Seeing as how the Summer of Love was the single most important event in the history of time and space, we thought it would be delightful of us to review a smattering of Summer of Love anniversary reviews for you. In no particular order, discover the music, elderly genitalia, and abundance of ATMs you missed. -- Beyond Chron: Goes into detail about that guy who sang that anti-Vietnam war song prefaced by a spelling lesson......

-- Tzssss: Golden Gate Bridge gets branded. (They won't really have billboards on the bridge, but who would want to see tasty Pizza Rolls high above, or why Sally Field stays so ramrod straight?) [Chron] -- Castro is now dead, says Perez. No, not the Castro. Although that neighborhood [insert your own joke here]. [SFBG, via PH] -- Man killed by J-Church on Thursday identified as John O'Neill, 47. RIP, dude. [Chron] -- What will......

For those of you keeping track: --In Oakland, five people have been killed in the last 48 hours (from noon on Wednesday to early this morning). The one this morning is murder number 64 in Oakland. --In SF, they're investigating the death of Joe Konopka, a neighborhood anti-crime activist from the Upper Haight. No one's giving out many details but it looks S&M-related. Konopka started the group Residents Against Druggies, which confronted dealers on the......

--They reopened the Macarthur Maze! And of course, now the bridge is backed up. --TiVo is getting a lot of angry emails after the triumphant conclusion of American Idol was cut off by recorders not padded with extra time. Always pad your live shows, people! --Left In SF notes that no one sees Tapioca Ed Jew in either his Sunset house or his Burlingame house. --There's a hilarious picture of Al Gore at his reading......

So a bunch of bloggers had a few drinks last night, or as someone on the Wall and SF Junto put it "some lame meeting of whiney bloggers at a hipster bar” when Alex and Maggie of the strangely peculiar blog, The Mayor and the Hair, came by and asked if one of them was Dean of Gavin Sucks. It was. And so, they dumped their alcohol on poor Dean, who had to spend the rest of the night wearing a wine and beer soaked shirt....

And so the Board of Supervisors finally sat down and weighed in on the great question of WiFi and decided....nothing. Actually, they decided to wait until they come up with a different proposal, one for a city-owned WiFi system. When that gets put together, they'll put both together, debate them, and then select one or the other. The vote came down to 6-5 with Supervisor Michaela Alioto-Pier actually siding with the progressives on this one as she said she thinks it would be better for everyone if both were debated at the same time so nobody could complain about how this thing got debated. ...

First, the East Bay: The New Yorker College Tour presents on-campus programs and evening entertainment at UC Berkeley at Wheeler Auditorium (near Bancroft and Telegraph Ave.), including a preview screening of Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny, starring Jack Black and Kyle Gass. (9pm) In SF: Silent Theatre Company presents a Louise Brooks Birthday Bash at the Victoria Theater (2961 16th Street) with a screening, live music, birthday cake, and festivities, followed by......

--Did you fall back? --Old(er) people use the Internet. --Babies eat organic. --Protest against the war yesterday. --Homelessness is a difficult problem. --A debate breaks out at Left In SF about what Rob Black supporters think Daly should have been doing in District 6. As for us, we'd like Chris Daly to personally pee on our block. --M&R relate an incident involving the Gettys' butler, a cup of coffee in the Marina, and overzealous cops......

The internet is strangely quiet about yesterday's Government Audit and Oversight Committee hearing. Not only were Daly, Peskin and Elsbernd arguing over whether or not they should be able to edit their own homepages on SFGov (can SFist petition to make it a crime to put sound, animated GIFs or blinking text on them?), they were also arguing over public oversight of the San Francisco TechConnect process. Sasha at Left In SF did liveblog......

In SF's first homicide of 2005, a 21-year-old woman from the Sacto area stabbed a high schooler from Novato to death outside the Denny's on Fisherman's Wharf. The high schooler and four of his friends were allegedly attacking the woman and her friends around 6 a.m. on New Year's Day when she pulled out the knife; other reports claim that racial epithets may have been used. There were about 88 homicides in SF in 2004 (scroll to item no. 6). A woman in Rohnert Park was killed in what looks like a drunk-driving accident on New Year's. We say "looks like" because the cops found not just an open container of alcohol, but also a live 3-foot boa constrictor in the car. The police believe that she was wearing the snake to a New Year's party -- an autopsy revealed that she was not, in fact, strangled to death. And in an enterprising effort, a man in southern Alameda County first stole a tow truck in San Mateo and then used the tow truck to steal a Corvette in Fremont. The police found the tow truck and the 'vette in the parking lot of a law office in Hayward, and cornered the man on the second floor. The man then bust through a window and fled, at which point the cops and the dogs set chase. They hunted him down into someone's back yard, where he began swinging lawn furniture at the officers. He was pepper-sprayed and brought in. ...

Special "Sorry for the linklessness, we're busy voting for Jack Daniels" Edition It's basically over, folks. Maybe some lawyers can pull this one out of their collective asses, but the man over eighty percent of San Franciscans voted against is probably going to be our next President. Oh well. We've got lots of ballot initiatives and some really angry bicyclists. There's that going for us. We feel totally double-crossed by the blogosphere. Once Zogby went......