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You'll never guess which Texas landmark made it on the Top 20 list of Most Beautiful Places In the World to visit. Or will you?

Minutes after the Giants won the World Series last October, groups of vandals took to the streets of San Francisco and started setting fires, smashing store windows, flipping taxis, burning buses, and acting like crazy idiot douchebags all night. They caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, and several arrests were made.

Now that Paypal has reached 100 million active accounts, a company executive predicts physical wallets will soon be mothballed. “We believe that by 2015 digital currency will be accepted everywhere in the US -– from your local corner store to Walmart. We will no longer need to carry a wallet,” Paypal President Scott Thompson said in a blog post.

Health officials in San Francisco are hopping mad over one restaurant’s decision to sell grasshopper tacos. La Oaxaquena Bakery and Restaurant has been selling the popular Mexican dish until the health department stepped in and put the kibosh on it.

Job applicants often have to find creative ways to help their cause. It works the opposite way in the world of high-tech business. San Francisco-based start-up company Hipster has rolled out an unusual promotion to hire that special someone to take the firm to the next level. It's offering $10,000 and a year's supply of Pabst Blue Ribbon to the lucky soul who it adds to the payroll.

A San Francisco man was enjoying some adult videos in a private booth inside an area porn shop Wednesday when something stunning happened: he burst into flames. Luckily, there was a firetruck only a block away, so when the human fireball rushed out into the street the firefighters were able to help him.