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Jose Canseco Theorizes on Evolution of Gravity. Scientists Amused.

By Joe Eskenazi Tue., Feb. 19 2013 at 12:00 PM
Categories: Science, internets
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Tell us about the dinosaurs again, Jose
Over the weekend, former steroidal ballplayer, steroidal whistleblower, and (likely steroidal) all-around bizarre guy Jose Canseco titillated his Twitter followers.

"More thoughts on gravity tomorrow," wrote the former Oakland A's Bash Brother on Sunday. It's not every day that a onetime budding Hall-of-Famer turned home run ball-off-the-head punchline turned reality TV staple promises to opine on the forces of nature. But, on Monday, he did just that.

"Ancient gravity was much weaker," he tweeted, initiating the following surreal train of thought:

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"Cleavage Appreciation Day" Is a Thing. Who Knew?

By Joe Eskenazi Fri., Jan. 25 2013 at 1:25 PM
Categories: Sexytime, internets
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Appreciation, indeed
our humble narrator has just been informed that today is "Cleavage Appreciation Day" -- which, we assumed prior to this notification, was simply any day ending in a "y."

We're not in Kansas anymore, Toto. Can you imagine telling the teenagers of 1990 that, in the future, they could unwittingly stumble across photos like these? The Internet has done to tracking down photos of scantily clad women what the washing machine did for laundry, reducing a back-breaking, dirty chore to something one can do without even leaving the home.

Anyhow, enough philosophizin'. Here's some Twitterin':

See Also: Bell Tolls for Nudists

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Super Bowl: San Francisco, Baltimore Urged to Beg for Wheat Thins

By Joe Eskenazi Wed., Jan. 23 2013 at 2:35 PM
Categories: Food, Sports, internets
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How spicy should a buffalo be?
The Super Bowl will be quickly upon us -- and with it a bevy of head-scratching corporate tie-ins. We were, admittedly, caught off-guard by this big-game ad campaign from Wheat Thins. 

Our confusion starts right at the beginning. The campaign is titled "Must Have Wheat Thins." Now, nothing against Wheat Thins, but have they ever been a "must-have" item? Has there ever been a situation in which only Wheat Thins would do? Or, more basically, have they ever, truly, been something one needs? Life, liberty, and the pursuit of Wheat Thins?

The confusion continues with the campaign's setup. Basically, whichever fan base flogs Wheat Thins more on social media will result in 1,000 free deliveries of Wheat Thins to San Francisco or Baltimore. So, what is "winning" here? Getting the Wheat Thins? Or not getting the Wheat Thins?

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Scott Wiener Shocked, Honored by Award From Grindr

By Joe Eskenazi Mon., Jan. 14 2013 at 6:15 AM
Categories: LGBT, Politics, internets
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Local hero...
Supervisor Scott Wiener is not a Grindr user -- but, it turns out, many users of the service look up to him, even as they're looking up nearby men to get to know better.

Grindr -- a gay dating site aimed at those not necessarily looking for Mr. Right but Mr. Right Now -- established a Best of 2012 award. Per the site's users, Wiener is this city's "Local hero/community advocate of the year." His fellow award winners include Anderson Cooper (New York); Elizabeth Warren (Boston); and President Obama (D.C.).

Wiener made international headlines -- and launched countless horrible puns related to his last name -- when his ordinance banning most public nudity passed the board. So this award was especially satisfying for him. "It puts the lie to the notion that the nudity legislation is somehow a gay issue. It's not."

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This New App Should Ease the Pain of Finding an Apartment in San Francisco

By Coburn Palmer Thu., Nov. 15 2012 at 7:19 AM
Categories: Housing, Tech, internets
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There are some 40 million families looking to rent a home in the U.S., and at times it seems like they're all competing for the same apartment you want in San Francisco. 

Well, now there's Lovely, an iPhone app designed to let you beat them all to the front door. The app lets users save their search, turn it into an alert, and get notified whenever there's a new available space for rent.

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Finally, a Mobile App That Lets You Sell Your Crap in Five Seconds

By Coburn Palmer Thu., Nov. 8 2012 at 8:13 AM
Categories: Business, Tech, internets
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Even if you stay in Cali, you might have to sell some things now that Prop 30 passed
So you are upset over the election results, and decided to pick up and move to Texas, where nobody would ever put a death penalty measure on the ballot. But first, you are going to have to sell all your shit -- and fast.

Whaddya know, there's an app for that.

Forget the scammers and rapists you will find on Craigslist, try this mobile app, Rumgr, which aims to compete with Craigslist by letting strangers rummage through each other's garages from the comfort of their own couch. Hmm. That still sounds creepy.

See also: Top 5 Reasons Californians Are Moving to Texas

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Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to Drop by San Francisco Next Week

By Suzanne Stathatos Wed., Sep. 5 2012 at 11:10 AM
Categories: Tech, internets
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He'll probably be wearing something like this.
 Here's something to like: Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is slated to give his first onstage interview since May in San Francisco next week.

The man and his the hoodie will reportedly regale his fellow Facebookers (and annoyed investors?) on Sept. 11 at 2 p .m. at TechCrunch Disrupt SF -- a technology convention that showcases startups, speakers, hackers, and the general nerd.

Despite being the brainchild of Facebook, Zuckerberg is a rather private guy. Which is why this interview is something to look forward to.

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Megaupload Users Demand Data Recovery

By Erika Maldonado Tue., Apr. 10 2012 at 3:35 PM
Categories: Law & Order, Tech, internets
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a local organization protecting civil liberties in the digital world, will ask a federal judge to allow lawful Megaupload users to have their files back.

A hearing is scheduled for Friday at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Va., where EFF staff attorney Julie Samuels will argue that Megaupload's customers deserve a court-approved procedure to retrieve property before it's permanently deleted and inaccessible.

"EFF is troubled that so many lawful users of Megaupload.com had their property taken from them without warning and that the government has taken no steps to help them. We think it's important that these users have their voices heard as this process moves forward," said Samuels on the Megaretrieval site.


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Best Twitter Responses to Kony 2012

By Erin Browner Fri., Mar. 9 2012 at 1:35 PM
Categories: Media, internets
A campaign against the infamous butcher of Ugandan children has become more famous than, say, Mitt Romney -- overnight. 

By now, everyone knows who Joseph Kony is: a guerilla rebel, forcing his child army in Uganda to kidnap or kill other children as a unjustified form of his power. Kony is the most wanted man by the International Criminal Courts for his countless crimes against humanity.

Masses of people for world peace are jumping on the bandwagon of a nonprofit organization, Invisible Children's (IC) campaign to make "Kony" a household name. Its viral documentary claimed 10 million hits in less than 24 hours. IC believes internet hype will motivate the government to attack the man in the middle of Africa, whom IC compares to Hitler. 

Because IC is primarily using social media to fuel its campaign, Twitter is aflutter with endearing, hilarious, skeptical, and downright dumb responses to the Kony 2012 campaign (#stopkony).





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Bay Citizen Newsletter Shut Down By Spamming Complaint

By Joe Eskenazi Wed., Feb. 15 2012 at 11:59 AM
Categories: Media, internets
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And thus, the Bay Citizen was foiled
​More than 20,000 Bay Citizen readers didn't receive their daily newsletters this morning. An irate reader's e-mail complaint that the online newspaper was sending him unwanted pleas for his money led its internet service provider to shut the Bay Citizen down as a suspected spammer.

That irate reader is Richard Knee, a local freelance journalist and one of the driving forces behind the city's Sunshine Ordinance Task Force. He enjoys the Bay Citizen's daily newsletter, but tells SF Weekly he doesn't want the paper to ask him for his limited funds.

"Their news updates are useful. Their funding appeals and promos aren't," he says. "I filed a complaint with their internet service provider."

And that's when things spiraled beyond where Knee would have desired.

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