• Facebook platform manager Dave Morin is having a birthday party at Slide — the nightclub, not the Facebook-app developer — on Mason St. in San Francisco tonight at 10 p.m. 244 people, including VC, entrepreneurs, and notable Facebookers, have confirmed their attendance, so it should be a good time. We wonder if Facebook's top execs will be there — or will have to ditch it for deal meetings. [Facebook]
• We hear that Valleywag's favorite spiritmaker, Lotus Vodka, is throwing a private shindig at Circa on Chestnut Street in the Marina. Should start at 9 p.m.
• Would some barley and hops brighten your dreary day? Try Oktoberfest by the Bay this weekend in San Francisco's Fort Mason. [Upcoming]
• Tomorrow, SuperHappyDevHouse has another hackathon session planned for tomorrow in Cupertino. [SuperHappyDevHouse.org]

• Got a to-do that's a must-do? Send it to calendar@valleywag.com. Check out more events on our Google Calendar:
  

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• Chris Pirillo's Gnomedex conference, which aims to "unlock the attendee's spirit" — or, in Robert Scoble's case — "inflate the attendee's ego" — is happening now in Seattle. Can't make this year's event, titled "The Blogosphere's Conference?" Check out their live stream, assuming you can get it to work.
• Gawker videographer Richard Blakely is one of the artists featured at tonight's San Francisco International Festival of Short Films tonight at the Victoria Theater on 16th and Mission.
• Saturday
• Bring your laptop and your bathing suit for SuperHappyDevHouse 19 in beautiful Los Gatos. The working party kicks off at 2 p.m. and goes until 1 a.m.
• (Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid)

"What's the business model for Tetris?"

A team's work halts as Malcolm Gladwell wows them all with stories and psychological insights. Nothing gets done, but the inspired team soon makes $2 million in the consulting biz.

David Weekly (right) and cohorts snack at an In-n-Out Burger, where David recalls his high school summer job as a rollerskate waitress.

"No one liked my project."

From this angle, the project looks flippable.

"Nothing! Nothing! He was just...balancing my servers."

This isn't from the DevHouse — it's Google's brig for insubordinate developers.

Another disappointing first Goatse.

"Actually, I work here, and what the hell are you doing in my building?"

Why is this man so happy? He just built Porn 2.0, and he knows he'll win.

Video (courtesy of David Weekly) by:
Ryanne Hodson [RyanEdit]
Jay Dedman [Momentshowing]

Earlier: Geeking out: Coding and condoms at SuperHappyDevHouse [Valleywag]

This weekend, PBWiki founder and coder Dave Weekly hosted the ninth in his grand series of SuperHappyDevHouses (where guests have included the inventor of the mouse, and where each iteration is unpredictable, like a fractal and unlike a King of Queens episode).

SHDH is an irregularly scheduled weekend coding session in the Peninsula town of Hillsborough. It lasts all Saturday night, with some coders staying up til dawn. I was lucky enough to get stuck there overnight and witness the whole shebang, which everyone called the "most productive" devhouse, especially for its size.

These three hung out on the stairway for a few hours, like a very hot, female, Asian Cerberus. Actually, not like Cerberus at all.

Yes, Scott Beale and Neil Kumar heard your little "Two black guys and a white programmer walk into a bar" joke. No, the punchline was not appropriate at all.

Lest you think geeks don't have sex — that night netted not one but two condoms in the trashcan of the cramped downstairs (I think. Maybe the roomier upstairs) bathroom. Granted, only one is confirmed to have been used on a girl, but still, way to go, developers!

After the jump, things more boring than bathroom sex. But they are still good things.

Photos: SHDH 9 [Elea Chang on Flickr]
SuperHappyDevHouse [Official wiki]

Dave Weekly. Organizer. Man of mystery. Commie.

"I appreciate you trying to help, it's really cute. But let's face it, boys can't code."

Val Henson (above) whipped up a nifty app that combs SEC data for unlikely financial data. The tool compares a company's reported financial numbers to the actual distribution of normal financial data. Given enough data, the figures that skew wrong (Shell, which recently posted surprisingly low revenue after some government trouble, was the worst offender) were probably fudged.

Sunday morning, the overnighters (about a dozen guys) analyzed the night over brunch. "There weren't as many girls this time," said Technorati coder Tantek Celik. "There were more," someone replied. "You just didn't notice because they were actually coding."