Mission Mission

Like so you don’t develop any back problems from lazing about in the prak.

(Thanks, Eliza!)

-…® gives us some history:

Those things still work and are faster than 911 as I was told today. Huh! Who woulda known. Also in the 89 quake the blue police phones are the only ones that worked in the whole bay. That’s why we still have this system.

Suck it, iPhones! Accelerometer that!

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Yardsale is a new locally-produced app that combines the Craigslist buy/sell section, a thrift store, that free pile on the curb, and a third world street stall. That is, you can buy, sell, haggle, give things away, take things for free, and maybe even meet some of your neighbors — all through the comfort of your phone.

Ryan, one of the two guys behind Yardsale, recently contacted us and gave us a sneak peek. Within a couple days, I’d sold a messenger bag in a remarkably non-creepy transaction.

Check out some of the rad stuff up for grabs right now:

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Local iPad expert (and SFist Editor) Brock Keeling (pictured) weighs in on the controversy surrounding some gals watching tennis on their iPad while eating at Flour + Water last week:

When horrible Bay Area diners aren’t taking photos of their food (stop that, please), sporting shorts and a North Face jacket (stop that too, please), or having a bowel evacuation in the bathroom (restaurant loos are for peeing and hand washing only), they’re now watching epic sporting battles on their iPads. Very rude. Very self-centered. (Then again, so is worrying over the behavior of other customers, which is really none of our business. We digress.)

But. The invention of the iPad is also a blessing in disguise for patrons and parents alike. Why? Because kids love — like, instinctively love and understand — the iPad. They just do. Add a pair of headphones and you have the perfect quiet-child-in-restaurant scenario.

Read on for the full story.

UPDATE: Facebook rectified the situation within a little over a day of my posting this, and wrote in to tell me so. Thanks, Facebook!

That’s what the class was called, man! “IR 361: Terrorism and Covert Political Warfare.” It was popular and well attended. And Facebook wants to DENY ITS EXISTENCE.

Anyway here’s what I went with:

Because I’m a hacker.

Just for goodness’ sake try not to spill any meat grease on it.

Woah, deja vu.

Just like last year, an iPhone prototype was “misplaced” by an Apple employee. This time, in a Mission bar! Cava22, to be exact, a place surely devoid of tech-savvy hipsters hoping to sneak a peak.

The phone was lost in late July, but using the built-in tracking features it was traced to a home in Bernal Heights. When investigators arrived and questioned the guy, he recalled being at Cava22 but denied anything about having the phone.

Suuure, dude. So someone happened to throw it in your bag and you somehow managed to keep it charged for a month?

Can’t wait to see how this develops.

[via CNet, photo by potentialpast]

Let me guess. You transport fruit?