This week we mentioned that eBay filed lawsuit against Craigslist because CL founders Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster had "unfairly diluted eBay’s economic interest in the company." What happened was that CL reduced eBay's economic interest in Craigslist by more than 10 percent. Why? To stave off a potential takeover. At least according to CL blog: We are surprised and disappointed by Ebay’s unfounded allegations, which came to us out of the blue, without......

You're so mean, eBay. What did they do this time, you ask? Well, today they filed a lawsuit against Craigslist in a Delaware court. Why? According to the New York Times, Craig Newmark and Jim Buckmaster "took actions that unfairly diluted eBay’s economic interest in the company." (EBay snatched up a 28.4 percent minority interest in the company back way in 2004.) EBay Senior VP Mike Jacobson goes on to tell the NYT: "The......

You know that site where you bid on and bought your vintage designer duds? That Thundercats lunchbox? Or those garish home accents your girlfriend has all over her apartment? It seems that they were purchased from a media company. At least according to Simon Dumenco at AdAge: There's actually another company that does something very much like what eBay does -- and, curiously, nobody hesitates to think of it as a media company. Like......

Obama '08 is coming your way. ...

-- Awesomeness: GG Park road to close on Saturdays! Yay! Mind the bison! [Examiner] -- Narcs! Mandated by federal law, the Coast Guard failed to drug test the Cosco Busan crew within 32 hours. [SFGate] -- Still need your crab fix? Try this handy map. [Gridskipper] -- Ka-blamo! Bomb scare temporarily halts eBay. [ValleyWag] -- Saving rent control. [Beyond Chron] -- Ship's radar, it now seems, was working juuust fine. [Oakland Tribune]......

EBay's company headquarters on Hamilton Avenue in San Jose, California has just been evacuated due to a suspicious looking package...

Much of the decimation of newspapers' revenues from classified ads has been attributed to the proliferation of craigslist, which, to our experience, is a generally cheaper, easier, and more effective place to list open jobs and such. Today we were tooling around digg and we noticed a link to open jobs at San Francisco-based eBay subsidiary StumbleUpon. Huh?...

We want this. We want this bad. We want this now. Then again, who wouldn't want an oversized cardboard cutout of la Gibson looking a tad fey? [insert drunk-driving, anti-Semitic, or Catholic joke here] Perfect for any drab Victorian apartment's rooftop. Anyway, it's up for bid on eBay, if the mood should strike. (Thanks to SFist reader Alissa for the find.)......

We're not sure how the pending sale of Red Rock Island is going, but if you miss out on it (or are not quite rich enough), here's another fun alternative: buy this town. For a mere $1.3 million, Bridgeville, population 30, in Humboldt County, can be yours! ...

This story about the Berkeley family killed in Tilden Park by the husband over business problems is so sad. Friends of the family describe the husband, Kevin Morrissey, as "brittle," "desperate," and as having a "very controlling side," though by all accounts deeply in love with his wife. The wife, Mamiko Kawai, is described as a wonderful doctor and the two girls as adorable. The CIA will neither confirm nor deny the husband's claims that......

We usually keep things pretty simple around here -- so if you want something a little more literary, there's a plethora of clever, quirky, cute, smart, and wonderful writing at McSweeney's Quarterly Concern and associated publications (books, The Believer, and DVD-based magazine, Wholphin). Seems that the McSweeney's crew has fallen on some hard times financially, and needs to raise a few bucks and quick.They're letting interested parties know that every single item in their store is on sale....

Send your Bay Area finds to found at sfist.com! We call on you to submit discarded photos, objects, letters, and other items that you plucked from streets, thrift stores, flea markets, et cetera! Tell us where/when you found the item and any other helpful info. The find must be from the Bay Area, and its previous ownership shrouded in mystery. Special thanks to Captian Disco for sending us this link to an auction on eBay of a photo album containing photos from San Quentin circa 1932, including mug shots, suicide photos, and a track and field event. The auction ends tomorrow. Today's two featured lists were each separately found on the sidewalk near Hayes Valley about three or four years ago. The grocery list was at Hayes and Buchanan, and we honestly couldn't tell you the exact location of the "Reason for Blockages" find....

A fight on the Cal campus last Saturday left a senior with a fractured skull and brain damage and a member of the rugby team looking for an attorney. The resident went outside when he heard someone breaking a window of his co-op (at Prospect and Channing), and got in a confrontation with a guy wearing a Cal rugby shirt. The rugby team had won the national championship that night. The victim claims the rugby......

--The SF Board of Supes has imposed a moratorium on SoMa studio condo construction. --The Bay Area author of "Searching for Your G-Spot" was attacked by a shark in Maui. --Gavin Newsom's sneak-announced Fifth Fake Question Time this Saturday, in West Portal and on the topics of public works. "They're for your wife." --MUNI officials meet about the troubled T-Third. --The Newsom administration is forcing KFOG to charge for the KaBoom fireworks festival this year......

Has anyone used StumbleUpon? And is it really that cool? It looks like eBay may think so -- though we can't really see how a company like StumbleUpon fits into eBay's wheelhouse. ...

More mysterious criminal events in Fremont! This time, someone dropped a five-foot tall safe off a truck in the middle of the road. The safe had been pried open, revealing...... a collection of about 70 Star Wars action figures, still in their original packaging. Somewhere, a broken-hearted fan weeps. The yutz alert is on high after the horrific Virginia Tech tragedy: the UC Berkeley law student who posted a fake threat on a blog that......

It seems like, all across the network, folks were up to no good. Maybe it was all the green beer from last weekend... Gothamist spent the week writing about New Yorkers behaving badly: at the post office, at the Garden, and at the fertility clinic. Calvin Klein may not be misbehaving, but he's just a little dirty, and in a completely different way than some NYC kitchens. SFist had its share of misbehave-rs, too, like......

Oh, so Jennifer Siebel is that kind of girl: the kind that doesn't like other girls. People are abuzz about the comments that Gavin Newsom's current companion made in what was otherwise a kind of fluffy throwaway interview in the Sunday Style section of the Chronicle -- where she lashed out at people criticizing her man's behavior with the wife of his campaign aide by saying, "the woman is the culprit.." Oh, nice. Here's the......

As the world holds it's breath, teetering precariously on the cusp of the Superbowl (well, at least in America), the wheels of the -ists keep on turning. Austinist was in a musical frame of mind as they listened to the new Shins album, updated the SXSW band listings and got called "punk rock" for their efforts by MTV. And an ice storm swept through the area. Bostonist said goodbye to John Kerry's plans for......

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into......

It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day which means some of you are working and some of you aren't working. We're guessing more of you are working than not working so a whole lot of you are bitter while the rest of you are probably still asleep right now....

There's bad news coming out a church in West Portal-- two sheep and a lamb have been pilfered from a Nativity Scene. Yep, what we have here are a bunch of sheep stealers. The church in question is the West Portal Lutheran Church at 200 Sloat Blvd and the nativity scene in question had at one point four animals in the background. Now it has one. All things considering, it could be worse as stealing things from Nativity Scenes is quite common during the holidays. These thieves even stole Baby Jesus! We don't think we're exaggerating to say this will definitely make little Baby Jesus cry (unless he's Ninja Baby Jesus). ...

Yeah, yeah, everyone's talking about it -- hardcore gamers are camping out at the Metreon to buy a $600 Playstation, which goes on sale tonight at midnight. The first people showed up around 8 a.m., and as of noon today, there were 500-1000 people in line. The line is going down Fourth Street and turning down Minna. The line has 20 guards, who are handing out flyers labeled "bathroom pass" so those who had too......

--N Judah Chronicles stops by the "Wagnerian opera" that was Friday's afternoon commute. His N-Judah-specific Notice Board is genius. --San Francisco goes back to school. --A Sikh leader is objecting to a pamphlet distributed by the Bethel Baptist Church in El Sobrante that says the Sikh holy book is wrong and all unsaved Sikhs are going straight to hell. --Nothing ever gets fixed around here. --Rickets outbreak in the Bay Area. The problem: breast-feeding......

If it weren't for our life as an -ist, we're not sure we'd ever leave our apartment. Fortunately, to fully -ist, one must seek out the new, the fresh, and the unknown. Brand new, or just new to us, that's what we're all about this week. Phillyist keeps it fresh by getting a new motto, learning to prioritize, and taking in an experimental indie rock show. Torontoist does their first post in franglais, gets ready......

We finally have a new head of the Taxi Commission, that being the old head, Heidi Machen. We certainly hope she enjoyed her month-long vacation. Unlike her previous reign, however, Gavin gave her some homies to have her back and finally replaced three outgoing commissioners whose terms had already expired. Gavin should have done this earlier, but it got in the way of his appearing on morning radio shows. ...

Go see Ladies They Talk About this Wednesday and Thursday at the Reel SF film fest at the Balboa! Santa Clara's high tech crime unit is preening itself after prevailing against a burglar who caused at least $750,000 in losses to local companies. A 6'5" African-American burglar with a shaved head (they called him "The Green Mile") was pretending to be a security guard, walking into companies like Cisco, eBay, Yahoo, and Google, and stealing......

In case you missed the GameSpot Annual Marketing Event at Moscone Center last week (also known as the "Games and Music Experience"), Lore Sjöberg has a write-up at Wired to tell you what you didn't experience. (The SFist Tech Labs staff didn't go, as we were afraid that 50 Cent would be there, and let's just say there's some bad blood between us.) Speaking of bad blood, Yahoo announced it would undercut eBay-owned Skype......

Winona "Winnie" Tong comes to the Bay Area from the cool climes of beautiful Canada. Her profile reads like the history of personal computing which, frankly, it is (and, at least in the early years, mirrors our own experience -- except she started on an Apple and moved to WinTel, and we went vice-versa). Now, of course, it's Web 2.0, and instead of BBS systems and ICQ chat, she's got a blog, Creative Constipation.......

There was a great disturbance in the internets this week as the Grateful Dead harshed Dead Heads' mellow by trying to close down the main site Dead Heads (and others) use to download taped performances. By amazing coincidence, it was also around the same time the Dead launched a pay service on their own Web site. But after the decision drew major flack and pissed off thousands of Dead Heads (we haven't seen them this mad since the Dead played an entire three show set at Shoreline without playing one "Scarlet/Fire"), the Dead changed their minds and announced that they'll be okay with people downloading concerts taped by fans. Shows taped by the Dead themselves (Soundboard recordings), however, can now only be had on the Dead's site. ...