misc Nelson Minar's Curious Pursuit Former Google software engineer Nelson Minar does all kinds of cool things, like "building a metacomputer out of the idle resources on the Internet but ran out of money" and this web site
misc Smell Ya Later Oscar coverage? Bored now. It seems like the only place on the cyberinformationnet we can escape from Zuhair Murad is Slashdot, god bless those nerds. Today they're talking about that tricky animal, the
misc Week Around the Ists Gothamist watched as some NYU students occupied the student center with varied demands (amnesty! transparency! scholarships to Palestinians). It ended with arrests...and there was a topless component (NSFW). Bostonist photographed the impressive
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misc Andrew Bird at The Fillmore We snapped these pictures at the show last night. Although Andrew Bird has managed to sell out two nights at the Fillmore, we'd say its worth braving a craigslist purchase or showing up
misc Happy Birthday, Pooch! When the above-reproach Catherine Bigelow laid out the accomplishments of newly middle-aged "PR pro" Lori Puccinelli Stern, she left off our favorite: defender and fellow bee-savior of Holy Mother of San Francisco. Let
misc Today in San Francisco History - Ghosts of Lands End Timecapsule: February 19, 1921 On this date the cornerstone for San Francisco's spectacular Palace of the Legion of Honor Museum was levered into place. The Museum was to be a vehicle for the
misc Images: Fleishhacker Pool House Back in the 1920s, the Fleishhacker Pool was the finishing touch in "the symbolic 'watering' of San Francisco," and the city of San Francisco had spared no expense. San Francisco banker Herbert Fleishhacker
misc Photo du Jour 342 Amgen Tour of California: around 9 a.m. this morning at Ocean Beach along the Great Highway at Judah.
misc Gay Men and Uppers SFist received the following hot tip this morning. 'Gay men and uppers''just the way God wanted it'!!!! Gay men and uppers are two things that God most certainly does not want. Thankfully He
misc Week Around the Ists LAist watched with the rest of the city as a man in a white Bentley led cops on a 3-hour chase that ended with the driver--no, not Chris Brown, and not DJ Khaled--fatally
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misc It Not Me, It's You: Post Your Breakup Stories Before we post a few festive Valentine's Day events -- you know, fun ones with other lonely single folks; parties that will, hopefully, keep you from taking the final Nestea plunge over the
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