House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Lantos threw down some serious shade today. "While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies," he cried, shaming two senior Yahoo officials. Why? Because the Sunnyvale company named names, handing over private information about Chinese journalist Shi Tao's online pro-democracy action to country officials. (Or, as the New York Times so eloquently put it, their "complicity with an oppressive communist regime." Oh snap.) This landed......

So, we were just reading the newswires, and came across this story of how one of Yahoo's co-founders, Jerry Yang, has been named CEO. Well, "yahoo" for him . . . we guess. Perhaps he'll help trickle down some better business practices. Or solve one weird and annoying one in particular. Normally this announcement wouldn't be much of a blip on our radar . . . but we subscribe to the aforementioned newswire through......

SFist Jon's away this weekend, so you're stuck with us! --Yahoo's Jerry Yang is donating $75 million to Stanford. Does that mean he'll get fewer calls from the alumni giving committee.... or more? --SFPartyParty's offering a bottle of wine to the (over-21) author of the funniest email to Gavin Newsom about his cancellation of the How Weird electronica/peace Street Fair. Meanwhile, Left in SF spreads the word about a How Weird letter writing campaign.......

--The tap dancer at Powell and Market's hanging up his shoes. --Jerry Yang golfs with a 10 handicap. We have absolutely no idea what that means. Come back soon, SFist Jon! --Gay penguins in love. Awwwww. --Gavin Newsom's going to Japan for a week or so. SFist Jim notes that Gavin's cousin and indie rock star Joanna Newsom is going to be there at the exact same time. Family reunion, or mixup at the......

Hip, hip, HOORAY! Hip, hip, HOORAY! Catherine Bigelow, the Chron society columnist, is back from vacation, and here with a special report on Wednesday night's SF Ballet Opening Gala! Number of people pictured: 24. Number of people pictured whom we recognize: 3 (the Shultzes and Jerry Yang, though we did also recognize Angelique Griepp's Oscar de la Renta dress from SFMike's blog). Minority count: 3 (12.5%). Getty v. Traina: Too bad Gavin's in Davos this......

Don't ask what SFist was doing at Yahoo world headquarters yesterday, because we can't tell you. But lunch was involved, and even though it's not exactly open to the general public, the chance that you'll end up eating a meal in their cafeteria at some point in your life is pretty good. So we bring you our review. The first time we had lunch at "URL's" (har har) was a while back when we......