hauntingly beautiful photos of

Four separate high profile publications ran stories on "what it's like to ride in a Google self-driving vehicle" today. In case you were wondering how Google's PR machine works. [Verge] [Re/code] [USA

Cal Fire Battalion chief Orville Fleming is on the lame after allegedly stabbing his girlfriend to death. [Chron] Pac Heights home sells for a jaw-dropping $1.405 million over the asking price. [Curbed]

San Francisco's taxi driver supply has dropped precipitously, apparently due to the proliferation of ride-sharing services. [SFEx] Meanwhile, female drivers prefer those start-ups to actual cab companies. [SFWeekly] One man's night in the

Uber drivers are pissed at Uber, are planning a protest for this Thursday. [Chron] Jesse Draper, the venture capitalist daughter of Tim "Six Californias" Draper, is getting her own cable TV show called

The Warriors had originally planned to boycott game 4 along with the Clippers players by letting the jump ball drop to the court. [Marcu Thompson] A golf coach from Livermore is accused of

The Twitter building is getting a new Mexican spot and another fancy food court for Market Street. [EaterSF] A dog was electrocuted by a metallic sidewalk grate in Oakland last week. [ABC7] Michael

A bill to deter phone theft by creating a cellphone killswitch was killed by lawmakers, probably because they're in deep with the wireless communications industry. [Chron] Author Gary Kamiya takes on the much-talked-about

Ed Lee doesn't think Treasure Island is as radioactive as everyone else says it is. [Chron] How the Warriors' Mission Bay deal went down. (Spoiler alert: it included a phone call.) [SFEx] Police

In Potrero Hill, tenants in live-work lofts that were so contentious during the first dotcom boom are getting evicted to make way for higher-paying renters. [SFEx] A man had his weed and fireworks

Behind the scenes along the power and water transmission lines that run from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir to San Francisco. [Gizmodo] Behold, the history of the panorama building on Market Street that held

"How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists" is a surprisingly coherent and comprehensive explanation of San Francisco's current housing crisis, especially coming from a tech blog. [TechCrunch] Meanwhile, on the Verge, you can

The San Francisco Fire Department needs $28.1 million to upgrade their fire fighting fleet. [SFEx] A "bus-riding techie" willingly allowed himself to be roasted by a group of local comedians over the

Oakland has spent $74 million to settle 417 police brutality lawsuits since 1990. [Oakland Police Beat] On that topic, there are some scary things you learn when you look at 23 years of

How Mike Judge & company are turning Silicon Valley into the next This is Spinal Tap. [Mother Jones] What's it like to build a company and then have everyone but you get bought

The cafe laptop suspect busted yesterday after video of her con went viral had an outstanding warrant. Of course she did. [Chron] Here's a Google Glass app that even haters can get behind.

The U.S. created a fake "Cuban Twitter" to mess with the government. [AP/Chron] The debate around former Mozilla chief Brendan Eich continues and now the New York Times is weighing in.

Andrew Sullivan is weighing in on the internet shaming and subsequent resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich and he has some strong feelings about it. [The Dish] The Leland Yee scandal has sullied

Venture Capitalist Ben Horowitz, one of the most respected VC's in the Valley, tells everyone how to end tech culture wars. He would know, because he's "the grandson of Communists who was raised

Today in gentrification writing, the Chronicle compares tech booms in: "How tech became the enemy - then and now." Turns out things are more or less the same. [Huet/Chron] Speaking of which: