http://sfist.com/ SFist is a website about San Francisco.Editor: Brock Keeling Publisher: Gothamist en Copyright 2012 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:33:26 -0800 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.31-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://sfist.com/2012/01/26/oakley_girls_self-image_destroyed_d.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/26/oakley_girls_self-image_destroyed_d.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/26/oakley_girls_self-image_destroyed_d.php#comments more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-26T08:33:26-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/day_around_the_bay_medical_marijuan.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/day_around_the_bay_medical_marijuan.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/day_around_the_bay_medical_marijuan.php#comments more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-25T17:00:07-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/fishermans_wharf_sexual_assault_sus.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/fishermans_wharf_sexual_assault_sus.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/fishermans_wharf_sexual_assault_sus.php#comments assaulting a young tourist in the bushes near Fisherman's Wharf as 18-year-old Christopher Dutel from Southern California. According to an SFPD spokesman, the girl "voluntarily separated" from her group earlier in the evening but she was not reported missing until 2:30 in the morning. [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-25T16:20:00-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/americas_cup_will_not_include_giant.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/americas_cup_will_not_include_giant.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/americas_cup_will_not_include_giant.php#comments rejected two appeals of the America's Cup environmental report yesterday, meaning the event has some smooth sailing in front of it on the way to 2013. The vote was unanimously against (minus Supervisor Olague, who had to be recused) the two appeals that threatened to nix Larry Ellison's big event, but the Board did reject one part of the A-Cup plan: A massive jumbotron floating on a 140-foot barge in Aquatic Park. [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-25T15:50:15-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/muslim_security_guard_wins_465000_h.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/muslim_security_guard_wins_465000_h.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/muslim_security_guard_wins_465000_h.php#comments Letterman Digital Arts Center in the Presidio was just awarded $465,000 by a San Francisco jury in a case against Los Angeles-based Andrews International, a private security firm. 27-year-old Abas Idris claimed that coworkers at the Letterman campus referred to him as a terrorist and called him an al-Qaida member. He later quit his job. [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-25T14:30:59-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/new_iphone_5_rumors_swirl.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/new_iphone_5_rumors_swirl.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/new_iphone_5_rumors_swirl.php#comments Venture Beat reports, "The latest iPhone rumors point to a Summer 2012 launch, a larger form factor, and a possible 4-plus-inch display from LG. The details were leaked by a Foxconn worker in China to 9to5mac — the same source who correctly said an iPhone 5 wasn’t coming out last year." [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-25T13:43:27-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/jane_kim_spends_night_in_tenderloin.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/jane_kim_spends_night_in_tenderloin.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/jane_kim_spends_night_in_tenderloin.php#comments Jane Kim spent last Wednesday night in a homeless shelter, on an evening when she was technically serving as Acting Mayor while Ed Lee was out of state. Kim has been interested in improving the shelter system since beginning her term last year, and Wednesday found her experiencing it first hand, lining up for a shelter-bed reservation, getting assigned one, and checking in 7 p.m. for a 12-hour stay at the Next Door Shelter at Polk and Geary. [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-25T12:25:25-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/third_victim_steps_forward_in_mirka.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/third_victim_steps_forward_in_mirka.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/third_victim_steps_forward_in_mirka.php#comments Ross Mirkarimi's closet are starting to pile up in the case against the sheriff accused of domestic violence. In a late breaking report from KTVU yesterday evening, the news team brings word that a third woman is expected to step forward with even more accusations of physical abuse. According to KTVU's source the latest Mirkarimi ex allegedly went out with the former city supervisor several years ago. [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-25T11:45:08-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/63-year-old_man_flips_car_in_road_r.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/63-year-old_man_flips_car_in_road_r.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/63-year-old_man_flips_car_in_road_r.php#comments an apparent road-rage incident involving a 63-year-old man in a minivan, and a pickup truck. The minivan clipped the pickup after he appeared to be "brake-checking" the pickup — accelerating and then swerving in front of the car and slamming on the brakes. The driver of the minivan, Ronald Zerangue, may have misjudged the space in front of the car, and ended up hitting the center divider and flipping his minivan multiple times. He died at the scene. [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-25T10:35:18-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/apple_astounds_with_record_revenue.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/apple_astounds_with_record_revenue.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/apple_astounds_with_record_revenue.php#comments Apple reports its highest quarterly revenue and earnings ever, due in large part to sales of remarkable iPhone 4S. (We love our new white iPhone 4S more than anything else on Earth. This SFist editor and every privileged tween girl in SoCal thank you for the bitchin' phone, Apple!) "Apple's stock was up about 8% in after-hours trading about two hours after the market closed, which put its share price at $454," reports Information Week. "At that value, Apple's market capitalization stands at $423 billion, more than previous market cap leader Exxon Mobil, worth $418 billion." [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-25T10:04:01-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/wednesday_morning_link_dump_39.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/wednesday_morning_link_dump_39.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/wednesday_morning_link_dump_39.php#comments more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-25T09:25:05-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/newt_gingrich_trashes_san_francisco.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/newt_gingrich_trashes_san_francisco.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/25/newt_gingrich_trashes_san_francisco.php#comments Polyamorous GOP balloon-animal Newt Gingrich appeared on The Today Show this morning and didn't have kind words to say about Baghdad by the Bay. When discussing Nancy Pelosi, who claims that she knows something that will keep Newt from becoming president, he had this to say about the House Democratic leader and her hometown, San Francisco. [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-25T09:00:01-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/24/day_around_the_bay_847.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/24/day_around_the_bay_847.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/24/day_around_the_bay_847.php#comments more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-24T17:34:08-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/24/oakland_kills_about_105_city_jobs.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/24/oakland_kills_about_105_city_jobs.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/24/oakland_kills_about_105_city_jobs.php#comments redevelopment lies choking and dying in the blighted gutters of California streets, the City of Oakland is preparing to cut about 105 full-time positions from its payroll, in order to balance their already strained budget. Mayor Quan, knowing her constiuencies' buzzwords, assured everyone, "There were no cuts to libraries, no cuts to human services, minimal cuts to police and fire." [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-24T16:45:15-08:00 http://sfist.com/2012/01/24/joseph_naso_might_have_murdered_som.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/24/joseph_naso_might_have_murdered_som.php http://sfist.com/2012/01/24/joseph_naso_might_have_murdered_som.php#comments ordered accused serial killer Joseph Naso to stand trial for the murders of four women in Northern California, given all the scary photographic evidence of his crimes uncovered in searches of his home and safe-deposit boxes. But today we get news that cold-case investigators are now trying to link Naso to a couple of other murders, including one close to home here in S.F. [ more › ] ]]> News 2012-01-24T14:30:38-08:00