Day Around The Bay

We got a frantic call from SFist Jon about a power failure making it impossible for him to do Day Around The Bay today, so we're subbing in.

--There was a shooting outside the Power Exchange during rush hour yesterday. The cops did manage to catch the guy, but traffic was a mess.

--Your best buys are always at Fry's -- along with an exhaustive listing of the finite dimensional representations of the closed system of continuous symmetries known as Lie group E8 by the electronics megastore's academic mathematical wing.

--Caltrain fares are going up by a quarter per zone.

--There's an outbreak of horse herpes in the South Bay.

--Famous civil rights lawyer and convicted tax-evader Tony Serra is filing a class action lawsuit against the Federal Bureau of Prisons, claiming that he and other inmates were forced to work for 17 cents an hour and demanding higher wages for prisoners.

--Buy a "The N Is Near" shirt from the N-Judah Chronicles!

--Newsom wants all city commissioners to ride MUNI.

--We like the new redesign over at the Sentinel. Will Chris Daly?

Keep those Obama pictures coming! Picture by kerenkamikaze from our Flickr stream.