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twitterati
Trib Reporter Bemoans 'Racist, Semi-Literate' Readers
Wailin Wong has had it with the homophobes on the Chicago Tribune website, which is just as well, since Ana Marie Cox has had it with people insisting she wear pants. The Twitterati, in short, said they wanted a revolution. More »
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By Ryan TateComment by Pope John Peeps II: Wailin Wong sounds like the greatest Japanese country act ever. 2 Responses | Other threads
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twitterati
Larry King's Backside Heckled by Joy Behar
At least the Twitterati's woes were entertaining today: The mayor of San Francisco talked about butts; Paul Carr named Julia Allison's new scandal and a newspaper editor swore oddly at the difficulty of blogging. More » -
politics
Gavin Newsom Erases His Wife's Threesome Movie
Every political résumé polished and fluffed. But why is San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, running for California's governorship, stretching the truth about his actress wife's show-biz career?
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By Owen ThomasComment by HopeCA: Thank you for documenting the evidence before the slate is expunged. I'm a fan of Gavin for San Francisco (betrayals and... 2 Responses | Other threads
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politics
Facebook's Privacy Czar Leaves to Run for California A.G.
Chris Kelly, Facebook's chief privacy officer, has made official long-rumored plans to run for California's attorney general. He's just the latest Silicon Valley figure to enter politics. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by pacocornholio: Facebook 'privacy' meets the office of California's AG... Does this mean that there will be no such thing as sealed... more » | Other threads
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gavin newsom
California's Hair Apparent Tours Facebook
Gel-coiffed San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, having made his long-expected run for governor of California official, visits Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto. (Photo by Dave Morin)
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By Owen ThomasComment by crumb-bun: A certain ego-blogger is going to be awfully disappointed that she so narrowly missed this opportunity to get a shot... 3 Responses | Other threads
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flackery
Gavin Newsom's Press Dude Is Totally Dope
Here's something else to know about San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, besides the gay marriage advocacy and the hair gel and the preggers, softcore-porn-acting wife and the fameball cousins: His press secretary makes pot jokes. More » -
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Hunky San Francisco Mayor Has a Family of Fameballs
Gavin Newsom, the politically ambitious, Google-loving, baby-making, gay-marriage-crusading mayor of San Francisco, is meeting Twitter CEO Ev Williams today! Possibly on the agenda: Can he get tipsy female relatives off it? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by 1Melanie: I think you should do an article on Justine Musk's livejournal. She tucks her five children in at night and goes... 4 Responses | Other threads
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San Francisco Mayor Acknowledges Bloggers' Existence
Gavin Newsom, the shiny-haired mayor of San Francisco who's running for governor of California, told Bill Maher Friday night that things won't be that bad if newspapers die. We'll still have blogs! More »
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politics
Gavin Newsom, the Unexpected Family Man
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, who's running in the 2010 California governor's race, has wasted no time in turning the unwanted revelation of his impending fatherhood to political gain. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by the lesser of two weevils: My mother is certain he's a closet ghey. 3 Responses | Other threads
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babies
San Francisco's First Lady Pregnant with Gavin Newsom's Campaign Prop
We hear Jennifer Siebel, the actress wife of San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, is pregnant — and furious with the friends who let word slip. But we bet her pro-gay marriage husband is thrilled. More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by Baroness: I like and admire Gavin immensely. I lived in SF for 5 years, and however much people want to carp,... 10 Responses | Other threads
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politics
Meg Whitman explores run for California governor
A source embedded in the political world claims Meg Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, has set up a committee to explore a run for governor of California in 2010. The Secretary of State's office doesn't list her as having filed a statement of intention yet, which is required before she can begin raising money for a run. The San Jose Mercury News recently reported that Whitman was looking to hire a political consulting firm in Sacramento. What really has us interested: The prospect of a race between Whitman, whose Internet new-money fortune is estimated at $1.3 billion, and San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom, whose family gets its funding from the city's old-line elite. The Hair versus The Sensible 'Do? We're as excited as Whitman's dog about this one.
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By Owen ThomasComment by Alaska Miller: Carly Fiorina should be governor. more » | Other threads
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cleantech
San Francisco can't find greenbacks for Gavin Newsom's public utility palace
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission had plans to build a monument to renewable energy in a project that Gavin Newsom pitched to congress as an example of cutting-edge green building practices. But the mayor's newly appointed SFPUC director Ed Harrington, who sagely noted that The City can't balance the books and the cost of the building might spur protests from ratepayers, has nixed the $190 million proposal. Too bad — would have looked really good on Newsom's CV when he applies for the governor's job in 2010. [Curbed SF]
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sarah palin
Why Palin's Yahoo Mail account is just like Gavin Newsom's iPhone
The irony in Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's use of a private email account on Yahoo to keep backroom political dealings from becoming public is not that it's a page ripped from the Bush administration's electronic communications playbook. And it's not that Palin ran on an open-government, reformist platform in her gubernatorial campaign. It's that Democrat pundits will work themselves into a lather over a loophole San Francisco's own hunky God-mayor, Gavin Newsom, has himself exploited. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by gitahne-o: I want transparent government. Palin will not provide that despite her perceived reputation as a reformer. She may have usurped the... more » | Other threads
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caption contest
When I grow up, I want to become President
Hunky God-mayor Gavin Newsom tries out his new stand-up routine at the Unconventional '08 party in Denver, in front of a backdrop featuring Shepard Fairey's Soviet-kitsch Barack Obama propaganda and a hipster mashup of Obama as Illinois Republican Abraham Lincoln. Care to heckle San Francisco's mayor? Best caption in the comments becomes the new headline. Yesterday's winner: "Ask me about our affordable day care plans!" by null. (Photo by Steve Rhodes)
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i hate it here
The east coast's love affair with Gavin Newsom
Time magazine gives renewable energy credit to hunky God-mayor Gavin Newsom. None was due. The august journal hails our fair mayor for a nonexistent wind-energy installation: More »
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By Jackson WestComment by cokeslurpee: I've lived in SF for a few years and I have been extremely unimpressed with how the city is governed.... 10 Responses | Other threads
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Tim the IT Guy
Nuclear power? You're soaking in it
San Francisco alone consumes 850 continuous megawatts of electricity during the day. How much is that? The two supersized solar arrays planned for 2013 won't be enough to run SF — they'll produce 800 megawatts total. Gavin Newsom's pet project, the tidal power generator, will only piddle out 55 megawatts — one-fifteenth of the city's needs. Meanwhile, the Golden State's two operating nuclear sites each crank out more than 2,000 megawatts — day or night, high tide or low. What really drives the greenies crazy? They're safe. More »
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Comment by NuclearPro-Am: Sorry to be so late to the game, but you asked for a Bush/Clinton/Bush spokesperson, and unfortunately you got one.... more » | Other threads
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politics
Gavin Newsom wants you to know he's busy having sex
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom can thank open government sunshine laws for breeding within every hack a dismissive boredom with official communiques, especially when they're delivered in proprietary binary formats within an email attachment. Thankfully, a young hack less jaded than ourselves bothered to open the latest PDF from our hunky God-mayor's communication staff and revealed the following about Gavvy-Gav's plans for today: More »
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Mine Flies Higher
Google's other party plane revealed
How did invited guests from the Bay Area for the Newsom-Siebel wedding make it to tiny Stevensville, Montana on a budget and at the last minute? On a private jet from Google, of course. But not the Boeing 767 with the king-sized bed that you've all come to know and love — it was a slightly smaller 757 that revellers boarded at Moffett field. Besides the regular seats, there were reclining thrones and couches mounted along the side of the plane. Larry Page deigned to join the hoi polloi with his paramour Lucy Southworth on the flight back to California. "So warm, lovely and friendly," said our source of the sweet pair with their Hollywood dentistry. (Photo by Cubbie_n_Vegas)
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wedding announcements
Gavin Newsom selects Jennifer Siebel as gubernatorial running mate
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom is running for higher office again, so it was time for another wedding. The latest bride is actress Jennifer Siebel. Larry Page and Sergey Brin were happy to lend the Google party plane to ferry guests from the Bay Area, so apparently no hard feelings about that whole San Francisco-wide Wi-Fi thing. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by bernielomax: wasn't this douche banging a 19 year old just a few months ago? you know what they say about dudes... more » | Other threads
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recap
Jackson West, please come home — all is forgiven
Why did I let Jackson West take a vacation? While our associate editor was away, we actually wrote something nice about Gavin Newsom — and he only had to save San Francisco from a rogue IT guy to do it! Microsoft's Windows chief, Kevin Johnson, ended up in Sunnyvale, Calif. — but not, as he'd hoped, in the corner office at Yahoo HQ. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg flubbed more media interviews this week, prompting us to suggest he get help. Maybe he could take tips from the Internet-famous Julia Allison, who crashed his developers' conference? More »
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social engineering
Gavin Newsom's superpowers charm passwords from rogue IT guy
Remember Terry Childs, the guy who changed the passwords on San Francisco's government IT network the other week? The Chronicle reports that "a team of code crackers brought in from Cisco Systems had been working around the clock to try to decipher Childs' codes, but with only marginal success." Childs has finally given up the passwords — on the condition that hunky future governor (just you wait!) Gavin Newsom come down to the Hall of Justice and get them personally, and then deliver them to the Cisco consultants, not to the city's IT managers. For those of you convinced that taking back the network should've been as simple as rebooting your Mac with a paper clip, read the full anecdote: More »
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By Paul BoutinComment by Drunken Economist: Oh, it gets MUCH better: Take a read:: [San Francisco DA Discloses City's Passwords] [entertainment.slashdot.org] more » | Other threads
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cleantech
Steve Westly wants Akeena Solar to cash in on Gavin Newsom giveaway
Wealthy eBay co-founder Steve Westly, who campaigned for the Democratic Party's nomination to run against California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in the last gubernatorial election, has kept busy by investing in startups like Akeena Solar, and he's not just helping with venture capital. He's also using his campaign's email database to promote the company to San Franciscans, urging them to participate in Mayor Gavin Newsom's solar power rebate program — by buying products from Akeena Solar: More » -
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Philadelphia's Wi-Fi network saved, for now, but the time for citywide wireless has past
After EarthLink abandoned a citywide Wi-Fi project for Philadelphia after only 6,000 customers signed up for the $20/mo. service. Now local investors Derek Pew of Boathouse Communications and Mark Rupp, a former Verizon executive, are planning to take over the network, which will be free and ad-supported. When first announced, the project was on of the largest Wi-Fi buildouts proposed. But after being completed, few users signed up because it was slow, didn't reach far into the city's signature row houses if at all, and was not much cheaper than adding Internet to your cable or phone connection. Earthlink had previously attempted to hand the network off an Ohio-based non-profit. But Wi-Fi was never a particularly good technology for these projects, and it's high time to abandon the pipe dream. More » -
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Gavin Newsom insinuates himself into latest San Francisco wireless Internet plan
The San Francisco Examiner was kind enough to add a quote from visionary God-mayor Gavin Newsom to a short article about Meraki's plans to provide a few free wireless routers to San Francisco residents in order to create free Wi-Fi hotspots in San Francisco neighborhoods. "People act as relays and they are able to be receptors of sorts,” Newsom told the Ex — in a quote that Gavvy-Gave also could have used to describe the local hepatitis epidemic. Meraki's plans, however, won't spread hepatitis-fast: More »
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By Jackson WestComment by matto: Actually Meraki covers a decent portion of the city with its free wireless mesh: [sf.meraki.com] bonus points for figuring out which one... more » | Other threads
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caption contest
The first rule of Hair Club is you do not talk about Hair Club
Hollywood star Edward Norton gleefully shakes hands with San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom at a hearing on green building practices today before the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming on Capitol Hill. Write your own caption, and the winner becomes the new headline. Yesterday's contest drew no winning entries, so do try harder, won't you? (Photo by AP/Lawrence Jackson)
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cleantech
Google invests in BrightSource's steam and mirrors
BrightSource Energy, a renewable energy startup that wants to build solar thermal plants which use sunlight reflected from mirrors to heat water to steam and power electricity-generating turbines, has pulled in $115 million. The investment was led by Google.org, Google's quasi-nonprofit arm; VantagePoint; BP; Statoil Hydro; and Black River, and brings the Oakland-based startup's total funding to $160 million. The company has already signed a contract to supply local monopoly Pacific Gas & Electric with 900 megawatts of power by 2016. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by TGILLINC: Dam, who's got the contract to keep all those mirrors clean? more » | Other threads
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cleantech
Mayor wants Israeli electric car startup to setup shop in San Francisco
On our hunky God-mayor's "Gavin Newsom for Governor" tour that included stops in donor-rich New York and Los Angeles, a stop in Israel got the excitable pol talking about Israeli startup Project Better Place. The company's plan is to build a network of charging stations for a fleet of electric vehicles in Israel. Of course, there's no actual money behind bringing the idea to our shores yet, so you can probably expect it to become a reality about the same time San Francisco turns on the free Wi-Fi network Gavvy-Gav promised. Can't get enough of the hair? Video after the jump. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by Jackson West: Ah, Fidel, have you not embraced post-modernism? Worked so well for the East German government. more » | Other threads
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party report
The future of Jonathan Zittrain (and how to stop it)
Really, I wasn't trying to be posh for the book party Arianna Huffington threw Saturday for Oxford scholar Jonathan Zittrain and his new book, The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It." I pulled up to Larry Ellison's Pacific Heights manse in a black Town Car because that's the only vehicle I was able to flag down in North Beach. Huffington, the pundit turned blog mogul, greeted me at the door and extracted a promise of my best behavior before allowing me in. (One wonders what these people think my worst behavior might be, and if they realize how tempting living down to their expectations is.) More »
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Gavin Newsom a simulacrum of himself
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San Francisco famous is not New York famous
Vanity Fair PR reps hassled Billy Getty, the oil heir, and wife Vanessa, for tickets at the premiere of Gonzo, even though the two were on the publicity email. Billy is the partner of San Francisco god-mayor Gavin Newsom in the PlumpJack restaurant empire, and Vanessa Getty is "our Victoria Beckham," according to SFLuxe, but the well-connected pair went completely unrecognized. (Photo by Drew Altizer via 7x7)
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Gavin Newsom complains about his Yelp rating
Yelp founder Jeremy Stoppelman and Nish Nadaraja, marketing director of the local listing site, sat down with San Francisco's preternaturally hunky god-mayor Gavin Newsom. Newsom agreed to the meeting in order to convince Yelpers he's "more hip than the 3.5 stars makes me appear." Before they lobbed him softball questions in earnest, he got to pitch his environmentalist credentials, taking credit for a greener taxi fleet — though his executive order commanding municipal agencies to convert to greener vehicles has stalled, and it was the Board of Supervisors who passed the taxi legislation. All most voters seem to care about is The Hair:The days where I had a little dollop of gel are gone. I'm using quarter of a bottle at a time and I'm not proud of it. And I know that I need help!
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By Jackson WestComment by Troll_2.0: Say,Jer my man...I have an investment idea for you: Why don't you give ME 4 million dollars to travel around... more » | Other threads
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cleantech
How to get Gavin Newsom to give you taxpayer dollars
San Francisco's evil Board of Supervisors is standing in the way of hunky god-mayor Gavin Newsom and his efforts to save the world by giving thousands of dollars to San Francisco home and business owners to install solar panels on their property, if you believe the San Francisco Chronicle. This should give Valley privateers a good idea of how to work with City Hall. Need to divert public money to the private sector, get a few laws changed, and at least win favor with our possible future governor? All it takes if five easy steps. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by jackparsons: @Rachel Marsden: Don't you have some rampaging PC professors up in Saskatchewan to worry aboot? more » | Other threads
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Brewster Kahle's Internet Archive brings broadband to SF housing projects
Mayor Gavin Newsom's office tried to garner good press by selling his efforts to bring free Wi-Fi to San Francisco as an effort to bring broadband to the poor, under the auspices of Project Tech Connect. Commercial partners Google and EarthLink just wanted to sell location-targeted ads with a franchise agreement to shut out competitors. Now Brewster Kahle's nonprofit Internet Archive has done what Newsom, Google and EarthLink couldn't. No, not hold yet another press conference. Kahle actually brought 100-megabit-per-second broadband to low-income households. More »
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By Jackson WestComment by hpp: Owen: Why are you banning Johndmc? Kompression posted a violent threat. His second that I have seen. The other guy said... more » | Other threads
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politics
SF mayor Gavin Newsom cancels free Wi-Fi presser
In a new low for hunky god-mayor Gavin Newsom's attempts at getting San Francisco's free Wi-Fi off the ground, an 11:45 a.m. press conference to discuss the issue was cancelled today. Why a new low? Because if there's anything the Gavster and his seven-person communication staff are good at, it's giving press conferences. However, you can still see the Hair at 4:30 p.m. when he swears in assorted appointees. (Photo by sfistrita)
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By Jackson WestComment by SFcitizen: Production of the Tesla is at about one a week and even company co-founder Martin Eberhard doesn't have his yet... more » | Other threads
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politics
Gavin Newsom soon to be driving Tesla Roadster
The Tesla Roadster, an electric geek dream-machine of a car, is finally entering production. One of the first in line: San Francisco's own Gavin Newsom. The City's hunky god-mayor will soon be mussing his signature coiffure in one of the convertibles. It'll be just the thing to drive down 101 to scare up contributions for the gubernatorial campaign he's thinking about (read: has been planning for the last five years). The young mayor in the sexy electric car is the very picture of political virility, and he just screams "green" — in the good pro-corporate Democrat way, not the bad Green Party vice presidential candidate Matt Gonzalez way. (Photo courtesy of Earth2Tech/Katie Fehrenbacher) More »
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By Jackson WestComment by QADude: I'd love to see him hit a pothole, too. That might mess up his hair... more » | Other threads
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Confirmed: Mayor McDreamy plans run for Governor
Need proof that hairgel addict Gavin Newsom is, as the San Francisco Chronicle reports, setting up a run for Governor of California? Read the opinion piece he posted at Daily Kos last week advocating gay marriage. Newsom says it's too early to talk about any plans, but Chron investigative reporters put their union paychecks to use to uncover Newsom's behind-the-scenes groundwork. The pro-business Democrat diverges from Schwarzenegger Republicans on three issues: Legalized gay marriage, universal health care, and protection for illegal immigrants would — at least so far — be part of his platform. Throw in medical cough marijuana, Gav, and you'll sweep the Bay Area vote. (Photo by Mike Kepka / San Francisco Chronicle)
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By Paul BoutinComment by Carlos: @sample032: Yeah and giulianni actually managed to leave his city a little less shitty than he found it more » | Other threads
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i hate it here
San Francisco is just like Second Life
Gavin Newsom, San Francisco's freshly reelected god-mayor, descended into the bowels of Second Life for a quaint fireside chat with Philip Rosedale, CEO of Linden Lab. What lofty matters could a city mayor and the chieftain of a seamy virtual world possibly have to discuss? Why, the parallels between the "two famously diverse and tech-savvy communities with global profiles," of course. As Newsom said during their discourse, "We're all geeks." But the comparisons don't stop there. San Francisco is exactly like Second Life. More » -
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Gavin Newsom makes Larry and Lucy's short list
We hear that Larry Page's wedding to Lucy Southworth on Necker Island Sunday was a smaller affair than widely reported — only 170 people, not 600. Confirmed in attendance: Richard Branson, who officiated, and Bono, who read a poem he wrote for the couple and performed a song. Oh, and also San Francisco's hunky god-mayor, Gavin Newsom, shown here with Page and Google cofounder Brin. How do we know Newsom was there? More »
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By Owen ThomasComment by bonae: No politician wants to appear too close to B&P after the you tube stock fraud contraversy. 1.65 billion and no... more » | Other threads
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i hate it here
Welcome to the great country of San Francisco
It's been a long-running suggestion that California secede from the United States. But barring a massive tectonic rift, the Cali shows no signs of jumping from its comfy perch. San Francisco has taken matters into its own hands, however, and quietly declared that it's not just a city and a county — it's a country, too. Just like he did with gay weddings three years ago, newly reelected and always hunky dictator-for-life Gavin Newsom was keen to make the shift go by unnoticed. One American patriot spotted the change on her tax bill. The jig's up, Newsom. (Photo by g-na)
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Comment by GinaMuchava: Wow, San Francisco property owners get off easy. Only 1.1410%? That's barely enough for the govt to buy cheese for... more » | Other threads
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yelp
Who knew Yelp, the San Francisco-based local reviews site, had such pull in City Hall? Hunky god-mayor Gavin Newsom has proclaimed December 5, 2007, as "Yelp Day." [Yelp Blog]
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By Owen ThomasComment by camas22: yelp reviews have grown less and less useful as the site becomes more of a social network. They aren't... more » | Other threads
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