When the ancient Polynesians invented surfing, they often used a paddle to help them navigate. Fast-forward a few millennia, and Stand-Up Paddleboarding, or SUP, finds itself trendy again. Part of its increasing popularity is that standing upright allows surfers to spot waves more easily and thus catch more of them, multiplying the fun factor. Paddling back to the wave becomes less of a strain as well. The ability to cruise along on flat inland water, surveying the sights, is another advantage. Finally, it’s a good core workout. If you’re sold on the idea, schedule an intro SUP lesson, free with board and paddle rental, and you may find yourself riding the waves like a Polynesian king.More
Many of us remember coming home from our elementary schools with freshly glazed pinchpots, cups, or whatever else our young imaginations could conjure up. Saturday mornings at the Randall Museum can bring that memory back, or create a new one for the youngsters. Ceramics make great gifts — especially on Mothers' and Fathers' Day. Hop on board for the Randall's once-weekly class, and for $6 and two weeks to have your work fired and glazed, you'll have all the materials you need.More
December is almost over - the New Year is coming up and everyone is busy drying off from the rain or holiday shopping. Let's take a look at what's happened this month.
You can add another entry to the annals of botched social media campaigns: Fast Company magazine and S.F.-based digital marketing agency Mekanism turned Fast Companyreaders into digital guinea pigs yesterday with The Influence Project, an ornate marketing rickroll in which users registered to promote their unique link in hopes their friends would also register and boost their "influence."
Should we brace ourselves for another round of tech news headlines with the word "killer" in them? According to Digg founder Kevin Rose, Google is about to launch a social profile service called, aptly, "Google Me." Rose stated on Twitter earlier today that he heard a "huge rumor" from a "very credible source" that Google is about to unveil what is apparently a Facebook competitor, no other details forthcoming.
The San Jose Mercury News is reporting that San Francisco International Airport will offer free WiFi come September 1, joining other Bay Area airports Mineta San Jose International and Oakland International, which offered the free service as a way of attracting passengers.
We're sitting on the floor of Moscone West watching the multiple live blogs of the Steve Jobs' keynote on our iPad, iPhone, and MacBook simultaneously. Apparently we're not the only ones who have failed this morning at the WWDC launch of the iPhone 4, among other things.
PostedByJoe Eskenazi
on Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:30 AM
Gerry Shih, via Twitter
iPhone, iPhone, iPhone, iPhone!
A massive line full of people who almost certainly never heeded their parents' entreaties to get off the computer and go outside and play thronged SOMA today for the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
This whole thing started with the uncovering of a bug that let Twitter users "force" anyone to follow them, bypassing the normal process by which you get to choose whose updates appear in your Twitter feed. While Twitter dealt with the problem, all accounts displayed zero
. Now Gizmodoreports that people who were "force-followed" in this way before the reset are still showing up as followers, although the trick is no longer working. (I just tried to force Barack Obama to follow my Twitter feed. No dice. If only he knew what he's missing!)
What's the big deal, you ask? In the world of the technorati -- and increasingly in media and politics -- one's number of Twitter followers is an important status indicator. The analogy's not exact, but this would be sort of like a major metropolitan newspaper suddenly having no idea what its circulation was, and thus having no way to sell ad space. Twitter's usefulness as a broadcasting system depends, in part, on readers' ability to gauge the reach and prominence of those they follow.
Anyone trying to use the Potrero Hill-based social news aggregation site Digg.com today ran into some issues with Digging and submitting stories.
Basically you couldn't use Digg for a several hour stretch: Attempts at "Digging" resulted in either a "token is invalid" error or the number of Diggs on a story fading out and the new number failing to reappear, bringing the voting process to a standstill and leading to rumors that the site is currently undergoing an XSS or DDOS attack. In a span of evening hours that would would normally see hundreds of new submissions to the site, very few could be found.
One power user commented "I haven't seen anything like this since I started using Digg."
Representatives from Digg have not yet returned our requests for information and the problems seem ongoing.
"There was no attack that we were aware of. There was an internal caching issue that caused sporadic errors of "invalid token" when trying to digg, comment, comment digg or submit, but this was fixed as of midnight last night."
Sub Pop recording artists 'clipping.' brought their brand of noise-driven experimental hip hop to the closing night of 2016's San Francisco Electronic Music Fest this past Sunday. The packed Brava Theater hosted an initially seated crowd that ended the night jumping and dancing against the front of the stage. The trio performed a set focused on their recently released Sci-Fi Horror concept album, 'Splendor & Misery', then delved into their dancier and more aggressive back catalogue, and recent single 'Wriggle'.
Opening performances included local experimental electronic duo 'Tujurikkuja' and computer music artist 'Madalyn Merkey.'"
