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BearMythology has some pics of adorable, stocky Canadian wrestler Scott D’Amore.

Bearotic continues the wrestling theme with a video of oil wrestling from something called the Bear Olympics.

New York City residents are contracting HIV at a rate three times the national rate, says its health department.

John McCain’s new commercial features PUMA Democrat Debra Bartoshevich who says she’s pro-choice but has no clue about John McCain’s anti-reproductive-rights stance.

Canadian retailer recalls a half-million catalogs after complaints that its models are too thin.

More than 94 percent of Fortune 500 companies offer equal partner health benefits. Of the companies on that list who don’t, almost half are based in Texas. Oh, and Obama and McCain have differing views on discrimination.

Surprise! Kaiser may have exposed hundreds of San Francisco patients to tuberculosis.

Who cares about Spare The Air Days when there’s no free ride attached?

Memo to Academy of Art: If you’re going to cheat in your new sports program, do it behind doors without windows.

Someone’s ranting in the Mission. You big hipster kids play nice now!

Mother of the year makes her small child sell $2 candy bars on BART.

Keeping track of sanctimonious, homophobia-spewing, lying, hypocritical Republican politicians getting caught in the bushes (or the bathrooms) while having sex or trying to have sex with men can be a full-time job! Why bother? The good folks at Twankle LLC have taken a wide stance on the matter and produced a deck of Gay Republican Hypocrites Playing Cards. For just $8.95 you can start hitting blackjack with the likes of Mark “No female pages” Foley and Glen “Sleeping Orator” Murphy Jr.

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The California Academy of Sciences ends its SOMA exile in just 31 days, opening its doors to the public for the first time on a completely redesigned, completely green living museum in Golden Gate Park. Here’s 7×7’s look at Claude and Lady, the Academy’s two new albino alligators, as they’re introduced to their swampy home (also: penguins, yay!), while SF Gate goes behind the scenes of the $484 million project with more pictures — I can’t wait to check out some of those new aquariums.

From The Advocate:

Del Martin, who just this past June wed her partner of nearly 55 years when gay marriage was legalized in the state of California, died Wednesday morning with her partner, Phyllis Lyon, by her side, according to the National Center for Lesbian Rights. She was 87.

Thank you, Del, for everything you have done to advance equal rights for all Americans. You will be missed.

A couple of weeks ago the blogosphere was suddenly very taken with a recipe promising chocolate cake in five minutes. I’ve been doing a bit of testing and experimenting with this recipe and I’m pleased to report my findings.

I thought the original cake was too light on the chocolate taste, so I added an extra half tablespoon of cocoa. Because the end result seemed a little too dry, I added cherries to the mix, the fruit added just the right amount of moisture.

This is a cake that was meant to be consumed warm. If you set it aside and let it cool down you will return to a chocolately dish sponge.

Finally, remember that this is chocolate cake created in a microwave-safe mug or bowl, so don’t expect a Tartine-level delicacy. It’s tasty, but if such instant gratification might predispose you to leaving dramatic comments on a blog then perhaps you didn’t approach this dessert with realistic expectations.

Chocolate Cherry Cake In Five Minutes

4 tbsp. cake flour
4 tbsp. sugar
2 1/2 tbsp cocoa
1 egg
3 tbsp. milk
3 tbsp. oil
1/4 cup fresh, pitted cherries (you can go up to a 1/2 cup if you want)

Combine dry ingredients in a coffee mug or microwave-safe bowl. Spoon in the egg and mix well. Add milk and oil and mix thoroughly. Add cherries, mix until well distributed.

Microwave on high for three minutes (1000 watt microwave), wait for cake to rise and set in your mug or bowl. Put cake on dish, or just eat out of the bowl or mug.

Oh, and why no photographs? This is not a photogenic cake. See Dizzy Dee’s pictures if you want proof.

Enjoy!

Adorable chub bear doing Kung Fu Panda, via everyone:

Television show ending production in 2003 causes fifty thousand women a year to leave church and turn to Wicca.

Radio ranter Michael Savage, recently in the press for taunting autistic children, is now performing a race- and gay-baiting double feature just in time for the DNC.

No one loves AT&T’s ugly-ass U-Verse service boxes.

Apartment Therapy SF has some pretty pictures of the Dale Chihuly exhibit in progress at the de Young.

SFist wonders if reports of the FasTrak system’s hackability are true.

Here’s an article to read the next time you wait an hour and half for a cab on Market.

Gavin Newsom: He doesn’t tilt at windmills, he builds them.