Claiming that his California Street Victorian was "part of his own personality" and that its "roots went all the way to Hell," it's fitting that Church of Satan founder Dr. Anton LaVey's black house turned into one ugly-ass condo. Don't get us wrong. We're not on some transplant-ish rant about the evils of condominiums or condo conversion; we'd gladly give up our drafty, earthquake damaged Victorian for some central heating, wall to wall carpeting,......

Speaking of Boing Boing, they have word that Electronic Frontier Foundation - the "first line of defense" in our right to free speech, privacy, awesome innovation, and consumer rights - is having a birfday party. For those of you unfamiliar with EFF, ahem: Blending the expertise of lawyers, policy analysts, activists, and technologists, EFF achieves significant victories on behalf of consumers and the general public. EFF fights for freedom primarily in the courts, bringing......

Shamelessly pilfered from Valleywag, we came across this footage, above, of Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin frying cell phones at Machine Project's Fry-b-que. It seems that she likes her technology deep fried with with bacon. And bubble gum tape? This does not look healthy.......

A photo of the soon-to-be-terminiated Panhandle Bandshell...

Photo of s sign prohibiting photography in Russian Hill...

Boing Boing tips us off to this awesome short 1961 film about juvenile delinquency, and how gangs can help curb the trend towards teenage lawlessness. And by "gangs" we mean "clubs," as that's what they're called here. The most awesome thing about this video? It's all in San Francisco. And you'll probably need a jive dictionary to translate the narration.......

When this SFist attended a recent press sceening of the animated feature Monster House, something wonderful happened. A writer we've always respected made a pointed crack about "movie reviewers from the dailies", which inspired another film journalist to darkly mutter "Uh, I don't like them animated cartoons", a joking impression of Nemesis of SFist and San Francisco Chronicle movie reviewer Mick LaSalle. After the laughter had subsided, several of us recounted our favorite idiotic lines......

Sure, we write about Muni a lot, but a lot of the reason for this is that Muni just gives us so damn much material! BART is a far less colorful subject, but that doesn't make it any less of an object of obsession for some. Two BART-related treats have come across our desk lately, and we're hard pressed to decide which one delights us more. SFist reader Ed has created this totally bad-ass......

This week saw contention between Google and the US Department of Justice, as the Bush Administration asked a federal judge to force Google to comply with a subpoena for search records. (Link to CNET News.com; they've also aggregated their complete coverage of the story). The records are intended to be used to support the validity of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. AOL, MSN, and Yahoo were also asked to turn over records, and......

Just a few minutes ago, Boing Boing's Cory Doctorow published an excerpt and link to a Toronto Globe and Mail article that describes how a classic documentary on the civil rights movement, Eyes on the Prize, can no longer be sold or broadcast because the filmmakers, including John Else of Cal Berkeley's school of journalism, can't afford to re-up all the usage fees for the copyrighted material the film uses to illustrate it's story.......

We love to watch a meme spread on the internet. In this case we can trace the explosion of the JL421 Badonkadonk from Palo Alto's NAO Design. It looks like it first appeared on Metafilter, and then spread to Luxist, then We Make Money Not Art, then Jalopnik, then Gizmodo, then Slashdot and finally Boing Boing (we picked it up at Gizmodo). What is the JL421 Badonkadonk? From the sale page at Amazon: Carries......

Thomas Hawk, local San Francisco photo/blogger, posted an interesting essay on his experiences taking pictures at different private cultural venues around town. EssEffist found the link on Boing Boing, which often covers issues related to freedom of speech, expression, media and fair use....