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We Are Douchebags
“We Are Douchebags”, part of the emerging Douchebag Solidarity movement. From Wikipedia: A reclaimed word is a word in a language that was at one…
Put This On, A New Web Series About Dressing Like a Grownup by Jesse Thorn & Adam Lisagor
Put This On, a new web series about dressing like a grownup, hosted by Jesse Thorn and Adam Lisagor, has just launched with “Episode 1:…
Pirate Cat Radio Ordered Off The Air & Fined $10,000 By The FCC
After 13 years of near continuous broadcasting, San Francisco micro radio station Pirate Cat Radio (87.9 FM), operating out of Pirate Cat Café, has been…
Wonderfest 2009, The San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science
Wonderfest 2009, The San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science, takes place on November 7th at Stanford’s Hewlett Teaching Center and on November 8th at…
City Arts & Lectures Presents John Hodgman in Conversation With Merlin Mann
City Arts & Lectures presents John Hodgman in conversation with Merlin Mann on Saturday, November 7th at Herbst Theater in San Francisco. American author and…
Electronic Rock Guitar T-Shirt That You Can Actually Play, Comes With a Belt Clip Mini Amp
ThinkGeek has a Electronic Rock Guitar t-shirt with a touch-sensitive guitar fret that you can actually play. A mini amp clips to your belt that…
The Original 1968 Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) Pitch Film For Sesame Street
Here’s the original Children’s Television Workshop (CTW) 1968 pitch film (in 3 parts) produced by Joan Ganz Cooney to help sell what would eventually become…
New San Francisco Critical Mass Blog
Chris Carlsson and Hugh D’Andrade recently launched sfcriticalmass.org, a new blog documenting the history of San Francisco’s Critical Mass bike ride that happens on the…
San Francisco Ballet Magical Memories Nutcracker Video Contest
The San Francisco Ballet is having a Magical Memories Nutcracker Video Contest in celebration of 65 years of “The Nutcracker” in America where they are…
Movie Narrative Charts by xkcd
The latest xkcd comic features several insanely detailed Movie Narrative Charts showing the character interactions in various films. Here’s a larger version.