"Orders bust of himself erected at City Hall," reports SF Citizen. Will advise of impending doom.......

We came back from taking down the recycling yesterday evening to find we had locked ourselves out of our apartment. "Noooo!!" [Insert Emo Darth Vader ballad here. Warning -- audio.] We dialed the apartment manager on the call-box but got his voice mail. Lucky for us, the manager, who wouldn't be back until 10:00, called our s.o., who wouldn't be back until 8:00, and our s.o. called our friend who lives a few blocks away.......

We've got a crapload to cover. We'll try to keep it short... Just when the media coverage is focused on the election, Om Malik says San Francisco is moving ahead with citywide wifi. Meanwhile, down on the peninsula, Yahoo fires a battery of snark over Google's bow, while Eric Schmidt's colleague compares him to Darth Vader. Niall Kennedy lists his favorite podcasts, including tech, media and music offerings. And an enterprising Oaklander is driving......

Geeks around the world (pictured: Peruvian Star Wars nerd as Darth Vader) turned out for the final Star Wars installment, which premiered to the public at midnight (SFist, of course, had already seen it). Meanwhile, rebel h4xx0rs managed to get a message out from behind the Empire's lines, smuggling a work print from the Death Star aboard the BitTorrent Falcon, Han and Lando style. After the jump, reports of Star Wars fever from across......

Mayor Gavin the N, fresh from meat-slicing duties, found his press conference on how he plans to use funds from Prop 63 (money for mental health services) upstaged by caroling progressives protesting the budget cuts, one of whom was wearing a Grinch mask and a nametag that said "GAVIN." One of the others was, of course, Chris Daly. Mirkarimi did his part too, accusing Gavin of deliberately scheduling his Prop 63 press conference to distract the press from winsome little Cindy Who. The San Francisco Sentinel, which will be shutting down soon, has some terrif pictures from the event. (We wish someone had dressed the dog up with those adorable fake reindeer horns, though, but these are minor details.) And as the Examiner reported, the man dressed up as the Grinch said, "I always get stuck in these dumb things. At least it's not 80 degrees out and I'm not Darth Vader." ...

SFist's had a complicated relationship with George Lucas since 1999. He reminds us of a high-school boyfriend who found us on Google and won't stop calling. Dude, we loved you so much at the time, but you're ruining our nostalgia for the relationship with your long email about your Amway sales! We employ this drawn-out metaphor to help illustrate our feelings about both George and his Marin County company Lucasfilm, which has been responsible for......