Alex Mak - Managing Editor

Portugal Makes it Illegal for Your Boss to Text You After Work in New ‘Remote Work’ Laws
Under the new rules, employers could face penalties for contacting workers outside of office hours. Companies will also have to help pay for expenses incurred by remote working, such as bigger electricity and internet bills.

Ages 5-11 Soon Have to Show Vaccine Cards in San Francisco
San Francisco County will soon require children ages 5-11 to show proof of Covid-19 vaccination to enter certain indoor public spaces like restaurants, entertainment venues and sporting events, just like adults, SF public health officials said this week. The local vaccine mandate already requires children and adults over the

San Jose Started Vaccinating Children! Other Bay Counties Taking Appointments
The CDC officially recommended the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for use in children ages 5 – 11 this week. In the Bay Area, Santa Clara County was first to officially begin administering the vaccine to its population of 167,000 children, they already had shots going into arms on Wednesday morning according

The Best META-verse Memes on the Internets
Facebook famously rebranded this week, bringing all of its acquired properties like Instagram, Whatsapp, and Occulus under the same umbrella brand called ‘Meta’. A bit like what ‘Alphabet’ is to Google, only somehow much more toxic. The ‘Meta’ promotional videos were blasted around the internet and starred Mark Zuckerberg, doing

Man Prints ‘Rebound Wanted’ Brochures, Makes Website for Applicants
He’s literally printing “rebound wanted” brochures and actively distributing them around town. He’s also made a video, brochure, and website for potential applicants…

Banksy Shredded Stencils Sold for $25.4 million
Street artist (and often times prankster) Banksy, famously rigged a stencil of his to shred itself in case it was ever resold. And it did just that directly after being auctioned off in London in 2018. You can watch a video of the auction, once the gavel came down and

Outside Lands has a Beer, Wine and Cheese Lands this Year!
Outside Lands is back after a long hiatus, 2020 was the first year Outside Lands was cancelled since the festival began in 2008. Now the music is back this Halloween weekend and punters are excited about seeing Lizzo, The Strokes, Tyler the Creator, Tame Impala, and much much more (see

E40 is Now Slinging Sausage
The Vallejo born, Bay Area rap mogul, E-40, aka Charlie Hustle, aka 40-Watter, aka Earl Stevens has started a sausage company. That’s a real sentence, that you just read. 40’s new Vallejo-based sausage company ‘Goon With The Spoon‘ did not pay us to rep them, we just love 40’s bravado