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Rainbow Chasers, Three Men On A Mission To Save The Rainbows
The number of rainbow sightings worldwide has dropped dangerously low since 2003. Enter the Rainbow Chasers, a team of three daring men who are on…
Survival Guide to Edible Quantum Physics, Ingesting The Higgs Boson
photo by Dana Maltby With CERN firing up the Large Hadron Collider in a few months, assuming all goes well in the repairs, you and…
We Didn’t Start the Flame War
“We Didn’t Start the Flame War” by CollegeHumor, a tribute to idiots on the Internet.
Birdhouse, A Notepad for Twitter (Draft, Publish & Unpublish)
Adam Lisagor and Cameron Hunt have just released Birdhouse, an iPhone app that acts as a notepad for Twitter, where you can draft, publish and…
Doing DaVinci, Flash Hopkins Debuts On The Discovery Channel
photo by Tony Campanale “Doing Da Vinci” is a new show airing Monday nights at 10pm on the Discovery Channel. Our good friend Flash Hopkins,…
Gavin Newsom Talks About ‘Cities & Time’ at The Long Now Foundation
Last Wednesday San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom gave a SALT talk at The Long Now Foundation on the topic of “Cities and Time”. Violet Blue…
Urlesque Counts Down The 100 Most Iconic Internet Videos
Urlesque has posted their list of The 100 Most Iconic Internet Videos. Coming in at #1 is the now infamous “Star Wars Kid” video.
Gama-Go Opens Store In San Francisco
Gama-Go has just opened their very first store, located in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood. They’ll be having their official store opening party on May 2nd.…
Tom Kennedy (1960-2009), Art Car Artist, Activist, Teacher and Prankster
photo by J. A. Ellingson We lost one of our very best. Tom Kennedy (1960-2009) drowned at Ocean Beach on Sunday, April 12th at 2PM.…
Photos: Bring Your Own Big Wheel 2009
Here are some from yesterday’s Bring Your Own Big Wheel race down Vermont Street. The event was in jeopardy of being shut down, but was…