Just in time for Halloween, xmasons has created this handy chart showing Common Methodologies of Monster Vanquishing. Here’s a larger version.
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A few photos from Pre-Halloween at the Blogger Bungalow III.
Photo Gallery: Pre-Halloween at the Blogger Bungalow III
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Bill Hall of the Caltrans District 4 Photography Department has a great series of photos documenting the repair of the Bay Bridge eyebar.
See Previously: Detailed Analysis of The Bay Bridge Crack
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“The Seafarers – Island of Horrors”, a wonderfully creepy short film animated by Jim Dirschberger (Eighty Four Films), with artwork by Ferris Plock and Kelly Tunstall.
En route to their next adventure, The Seafarers stop by a mysterious island of horrors. Will they survive?!?!
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Tony Alfrey of Sci-Experiments gives a detailed analysis of what caused The Famous Bay Bridge Crack, along with some close-up photos of the damage.
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The Big Picture has some amazing photos of NASA’s launch of the new Ares I-X rocket which took off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday.
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Here are a few photos from the first night of the Tom Kennedy Art Auction to benefit the Ripper Journey Foundation. On November 7th there will be a Rock Star Hat Party, followed by a Closing Night Party on November 12th.
Photo Gallery: Tom Kennedy Art Auction
Here are some more photos and video from Emily Duffy.
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SF Weekly’s The Snitch presents the “Bay Bridge Fail Whale” by Audrey Fukuman.
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Bioshock was is one of my favorite video games in recent years and I’m really looking forward to the sequel Bioshock 2, scheduled for release on February 9, 2010. 2K Games has a couple of new game trailers “Capture a Sister” and “Siren Alley”.
Here’s a BioShock 2 Preview from IGN.
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Because We Can created a really cool 3D Wikipedia Globe with removable puzzle pieces for the Wikimedia Foundation headquarters in San Francisco.
Here’s some other wonderful things that they have created for commercial and residential projects out of their custom Design-Build studio.
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John Gruber puts the call out to “bring back the two-arm gesture for ‘fuck you’”. Seoul Brother accepts the challenge, delivered in the form of a video.
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San Jose Mercury News is reporting that that the San Francisco Bay Area graffiti artist GIRAFA has been arrested.
Steven Free, 30, of San Francisco was arrested Tuesday on a $100,000 warrant, charging him in 10 felony cases in San Jose involving $40,000 in damages.
Fellow photographer Troy Holden has been hunting GIRAFA art for years.
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Twitter is in the final phases of rolling out their new Lists feature which allows you to create custom lists of Twitter users.
In conjunction with the release of lists, a new Twitter Lists directory Listorious has just launched, providing a way to discover some of the best lists on Twitter.
Speaking of Twitter lists, here’s a few lists I’ve created for San Francisco resources, Laughing Squid guest bloggers, Laughing Squid vendors.
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Fine Living has suggestions for 12 Dressed-Up Halloween Cocktails, including the “Bloody Brain Shooter”. Now that’s what I call a “smart drink”.
Channel your inner mad scientist with this Bloody Brain Shooter. Add chilled vodka and lime juice to a shot glass, then use a straw to drip Irish cream into the glass. The acidic lime juice will cause the Irish cream to curdle, creating realistic strands of “brain.”
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Judit & Judit reenact famous internet memes in a ad for the Swedish cable provider Com Hem to celebrate ten years of providing broadband services.
This is a tribute to all of you who make the Internet what it is without you there would be empty and meaningless. We would therefore like to say a big thank you to all ROTFL: s, LOLS, WTF’s and FTWs you have given us over the years (we are celebrating ten years of broadband provider).
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Our friends at Zendesk recently moved their headquarters to San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood. Here are a few photos from last night’s Zendesk HQ Office Warming Party. Welcome to the hood!
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CollegeHumor remixes Movies by the Numbers.
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