Men's Health has a breakdown of the top 100 "smuttiest" (i.e., porn-happy) cities in the United States. Orlando, Florida comes in a No. 1. However, San Francisco ranks a distant 23rd and Oakland 79th when it comes to porn. The criteria went something like this: compiling the number of DVDs purchased, rented, or streamed (AdultDVDEmpire.com); adult entertainment stores per city (StorErotica.net); rate of porn searches (Google Insights); and the percentage of Cinemax-subscribing households (SimplyMap). You will have to take the results with a massive salt lick, though. (What self-respecting gay uses AdultDVDEmpire.com or Cinemax for ejaculatory assistance?) The top 100 is as follows: more ›

If only for the fact that it brings lasers into the game, we are more than intrigued by The Magic Cube, an operational QWERTY keyboard that works by using really bitchin' lasers. Made by Celluon, the gadget simply projects a keyboard onto a surface. Also, according to Laughing Squid, "this smart little gadget also works as a multi-touch mouse and a handwriting recognition device." We hope to see all of the tech patrons at Epicenter Cafe (ground zero for techie nerds, for some reason) tapping away on their tables in between fighting with each other for table space. more ›

Part of what makes Apple's fandom so rabid is the act and art of opening up a new Apple product. Like mainlining heroin, it's a quick high that the buyer can never reach again no matter how long or hard they use the doohickey itself. Apple is smart like that. A first look at the new iPad being unboxed, touched, and caressed comes to us from Vietnam, where users got their hands on an LTE-capable model days ahead of Friday's official launch, notes Apple Insider. more ›

A computer lab at San Francisco City College was recently shut down after it was discovered that one of its computers contained a virus that had been transmitting user data to Russia and China for the past ten years. Authorities aren't quite sure yet what information was stolen, but they suspect it was primarily personal information and credit card numbers from students and staff. The virus logged students' keystrokes, recorded images of the screens and might have spread to other labs and home computers via flash drives. more ›

Keith Brown, 21, was arrested on Tuesday at gaming company Zynga's after allegedly stealing an estimated $100,000 worth of equipment. Brown stands accused of taking company laptops, desktop computers and software. more ›

A computer SNAFU of sorts halted all BART service this evening. As of 8:05 pm, BART reports: "BART is experiencing computer problems in the Operations Control Center and service is currently stopped. The problem began at around 7:30 pm Monday evening. BART staff is working to assess and resolve the issue as quickly as possible, however there currently is no word on when service will resume. We will continue updates until the situation is resolved." more ›

Forty-one years ago today, the first e-mail was sent out by--what else?--a pair of computer scientists, UCLA Professor Leonard Kleinrock and graduate student Charley Klein. Valleywag notes: "The message was to be the word 'log.' Their connection crashed before they got to 'g.'" Chortle. [Valleywag, via Boing Boing] more ›

You can feel it in the air. Mac sect members eagerly awaiting the next pearl of genius to drop at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, which is happening right now at the Moscone Center. (Today's frenzy even managed to temporarily shutdown Digg.) Since your editor is a PC user, naturally, he only cares about the WWDC after-parties' amuse-bouche platters. But what say you, Apple fans? What's the hub, bub? What will be unleashed this year? Something light-weight and irresistibly twee yet hip, we hope. And for those of you who want to follow what's going on today through the 12th at the conference, check out Laughing Squid, gdgt, MacRumors, Macworld, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, the Mac Observer, or #apple for more information. more ›

The Wall Street Journal reports that many of San Francisco's homeless are savvy at finding ways to go online regularly. Shelter attendants say the number of overnight visitors with laptops is growing, and SF Homeless, a two-year-old Internet forum, has 140 members. As noted, many job and housing applications must be submitted online, and some homeless advocates say the economic downturn is pushing more of the wired middle class on to the streets. more ›

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. more ›

They still make phone books? more ›

SFist interviews the Reverend Billy of "what would jesus buy?" more ›

This is startling: Francis Ford Coppola has a Zoetrope Argentina office. What's more, the other night thieves came in and "tied up employees and took computers, cameras and other valuables" including his screenplay for the yet-to-be-released Tetro, a movie about "rivalries of an artistic Italian immigrant family." more ›

SFist recieved this call to action from Officer Andrew Cohen, who is best known for being the focal point of the so-called "VideoGate" scandal. As with his responses in our recent interview with him, we believe that he raises some very thought-provoking points and offers further candid insight into the imbroglio. If you believe that moving forward with the case against the "VideoGate" participants is a waste of time, he asks you to take action by writing. Also attached below is a letter to his union's journal, in which he castigates the union for non-support. more ›

When we talked to Phil Bronstein, the publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, a few weeks back, he told us that "the Chronicle will continue to be packed with talented journalists who will keep providing what (SFist) Rita called 'an essential public service.'" more ›

New Jersey-based blogger "Serge the Concierge" has the goods on a pretty cool local party venue -- a junkyard! more ›

Last week's winner, the East Bay Express. A Oakland teacher beats up a social worker and threatens her students -- and still can't be fired. Why can't you get a free weekly in San Leandro? Cover article: The agony of med students waiting to find out where they're going to be doctors. (It's done by computers.) Do you think male poets read Bitch Magazine? Goat meat on International Boulevard. Irish rockers on St. Patrick's Day. And Dan Savage on low female sex drives. more ›

Hey everyone, in the midst of all this Ruby Rippey-Tourk madness, guess who showed up for a photo session and interview with the Chron? That's right -- Peter Ragone's best friend and your correspondent's biggest fan, John Nelson! We always love to meet our readers! more ›

MacWorld. Keynote. It's Steve's time. more ›

San Francisco wasn't the only place moved by the Kim family tragedy. People around the world followed the tragic story with bated breath as the events unfolded. For most of us it's hard to feel anything but sadness after such an event. We turn off our computers, talk about how the search should have started earlier, wonder what would have happened if the road the family travelled on was locked as it should have been. But a rare group of us hear stories like the Kim's in the news and do something with the loss they feel. more ›

What? This isn't Thursday? OK, all this holiday brouhaha has made us a day late from our usual posting schedule but we just know you'll forgive us. To make it up to you, we want to share a brand new video from Trainwreck Riders. According to our buddy Nat, last week the band hit the streets with a super 8 camera and a bag full of costumes that they dug up from their basements. They started the day at 'Drink Liquor' (where they used to buy alcohol at when they were in high school - uh, allegedly), picked up some 40 oz's of Olde English as inspiration, and shot a video at some of the stomping grounds that Pete sings about in the song. more ›

Oh, where would we be without those local news I-Team reports? Probably stuck in a world full of scamming businesses, not enough labels on things, and bad tanning salons. Now we owe another round of thanks to an I-Team, the KGO one. Because thanks to their hard-hitting report, San Jose is going to undertake the task of cleaning up their libraries. more ›

SFist interviews Matt Costa more ›

will remind us. That's right, it's the year 2000, and the cool new sport is kill as many pedestrians and other drivers as possible (insert Muni joke here). Caine and Rocky star alongside Mary Woronov in this Queen B of thrillers. more ›

We continue with our raging discussion on this year's upcoming baseball season. The rest of the award-winning SFist sports desk will join in as soon as their stupid day jobs let them. Oh, how we long for the days when we were merely crack monkey's chained to computers in Jackson's basement dungeon. Anyways, part I can be seen here and Part 2 here. SFist Chris

The National League West?

If there's one thing we love more than passing along days-old links to non-stories, it's laughing and pointing at people on the internets getting all riled up at perceived assaults on their freedom of expression. more ›

Here in the SFist Tech Labs, we're committed to two things: science, and our readers. So we'd never let anything like the debilitating headache we've been going through for the past 18 hours or so keep us from bringing you the links to tech news you deserve. While we read the symptoms on BBC's health page, you can follow along. more ›

Here in the labs, we're not above passing along a bit of Corporate Advertising as if it were genuine tech news. So we'll tell you that Apple is running a Billion Songs Countdown promotion for its iTunes Music Store. Every 100,000th song downloaded gets a free iPod nano and a gift certificate, and the recipient of the billionth download gets an iMac, a $10,000 gift certificate to the iTMS, and ten (10) 60GB iPods. (If you don't feel like giving your money to The Man, there's a free entry form). more ›

Well, somebody at Casa de Ted y Molly is writing about this crazy February warm weather. If you're looking to meet girls, avoid propositioning them to pose for Suicide Girls. Trust us, it's creepy, especially if you're wearing "bright, striped pants." And Halsted at Cygnior's Quill has an interesting idea -- why not "archive the homeless?" $20 their political commentary is more interesting than DailyKos. more ›

Look! Up in the sky! It's... well, just a bunch of fog, apparently. People have been spending a lot of time looking to the tech world for heroes and personal saviors, only to have those illusions shattered when they realize all they're getting are software, search engines, and MP3 players. more ›