We encountered this penis piercing an iPod at Sutter and Leavenworth on Monday. Penis drawings never get old, but we could use some more vagina to balance things out. The bottom half of the drawing looks like a fish, but the top half looks pretty impressive. We were thinking of recycling our geriatric, four-year-old ("fourth-generation") iPod for a ten-percent discount on a Nano when it gave us a very nasty sad-face last month. We thought......

Saturday night we had the pleasure to watch one of Noise Pop's most intriguing local acts: Wallpaper. We interviewed Eric Frederic - the man behind it all - earlier in the week and had even listened to his new EP, T REX on his MySpace page but we had no idea it was going to be that much fun. We were on such a high from Wallpaper's set that we didn't want to ruin it......

For the eight or so of you who don't have an iPod yet -- sadly, we would be one of those eight -- you can break your iPod hymen with the positively adorable iPod Shuffle (1GB), which is now going for a paltry $49. Pennies! The 2GB iPod Shuffle will be available later this month for $69. And the 18-karat gold iPod Shuffle from Xexoo of Germany, right, goes for a mere $19,343. No......

If you're done with your pagan tree-worship holiday, head on over to MeTransCo's 511 Survey, and let them know just how bad they suck. 'Tis the season! You could win an iPod, as if you didn't already have four or five of them already. The MTC is interested in how people use their services (if at all) -- for example, which of 511's many sites do you use most often? Or were you, like......

Welcome back, little piggies, from your night of binge eating and sipping. (That is, if you were fortunate enough to do so.) Why not get up, out, and about tonight to work off that meal, hangover with the following: -- Kristi Yamaguchi Holiday Ice Rink at Embarcadero Center: Our Kristi, our Kristi, why hast thou forsaken us? Alas, although no longer branded with Olympic gold-medal allure, you'll still have a blast at the holiday rink......

Let's be honest, we were never really Maroon 5 fans. (Ick, right? Right.) We've never turned off their music if it happened to be on the radio but we've never, by choice, listened to it on our iPod. It is not because they are bad or hate their music - we've just never really cared to listen to them (voluntarily). Maroon 5 picked the best band to open for them, The Hives because they......

A dicsussion of the illegality of iPodding while driving or cycling...

More giveaways! San Francisco's own Kronos Quartet has a new album out, of their acclaimed September 2003 live performance with Tom Waits of four of Waits's songs, for the Concert for Peace and Reconciliation by Richard Gere's Buddhist humanitarian organization Healing The Divide with the Dalai Lama in attendance. There's also performances by Norah Jones's sister Anoushka Shankar, Philip Glass, and the Guyto Tantric Choir. We've got a copy to give away! Even if......

Sorry this update is late -- we were stuck in the tunnel ourselves! Due to mechanical problems on an SFO/Millbrae bound train around 8 this morning, BART got about 30-45 minutes behind on the morning commute schedule in both directions. The jam should be cleared by now, anyways. We also learned a new word, from the notice alerts they flashed on the Now Arriving screens at our BART station of origin as we waited for......

We'd like to thank SFist Rita for sharing weekly-reading duties! Last week's winner: the SF Weekly. Spare the glare - oops, the fancy new Federal Building's got some lighting and climate control issues. Cover article: The SF International Film Festival keeps on keeping on and tries to attract young audiences with downloadable movies (what beautiful cinematography, well, it's probably beautiful, from what I can infer from the teensy screen of the video iPod ... even......

Photo of a young couple sharing an iPod in an old convertible...

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......

What was long rumored is now true as the Beatles and Apple settled their trademark issues over the apple trademark. They are now both expected to sue Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin. What this means is that Beatles songs could be showing up on iTunes any minute now. Bloggers everywhere like this deal because when you give them a cute, Brangelina like nickname, it's still Apple....

-And I don't understand why I sleep all day/And I start to complain that there's no rain ...

For the past few seasons, the Warriors primary marketing slogan has been, "A Great Time Out". Brimming with hope after Tuesday's trade, SFist decided to catch a game at the O-rena to find out for ourselves.

Since the Merc's Tim Kawakami couldn't make it, we figured we'd step in for Saturday's game against the Cavaliers. This team now has new hope, and SFist was eager to see if there was a new buzz to go with it.

Our audit considered 11 different categories: parking, Oraclelization, concessions, personnel, entertainment, the crowd, new players, visuals/lighting, the seats, music/sound, and the game itself. Each category was ranked from 1 to 10, with 10 being Pac Bell/SBC/ATT park and 1 being, well, Candlestick.

MacWorld. Keynote. It's Steve's time. Look, the long-desired iPhone. How does Steve Jobs choose to showcase the new phone's music technology? By playing The Beatles' "Lovely Rita, Meter Maid." That's so gangsta. Why? This staged moment is Steve's announcement/flaunting of the fact that the long war between Apple Computers and The Beatles is effectively over. Steve won. And now the world's greatest rock band is Steve Jobs' prop. Apple Computer and The Beatles' Apple......

Shares of Apple dropped today as a report in the SF legal paper, The Recorder, said that the Feds were looking into possible stock option sheninigans. If the next iPod commercial consists of the famous iPod silouhette donig the perp walk, you'll know why. ...

Here's some good news for all you iPod owners (which would probably be all of you), Apple is finally close to an agreement with the Beatles to sell Beatles tunes on iTunes. And yes, that would indeed rock....

If you’re hiking, consider charging up your iPod, as Seattlest finds out that a man lost during a hike was found by the glow of his iPod. That cleverness seems to be devoid in cops who were using police cruiser instant messaging clients - although we imagine IMs “so are you nakie” to be included in cop shows, just for realism. If only the cops were busting the Hummer-driving jerk who made a poor......

Last year, we sat through the recording of an episode of the Mahler Project, the recording of all the Mahler symphonies by the SF Symphony with Michael Tilson Thomas conducting. We were wondering what the outcome of the taping would sound like. We have now a measuring stick, with the release of the 5th Symphony, which was recorded last season as well. Mahler's 5th Symphony is one of his most famous works: the 4th movement,......

5:50 Show up. See empty bar. Regret not researching choice of happy hour locations. Buy first of two expensive drinks and lament our penchant for alcohol. Consider taking up a new hobby so we could at least save some money for once. 5:59 Buy second of two expensive drinks, wonder where all the people who drink at this bar are, also where are our friends supposedly meeting us there. 6:12 Friends show up. They wonder where all the people are. ...

This HP story is getting crazier and crazier. Today, the NY Times is reporting that HP was thinking about planting spies in at least two publications to figure out what was going on. The idea was to either place undercover admin temps or cleaning crews at CNet and the SF office of the Wall Street Journal who would then do a bit of snooping and eavesdropping. Another memo uncovered mentioned planting HP spies next to certain people to tag along and investigate them. Wasn't there an episode of "Alias" like that where Sydney Bristow dressed up like an Office Temp complete with iPod and back tattoo to shadow some reporter only to discover they were really their long lost second cousin removed who supposedly died in a fiery motorcycle accident but really used it as a ruse to escape the Chinese? ...

With SFist Rita's report yesterday about Apple settling with Creative, Apple fanboys can console themselves with the news that Microsoft is also getting dinged for even more money in a patent infringment suit. Meanwhile, retail workers who downloaded the development version of Apple's new OS, Leopard, are getting canned left and right (scroll down). But BusinessWeek thinks good iPod news is on the way, while Wired News explores the back alleys of Chennai in search......

Yeah, we know, totally obvious title for the post -- they can't all be winners, okay? But you know who can all be winners? Apple and Creative Labs, who claim to have come to an "amicable" $100 million settlement of Creative Labs' claims of patent infringement against the iPod's technique of navigating through your songs (you know, push the middle button a bunch of times, and then scroll with your finger until you overshoot the......

Locally, the big news was the second best blog party last Friday thrown by TechCrunch down in Menlo Park. Scott Beale was commissioned to take the photos, including the one above featuring an uneasy handshake between Valleywag's Nick Douglas (left) and his favorite whipping boy, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington. Nick had been bumped off the exclusive invite list, but Michel must have relented. If he had been dis-invited, apparently crashing the party was not an......

We've held out this long, and we're only gonna make this jokes once, but this summer, watch out for... Drinks on a plane! (We'll now run across the street and demand of the priest an appropriately harsh prescription for penance.) But don't worry, technology and, to a lesser extent, the Bush and Blair administrations, are here to protect you. With biometric terrorist detectors, other tech that's been around for generations, and the latest in arbitrary......

We raced out of a meeting at work and ran to our desk to listen to the start of tonight's Giants' game on MLB audio. Down 2-1 and at the top of the fifth, we hopped into our car and listened as the Giants took the lead and somehow managed to escape an inning in which the first two Nats hitters got on base and were then bunted into scoring position (something which almost caused us to crash our car as we were too busy slamming our fist on the dash board in celebration to notice all the traffic around us.) Finally, we got to the gym just in time for the bottom of the ninth, hopped onto a machine right in front of the TV, cranked "Freebird" on the trusty iPod, and then watched in horror as ARMANDO BENITEZ BLEW YET ANOTHER SAVE....

These sniper attacks never make us feel very secure, even if it is only paintball -- over the last month, 10 people (and a dog) have been hit by paintballs throughout the City of Berkeley. No one's been seriously hurt yet, but some people's clothes were damaged, some people almost got in car accidents, and one kid was hit in the cheek (the reports are silent as to the state of the dog.) It's like......

Vote no on C -- stop Wednesday's power grab! Today: Who knew they had events at the Apple store downtown? We picked up a flyer when we were (unsuccessfully) trying to get our iPod fixed. Today at 4, Todd Corleto demonstrates two-factor authentication with CRYPTOCard, and for those of you who still can't figure out how to use iTunes, there's a workshop about it at 5. The Apple Store's at One Stockton Street. Thursday: New......

Sure, you're all into this upcoming election to vote on bond measures and Central Committee members, but some of us are psyched on the big vote, the one to see who will get clobbered by take on the Governator. Will it be cool, techy Steve Westly or the spry and wiry Phil Angelides? What do they say on the issues? What do they want to do to take the state in a new direction? What is on their iPod lists? We dunno. Actually, for you, dear readers, we did some research to help you figure it all out. Sadly, we couldn't find a damn thing about their iPod lists (we're guessing it won't include Nelly) but did find out a whole bunch of other stuff. So here, as our final report, is the handy-dandy guide SFist has put together to the respective Democratic Gubernatorial Candidates. ...