How Can You Say No to Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales? Just Try It! Try Looking...
TweetOMG, I can’t stand it. Every time I go to the Wiki, I see the outlaw Jimmy Wales and it freaks me out. The eyes, the eyes! Ohhh, ohhhhhhhh! All right, here take $50, Jimbo. To speak is a sin/ you...
View ArticleThree-Day Weekend Fun: Using This Link to Search WikiLeaks Cables for...
TweetWell, here it is, your: “US diplomatic cables browser (all 250k, unredacted cables available)” I think this link has the new stuff in it, since there are references in there to Apple’s astonishing...
View ArticleFoxy Knoxy’s Pyrrhic Victory: Amanda Knox Wins Her Freedom But Loses Her...
TweetI don’t know, if I were an internationally-famous criminal, I’d think I’d derserve my very own Wikipedia page, you know, the kind that Amanda Knox had until recently. See? These days, Amanda’s...
View ArticleAmanda Knox Case DOESN’T Show Need for Informed Traveling – Writer Nina...
TweetDon’t you love it when the news of the day is riveted on the crime case you just wrote a book about? Well, former People Magazine staff writer Nina Burleigh must be loving it right about now. See?...
View ArticleThe Problem with the Chronicle’s “49 Square Miles Project” is that SF JUST...
TweetThe problem with the 49 Square Miles Project is that nobody checked to see if San Francisco is actually that big. Here’s the answer from Wikipedia: “46.87 sq mi“ Now, did they include the...
View ArticleTA, 345, 555: The Iconic Buildings of San Francisco’s Financial District, by...
TweetMost iconic is the Transamerica Pyramid. And then on the right comes the Bank of America Building, aka Triple Five Cal, aka the “Triple Nickel” (according to Wiki but I’ve never heard that phrase...
View ArticleWikiLeaks on How Gavin Newsom Handled the 2008 Olympic Torch Relay: “It’s Not...
TweetI’ll tell you, the number of people (outside of select parts of SF Gov and the People’s Republic of China) who knew what was going on when the disastrous Olympic Torch Relay came to town in 2008...
View ArticleGOJIRA Plays the Warfield
TweetAnd I thought he’d never make it out of Japan… Gojira (ゴジラ?) is a portmanteau of the Japanese words: gorira (ゴリラ?, “gorilla“), and kujira (鯨 (クジラ)?, “whale“), which is fitting because in one...
View ArticleFor Some Reason, the Russian Government is Promoting This Video Clip of Larry...
TweetHere it is: Don’t know why this… Oh, Larry King is on Russia Today? Didn’t know that. Oh. Anyway, “RT is funded in whole or in part by the Russian Government.” Does Willie Brown know that he’s...
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