4 posts tagged “link lounge”

Bringing new meaning to the term Ugly American is a recent visitor to Nuremberg who somehow thought a naked tiptoe through das tulips was appropriate. Local police said nein and fined him 200 euros for the image burned forever on the retinas of traumatized residents.

Welcome to the family: Julie Jenkins of Arkansas bit off part of her new son-in-law's ear the other night.

Viagara cures jet lag! At least, if you're a hamster on an eastbound jet it does.

All the rage in the UK: Designer vaginas.

As I discovered during my move from Seattle to San Francisco, wifi in the car makes the trip -- and finding stuff along the way -- much, much easier. Tom set up his own wifi solution (a Sprint EVDO router), which is trivially easy to do. Since mobile wifi seems to be the sort of thing that is quite handy when traveling, it makes sense that Avis is now offering it with car rentals from SF International Airport.

SF Supervisor Aaron "sources say" Peskin is offering a ballot measure that he says will improve MUNI. The unions are already screaming a blue streak about it, which means it just might be effective, if approved by voters.

We're a little funny, a little kooky, here in California. One of our wacky beliefs is that the people who represent us at the city level should actually live in that city. The San Francisco City Attorney isn't quite sure if SF Supervisor Ed Jew (whose offices and home were searched by the FBI last Friday for clues in a corruption investigation) actually lives in the city. The Chronicle helpfully points out that water to his primary San Francisco residence wasn't turned on until 60 days after residency requirements kicked in, and that neighbors rarely, if ever, see him or his family in the neighborhood.

I can admit that sometimes I'm too self-conscious for my own good, and that I especially hate making mistakes or looking like a complete fool in public. Whenever I'm in a new place and situation, I tend to hang back and watch what other people are doing before I dive into the fray, so that's why I really like this quick list of San Francisco "guides for n00bs" as written by one Yelp contributor. I think I'll do my own Yelp reviews in this format from now on.

If that's not to your taste, perhaps you'll appreciate a subjective list of "REAL Chinese food in the Bay Area."

It's as if a million gamers cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced: Microsoft can now detect Xbox 360 unauthorized mods, and are now banning such boxen from Xbox Live. SURPRISE!

Today's trivia: Elephants can hear through their feet.

Wingnut quote of the day from one doozy of a collection at Sadly, No: "[W]e should always bear in mind that the Earth does not move. If it moved, we would feel it moving. That’s called empiricism, the experience of the senses. Don’t take my word for it, or the evidence of your own senses, Copernicans. There’s also the Word of the Lord[.]"

Gavin Newsom loses control of the Police Commission as progressive is elected its president. Former president and Newsom supporter demonstrates his administration's "my way or the highway" attitude and quits in a pout; vote was apparently a tie broken by another mayoral appointee. Pot-meet-kettle moment: Newsom supporters questioning the political ambitions of those who didn't vote for his chosen candidate.

Before and after allegedly getting drunk and starting a fire that rendered a family of twelve homeless, Rogelio Nieto is reported to have said he had a grudge against those who lived there. Family response: Rogelio who?