Arts & Entertainment 'Business Town!' Is Richard Scarry 2.0 For Silicon Valley Business Town! is a brilliant, if derivative, Tumblr you should totally follow. Obviously, the style is all Richard Scarry, the illustrator whose most popular work, Busy Town, featured anthropomorphic animals in workaday jobs.
Arts & Entertainment <em>Silicon Valley</em> Recap: Bros Disclose Fun fact. In Season 2's intro, a Sim City style cartoon of Silicon Valley, we've got a few new "easter eggs." The @Yahoo building got quite a makeover between Seasons 1 and 2
Arts & Entertainment Silicon Valley Comic Con Announced In Dorky Video With Stan Lee And Woz Have a hole in your heart where WonderCon once was? Hopefully this can fill that void. In a charmingly dorky video shared on Friday, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and comic book legend Stan
SF News Survey Says: San Jose Is Happier Than San Francisco How happy are we all today? Happier than we were yesterday, maybe, because the weekend beckons. But are those of us in SF or the East Bay less happy that the folks in
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Season 2 Premiere Recap: Series A As Silicon Valley enters its second season, the Emmy-nominated HBO show and the TechCrunch Disrupt-winning company it follows face related challenges. Can Richard Hendriks (Thomas Middleditch) reach, in the words of one investor,
Arts & Entertainment Whoops! Writer Confuses 'Silicon Valley' Actor With Indian Actor On 'Big Bang Theory' Over at Salon, TV critic Sonia Saraiya weighed in on the Women in Tech conversation in discussing the upcoming season of HBO's Silicon Valley and celebrating the addition of a new female character
SF News After Praising Moronic Indiana Law, Jeb Bush Comes To SF To Fundraise Why bother! And this isn't even an April Fool's joke. While his brother G.W. spent zero time in the Bay Area during his historically disastrous eight years in the White House, Florida
SF News Kleiner Perkins Did Not Discriminate Against Ellen Pao Based On Gender, SF Jury Finds In a trial that has captivated and examined Silicon Valley — with thumbs refreshing Twitter feeds at a fever pitch this afternoon — a San Francisco jury has found that Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers, which
SF News Twitter Systematically Denies Job Promotions To Women, Says Lawsuit Twitter is the latest Silicon Valley giant to be hit with accusations of gender discrimination, with a former employee claiming the company's policies systematically hold women down. Tina Huang filed the suit on
SF News Hillary Clinton Talks About Creating A 'Nice Warm Purple Space' Of Bipartisan Cooperation At Silicon Valley Conference Yesterday in Silicon Valley, Hillary Clinton sat down on stage for an interview with Re/Code's Kara Swisher, who opened with the joke, "I was just interviewing President Obama and I'm looking forward
Arts & Entertainment Upskirt Oopsie: Magazine Cover On Silicon Valley Sexism Called Out For...Sexism This week's cover. Will post first thing in the morning. pic.twitter.com/UIgR97sHS9— jim impoco (@jimpoco) January 28, 2015 Alas, poor Newsweek. Once the Pepsi to Time's print newsweekly Coke, in recent
Arts & Entertainment CNN Explores The Druggy, Trippy, And Poly Side Of Silicon Valley Geekdom "Polyamory is a form of optimization," says product manager Miju Han in what is just one of many words of disruptive wisdom shared in a new CNN mini-doc web series titled "Sex, Drugs
SF News Can Silicon Valley Be Made Less Awful? Pando Daily Thinks So. Pando Daily, the Silicon Valley blog that claims it's there to "speak truth to the new power" but which ends up mostly being an angry-making, inside-baseball Uber-hate fest, is hosting some sort of
Arts & Entertainment Some Silicon Valley Person's Covered Their Home In Real Snow My neighbor trucked in snow for her holiday party last night. #guesswho #mysiliconvalley #paloalto A photo posted by Stefania Pomponi (@stefaniapomponi) on Dec 12, 2014 at 1:05pm PST Plummeting through an Instagram
SF News New 'Judgmental' Map of the South Bay Will Amuse, Offend Conflating judgment with casual racism, here's the latest installment of "Judgmental Maps" in the Bay Area. The humor series has included this take on San Francisco, which flagged the Castro, simply, as "Rainbow
Arts & Entertainment Life Imitates Art As Hewlett-Packard Hires Flo Rida For Event, Just Like On <i>Silicon Valley</i> Remember when on Episode 4 of Silicon Valley eccentric billionaire Peter Gregory threw a toga party benefit and hired Flo Rida to perform? Well, that just happened in real life last night, in
SF News Zuckerberg Ponies Up $25 Million To Fight Ebola Likely influenced by his benevolent doctor wife Priscilla Chan maybe she's really changing him, you guys! Mark Zuckerberg announced this morning that he's donating $25 million to the Centers for Disease Control Foundation
SF News The New York Times Warns That Silicon Valley Bubble Might Be Ready To Pop And Ruin Us All The bubble! The tech bubble! The Silicon Valley bubble! There's so much bubble talk that we expect some pundits to start traveling like Glinda the Good Witch (UberBubble rides, coming soon to a
Arts & Entertainment New Terrible Dating App Dubbed 'Tinder Without the Poor People' by Eric Wuestewald Let's be honest: Even in a city with the second highest percentage of millionaires in the country, finding that special someone can be exhausting. You've tried the yacht parties, the
SF News Hear The Secrets Of The Real-Life 'Wolf of Wall Street,' For Only $75 (And Up) Jordan Belfort needs your help. See, he mis-spent his 20s and 30s perpetrating a now-famous fraud while amassing millions of dollars for himself on a certain New York City roadway. But luckily, by
SF News Investor Peter Thiel Thinks There's 'A Lot Of Pot Smoking' Going On At Twitter, Twitter Responds [Updated] Eccentric billionaire angel investor Peter Thiel who was used as the basis for the eccentric billionaire investor character Peter Gregory on HBO's Silicon Valley appeared on CNBC to talk about how he feels
SF News Westboro Baptist Church To Protest 'Fag Media' Next Month At Facebook, Google, And Apple The infamous idiots of the Westboro Baptist Church, who always know a good media-attention-whoring opportunity when they see one, are turning their homophobic attention to the entire tech sphere next month and will
Arts & Entertainment <i>Silicon Valley</i> Recap: 'You're Gay For My Code' In last night's Silicon Valley, the gang comes to San Francisco for the TechCrunch Disrupt conference and many jokes are made about how few women there are in tech. Also, Erlich proves himself
SF News Atherton Is Still, Pretty Definitively, America's Most Expensive Zip Code Home prices in Atherton, already sky high as of last fall when Forbes declared it America's toniest zip code, continue to climb, in part because Forbes published that article. As SFGate's real estate
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Recap: Richard vs. Precocious Kids This week's episode brings us that glorious clip from the original trailer of Richard getting slapped by that suburban 10-year-old who tells him to "Get the f**k out of here," and it
