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. more ›

-- 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] more ›

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--They reopened the Macarthur Maze! And of course, now the bridge is backed up. more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›

--Did you fall back? more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›

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