Can a geek beat Gavin Newsom for SF mayor?
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, San Francisco's next celebrigeek resident, has a remote chance of beating dreamy god-mayor Gavin Newsom in November's election, the San Francisco Examiner speculates, on the strength of his presumably crowdsourced stump speeches. But the paper pegs his odds at a remote 2000:1, putting him behind Eric Schmidt (850:1), Steve Jobs, Larry Page or George Lucas (600:1 each), Craig Newmark (400:1), Terry Semel (350:1), Sergey Brin (250:1) and Larry Ellison (200:1). For context, local novelist Dave Eggers gets a better 150:1 handicap.