Headphone use has hardly ever raised eyebrows. So why did Google Glass spark a recent conflict at a San Francisco bar?
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In recent years, San Francisco has become the capital of what someone described to me as “three-business-card life.” People might give a lot of their time to one startup while keeping a substantial equity share, and maybe a nominal job... 
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Last week, Sarah Slocum, a San Francisco-based tech writer, wore Google Glass to a bar and was cursed out and assaulted by two women who ripped the Glass off her face. In Facebook post responding to the attack, Slocum called it a “hate crime,” but the media response has ranged from hostile to dismissive. Newser's Matt Cantor referred to Slocum as a "Glasshole" and New York magazine's Adam Martin called her argument an "overly fraught discussion of some idiocy that happened on the kind of drunken night you would usually want to forget.
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Peter Shih is a young tech founder "forced" to make his millions in San Francisco. Proving San Franciscans are the savviest users of Twitter, when Shih's complaints about his new city hit the interwebs, the hashtags #petershih and #petershihfacts exploded. And no one is being kind. Proving that San Francisco can also get "old school" on you, too, flyers are being posted around the city with Shih's photo and the message, "Peter Shih: Move Back to NYC".
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