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Mental Floss host John Green debunks 50 common misquotations and misattributed quotes in his latest video. Previously we wrote about Green’s “50 Common Misconceptions” video.

March 22, San Francisco -- Center for Investigative Reporting Executive Director Robert Rosenthal announced today that the CIR will improve the quality of its journalism by doing way less of it....

Cat Beards is a purrrfect photo meme where people position their cat’s chin in front of their own face and make it look as if they have a furry beard, mouth and all. Some of the photos have been around for a few years, but the meme has only recently really taken off. You can view more photos of mutant cat beard people online at Cat-Beard.com, Know Your Meme and by searching around in the Instagram tag #CatBeard. photo by Dave Rudolph photo by Sam Chapel photo by Zulfadli Isa photo by Julia Budaeva photo by Cee Please photo by Elizabeth Sevilla photo by mr_seltzer photo by Briana Nguyen photo by Jen Hardiman photo by bestill_foramoment images via Cat-Beard, Catasters, My View, Not Yours. and Statigram via The Sun Thanks Nick Lacke!

Tweet(I was going to post this public hearing notice legibly, but I don’t want to make things too easy for the shakedown artists to come out of the woodwork.) If you have some time to kill and you’d like a potentially lucrative hobby and you’d like a purpose in life and you’d like people to pay attention to you, then you should adopt the preservation of this old office building near Third Street. Don’t let the owners change anything for any reason, not without a fight! You know, if you want: Click to expand

TweetAn arresting figure at corner of 4th and Market: Click to expand

click photo for full-size imagephoto by Donald Kinney text 1 under construction click photo for full-size imagephoto by Donald Kinney text 2 under construction click photo for full-size imagephoto by Donald Kinney text 3 under construction CLICK for 40 new photos on my main website; www.photoarrow.com. CLICK for preview of my exhibit at Mill Valley Library during July 2013.

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Sunrise on Cadillac Mountain, 3

Commuters were greeted with the sight and smell of a steaming hot pile of homeless shit this morning at Powell as they arrived.

Today in Day Around the Bay: helping the animals of Oklahoma, working out with Walgreens, a new SOMA skatepark, Freak City, and more. [ more › ]