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Hawking their new Touch 3G phone, T-Mobile will drop 100 stunt skydivers into the air to perform synchronized formations over the city at noon today. The launch/spectacle will also feature "fly-by jets and skywriting," with the air ballerinas landing at four locations throughout SF (Justin Herman Plaza, Marina Green Park, Pier 39 and the Moscone Recreation Center). Sounds exciting!

Jonah Spangenthal-Lee at The Stranger investigates the craftiness between Village Voice Media, which owns SF Weekly, and the Yelp.com-like site Likeme.net, in which VVM owns a majority stake. It seems most of the positive reviews on the site are written by VVM ad representatives. And said positive reviews are about businesses that advertise in VVM publications.

Guess what we don't want to think about while riding San Francisco's whimsical, romantic, and downright gorgeous cable cars? Unkempt sphincters.

ad:tech San Francisco landed here yesterday and is currently underway at Moscone Center until Thursday. We've acquired access to the exhibition hall and had a chance to briefly peruse the delightful offerings of the Internet advertisement world:

Apparently San Francisco is still pretending that this TransLink thing will work someday, but we don't know why. Muni just released a statement (dated April 4, 2008 -- A MESSAGE FROM THE FUTURE!!!) letting us know what we already know: it doesn't work. We know this already because Muni has adorned every single one of their buses with multiple copies of a "TransLink is not Ready" poster. (Where've we heard that before? Oh, yes, the entire last decade.)

Yeah it is.

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist.

Starting out this week, Peck the Town Crier is celebrating his sophomore CD, Groundhog's Day by performing at Pier 23. You can hang out with this San Franciscan native from 7:30-10:30 for absolutely nothing - it's free. "Recorded at the famed Hyde St Studios in San Francisco, Groundhog’s Day blends Peck’s unique story-raps and verbiage with hand played instrumental arrangements that pull from the gambit of [great] American music..." It's a bit weird, a bit...

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist.

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist.

Today, Hate Hurts America (chortle) and the Interfaith Coalition announced that WalMart and AT&T either stopped advertising or now refuse to place ads on Michael Savage's "Savage Nation" program, joining a list of advertisers that have shunned the talk show host. (AutoZone, Citrix, TrustedID, JC Penney, and OfficeMax have also pulled their advertising.) Why? Because Michael Savage is a big ol;' meanie , crusher of warm fuzzies, and wisher of AIDS upon you sodomites....

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist.

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist.

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist.

image credit: apbh2's Flickr account

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist.

The Red Sox has permeated nearly every facet of Bostonist's lives. When they're not live-blogging the games, waxing poetic about the games, thanking Curt Schilling for his splendid work, or telling Dane Cook to watch his hair, they're watching certain presidential candidates hop on the Red Sox bandwagon (sorry, Gothamist). The Sox are so branded on the local brain that people are using the Series to spice up their sex lives. Speaking of spice, Bostonist is really sick of that taco promo. And, while they're proud of John Williams, Bostonist is still trying to figure out Williams' "Very Special Arrangement" of the "Star Spangled Banner."

Much to everyone's delight, we're certain, today Golden Gate Bridge corporate officials rejected an offer that would have seen the city rolling around naked in millions of dollars from advertising. A plan that would have finally allowed innocuous ads on a tiny part of the bridge not visible to passersby, plunged to its death today after much contemplation.

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist.

We have incredibly exciting news about bus shelters! The city just reached an agreement with Clear Channel, your favorite company, to provide bus shelters and advertising and revenue. It's a complicated relationship, and totally boring -- like, alt-weekly-level boring -- but here's what it all means to you, the common man on the street:

We would like to take a moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist.

As is the custom around these parts, we would like to take a moment to thank this weeks' advertisers on SFist.

We'd like to take a brief moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist.

How to stop the some of the ads appearing in your mailbox

Once again, we would like to take a brief moment to thank this week's advertisers on SFist.

-- Graphic Designer [LoopNet, Inc.]

We stuck it in Day Around The Bay already, but thought we would let you hash it out here in its own pad, readers. It seems that, according to the preciousness that is Dan Noyes, "the Silent Drill Platoon of the U.S. Marine Corps wasn't allowed to be filmed Sept. 11 on California Street in San Francisco for a segment of its new advertising campaign."

Got a second? Good! Because we want to thank the advertisers on SFist this week:

-- Did you call your district supervisor to halt the Blue Angels today? Neither did we. [IndyBay]

In our continuing effort to pay for things around the office, we'd like to take a moment to thank the advertisers on SFist this week: