SF News Man in Wheelchair Hit, Trapped Underneath Train in Oakland A man in a wheelchair was hit by a cargo train rolling through Jack London Square in Oakland early this morning and subsequently trapped underneath the "cow-catcher" on the front of the train.
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Foxes in the Snow (in London) For your afternoon relaxation, all ye who are stuck in the office (probably hungover) during this dreadful slow week: A video of some foxes outside in the snow, shot by a guy in
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Time-Lapse Molds and Fungi This is from the BBC's amazing documentary series Planet Earth, narrated by David Attenborough. And it's NSF you if you're squeamish about yellow slimy things growing before your eyes, time-lapse-style. But otherwise, lovely.
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Awww, Let's Love S.F. This little celebratory video about our fair city comes from the still-in-alpha-stages site In the Mo, which is a socially-networked travel site of sorts, featuring a lot nice video content (3,500 video
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The Klaxons' Freaky Orgy (NSFW) Klaxons 'Twin Flames' from Trim Editing on Vimeo. For your afternoon viewing pleasure, please enjoy this little music video for the Klaxons' swell song "Twin Flames," which was directed by Saam Farahmand and
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Anderson Cooper Entertains Apes Dressed as a Bunny Last week, your boyfriend Anderson Cooper ran a series investigating "Amazing Animals: Smarter Than You Think" on AC360, which included the above segment on Bonobos a species of great ape known for their
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Maru, the Cat Who Loves Tiny Boxes Cat lovers beware. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll plotz. [via OMG]
SF News SFist Remembers: Lost Weekend Video While we haven't seen the inside of a video/DVD store in almost a decade, some of you still enjoy the whimsy of obtaining your movie rentals outside your property line. (You know,
SF News Watch KRON 4's Live Coverage of the Mehserle Sentencing News of the Johannes Mehserle verdict will be covered live on KRON4, and via UStream, we've got it here for you. A jury convicted Mehserle of involuntary manslaughter earlier this year. The former
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "My Girl's a Republican" And now, to cleanse your political palates this fine Monday afternoon/election eve, we bring you this catchy ditty "My Girl's a Republican" from The Real. Like all great videos, it contains talking
misc Good Job Guys... The <em>Weekly</em> Gives Us an Inane List of Songs to Listen to During an Earthquake So, apparently the Weekly let an intern loose on the All Shook Down blog or something, and they give us (we shit you not) The Top 8 Songs to Listen to During the
misc Meanwhile, In Berkeley: A 'Man vs. Wild' Spoof from Killing My Lobster "I'm Bear Grylls, and I'm in a land overrun by the most passive aggressive creatures on the planet. Even city dwellers fear to tread here. But I'm going straight into the heart of
SF News CNN Discovers Just How Easy It Is to Get a Medical Marijuana Card Oh, this is amusing: CNN does some hard-hitting reporting today on the topic of how easy it is get a medical marijuana card, and whether we should all be outraged that "90 to
SF News Bill Clinton Stumps In Napa and San Jose, Warns That Not Voting Will Wreck Everything The Big Daddy of all Democrats, Bill Clinton, was here over the weekend, giving his 83rd stump speech of this election season and trying to convince the Democratic base that there's reason for
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Porn Tech Support See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor. This video stars Kunal Nayyar of The Big Bang Theory. Courtesy of College Humor, via Laughing Squid.
misc Watch a Time-Lapse Video of the J-Church Rail Replacement Church and 30th St. San Francisco MUNI Construction from Ken Murphy on Vimeo. Streetsblog just posted this fun time-lapse video of three days worth of rail replacement work on the J-Church line at
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Four Kittens On a Roomba Watch as four adorable kittens take a ride around the kitchen, and slowly fall off, one by one, to the soundtrack of "The Sacrificial Dance" from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring. [via BuzzFeed]
SF News Battling Video Arguments For and Against Sit/Lie The Civil Sidewalks folks have put together a little YouTube vid to support Prop L, the Sit/Lie orginance, featuring police chief George Gascon as well as a number of store owners and
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vegan Boys Are the Worst Tenderblog points us to this ukulele jam from local artist Jam Hands, and as the artist herself writes, "I'm vegan! I like vegans (mostly)!... I realize these lyrics are stereotypes, quite a few
Arts & Entertainment POV Cam Shot of Rushing the Fence at Outside Lands We mentioned the industrious youths who bum rushed the fence outside the Chromeo show Sunday at the Speedway Meadow, and thanks to the magic of YouTube (and some entity called meshculture), we have
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Math Rap! Rad, right? We're just playing this to distract all the marriage-bound gays from their impatience this afternoon. And because math is fun! [via Everything Is Terrible]
SF News Marvelous, Crazy Belmont Woman Dances Her Way Into Our Hearts SFist has a new hero, ladies and gentlemen, and her name is Estrella Benavides. Estrella has lately been calling a forty-foot stretch of sidewalk in Belmont home, after becoming homeless several months ago.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pixar's "Day and Night" Many of you have already gone to see Toy Story 3 have seen this short, but for the rest, we thought we'd share, since this weekend marks the opening of a new exhibit
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "Craigslist" By Weird Al Yankovic Guess what everyone?! Weird Al Yankovic is not only still alive, he's still making music and touring! Yes, in fact, the musician most beloved by sixth graders in 80s will be coming to
Arts & Entertainment Weekend Palate Cleanser: "Sing Me Spanish Techno" by New Pornographers The New Pornographers (the band which, btw, still includes Neko Case) play the Fox on Sunday, and JFYI, there are still tickets left. They have a new album out called Together, and in
