morning links

* SF's Public Art Trust is looking for folks to create something amazing for the west facade of the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. [SF Examiner] * Pro-Israeli demonstrators gathered in SF Sunday

* Here's San Francisco's entry in a contest to build the “ultimate urban utility bike.” Cyclists, please weigh in on this candidate's ultimate utility. [TechCrunch] * A woman was

* This [SF Bay Guardian] reporter spent the night watching BART cops kick sitting/lying people out of stations. * When an SF native took to the pages of the [Washington Post] to compare San

* Cincinnati Art Museum curator joining staff of The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. [SF Gate] * Square scrambles to prepare for a future where their "reader" is obsolete. [Wired] * Does it

* The head of San Francisco's Animal Care and Control was suddenly and unexpectedly "asked to leave." [SF Examiner] [SF Chronicle] * SF toward the top of list of cities plagued

* Man from Reno, woman from Berkeley win the SF Marathon. [Bleacher Report] [NBC Bay Area] [Hoodline] [SF Chronicle] * Wasted paddleboater drifts to Bay Bridge, is saved by Coast Guard. [KTVU] * What locally-shot

* Macy's workers in San Francisco might end up going on strike. [SF Chronicle] * Google's buying game-livestreaming company Twitch for $1 billion. I keep forgetting to make a macro

* Vendors at San Francisco's recently-sold Flower Market fret over the future of the venue. [KTVU] * It's kind of quaint that companies still advertise with banners that are trailed

* President Obama's in San Francisco today. [KRON4] [KGO] [CBS5] [SF Chronicle] * Not guilty plea for the woman accused of robbing that 8-year-old girl. [Bay City News/CBS5] * San Francisco

* City College may still be in jeopardy after accrediting commission rejects appeal. [LA Times] [SF Examiner] * RadiumOne appears to be apologizing for firing CEO Gurbaksh Chahal, who pled guilty to domestic violence in

* 2,290 housing units have been built in SF this year, but it'll take 100,000 of them to shift skyrocketing rent prices. [SF Examiner] * SF techies pack sober dance party.

* Will SF reach Gavin Newsom's 2009 goal of zero-waste by 2020? Maaaaybe. [KALW] * SF General is trying to identify a man who appears not to know who he is. Do

* The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute figures out what happens to the thousands of metal shipping containers that fall off those huge cargo boats every year. [Huffington Post] * I guess it would be

* The SFMTA board approved a plan to increase the fees tech buses pay to use Muni stops from $1 to $3.55/per, displeasing some Mission Bay residents. [SF Examiner] * Don't

* A bunch of old guys played some flag football at Candlestick. [ABC7] [ABC7] [CBS5] * According to [Irish Central], San Francisco's Irish community is way better than New York's. * [Gizmodo]

* $15 million worth of upgrades later, people tell [KTVU] they like San Francisco's new parking meters. * Rising water bills have gotten SF's Gleneagles Golf Course so behind in bills

* Civil grand jury calls shenanigans on aspects of Mayor Lee's 30,000 housing units goal. [SF Examiner] * Why is Urban Green Investments so intent on evicting this 98-year-old woman?

* Salt Lake City has nearly eradicated homelessness with "clean, bright housing that people on the street actually wanted to go to," and the [Deseret News] is wondering why SF doesn'

* Measures on Pier 70's development, astro-turf at the Beach Chalet soccer fields, and "protection of motorists' rights" turn in enough signatures that they're likely to

* Photographer "floods" San Francisco. [Moshe Levis] * Life inside a homeless encampment just miles from some of the richest companies in Silicon Valley. [Associated Press] * Is Craigslist undisruptable? [SF Chronicle] * Do you

* Some guy from Boston allegedly hacked SF-based Zendesk, then "exported about one million Twitter tech support tickets to computers outside of Zendesk's network and used that information to compromise

* The new publisher for the company that owns the [SF Examiner], the SF Bay Guardian, and SF Weekly looks an awful lot like "celebrity chef" Michael Symon. Am I wrong? * An

* The man who was shot and killed in Visitacion Valley Friday was gunned down during a game of dodgeball with a bunch of kids. A thought-provoking portrait of the impact violence has

* Civil grand jury says SF's government is not so hot at ethics, transparency. [SF Examiner] * Uber's "we'll marry you on pride weekend" stunt backfires, as