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Off topic: Haters gonna hate, lottery psychology, worst baseball card, tasty tube map, Trader Joe’s fight 27 Aug 2013 | 04:19 pm
If you read this new study and think, “duh, I could’ve told you that,” then you might have a negative dispositional attitude. “Hey, you never know” — why people play the...
Tesla’s $20 billion market cap 27 Aug 2013 | 10:07 am
Last week, I wrote a story about the “Teslanaires” — the people who placed heavy bets on Tesla Motors and are now reaping the rewards as the stock price moves higher and higher. On...
S.F. tech companies shake up wine-buying experience 27 Aug 2013 | 12:01 am
Buying wine can be an intensely sensory experience. It may require an afternoon in Napa Valley, lingering over a bottle or a flight of tastings, pausing with each sip as a sommelier details aromas of....
New Steve Jobs biopic continues to tank 26 Aug 2013 | 11:43 pm
After earning a pitiful $6.7 million nationally its opening weekend, the new movie about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs continued to stumble through its second week, earning only $3 million this past...
Onward: Netflix is shaking things up. Will Medium? 26 Aug 2013 | 11:04 pm
There’s plenty of coverage about how soon-to-depart Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer weighed down the company by failing to think ahead and embrace new things. Today we’re pointing the way to...
Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer gets the “unauthorized biography” treatment 26 Aug 2013 | 10:58 pm
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been the subject of numerous profiles during her career, but while she clearly enjoys the attention, she doesn’t give a lot of interviews. That didn’t stop Nicholas...
Intel goes Hollywood (close anyway) in search of TV deal on heels of Google, NFL talks 26 Aug 2013 | 10:27 pm
Intel’s move to set up entertainment outposts near the beautiful people of Santa Monica and New York is yet another sign that Silicon Valley sees itself as the future capital of the television...
Quoted: Jack Dorsey talks Square and town squares 26 Aug 2013 | 07:54 pm
“No matter how much of our life moves online, we’re always going to have our favorite places around the corner from us. I think we’ve seen a diminishment of the town square: the coffee house,...
Off topic: Loneliness, expert check-splitting, unusual jobs, flying pigs or whatever, what drivers think 26 Aug 2013 | 04:36 pm
Happy Monday, here’s a piece on loneliness. An engineer, mathematician, physicist and computer scientist walk into a restaurant … and discuss splitting the check. McSweeneys’...
Get outta town, Peter Shih! 23 Aug 2013 | 11:20 pm
After blasting San Francisco for its ambivalent weather, uptight women, the homeless, a lack of nightlife and other shortcomings, big-mouthed smarty-pants entrepreneur Peter Shih seems to have...
