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Tumblr Denizens Get Melodramatic Over Yahoo! Purchase

It has been amusing to watch some of the sillier, more melodramatic reactions to Yahoo's announcement that it will buy the blogging platform Tumblr. Given Yahoo's history of wrecking or abandoning services that it has purchased (GeoCities, Flickr), it's somewhat understandable that people would worr ... More >>

Viral Kitchen Nightmares: The Best of The Crazy Amy Meme

In case you missed it, Amy's Baking Company of Scottsdale, AZ became the most famous new restaurant of the week after Gordon Ramsay failed to help rehabilitate it on the television series Kitchen Nightmares and a subsequent Facebook flame war, later denied as hackery, placed the proprietors squarely ... More >>

Twitter Fetishists Can't be Stopped

The horrific heaps of misinformation that spewed from Twitter and other social media services during the Boston Marathon bombing saga haven't slowed down the Twitter fetishists. If anything, they've doubled down. For some reason, these people believe that Twitter represents some kind of earth-shat ... More >>

The Tall Guy: Ben Pack Takes the Short Path to Big Fame

Right-Wing Conspiracies Try to Wrest Media Shame Away From Broadcast, Twitter

From print to broadcast to online, there's very little the media's gotten right about this Boston tragedy before getting it wrong multiple times. The New York Post exaggerated the death toll from Monday's Boston Marathon bombings by 400 percent before joining InfoWars in misidentifying three diffe ... More >>

Lanesplitter Pizza Employees Protest Working Conditions With Walkout

On Monday evening, employees at Lanesplitter Pizza's Temescal location walked out in protest of working conditions at the popular East Bay pizzeria chain. In a press release circulated on Reddit and Facebook, workers added that, in addition to labor conditions, they also walked out to raise awaren ... More >>

Privileged Information: The Fight for an Open Internet

For Self Quantifiers, Data Collection Is Now Art

Screw meditation. Established here in San Francisco, the Quantified Self Movement has been tapping technology to pave its path to self-awareness. The group of "selfers," created by Wired founder Kevin Kelly, has members worldwide who use apps and gadgets to track pretty much everything about thems ... More >>

The Big Money Behind Silicon Valley's Scumware Industry

If your experience is anything like mine, the amount of spam in your email inbox has declined in a big way in recent years. The economics of e-mail spam aren't what they used to be, thanks largely to crackdowns by ISPs and legal actions by governments around the world. Another factor: the rise of so ... More >>

Rage Against the Machinima: YouTube's Stars Battle Networks

Double or Muffin: A Win-Win Pop-Up

Amazon's Cloud Fails Yet Again, Taking Down Netflix

Forget Netflix CEO Reed Hastings' clumsy public utterances, which turned so many of his customers against the company. And forget the modest price increase that sent even more of them in the direction of competitors or even pirate sites. Hastings' biggest mistake might turn out to be signing on 100 ... More >>

It's a Win-Win with Double or Muffin

For a business born out of a pun that grew into a hoax, Double or Muffin is a pretty admirable new member of San Francisco's homegrown pop-up scene. The story is a backwards one, a muffin shop that had a website and promotional tees before there were ever muffins. It started when Ben Giffords and S ... More >>

Cocoa Cinna-Buns, a Baddass Noah, and Ellen is Off the Vegan Wagon

​ Happy Meatless Monday! I'm happy to announce that vegetarianism is predicted to be a top restaurant trend in 2013! Could Meatless Monday have anything to do with it? People got to eat on Mondays! For your food porn pleasure, I present marshmallow-toasted hot cocoa cinna-buns! Could you die? I c ... More >>

Viral Videomaker Brian Firenzi: Filesharing Is Why MTV Doesn't Play Music Videos Anymore

Maybe you remember the hilarious video we (and lots of others) posted earlier this week, in which a (fake) MTV executive answered a question that bugs many of us: Why doesn't MTV play music videos anymore? Brutally, cruelly funny -- and probably way too accurate -- the clip made by Brian Firenzi an ... More >>

Reddit Troll is Horrible, but Gawker Is Not Much Better

Few people look good after this week's outing of "the biggest troll on the Web" by Gawker. Certainly not the troll, and certainly not Reddit, where the troll was given free rein to post, or facilitate the posting, of all kinds of horrible stuff. But also not Gawker, nor many of the people weighing i ... More >>

Music Student's Really Expensive Cello Stolen From S.F. Conservatory of Music (Update)

Update (12:22 p.m.): Good news. Police sent out a release informing us that the "priceless cello has been recovered." However, the suspects are still on the loose. Read the suspect description at the bottom of this story.Original story (7:35 a.m.):Travis Young, the father of a truly skilled music st ... More >>

President Obama Says White House Beer Recipe Will Be "Out Soon"

Last week we urged you to sign the petition on the White House website to release the recipe for White House Honey Ale, brewed on the premises with honey from the beehive near Michelle Obama's kitchen garden. That same week, a diligent home brewer on Reddit filed a Freedom of Information Act Request ... More >>

Sign a Petition to Release the White House Honey Ale Recipe

Good news, home brewing fans: You could be brewing the same beer as President Barack Obama in a few months. Last week the news broke that the White House brews three varieties of its own beer on the premises -- White House Honey Ale, White House Honey Blonde Ale and White House Honey Porter -- all ... More >>

Reddit Island: This Is What That Nerd Enclave Would Look Like

Reddit Island sounds like a tech nerd's wet dream: a self-made civilization that requires nothing to live except super-high-speed Internet and tons of weed. But in the unlikely event that Redditors actually get their shit together to take refuge on this island where nobody will have to pay taxes (ak ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Digg v1: Betaworks Flushes Seven Years of Internet History Down the Toilet

The end of San Francisco-based Digg has been nigh for over two years, ever since founder Kevin Rose helmed a disastrous redesign in August 2010 and many of the site's users fled to Reddit, but the news-sharing behemoth plodded along, not realizing it was supposed to be dead. That is, until yesterday ... More >>

The Copyright Standoff: Technology Pits Bad Rules vs. No Rules

The 10 Best Quotes from Steve Albini's Ask Me Anything on Reddit

Today, cranky lord of the mixing board Steve Albini submitted himself to an Ask Me Anything on Reddit. This means that random users asked him random questions for a few hours, and he gave responses as he saw fit. Many of the answers were very, very interesting. Steve Albini, of course, is the owner ... More >>

"Jogging With Jesus" Author Teaches Wives the "Nutcracker Technique" of Husband Improving

Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from Golden State thrift stores, estate sales, and flea markets. Jogging With Jesus Author: C.S. Lovett Date: 1978 Publisher: Personal Christianity, Baldwin Park, CA Question Raised by This Cover: Can God make a ... More >>

Reddit Child Porn Post Closes Jailbait Section for Good

Don't worry, there's still jailbait Barbie ​Beloved Internet creeps will be disappointed to learn that the controversial Jailbait section of the website Reddit was shut down Monday after a Reddit user was reportedly busted using the message board to distribute what appeared to be child porn. Accor ... More >>

Girls Can Do Math, Too!

It just doesn't add up ​It's been documented that more employed women have college degrees than men, so perhaps it is fair to assume that girls don't think math is that complicated.Which is also why some people are getting fired up over Forever 21's latest line of girl's T-shirts. The adolescent c ... More >>

Great Moments in Craigslist: Southern Guy Is So Amped to Be Your Roommate

Excited Southern boy wants to live with you​UPDATE: Well, fuck. Looks like either this son of the South is looking to move to San Francisco and Boston, or this ad is a fake. Reader Robbinthehood points out the exact same ad was posted in Boston. We wanted to believe in you, excitable bro. We so fu ... More >>

Richie Cunning on San Francisco, Stevie Wonder, and the Wonders of Google Image Search

Trevor Traynor​The easiest way to recognize local rapper Richie Cunning in a crowded room is by the Giants hat he's probably wearing. Born and raised in San Francisco, Cunning often raps about the city he calls home, the city he loves. In a few weeks, he'll be spitting rhymes at SF Weekly's A ... More >>

Aaron Swartz, Online Activist Tied to Reddit, Indicted for Hacking

Aaron Swartz​An Internet activist involved in the early days of the popular San Francisco-based news-sharing site Reddit has been indicted in Massachusetts on charges that that he stole millions of files by hacking into an academic database at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).Aaron ... More >>

Harold Miller for Mayor -- Just Because

The Snitch has a long-standing policy of not endorsing candidates in elections. But alas, we found one that's just too damn good to pass up! So here goes:Harold Miller 4 Mayor.

San Francycle: Why There Is No S.F. Bike Etiquette

​Bike etiquette: What do you do when what's polite isn't safe, what's safe isn't legal, and what's legal isn't polite? This week a guy was seriously injured in the Financial District when he fell off of his bike ... while riding against one-way traffic. Okay, so that's neither legal, polite, nor ... More >>

eHow Tells San Francisco 'How' to Get Out of a Parking Ticket

There is no getting out of this ... parking ticket ​While killing some time on the Internet, we recently came across a curious article from eHow.com, providing a step-by-step guide on how to outsmart San Francisco's well-trained meter maids.Anyone who has been on the receiving end of a San Francis ... More >>

How To Use Google Translate As a Beatbox: Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

Ditch this, use Google Translate instead.​Well, here's something that will surprise anyone familiar with the crisp austerities of the German language: It makes a great beat box palette when used in Google translate. In fact, there's a comprehensive guide to using Google translate as a beatbox mach ... More >>

Tracking Device Found On Santa Clara College Student's Car -- FBI Wants it Back

Hey! The college kid's getting some pizza!​Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old college student from Santa Clara, was surprised to discover a GPS tracking device on his car a week ago during an oil change. We can bet he was even more surprised when, after a friend posted photos of the device on Reddit.com, ... More >>

Bento Art: Fantastically Geeky Lunches

Bento boxes, for the uninitiated, are small lunches arranged in compact compartments. They originated in Japan, and a typical meal can be a simple serving of rice, vegetables, and chicken. But bento has developed a fanatical following, and lovers of the lunch medium have turned it into an art form. ... More >>

Reddit Employs Novel Financial Strategy: Begging

'But you have 280 million monthly pageviews, my good man!'​Heavy traffic, a lean staff -- easier to achieve when you don't employ your own reporters -- and a comfortable spot under the aegis of a corporate publishing titan. If this sounds like a recipe for Internet media success, think again: the ... More >>

Serious About Your Social Media? Watch This Show

​While most of us live on the outskirts of the social media landscape, tweeting the occasional brain fart and using facebook to update our relationship status, there are a select few who choose to take their engagement with the networks that be to a whole new level. For those special people who th ... More >>