Tom Foremski
Former Financial Times journalist reporting on Silicon Valley at the intersection of media and technology. PearlTrees is a consulting client.

Writers With Drinks helps you prepare for the collapse of civilization -- by force-feeding you all of civilization in two hours. So you can store it up.

When: Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012, 7:30 to 9:30 PM, doors open at 6:30 PM
Who: Maureen McHugh, Keely Hyslop, Broke-Ass Stuart, Ayize Jama-Everett, and Vanessa L. Pinto!
Where: The Make Out Room, 3225...

Please join the community and shop local artist wares for you and your Valentine.

Sunday, February 12, 2012 from 1pm to 4pm

We are raising funds for New Traditions Creative Arts Elementary School and will be giving 15% of all shopping proceeds to the school.

Ice Cream will be provided by Atomic Ice Cream while Dean Mermell of Tom Jonesing gives...

This Valentines Day, don't be down if you don't have anyone to share it with, because we are bringing the hottest, coolest, & most interesting singles in SF for a night to remember
(COUPLES WELCOME, OF COURSE!)

Hosted by Gina Hughes
Contact Gina for GL

It all goes down at the beautiful supperclub in San Francisco!

We will be giving...

SF New Tech & Tianji present: Chinese Tech Night!


Register @ http://sfnt021512-fb.eventbrite.com/

Live demos and discussions with ...

Tianji
Derek Ling, CEO
Tianji, which was acquired by Viadeo in 2007, is now China’s number 1 professional social network with over 8 million members. Growing at a rapid pace, it helps you connect with...

*Make sure to sign up at the official Eventbrite page here: http://taggedlunch20.eventbrite.com/*
We tripled our staff at Tagged in 2011 and as a result, we've expanded and taken over the old NBC digs. Come check out our growing space before our major renovation and say hello to our team over lunch. Our last Lunch 2.0 was in 2007 and since...

THEE SWANK BASTARDS (Las Vegas)
THE GRAVES BROTHERS DELUXE (Japan tour kickoff show!)

$8, 21+, nudity likely.

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WHAT: Thee Swank Bastards + The Graves Brothers Deluxe
WHEN: Saturday February 18, 7pm - 9:30pm, EARLY SHOW!
WHERE: Make Out Room, 3225 22nd St., SFCA 94110
WHY: Kick-off show for GBDLX return...

Join Girls in Tech, San Francisco when former editor of Mashable and startup advisor, Ben Parr, interviews Leah Busque, founder & Chief Product Officer of Task Rabbit!

To register for this event go to http://gitparrbusque-eorg.eventbrite.com/

Ben Parr is a respected technology commentator and journalist, web entrepreneur and aspiring world...

San Francisco Bookstore and Chocolate Crawl: Sunday, Feb. 26, 2012

Spend the day exploring San Francisco's amazing independent bookstores and eating chocolate
When: Sunday Feb. 26, from noon to 6:30 PM
How much: Free, but you're encouraged to buy some books

Schedule:

NOON Green Apple Books, Clement St. — arrive early and we'll...

Hello Friends and Family,

Alana and I have been volunteering with a new non-profit located in San Francisco called SFSmiles, " a charity that supports charities."

SFSmiles also teams up with Project Insight (a program for visually and hearing impaired adults) to make sandwiches and bag lunches for homeless people. Alana and I have...

Interactive Festival will feature five days of compelling presentations from the brightest minds in emerging technology, scores of exciting networking events hosted by industry leaders, the unparalleled SXSW Trade Show and an unbeatable lineup of special programs showcasing the best new digital works, video games and innovative ideas the...

About Circus Mashimus:
Now in its fourth year, Mashery’s Circus Mashimus continues to provide a destination for SXSW attendees to hold meetings, hook up with new clients or old friends, check email, update your Facebook profile, Tweet and more.

The lounge’s popular circus theme also provides the perfect backdrop for AM eye-openers of your...

Come dressed in a mix of Funk and French Revolution. The scene this year will be at Mayes and resemble a cross between French Revolution and funky...

Ryan and I will look something like Louis the XIV meets GQ meets MadMax.

There will be a banquet, I'm covering drinks and someone to teach early century ballroom dancing.

The club will be...

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PR SUMMIT CONFERENCE SERIES presents: PR DISRUPTED!

What: PR DISRUPTED 2012 is a conference focused on the convergence of food | wine | & travel.

PR Disrupted is...: A conference that explores new ideas and disruptive and engaging trends in travel, food and wine. Yet with a...

The rise of webscale businesses like Google, Facebook and Linkedin have permanently changed consumer expectations in the workplace. As business units are demanding real-time data on customers, IT needs to transition from an operations role to a hybrid like Dev/Ops or App/Ops to manage petabyte size data sets, create scalable infrastructures, and...

And even if nothing happens, it will still be worth a laugh.

INVITE EVERYONE!!!!
This might, or might not, be the biggest thing since sliced bread so don't let your friends miss this possibly life changing experience. I want to everyone on Facebook at this here shindig so don't disappoint.

The time is finally set. The day of the dead is coming, so make sure you have your Zombie Survival Plan ready.

Many people are concerned about December 21, 2012, the alleged end of the world. This is just a ploy to hide the real day of reckoning, December 22, 2012, THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE! Grab your sawed-off shotgun, baseball bat and your running...

Yes, the time is upon us. Everyone knows pi day is March 14th, but any true nerd realizes pi is not 3.14, but rather an irrational constant which continues infinitely in decimal expansion. Starting at 9:26:53 (.589... sec) AM, the longest extended Pi Day of our lives will come into action. The date, at the AM and PM hours, will be " 3/14/15 at...

The technological singularity is a theoretical future point which takes place during a period of accelerating change, at which everything goes completely insane. We're talking hyperintelligent machines, radical biological control, effective immortality, extreme mind-machine interfacing, space colonies, and nanobot-everything. It's going...