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San Francisco-led innovations worthy of a Genius Grant
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By Benjamin Wachs
Published on September 28, 2009 at 1:30pm
Last week, several Bay Area residents received MacArthur "genius" grants. What San Francisco–led innovations were worthy of the prestigious award?
• A massive art installation with blinking lights. It's just like every other San Francisco art installation, except that these lights were blue.
• A potential cure for Republicans
• Discovery of a heretofore unknown 141st character inTwitter messages
• A groundbreaking conversation about environmentalism that is neither smug nor condescending
• A new adverb to replace "hella"
• Development of several even more ineffective campaigns for gay marriage
• The discovery of six new minority groups we've been oppressing all this time
• Dozens of new ways to be disappointed in President Obama
• The establishment of cutting-edge new models of journalism that manage to make traditional newspapers look really good by comparison
• Celebrating sex until it's no longer interesting
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