Luring us in with "just the kind of quirky San Francisco event that SFist readers would be interested in," a PR company sent us word today of a zany pre-Valentine's Day activity that's happening right this very second! It seems that a woman -- a woman who looks like she has no trouble finding a date whatsoever, God bless her -- is looking for love. Check it: [Today] at the bright and early hour......

Merry Martin Luther King Jr. Day. [Examiner, Nature abhors a vacuum, SF Bay View, Beyond Chron]The TLDR spat between SF Bay Guardian and SF Weekly continues at a steady, confusing pace. [SFBG, Weekly]Voter registration deadline is tomorrow, kids. [SF Gate]Metallica's Kirk Hammett's Divisadero Street manse is still for sale. [Examiner]Facebook will get an executive chef, but workers might have to pay for their meals. How devastating. [Valleyvag]Temperatures drop . As does some snow. [Mercury......

Let's get a look at your legs, San Francisco! Saturday, January 12 is the annual "No Pants" subway ride, as originated in NYC by Improv Everywhere and elevated to fame by Ira Glass. The details are as follows: When: Saturday, January 12 at 3:00 PM, Sharp! (Over by around 5:30) Where: I'm thinking we should meet across the street from Embarcadero station, but I'm open to ideas here. Bring: A backpack or other place......

Every year, California fills out a bunch of forms, dots a lot of i's, and writes up some reports to send off to the EPA for permission to be granted a waiver from EPA rules to create their own carbon dioxide emission limits. This all started in the 70s when California pollution wasn't so groovy and was made more of a priority recently when the state decided to do something about Global Warming as the Federal Government was too busy thinking Global Warming was nothing but the blabberings of a bunch of tree-hugging hippies and wanted that cute little polar bear to die. Everytime the state had sent out the request, the state had been granted a waiver. But not this year-- our request just got ixnayed. ...

Not to be outdone by their wicked step-sister, UCLA, who all too tastefully/boringly galloped about in their panties on the streets of LA, UC Berkeley also had its traditional end-of-semester streak last week. But they did it in the raw. Hee. The Daily Clog's Christine Borden captured the free-spirited perversity on film. And then had it taken down by the mustache-twirling puritans over at by YouTube. (!) It seems that last week's footage was......

The sexy cats over at ValleyWag have the fresh MySpace office shots that you want. Or not. Formerly the home of LookSmart, the new space will be able to call other fresh, hip, cutting edge, perpetually hungover, youth-oriented spots like Current TV, SF Weekly, Wired, Chronicle Books, Sammy Hagar's place to do body shots, that abnormally chic pet store, Happy Donut, Nova, and even the flophouse that also known as SFist as their neighbors.......

It seems the world of dating has moved beyond breaking up on post-its into the new world of breaking up via Facebook status. That's rough. Breakups are hard enough to go through without spreading the news in front of all your virtual friends. The update from Boinkology paints an even uglier picture: the dumper placed it on Digg, too. While the dumper reasons out why a face-to-face breakup wasn't deserved, we can't help but......

"James Frey Is A 'Rockstar Vampire' On Facebook" Hee! Care of the kids over at Gawker, this hed brings up a good point: we haven't a clue as to how play this newfangled vampire game, and we're afraid to ask. Please, Facebook family, stop biting and baiting us. We feel like we're back in junior high, stuck on the football field, frightened by this touch football game all the other kids seem to play......

The younger, cooler little brother version of MySpace allows you to use "onscreen icons let you do pretty much everything one does on Facebook," according to Gizmodo. Sounds nifty, right? ...

With Facebook winning over many of its users these days, MySpace is all set to open up a San Francisco location near AT&T Park in an effort get hip, or something like that. What's more, the Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation-owned site plans to hire over 200 new employees, redesign the site, and allow users to add widgets. Fear not MySpace suicide contemplators; you might not have to take jump. This comes on the heels......

KGO7's Dan Noyes has it that cocaine-and-booze-free Ruby Tourk has already written two chapters of a hopefully-soon-to-be-published self-help book, which will detail her “‘hitting rock bottom with Newsom after 20 years of alcoholism and coke use.’” As you remember, while married to Gavin Newsom’s former campaign manager and best buddy, Alex Tourk, Ruby was also Newsom’s party pit-stop for a spell. (And there’s the most darling Facebook picture of her tapping away at her......

-- Power outages enrage your editor, city dwellers. [Chron, KGO] -- Bang, bang: SF Supes okay with handguns. [KPIX] -- Aging journalism fetishist and noted lover of the way old books smell, Frances Dinkelspiel, misguidedly and "ethereally" derides the Chronicle's hiring of former SFist editor Eve Batey. [GhostWorldWord] -- Top-drawer Harvard fisticuffs, darling: Facebook sued by its old college chums. [Chron] -- Trash talk to resume Wednesday morning. Grrrrul, please. [KRON 4] -- Great......

--One person is dead after a Caltrain hit a car in Palo Alto this afternoon. [CBS 5, Merc News.] --The Lauryn Hill show sucked. [The Chron, All Shook Down, the Inside Bay Area Buzz blog.] --What's Berkeley going to do after this Supreme Court ruling? [The Trib.] --Blogging from the iPhone line in Walnut Creek. [Contra Costa Times.] --A fight over a local grad student's blog post about racial and class divisions on MySpace and......

--Check out Ross Mirkarimi's Gavin hair! Didn't someone else try this too? --When is a dognapping a terrorist act? (Hint: animal rights activists may be involved). --Apple TV isn't doing so well --Tapioca Ed turns in his residency paperwork to the SF City Attorney a day early. --Keep affairs on your own side of the bridge! People are starting to subpoena Fastrak records in divorce cases. --It's queer senior prom at the LGBT Community......

Week Around The -Ists...

Some interesting developments coming out of Facebook's F8 conference at the SF Design Center today. It's all just a bit over our heads, but it looks like the site's working on ways to open up its tools to indie developers, so you can make apps and widgets and doodads that users can plug into their data. Developers are looking forward to a hackathon is happening this weekend. So, nerdy readers, what are you going......

The Stanford Daily swings into Day 2 of its wall-to-wall coverage coverage about Azia Kim, the fake Stanford student. This story is AWESOME. Today's article reveals that Azia Kim's friends from high school all thought she was going to one of those community colleges that feeds into Berkeley, but when she came back at Christmas break and said she'd gotten into Stanford, everyone believed her. While Kim's grades and extracurriculars weren't great, everyone figured she......

We found this vintage clip of our favorite hellraiser/Facebook Friend, Dan Noyes, dropping the F-bomb. We're not sure why the dude holding the yellow sign in the background thinks KGO is "bad news," but the rest of the video is priceless. ...

Matt Gonzalez: "I'm sorry, SFist Elaine, but I've gotta run." SFist Elaine: "We've only been dating for five minutes, and you're already breaking up with me?" Matt Gonzalez: "No, I just can't stand how Luke Thomas is always crashing our dates." Luke Thomas: "She's mine, Matt!"...

The Nobel Prize that was recently stolen was found and the thief arrested. The thief was Ian Michael Sanchez, 22, a senior majoring in biology who worked at the museum the Nobel Prize was displayed it. His act of physics prize pilfering earned him charges of felony grand theft. And yes, that's his Facebook entry that a reader sent us. Unfortunately, the profile is blocked so we couldn't discover more about the dude. ...

Valentine's Day is only a few days away, and we here across the Gothamist network wanted to express would like to tell you, in the spirit of the holiday, just how much we love you, our readers. Don't let it get to your heads, though. There are plenty of things we love, you included. Just be glad you're not amongst the things we hate. In New York, Gothamist isn't sure whether to love or hate......

Not everybody is screaming for Gavin to resign or telling him that shame, shame, everybody knows his name as there's a Facebook group out there called "Gavin Newsom is a P.I.M.P" You can see the bio above. And, of course, no Facebook entry would come complete without the always fun comments. This entry has such comments as "he can cheat on me any day" or "he pimped me so good last summer. ill never forget it." At this point, there's fifty-one members but expect that to shoot up at in a bit, especially as we post on it. ...

As reported (here among many other places) Gays Use Social Networks Most, Survey Says. Which would not really pique our interests, except that the survey also mentions Craigslist. So this morning we decided to dive right in and see what all the hubbub was about. The gist is that Harris interactive just released a poll which showed that people who identify themselves as Gay, Lesbian or Bisexual ("GLB") use Social Networking sites (Myspace, Facebook,......

Well, we suppose it was inevitable -- a sharp-eyed reader has found mayoral consort Brittanie Mountz's Facebook page. (You need to be a Facebook member to view it, which is why SFist is now the newest member of the Facebook Nation. Be our friend!) We've saved the page as a screen grab so we can prove it existed when mayoral spokesperson Peter Ragone inevitably makes her take the page down. In other Gavin Facebook news,......

--We missed this yesterday, but it's still awesome. Who's put security cameras in Chris Daly's office? --Your SF school board candidates. --More bus-only lanes on Geary, please. --$1 billion for Facebook? --The Albion Hotel in the Mission by Katz's Bagels gets sued. --Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams may go to jail. --A poignant profile of the homeless Asian man shot to death in San Mateo earlier this month. --The man who wrote Celluloid San Francisco......

Anil Dash shares some timely insights into online communities. Danah Boyd finds herself caught in the middle of the debate over Wikipedia. Tom Foremsi and felow journos sup on Google sushi while their old employers crumble around them. And Jeff Nolan explores some novel theories about Yahoo's purchase of del.icio.us. Headline of the week goes to Edward Champion for "New Podjack City." Eran explores the tenuous connection between The Facebook and The Agency. Google......