Jim HerdWebcam, ahoy!Longtime listeners to San Francisco Giants broadcasts will be familiar with KNBR radio's ubiquitous catchphrase touting its broadcasting might: "From the Farallones to the Rockies..." Many a fan has probably stopped to wonder who, exactly, is catching those ballgames out on the Farallones? Whales? Don't be silly -- they like soccer. Perhaps its the lonely researchers from the Point Reyes Bird Observatory. With a lifetime that solitary, baseball on the radio could become an u
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Flayed: At Chez Pim, ambivalence about the lineup at tomorrow's Great American Food and Music Fest (a mashup of Food Network stars and actual chefs) bubbled over into a sticky brown goo. Pim? Totally stoked -- she called it the place to be this Saturday. Commenters? Not so much. Dr Fred sniffed Why would you go? Food Network is not about cooking and their stars are not chefs. DaTruff had a full-on hissy fit, food-nerd style: French foie gras
The illicit love of Howard and SafaraLast night at the California Academy of Sciences, a group of spectators gathered around the African penguin exhibit squealed and cooed as twenty blackfoot penguins bopped around their rocky enclosure like so many wind-up toys. These particular blackfoot penguins reside at the academy, and not on their native islands off southwest Africa, because they are classified as "vulnerable" and local ornithologists