Election-free edition!

--Are the A's moving to Fremont?

--Ken Garcia enjoyed Borat.

--They're going to start Translink (the one pass that works on all Bay Area public transportation systems) soon! BART, Muni, and Caltrain are expected to start accepting Translink in 2007.

--Google's going to start buying ads in newspapers. Cute -- they call it "offline media."

--YouTube wins Time Magazine's Invention of the Year award, beating out the cervical cancer vaccine and hypoallergenic cats.

--Planting trees in East Palo Alto.

--Glum about mudslides in Sausalito.

--A Whole Foods in the Upper Haight.

--Welllll, okay -- one election-related post. Check out Rangelife's paean to the counterarguments of Gail Neira in the SF Voter Guide!

These hypoallergenic cats are less inventive than YouTube.