The Firefox Boycott Is a Misguided Idea
By Peter Lawrence KaneIn case you haven’t heard, there is a boycott brewing against Mozilla because its CEO, Brendan Eich, made a $1000 donation in support of Prop. 8. The fracas looked like it might...
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Desktop Wallpaper: New Spring Images
By Taylor ReidIt's April, so time to update your desktop wallpaper with the second release of our 2014 monochromatic calendar images. If you're interested in the printed Wall Calendar it's still...
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Great, Now Women Can Filter Skinnier Selfies
By Lauren Sloss I guess the Valencia filter just wasn’t cutting it for Susan Green and Robin J. Phillips anymore. After a vacation with friends, the two were inspired to create SkinneePix, an iPhone...
View ArticleNo City Binge Watches More Than SF
By Wendy SteinerAccording to Media Daily News, a survey by Harris Poll for Comcast (so you know it probably took forever) found that San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C. are the U.S. cities with...
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This is Why I Defriended You on Facebook
By Drew Hoolhorst A long, long time ago we all used to be friends in real life. And we’d address all of our issues with real words. In person! And everything was so simple. And it’s still that way!...
View ArticleAt What Age is It No Longer Cute to Be Lost?
The Mission’s resident psychic/astrologer/badass Jessica Lanyadoo gets booked months in advance by San Franciscans seeking help with everything from figuring out their love lives to communicating with...
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7 Spicy Cocktails That Prove It's Hotter in the East Bay
By Ruth MillerThe cocktail bars in Oakland and Berkeley have divided and multiplied, experimented and specialized, and evolved new and exciting traits. One now on display is the fiery hot spicy...
View Article‘Silicon Valley’ Gleefully Blasts Tech Pomposity
By Jennifer Maerz The opening scene of HBO’s new Mike Judge comedy, Silicon Valley sets the tone for this new and wickedly funny show. Kid Rock is wrapping up a performance on the stage of a newly...
View ArticleLesbian Hookup App Still Has a Ways to Go
By Emma McGowan When I brought up the idea of a lesbian hookup app to my lesbian friend Jasmine, she was all about it. She said that OkCupid wasn’t quite cutting it for her and Tinder was too full of...
View ArticleCould This Startup Help Resolve SF's Parking Pains?
By Max CherneyParking in San Francisco is a massive pain in the ass. It’s ruining people’s love life, maybe getting worse, and can be expensive — as in the infamous $82,000 parking space. And of course...
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Best April Fool's Vid: BeardSwipe
By Margaux Poupard BeardSwipe knows you, knows you're a dude with a beard and a phone. So why are you still using your fingerprint to unlock your iPhone? Created by iStrategyLabs and tested on...
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Text and Drive? You Could Be On a Billboard
By Wendy SteinerGraphic designer and photographer Brian Singer has been taking pictures of drivers who text on the 101 and posting them to his website, Texting While in Traffic (TWIT). He recently...
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Why I Love Living Near Lake Merritt
By Anchal BibraOne of the first things you’ll notice about the neighborhoods surrounding Oakland’s Lake Merritt is the diverse community of people who live in and spend time in the area. The lake...
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SF Facts Visualized as Crystals
By Ali Wunderman That crystal in the image above represents crimes that have happened in San Francisco in a three month period. Really bad crimes (e.g. kidnapping) are represented by larger cubes and...
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We're Hiring a Design Intern!
RESPONSIBILITIES AND EXPECTATIONS• Design assets for use in stories, visual responses to current events, and promotional material for The Bold Italic• Collaborate with the Content team for weekly blog...
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Oakland's Hoodslam Is Crazy; Go To It
By OJ PattersonStanding room only, there are no seats. There are no guardrails, no hundred-feet-tall projections, no event program, no collectible cups, no replica championship belts. Everything is...
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SF Artist Paints Herself as New Person Every Day
By Jennifer Maerz You can shed identities in San Francisco as often as you can afford new costumes, and no one will bat a false eyelash your way. But one local makeup artist, Hannah Concannon, has...
View ArticleWhat The Real World Figured Out About SF
By Jules SuzdaltsevWell, The Real World Ex-Plosion has finally come to a flaccid end; the fight we’ve been promised for the past 12 weeks turned out to be a drunken wet fart, and in the end everybody...
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San Francisco Gets a Dungeon
By Carolina QuijanoThere are various places around San Francisco that could be referred to as dungeons, but now, the city is getting an official one. Merlin Entertainments, the world’s second-largest...
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Check Out the New BART Car Design!
By Sarah HanYesterday, BART released this video of its "fleet of the future" train cars. The new trains will not only be cooler looking, but they'll be physically cooler, because they'll have air...
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