Photo by Steve Rhodes from the SFist Flickr Pool. Wow, did you see the lines STILL growing outside the downtown AT&T and Apple stores this past weekend? The above shot was taken last night, proving that most of you ignored a few bad reviews, and wanted your very own Jobsian doodad. Now. The phone passed the 1 million sales mark after a mere three days on the market. Impressive, indeed. And after seeing this......

Eeeps, iPhone 3G fans! According to Jordan Golson over at the Industry Standard, today's iPhone 3G has turned into a disaster. A few snafus? Well, iTunes activations are "completely offline" due to a global server crash of sorts, most Apple store workers make you activate the new phone at home (for reals? boo!), some stores allegedly have no shipments yet, and harrowing reports of lackluster customer service. (In other news, the Industry Standard is alive......

Here are people waiting in line. For a phone. The Jobian gadget went on sale today, and Flickr users joe.moore and Steve Rhodes, and Valleywag's Jackson West managed to snap up a few images. Enjoy. Oh, and if you have the brand-spanking new 3G in your grubby little hands, how is it?......

Today, the California Department of Food and Agriculture announced plans to stop light brown apple moth spraying altogether. While the spray was temporarily halted in April, it now looks like the use of the pesticide is officially off. Yay! The light brown apple moth, which feasts on crops, and the people of Santa Cruz county will no longer have to fear the toxic spray. City Attorney Dennis Herrera says that "the state's aerial spray......

iPhone 3G from Dylan Staley on Vimeo. God. We really don't want to post a commercial -- especially one espousing the alleged virtues of the iPhone, Apple, and Jobian theory -- but we're going to relent. Here, for you fine folks, is the brand-spanking new 3G iPhone commercial. Speaking of Steve Jobs, anyone notice he's been hitting the disco dust hard lately? He's pin-thin, people. Via.......

Already the Kool-Aid drinkers are lined up outside Moscone Center. Why? Because le Jobs is expected to give birth to the latest generation of the iPhone at today's (sold out!) Worldwide Developers Conference. The original iPhone launched less than a year ago on June 29, 2007. And speculation on the new 3G version runs high. Global positioning system (GPS) capabilities, video recording, an upgraded camera, performing fellatio, a virtual slide rule, and more space......

Forbes annual list of billionaires around the world came out today. Jealous? And for the first time in 14 years Warren Buffett (at $62 billion) snatched the number one spot from Bill Gates (who came in at a dismal $58 billion.) This post was created using Explorer, not Firefox, in condolence. But who, you ask, took the top spots for the Bay Area? Well, Oracle founder Larry Ellison (coming in at #14 with $25......

There was a press conference today at 11am with the Mayor and the head of Muni -- no major revelations, but here's the condensed Cliff's Notes version from our guy at the event: Gavin: Nat is as frustrated as everybody else. We want change on the margins. Eliminating bus stops. The line I take down polk never has more than 10 people; It takes 10 minutes. We will eliminate bus stops. Nat: This journey......

The Apple Moth vs. San Francisco......

Join us tonight at the Fillmore, where Sia (one of our favorites) will be headlining. We saw her at the end of last year and the show was definitely fantastic; we highly recommend checking out tonight's show. Her latest album, Some People Have Real Problems, is stellar and has garnered critical success jumping to #26 on the Billboard charts, selling more than 20,000 copies and finishing ahead of fellow press darling Kate Nash (all in......

In the words of Scott Beal, "forget the MacBook Air, I’m holding out for the MacBook Nano." Word. Image credit: dadaev......

Easy and compact, check out Apple CEO Steve Jobs' 90-minute keynote speech in 60 seconds. It's like the Golden Globes, only not as pretty or deadly important. And as you all know--waking up this morning to realize that, no, it wasn't all just a beautiful dream--the MacBook Air is upon us. In a bizarre moment of Jobs' continuing Trumpification, just moments after his speech to his denizens, Steve Jobs chirped to the New York......

ConJewMu set to open on June 8, 2008. [Curbed]Dinosaurs were teenage sluts, did what whatever they wanted, and you're just jealous. Whatever, you don't know them. [SFGate]The croc still lives on. [Tehdaly]City Hall cares about boob cancer by emitting a pinkish glow. [WhatImSeeing]Special staph infections pound the gay community. Hard. [SFGate]This morning's I-880 dead body identified. [Oakland Tribune]Netflix tries to trump Apple by removing restrictions. Dude, burn. [Valleywag]Sexism or racism, which one is more......

Can you feel it? The Macworld Expo 2008 approaches. Shhh, you might scare it. When your editor worked in the consecrated halls of Macworld, we were surprised by the ilk that attended the annual Macworld Expo - a bit like the Oracle World people, but minus the vile behavior and false sense of entitlement. let's see, we remember two clinically-obese Mac fans fainting while waiting in line to hear keynote speaker Steve Jobs introduce......

They still make phone books?...

The opening of Apple's latest Store...

Welcome back, little piggies, from your night of binge eating and sipping. (That is, if you were fortunate enough to do so.) Why not get up, out, and about tonight to work off that meal, hangover with the following: -- Kristi Yamaguchi Holiday Ice Rink at Embarcadero Center: Our Kristi, our Kristi, why hast thou forsaken us? Alas, although no longer branded with Olympic gold-medal allure, you'll still have a blast at the holiday rink......

How the church appeared on November 13. This Friday -- Black Friday -- Michaela Alioto-Pier's little neighborhood that thrives on ridicule will become a little more ridicule-less. At 9 a.m., Pacific Standard Time, on the day of November twenty-third, two thousand and seven, the store at 2125 Chestnut will open its doors. And at that moment? Apple will welcome in its third San Francisco store, completing the trilogy started by its flagship location on......

Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city's future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas's only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did......

As it gets closer to Halloween for LAist, a contributer recollects her tale of staring down the serial killer, Richard Ramirez, otherwise known as the Night Stalker. Must think happy thoughts -- okay, free organic chocolate chip cookies for Los Angeles -- now that's a happy thought. Other happy Los Angeles thoughts include an interview with Jack Kehler of The Big Lebowski (he was the Dude's landlord), a beautiful and magical photographic moment in Venice......

No longer just for cute Aryan stoners, Albert Fert of the Scientific Research National Center in Paris -- who just received the Nobel Prize for physics alongside Peter Gruenberg for their massive brainpower to help shrink hard drives so that they fit into your iPods, or whatever -- is a Dell user. We'll go one step further by suggesting that Fert has dabbled in Linux use when he was young, too. Shame on you,......

Scanning Some Life this morning, we see that the Stockton Street Apple Store caught fire on Sunday morning at around 11 a.m.-ish. Or at least something inside the glassy box was used for kindling. Or an alarm went off. Or none of the above. When we called the store today to confirm the small fire -- after waiting on hold, passed around, and spoken to in a hushed and somber tone -- they told......

-- Good God, Genesis (alas, the band) is back. [BeyondChron] -- HA! Even bunnies know that square-mouthed Giada De Laurentiis is a wee bit porn-y at times. [CHOW] -- San Leandro teen killed in car crash on (the) 680. [Chron] -- Gap laptop stolen along with the personal data of over 800,000 retail queens. Whoops. [Examiner] -- Party poopers: Apple brings down the hammer on hacked iPhones. (Dear AT&T, Hate you much. xo, us)......

Because sluts and date-rapists (we kid!) like iPhones and PowerBooks just as much as dorks, Apple is racing to open up its third SF store, this time in the Marina district on Chestnut Street. Ta-da. But be careful sporting those new touch screen iPods. You never know if these guys are still on the prowl. Image: Curbed SF......

Photo of a bunch of old cell phone chargers along with news of a new universal standard. ...

-- Democrat fundraiser Norman Hsu is on the run! [Chron, KGO] -- Fred Thompson to run for Prez. [CBS5] -- Now more than ever before, San Diego sucks. [CBS5] -- Cruising, it seems, also sucks. [SFBG] -- More and more murder. (Weren't we guaranteed something about a murder-rate reduction last year?) [Chron] -- Santa Clara fire stills rages. [KRON4] -- History of the Cadillac Hotel at Eddy and Leavenworth. [BeyondChron] -- Vallejo giraffe dead.......

We duped ourselves into thinking iPhones weren't the work of God. But they are. And we want one. Bad. Real bad. Last week, we had the privilege of hanging with a few adorable, young lads, all on the cusp of innovative technology. And they all sported iPhones, thus an at-one-with-the-world glaze in their eyes. We have a stupid BlackBerry, so: constipation, tears. Steve Jobs -- who still boasts a decent shelf butt (see image)......

We're both flattered an saddened by our witty betters at Gawker -- flattered that they stole our idea to spotlight comments (not that we're especially innovative in doing so, but still); a little saddened that theirs is already so much better in its execution. Depressing, yet we soldier on, because many of your thoughts deserve to be read a second time. Here's this week's top 5....

Kathy Griffin seems to prefer the techie geeks. (And just who wouldn't?) According to le Hilton, Kathy Griffin is dating Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. (Yay! It's nice to see a redhead making good.) Is this true? Are they really spooning each other? We have no idea. But it'd be nice to see Griffin frolicking around the Castro again. Lord knows the strip needs something to keep it queer and interesting. (Assuming Wozniak lives in......

We had been a proud, satisfied owner of an Apple PowerBook for a little over two years (and a blue-and-white G3 for five years before that) when it all went quickly downhill last November. Our computer started making these frightening, crackling, static, grinding noises, accompanied by nonsensical beeps, and then it crashed hard. We did an "erase and reinstall," which bought us about two weeks. Then, we had to pay our first somewhat quick......