morning links

* A water main has broken at Oak and Baker. [KRON4] * More information on the mother of three killed in the crossfire during a gun battle in SF. [SF Chronicle] [ABC7] [KTVU] * Does [Rincon

* New Yorker comes to SF to see girlfriend, discovers she's been untrue, gets stuck at SFO due to the blizzard, then ends up humiliated on [KRON4}. Hard to decide which aspect

* The Golden State Warriors have revealed their Chinese New Year uniforms. [KRON4] * Mills College student Kendall Anderson writes a scathing indictment of the Oakland Police Department's "investigation" of her

* Are you wondering who on earth would buy an SF taxi medallion? Well, now you know. [SF Chronicle] * I thought this article entitled "Here’s the Secret Silk Road Journal From the

* Beretta's avian-themed secret illustrated cocktail menu is pretty much the living embodiment of the Portlandia entreaty to "put a bird on it." [Eater SF] * Texans are angry that

* Now [Twitter]'s doing recaps. * You could live in Hunter Pence's loft. [Socketsite] * You will be shocked, SHOCKED to learn that "nobody is using Google+." [Business Insider] * Why

* Three hospitals in SF got bad "grades" from a nonprofit patient advocacy group. Can you guess which ones? [KRON4] * Supe London Breed encourages African-American parents who believe their kids are

* The Western Neighborhoods Project has released over a thousand photos of old San Francisco. [Richmond SF blog] * The [SF Business Times] explains why so many restaurants close in January. * Almost two months after

* Do tech companies really support free speech? [Pacific Standard] * [Businessweek] suggests we save dive bars by landmarking them. * A mystery substance possibly dumped along the East Bay shoreline is killing birds. [ABC7] * An

* The [SF Examiner] publishes a press release touting SF Weekly's new editor. * Duck abducted from SF playground has been returned unharmed. [SF Chronicle] * Generously-funded online dating company Zoosk (which is

* Here are three SF-based companies that Facebook at Work might be trying to destroy. [SF Business Times] * Behold the doughnut turducken. [Bernalwood] * Burning Man presale tickets are $800. [Bold Italic] * The [SoMa

* The [SFMTA] distances themselves from Hitler-depicting ads on buses, launches counter-campaign. * Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant tell the [New York Times] why women stay quiet at work. * GoPro's stock

* Apple, which uses Martin Luther King in their advertising, does not observe MLK day. [Valleywag] * Rose Pak remains "bewildered, dumbfounded and shocked," over Ed Lee's D3 Supe appointment, which

* Direct Action Everywhere held a flash mob inside the Market Street Whole Foods Sunday. [Indybay] * New library on Capp Street. [Capp Street Crap] * Annis “Big Red” Jensen, the first women’s captain of

* I was skeptical when I read the headline, but it's true: you can take public transit to Yosemite. [Huffington Post] * "Twitterloin has been exposed for what it is, an unimaginative

* Google lost a "significant" chunk of the search market in December after Yahoo became the search default on Firefox. [Wall Street Journal] * Bernal Heights residents are not so psyched that the

* This [Wired] guy rode in that driverless car that traveled from the Bay Area to Las Vegas and lived to tell the tale. * This [Huffington Post] guy rode in a Greyhound bus that

* The CFO at SF-based company Xoom has resigned after it was revealed that scammers swiped $30.8 million in corporate cash. [SF Business Times] * Mayor Lee still can't make a

* Uber says we didn't party that hard on New Year's Eve, but maybe we just didn't party with them? [Quartz] * Photographer bribes San Francisco subjects with cigarettes.

* After a hiatus, [Valleywag] returns, now run by a marketing guy who lives in Boston. Here's his first post, a list of industry predictions for 2015. * Hundreds gathered at Fruitvale Station

* Former SF Bay Guardian staffer Caitlin Donohue's [4U Magazine] takes "a queer, feminist look at the influence Beyonce had on us in 2014." * [Eater SF] discusses the various price

* Want to buy a small house on 19th Avenue with tenants who “do not want to provide interior access" for a million bucks? Then [SocketSite] has a place for you! * Deal to

* A man and a woman have been arrested in the Thanksgiving Day shooting that killed a man in Potrero Hill. [KRON4] * And that's it for the Raiders. [Associated Press/ABC7] * Despite

* A Monterey County Superior Court judge finalized the divorce between Clint and Dina Eastwood Tuesday. Aw, and we thought those crazy kids would make it! [CBS5/Associated Press] * The [SF Chronicle] meets some