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Want to meet a giant of Silicon Valley, but you're stuck in the South? Here's your chance. Former PayPal CEO turned venture capitalist and Facebook board member Peter Thiel will speak at the University of Tennessee at Chatanooga on Monday. [Chattanoogan]
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Coming up on the Valleywag calendar
- Friday: Anyone heading to Facebook board member Peter Thiel's posh VIP gathering Friday night? Let us know how it goes.
- Saturday: The Singularity Summit takes place at the Palace of Fine Arts' theater. Be there to hear about the wonderful world of machine learning and how to shape artificial intelligence to avoid a future full of robot attacks. [Singularity Institute]
- Tuesday: Federated Media's Conversational Marketing Summit is Tuesday and Wednesday at the Presidio. [Federated Media]
- Wednesday: Stirr is back with another "Founders' Hacks" event, this time up in the city. Schlep your way to Mighty in Potrero Hill to hear founders from Lookery, Vadver, and OoogaLabs try and say their companies names without looking foolish. [Eventbrite]
- Don Clark of the Wall Street Journal heads up an evening of rock music at the Rockit Room, as a fundraiser for the Girls for a Change charity. [Upcoming]
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My internal monologue as I agonize over which new iPod to buy
Oh neat oh neat oh HOLY CRAP! Wait, really? I didn't expect that. The iPod touch looks pretty sweet, but won't I just feel stupid when I have to pull out my other phone? I'm all "whee, I'm surfing the Internet in a cafe on my iPod," or I'm all listening to music, and then ring, there's my phone, just like always, only this time I also have a big-ass minicomputer in my pocket. And there's no camera. Actually this looks like a raw deal. Okay, how about the iPhone? What's new there? Hrm. Not much, I guess. More »
6:20 PM on Wed Sep 5 2007
By Nick Douglas
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Latest by The Brain: @Sally Tenpenny: I'll grant you that. more »
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Are you hot enough for TechCrunch20?
Want to get into TechCrunch20, the upcoming startup conference held by Mahalo CEO Jason Calacanis and TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington? Are you "RELIABLE," between 5'7" and 5'9" and have "long hair and a petite frame?" This is could be your chance. According to an ad on Craigslist, two models are needed to work all day on September 18, the second day of TechCrunch20, doing promotions for a "media company" in San Francisco's "Financial District." Interested? Just send in your resume, headshot, and full body shot to techcrunchmodel@gmail.com. But which "media company" is it?More »
An upcoming conference, TieCon Southwest, promises attendees that they'll hear from Sean Parker, the "cofounder of Facebook." One small problem with that agenda item: Parker's not a founder. [Marketwire]
Tech publisher O'Reilly announces a new conference, Money:Tech, chaired by VC blogger Paul Kedrosky. Finally, a get-together where geeks can safely admit to being motivated by something other than changing the world. [Infectious Greed]
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Crash the Linuxworld VIP Bash
Feeling like less of a nerd because you're not attending LinuxWorld at the Moscone Center this year? Crash the swank VIP reception at the W Hotel on Wednesday night instead. Goes from 5:30 - 7:30 and should include a "who's who list of Linux luminaries to unwind, debrief and discuss the future of Linux over cocktails and appetizers." Apparently the LinuxWorld organizers emailed an invitation to the open-bar soirée to every registered conference attendee, only to send out a retraction days later. Oops. After the jump, the emails with a link to register for Wednesday night's event. More »
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Front-door wankers just might scare advertisers. Maybe. Just guessing here.
If the live video business is so hot (current contenders include Stickam, Ustream, Justin.tv, and BlogTV), why does it seem so devoid of ad money? Maybe it's incidents like this one reported at yet another streaming site, Operator11. A Yahoo Groups videoblogging forum member named Randulo wrote, "I was just about to log in to a show when I saw, on the front page, a male 'pleasuring himself' live. This is bad news for O11, I hope they get it straightened out." (Hand by Lorri37)
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To Do This Weekend: Drink the Bubble Away and Act Like Paparazzi
- Celebrate the close of a hectic week by participating in the Bubble-Free Bar Crawl tonight. It starts at 5pm at the Web 2.2 conference and hits Momo's, Nova, Bacar, and Thirsty Bear before stumbling to the House of Shields at 9pm. Send an IM to heyvalleywag for to find out where the party's at right now.
- What is it with consultants Tara Hunt and Chris Messina and wine socials? Whatever it is, don't stain the floor when you go to Citizen Space's open house.
- D7TV Studio holds an open house/launch party tonight at their offices at 150 Folsom. They're promising an event where "real-space and meta-space meet" so expect lots of drugs Second Life tours of virtual islands.
- Be nice to Mother Earth and go to the Green Festival this weekend at the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center at 8th & Brannan. Cost is $15 for adults and $7 for students/seniors/bike riders.
- Valleywaggers, we need you! The MySQL Camp is being held at Google this weekend. Apparently, there's NO PICTURES ALLOWED OF GOOGLE, so someone has to sneak in and snap away. Bonus points for evidence of decimated mini-kitchens.
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To-Do tonight: Have fun (!) at Web 2.0, or find Waldo
- No badge, no pass, no problem: Hang out in the Sonoma conference room, which Mashery rented out as soon as it heard O'Reilly was holding its conference here. They're handing out margaritas, and I hear the wifi's better than the sketchy conference connection. Hell, I'm walking down there as soon as I finish this list. [SF Gate]
- Did you RSVP for AOL's dinner with a "special guest" (Hint: word is it's Lou Reed)? Then heaven help you when you try to slip in. []
- Is there an Ask.com party tonight? Any other parties? Can I get a witness? Tips@valleywag.com if you know of one.
- Or dress like Waldo and join the crowd outside SF's Ferry Building. [Laughing Squid]
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To-Do tonight: Rock for children's literacy
- Open bar til 9 at the Tech Industry Charity Jam, a concert with a suggested $10 donation to Room to Read. [Conference Guru]
- Have pizza and snacks with Zee Germans at the eurocentric Web Monday in Palo Alto. [Upcoming]
- You don't need to buy a pass to this week's Web 2.0 Conference, starting tomorrow morning. As with all cons in the Palace Hotel, you can just hang out in the lobby and schmooze. (That's the real point of these cons anyway.) But the workshops tomorrow will be harder to sneak into. [Web 2.0 Conference]
- By the way, I want to alert you that we'll be calling it a "con" all week, no matter how old the joke gets.
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To-do this weekend: Get drunk and tape someone (outside of your bedroom, for a change)
Friday- Borat's movie premieres tonight! Check your local listings for screens and showtimes. The over/under on when the whole film will be available on YouTube? About a day.
- If you prefer your former Soviets in 3-D, check out Vloggies host Irina Slutsky at the Vloggie Pre-Party, 8pm at SF's House of Shields.
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To-do Tonight: Or TP Mike Arrington's House (He's on vacation, anyway)
- For a quarter-million partiers from in and out of San Francisco, it's Halloween in the Castro!!! Um, or maybe not. Beware, the SFPD will be cracking down on revelers tonight, so don't, don't, drunkenly hit on that sexy cop.
- Stay home and geek out — carve a Mac O'Lantern. Pictured: more Woz than you can handle.
- Enjoy one of the greatest horror films ever made. Evil Dead 2 plays tonight at the Red Vic Movie House (1727 Haight Street, SF). Showtimes are 7:15 and 9:15.
- The Zend/PHP Conference and Expo is overpriced at $1195 (one day for $650) but we think you should try to crash the Facebook After Hours party anyway. It's Halloween — go in costume. Wear footie pajamas and bring a teddy bear. Tell everyone you're founder Mark Zuckerberg and refuse to budge until someone offers you $2 billion.
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To-Do tonight: Besides eating that whole bag of Fun-sized Snickers
- Discover why you should care about social bookmarking. SF Tech Sessions holds a meeting tonight from 7-9pm at CNet in San Francisco. Ma.gnolia founder Larry Halff, David Galbraith from Wists, and Kaboodle CEO Manish Chandra are slated to speak. $5 at the door gets you all the pizza and bottled water you can carry. [SF Tech Sessions]
- A neuroscientist explains how aging brains work, at San Francisco's Bazaar Cafe. Given the city's average adult age, "aging" here means "past 30." [Ask a Scientist]
- Just move to the Bay Area from Beer Country? Pay $60 for this San Mateo event and learn what wine goes with what food. Hint: Everything goes with salmon. [Local Wine Events]
- Update: Sold out.
Hear a man even more full of himself than a Silicon Valley bigshot: Evolutionist author Richard Dawkins speaks in San Francisco. [Eventful]
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To-Do tonight: Frankly, English-language haiku is overrated
- WebGuild Silicon Valley Annual Conference Reception: The conference's keynote speakers (Midas-like venture capitalist Ram Shriram and Google VP Marissa "Mountain View Barbie" Mayer) may have gone home, but you could sneak in after 5 PM without a pass and chat with attendees about this year's tedious theme, "Web 2.0 — the new Web."
- Stylehive launch party: Social shopping site Stylehive launches. Marina residents rejoice. Though the site doesn't say, the party's at 685 Market Street in the courtyard atrium. Come after 6 PM.
- SF Beta (at DaDa, 7 PM):
More startup pitches.
This twist? All in haiku. Yawn.
Call me when it's mime.
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To-Do tonight: Jangl up some filet mignon and free booze
- Best. Party. Ever: At Jangl's bash tonight at San Francisco club Mighty, not only is there a menu including filet mignon and salmon mousse (longer menu after the jump), a hosted bar, and a live jazz performance by members of the company, but thanks to Jangl's service — an ID you can hand to strangers instead of your phone number — you can flirt without consequence!
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Artificial Intelligence superstar Marvin Minsky, co-founder of MIT's AI lab, gives an "intimate conversation" at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. Ten bucks at 6 PM. [Eventful] - Hey there hard charger, before you try a polyphasic sleep schedule, better learn how sleep works at this lecture by a fellow of the Stanford Sleep Clinic. [Eventful]
- Dogster celebrates its 300,000th user tonight from 6:30-9 at its offices in Potrero Hill. Expect milkbones and tummy rubs, if you've been a good boy. RSVP to russell (at) dogster (dot) com.
