The Wild Parrots of San Francisco

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Internet advertising: Ruling opens way
for Wild, Wild West

Internet advertising: Ruling opens way
for Wild, Wild West 03/22/2005 09:36 PM
Haaretz Mar 23 2005 1:30AM GMT

Man Aflutter Over Dead Parrots (Reuters)

Man Aflutter Over Dead Parrots (Reuters) 09/15/2004 09:11 AM
Reuters - A dispute over four dead parrots will end in a Norwegian court next month.

British Company Makes DVD for Parrots
(AP)

British Company Makes DVD for Parrots
(AP) 05/21/2004 08:37 AM
AP - No more bored birds. No more annoyed avians.

USA Today parrots RNC on Bush-bashing
celebrities

USA Today parrots RNC on Bush-bashing
celebrities 07/21/2004 02:46 PM

Woman Arrested Carrying 266 Dead Parrots
(Reuters)

Woman Arrested Carrying 266 Dead Parrots
(Reuters) 05/20/2004 08:32 AM
Reuters - Cameroon has arrested a Nigerian woman who was found carrying more than 200 dead parrots and rare Bannerman Turaco feathers, a customs official said on Tuesday.

IRC : The wild wild west of the internet

IRC : The wild wild west of the internet 05/06/2004 06:53 PM

Yahoo! News - Woman Arrested Carrying
266 Dead Parrots

Yahoo! News - Woman Arrested Carrying
266 Dead Parrots 05/22/2004 03:29 PM
arrested and charged with possession of 266 dead parrots .. Yahoo! News - Woman Arrested Carrying 266 Dead Parrots

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Law and order and the wild, wild Web

Law and order and the wild, wild Web 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
Christian Science Monitor Jan 22 2004 3:17AM GMT

Wild Wild Words 1.0

Wild Wild Words 1.0 10/29/2003 10:29 PM
You’ll have to be quick on the draw to make words out of letters.

San Francisco

San Francisco 06/11/2004 04:23 PM

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San Francisco day four and a bit...

San Francisco day four and a bit... 08/16/2004 02:02 PM

So the day before yesterday didn't go quite as I'd planned. I didn't go and see Dinah or her kittens, but I did get to give Flakes to Heather and then go with her to Taco Bell where we consumed about $16 worth of faux Mexican cuisine between us. Then there was the car wash, and the drive back into the city to go say hi to Derek, two chihuahuas and a cat named Spoo before wandering off to kid robot (dumb toys purchased: 2) and then Giant Robot in Haight Ashbury. Then there was a nice "Blue Meanie" smoothie in a wifi-enabled café which was pretty bloody pleasant, all things considered. The next planned excusion was the epic walk over to the Tonga rooms, which would actually have been pretty bloody epic if I hadn't walked in completely the opposite direction for the first twenty minutes or so. So I got a cab with a driver who listened to light country and suffered manfully the hell of Tim McGraw's My Next Thirty Years (and I quote):

My next thirty years I’m gonna settle all the scores
Cry a little less, laugh a little more
Find a world of happiness without the hate and fear
Figure out just what I’m doing here
In my next thirty years

Oh my next thirty years, I’m gonna watch my weight
Eat a few more salads and not stay up so late
Drink a little lemonade and not so many beers
Maybe I’ll remember my next thirty years

You see what I'm talking about? Anyway - so I got to the Fairmont a bit early and so decided to loiter around a bit in the foyer and read my new book while all the smartly dressed people looked at me strangely and tried to remember my face just in case they'd need to identify me in a Guantanamo tribunal later in the year. And then the event began and I got to talk to a couple of dozen neat cool web people that I just don't get to see enough. I danced (badly) with Mena and Dinah and Heather and chatted a lot to David about what it was like to be an Englishman living in the States at the moment which was extremely interesting. I felt a bit sorry for my poor ex-flatmate Mella who had just got off the plane in San Francisco and come straight to the bar because she didn't know anyone, but I think she enjoyed herself. And of course the bar's fake thunder, lightning, rain and floating boat/island/band were as awesome as ever...

Yesterday started a little more sedately with an enormous cooked breakfast over at the Pork Store with Leslie, Lance (also here) and Mella. Mella and I then wandered up into town, up Valencia and past a few second hand stores up to the Civic Center and then up Market for a bit of an explore. (This feels a bit like a 'what I did on my holiday' tract, so apologies for that.) And then after a few confusing disorganisational miscarriages, we ended up with a friend of Mella's called Emily driving through Chinatown, then walking up to Coit Tower and then down to Pier 39 for Oysters and general seafood. Then Mella wandered off to meet Emily's parents, while I returned back to Leslie's (past the San Francisco Bear Fair), met up with Ben Cerveny and Webb, drove around the city in a convertible car before wandering up to Molly's place and drinking a few glasses of wine and basically passing out. Nice evening!

And what's next over the next couple of days?

• Visit Six Apart
• Meet up with Kevin Marks for lunch
• See Ben Cerveny and Jim Speth and talk about geeky shit
• Try and do some gay stuff of some kind

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Off to San Francisco

Off to San Francisco 04/09/2005 09:28 AM

Thanks to everyone who showed up in Mar del Plata to participate in the ICANN meeting. I thought that the discussion was healthy and productive and although we moved forward on a number of things, we are left with a lot of work to do based on the feedback we received on the strategic plan, the board governance guidelines, .pro, .net, IDNs, transparency, process and a number of other topics. Special thanks to staff for running such a great meeting in the absence of our CEO Paul Twomey. I think you did an excellent job.

Thanks to everyone who showed up for dinner last night and special thanks to Mariano for organizing everything. It was great to meet the Argentine bloggers. I'm sorry I was late. Our bus from Mar del Plata broke down and we had have them send a new one.

Thanks to Mookie letting me stay at his place in Buenos Aires.

I'm off to San Francisco today to do my usual rounds and to go a Institute for the Future retreat.

Since my flight doesn't leave until this evening, I hope I can do a bit of moblogging in Buenos Aires.

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"run wild with it"

"run wild with it" 06/17/2004 11:33 AM

San Francisco Keeps Gay Weddings Going
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San Francisco Keeps Gay Weddings Going
(AP) 02/16/2004 09:13 PM
AP - As hundreds of gay and lesbian couples lined up at City Hall for the historic chance to wed with the city's blessing, opponents filed legal papers Monday arguing that only judges can declare California's prohibition on same-sex marriages to be unconstitutional.

Return to San Francisco (already)...

Return to San Francisco (already)... 09/13/2004 08:25 PM

So I might - note might - be in San Francisco again in about three week's time for a few nights, well actually only really two or three nights: 6th October, (maybe 8th October) and 9th October. I'd be going to an event in Sonoma on the 7th and 8th, so it would really be a flying visit. Does anyone have a convenient pile of floor or sofa that they might be prepared to lend me?

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San Francisco, baby...

San Francisco, baby... 08/13/2004 01:59 AM

Ping. Now in San Francisco after cool drive with fun people in which I mostly slept and pointed at wind farms and acres of densely packed cows. Had subsequent great fun at the SixApart Mixer thing where I met loads of people - some for the first time, others not. Looked slightly nervous around some people who do really good work. Touched a couple of them without them noticing (or at least without them calling the police). Got a free USB dongle thing and saw the 3.1 release of MT which doesn't seem overly dramatic at first but kind of sits in the back of your head and wiggles its tush in the direction of interesting things. Cab back to Leslie's place - talking about The O.C. and TV shows in general when I get to pull out my trump card - super-secret super-cool thing that made Leslie go oooooh. Don't think I'm going to make it to LobbyCon now though. Shame!

I'm quite enjoying not taking this weblog as seriously as normal for a few days. It feels pretty liberating, although possibly not very productive or good in the longer term. God knows what it's going to be like going back to London. I can already feel it on the horizon and must confess am vaguely dreading it.

Art bashing in San Francisco

Art bashing in San Francisco 06/01/2004 12:22 PM

Flowers for San Francisco

Flowers for San Francisco 05/31/2004 02:05 PM
There are quite a few people dropping by ongoing today on account of the article in the Chronicle about advertising. Among other things, it says I run lots of flower pictures, only I haven’t for a while, so here are some...

CC Party Jan. 6 San Francisco

CC Party Jan. 6 San Francisco 12/29/2004 03:38 PM

San Francisco update...

San Francisco update... 08/17/2004 03:19 PM

So what did I do yesterday... Er... Basically went for lunch with Kevin and Jesse where we talked about Apple and set-top boxes and food and stuff, wandered into Technorati and said hi to people (wave to Tantek), micro-bumped into Joi, then got the CalTrain up to see Six Apart (purely for fun), got a train back with Anil and finally wandered off to The Cafe for my required dose of gaydom, which was a bit weird as it was hip-hop night and I felt like everyone's fat beardy grandfather. So I got a bit drunk and danced clumsily and collapsed back at Leslie's unconscious at about one. Funny day.

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Jon Udell, San Francisco

Jon Udell, San Francisco 11/10/2003 11:18 PM
If you've never seen the video, or haven't watched it in a long time, do a Google on "knowledge navigator quicktime" to find a copy. ...

"San Francisco Examiner"

"San Francisco Examiner" 06/30/2004 04:45 AM

Third of San Francisco Without Power

Third of San Francisco Without Power 12/21/2003 07:25 AM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 21 2003 6:38AM ET

ProNet: Out and About in San Francisco

ProNet: Out and About in San Francisco 06/17/2005 02:05 PM
Though it's short notice, we'll have a number of Six Apart staff members participating in some events in San Francisco tonight where bloggers are gathering. We'd love to meet you there. First, with the release of the Tags plugin for...

Teachers gone Wild

Teachers gone Wild 04/12/2005 05:04 PM
Teacher gone wild. Again. While not as crazy as this, (discussed here previously) Mrs. Miller definitely needs some therapy. Perhaps these 4th graders should have had camera phones like these kids... Though at least the U.S. isn't as tolerant of teachers behavior as Moroccans. Frankly my dear, they don't give a damn!

It girl gone wild

It girl gone wild 08/31/2004 09:52 AM
Abigail Vona's stealing and lying led to a stint in a teen delinquent boot camp. Now 20, she's written a memoir about her experience -- and landed in the gossip pages.

WiFi Gone Wild

WiFi Gone Wild 06/10/2004 07:47 AM

Smithfield Going Hog Wild

Smithfield Going Hog Wild 06/09/2004 10:58 AM
Will the world's largest pork processor continue to bring home the bacon?

Wild About Widgets

Wild About Widgets 01/08/2004 08:25 PM
I recently started helping Christina Wodtke explore the world of web widgets on her newish blog, Widgetopia. When you get... (32 words)

Amazon gone wild!

Amazon gone wild! 03/27/2005 12:49 AM
Another victim of 'The Amazon Treatment'. Remember the Amazon post from the other day? Well, if you liked that, you'll love this one. This time, it's an anal douche getting what I'm calling "The Amazon Treatment". Amazon's going to scope this out and delete the 'reviews' - therefore if you're so inclined here's your chance to wallow in the merriment. If it's gone by the time you read this, I've copied some of the posts here.

Marketers gone wild

Marketers gone wild 03/06/2004 01:51 AM

I haven't been in a doctors office in about five years, and I was surprised by what I saw today in my local medical office. I don't remember the exact names of the drugs (ha! take that marketers!), but as I began filling out paperwork, I noticed my pen was provided by some drug company. All the pens seemed to be advertising different drugs. "I'll take the pen that contains less than 2mg of Hydrobaric Cyclohexinal" I said. My clipboard was provided by another drug. When I turned in the paperwork at the front desk, that's when I noticed the Kleenex box was advertising yet another drug.

I'm not usually one for nostalgia, but bring back the days when the most obnoxious advertising in an office was copies of People and Highlights strewn throughout. When you can't sneeze without an ad in your face, something's wrong.

Stalking the wild PVR...

Stalking the wild PVR... 02/10/2004 02:45 AM
As with many journeys, most of the interesting things happen in the tangents and detours taken. ...

Macs In The Wild

Macs In The Wild 03/17/2005 03:09 AM

The Halo Effect is in motion... By Nick Santilli, The Apple Blog

Think Wild, Think Crazy

Think Wild, Think Crazy 02/01/2005 10:06 PM
Jeff Zucker, the president of NBC television, talks about running a network at the ripe old age of 39.

Democrats gone wild

Democrats gone wild 01/22/2004 04:55 AM

Another IE Flaw in the Wild?

Another IE Flaw in the Wild? 07/07/2004 06:09 PM
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Splicing gone wild

Splicing gone wild 07/15/2004 01:29 PM

The recent Flickr announcement of comb ined photo/blog feeds at Feedburner brings up a feature I've been meaning to build for ages. For no other reason than to see if it could be done, I've been looking into a way to create a combined feed for this site, featuring two entries above the typical archive of the last x weblog entries. The first entry would be the photo of the day, taken from my tenyearsofmylife.com site. The second was going to be an extra special feed-only post that was basically "my current favorite word" or "thought of the day" that I'm too lazy to make a full entry on this site or a sidebar feature.

I never got around to doing it because the ten years site is on another server and the feed would have to be sucked in somehow, then two onsite feeds would need to be combined. It seems like a perfect fit for someone like Feedburner though, since they're pulling in all sorts of stuff.

There's an obvious endpoint I could see quickly moving my feed to. I've often joked that among all my websites, this blog is sort of my own personal "temple of ego," since it's fairly self-indulgent and I pretty much link to everything I'm posting somewhere else, from here. I could see basically creating an "ego feed" that is the ultimate representation of me. Here's what I would put in my ultimate combined feed:

- last x posts from this site
- most recent photo from my Ten Years site
- feed of my recent posts to MetaFilter, MetaTalk, and Ask MetaFilter
- x most recent Flickr photos
- last x bookmarks posted to my del.icio.us space
- my upcoming events, on the days they happen I suppose
- last x posts I've made to the Creative Commons weblog
- my last x posts to PVRblog
- link to the last feature I wrote
- Any new story I write at Ticketstubs
- Any significant comments I make on any other blog, if I could optionally click something to "send to my feed" as I post it.

Ideally, all the last x posts/photos from other sites would be intermixed into the feed, as they happen. So the feed wouldn't be always in the same order, but ordered by posting date, and may include content from any website or service I'm posting to.

Basically, it'd be the cult of me, all in a single feed, and you wouldn't have to scour a dozen sites looking for my contributions if you really wanted to follow my writing. I suspect we're not a long way off from Feedburner allowing you to do something like that.

Wild France

Wild France 07/16/2004 08:21 AM
Corsican food gets its unmistakable character from the sprawling scrub called the maquis.

Wild about wireless

Wild about wireless 11/11/2003 03:20 PM
Intel's Sean Maloney talks about what's on the horizon for the future of wireless broadband technology.
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Just A Geek signing in San Francisco

Just A Geek signing in San Francisco 01/05/2005 02:15 PM

Good news, everyone!

When the press release went out about MacWorld, a lot of WWdN readers asked if there would be a reading or signing for people who were unable to afford admission to the conference.

Well, it turns out that we have a mole at Bor ders in Union Square. She made an introduction for me, and I am super excited to announce that I've been invited to their store for a reading and signing when I'm in town!

It looks like the Borders website hasn't been updated yet, but I'm scheduled for Friday January 14th at 7pm.

Oh! I just got a Really Big Idea™, that could be a whole bunch of Supercool: I have a short list of stories from Just A Geek that I choose from when I perform at bookstores. Based on comments and e-mail, I know there are a lot of WWdN readers in NorCal. How about, instead of me choosing what to read, I let you guys pick what you'd like to hear? If you're planning to come out on the 14th, say so in the comments, and leave a brief description, or chapter number, or page number, or whatever, and the majority will rule.

Robots Are Us! benefit in San Francisco

Robots Are Us! benefit in San Francisco 04/21/2004 03:23 AM
Jed sez, "The Speculative Literature Foundation is holding an event in San Francisco this coming Friday, April 23, as a fundraiser for the new SLF Fountain Award for sf short stories of exceptional literary quality. The event will feature Pat Murphy, Rudy Rucker, Terry Bisson, Ken Wharton, Charlie Anders, and Omnicircus ("an experimental, surreal-psychedelic musical-cabaret group"); 7:00 p.m., $10-$20 sliding scale at the door. It'll be at 550 Natoma, a few blocks from the Civic Center BART station, near 7th and Mission." Link

San Francisco Bay Guardian News

San Francisco Bay Guardian News 09/02/2004 10:28 AM
TRANSLATION: We want the hacks with us the remaining TWO PERCENT OF THE TIME!!!!! .. 'Censored!: The 10 Big Stories The National News Media Ignore'

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Power Restored to Most of 120,000 in San
Francisco

Power Restored to Most of 120,000 in San
Francisco 12/21/2003 10:41 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 21 2003 9:35PM ET

Same-Sex Couples Marry in San Francisco
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Same-Sex Couples Marry in San Francisco
(AP) 02/14/2004 10:21 PM
AP - Gay and lesbian couples from across the country answered this city's Valentine's Day invitation to wed in an unprecedented spree of same-sex marriages that has challenged California law and sent conservative groups scrambling for court intervention.

San Francisco gay wedding boom

San Francisco gay wedding boom 02/14/2004 01:09 AM
Gay couples race to get married in San Francisco after the mayor lifts a state ban on same-sex unions.

San Francisco may not regulate bl0ggers
after all

San Francisco may not regulate bl0ggers
after all 04/06/2005 11:08 PM
Blog: It looks like San Francisco political bloggers may be able to rest easy. Maybe. The Board of Supervisors has been...

Macworld San Francisco 2004

Macworld San Francisco 2004 01/07/2004 02:05 PM
Apple CEO Steve Jobs delivered a keynote presentation Tuesday, Jan 6, at 9 AM PT, introducing the latest hardware and software products from Apple, including the iPod mini, iLife ’04 with GarageBand and Xserve G5. See a roundup of news and photos from the show, updated throughout the week. [Jan 6]

MacWorld San Francisco Coverage

MacWorld San Francisco Coverage 01/05/2004 10:27 PM
dotmac.info will be bringing you live, up-to-the-minute reports of the MacWorld Keynote by Steve Jobs tomorrow. The event is scheduled to begin at 9am PT in the Moscone Convention Center, and we'll have full coverage of the presentation on our special event page.

San Francisco: Saturday morning...

San Francisco: Saturday morning... 08/14/2004 01:20 PM

So I kind of slacked off yesterday, if truth be told. Not a lot of exploring, not a lot of drenching myself in San Francisco - just a fair amount of doing things I like to do that I don't really often get the opportunity to do. So I went to see two films (the other one was the Manchurian Candidate - much recommended), bought a couple of books, a case for my iPod, had a really nice Clam Chowder and portion of Fish and Chips at San Francisco's best American restaurant and sat in Starbucks for a bit (thanks Anil) starting to catch up on all the cool stuff that's been going on around the web in the million years since we started working on representing programming on Radio 3.

Today I think is going to be more about getting some of the flavour of the city - or at least starting to ramp up my mucking around with local geeks. Hopefully I'm going to go see Danah's kittens in the next couple of hours, go see Heather at Taco Bell around lunchtime, and then go see a movie with Leslie this afternoon.

But all of this is really preamble to the main event which should be happening this evening - a drink and catch-up with local geeks at San Francisco's famous Tonga Room and Hurricane Bar from 8.30 this evening. Come along if you can. It'll be fun...

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The Wild Parrots of San Francisco

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